Yes, move over Theresa May, Phoebe for prime minister. Christopher Bailey can look after M&S, I actually think he'd do really well there.
It's odd, the PP rumours were circulating before his death. As far as I heard, #2 is not interim, just the new designer. I mean that's publicly, I'm sure that they're carefully considering the best move forward long term behind the scenes but it would be a difficult situation, she's been running the place for years, KL just provided a few pretty sketches. I remember the first Chanel documentary and being utterly shocked how the ateliers managed to create with so little input from those sketches of what they were supposed to make. She was the one that translated that vagueness into something workable.
I really like that Kate Byrne article, I think I remember saying something along the lines in the first thread about Parisiennes being more likely to be inspired by great women around them than the ones in the public eye. I'm finding the progressive backlash and social media in general interesting at the moment.
I was thinking about Alexander McQueen the other night as that was the last fashion death that really felt like it came out of nowhere and also marked an end of an era of sorts, in his case, the runway as a provocative conversation piece. I think he'd really struggle in this era of social media scrutiny and collective majority morality. The Burberry thing with the noose hoodie is something that would have been barely a thing worth noting on a McQueen runway but at the rate which Burberry immediately apologised, well it severely limits expression of creativity of designers in favour of the consuming public. Lagerfeld is probably the last to have so much control over his runway.
I can certainly understand that people took offense to that hoodie but wanting to censor away any unpleasant image as it could be triggering can't be healthy either.