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Our Sustainable Luxury module leader Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋💙 joined the NPR radio 1A show to discuss #fastfashion. Joined by Dana Thomas and @AldenWicker to examine clothing giant Shein which experienced its biggest year of sales during the pandemic 📈 🎧bit.ly/3CgGwhN

I broke Donatella's exit on Substack last week: "The greatest question is whether the sale [to Prada] will give 69-year-old Donatella Versace the graceful retirement exit I hear she’s ready to make." My second scoop in a week! Subscribe now! danathomas.substack.com

Dressing Like an Artist? There’s an Art to That. An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France examines centuries of interplay between art and fashion, including what the sartorial choices of artists revealed about their place in society. By Dana Thomas nytimes.com/2025/03/25/art…

A long time ago, I was auditioning for the movie “The Doors” It was kind of a cattle call. They paired together potential Jims with potential Pamela‘s. And they were running behind so we were spilling out of the casting office, sitting on the porch, the lawn, and the driveway.

Fresh baked mini what?

ONE WEEK UNTIL THE MET GALA

Cigarette summer has now reached the Vatican

The goal is neverrrrrrrr gucci bags. It's acres of land.

all you need to know about spain is that, within 2 hours of the power going off for the whole country… the beaches were packed, bands were playing in every square, and people were in the streets laughing and dancing

Congrats Dana Thomas! We're happy to inform you that "Fashionopolis" made it to BookAuthority's list of best Clothing ebooks of all time! bookauthority.org/books/best-clo…

Trump's first trade deal is with a country the US has a trade surplus with, not a trade deficit. It never made any sense to tariff the UK to begin with. So why is Trump leaving the 10% tariffs in place, raising prices for US consumers and businesses? Because he loves tariffs.

What a wonderful decision by the Conclave to choose the first American Pope! Leo XIV, when he was a Cardinal, urged the world to move “from words to action” on the environmental crisis facing the world. His leadership as Pope will be so crucial on this vitally important issue.

Michelle and I send our congratulations to a fellow Chicagoan, His Holiness Pope Leo XIV. This is a historic day for the United States, and we will pray for him as he begins the sacred work of leading the Catholic Church and setting an example for so many, regardless of faith.

An American Pope from Chi-Town. “We're on a mission from God.”youtu.be/-4YrCFz0Kfc?si… via YouTube

Habemus papam - May God bless Pope Leo XIV of Illinois. Jill and I congratulate him and wish him success.

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He’s a good man.

This man has long understood that without the public he is no one.

My latest Style Files newsletter on Substack open.substack.com/pub/danathomas…

Sorry we haven’t weighed in on the Patti LuPone interview. We’ve just been busy, much like Audra McDonald, who has to constantly polish her six Tony Awards. Much harder to polish than three Tony Awards. Twice as many, in fact. So very much polish. Anyway.