Big is moving to Paris
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Breaking news: this is the last despatch of Quality Sheet from the British Isles. There will be no newsletter for the next two weeks as I take time off to move stateside! (Because I inherited the resistant-to-time-off gene from my dad, I feel irrationally guilty about this.) BUT! I will be back on June 10 with fresh pep in my vagabond shoe-clad step and I look forward to it.
Happy Juneteenth to readers in the U.S. Let’s jump in!
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With stints at The Row, Delvaux and Céline, the resumé of Hermès designer Nadège Vanhee is what ‘quiet luxury’ was built on. Much like the trend’s hallmark, she likes to stay relatively low-key. The Cut manages to give us a peek into her mind.
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Smart story: Ring cameras are helping canvassers knock down front doors and connect with skeptical voters in their homes in hopes to secure their vote. The Guardian’s Raphael Boyd talks to one Liberal Democrat candidate campaigning in the U.K. election about how he’s canvassing over the virtual doorbell.
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“Does society need Black versions of white cultural products or new products in which Blackness is centered?” asks the New York Times’ Concepción de León in her review of Netflix’s documentary about the Black Barbie doll, out today.
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New York readers: Lincoln Center has just added a night food market to its ‘Summer for the City’ lineup. It sounds perfect for date nights solo or accompanied!
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Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar began the dance company Urban Bush Women, which “tells stories based in the African diaspora from a female perspective,” Brian Seibert writes in the New York Times. Forty years after founding it, she is leaving the company, which just received millions of dollars in funding from billionaire MacKenzie Scott—but not before one final performance.
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Isabel :)
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