The Don of Avedon

Lauren Sherman (0:04)

Hello, and welcome to Fashion People. I'm Lauren Sherman, runner-up of Fashion and Beauty Memo Line Sheet. And today with me on the show is Derek Blasberg, co-author of Richard Avedon, The Harper's Bazaar Years. Derek is here to talk the life, work, and influence of this legendary, you must know him, photographer.

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Happy Friday, everyone. Hope you are having a great week. Hope you had a wonderful week. This week in Line Sheet, we had a great week. We had some really good stuff. Anne-Marie went deep on Glossier. What's happening there? Do you ever buy stuff from Glossier anymore? No matter how old you are, I'm very curious. On Thursday, I wrote a explainer on this whole Hermes saga with the heir that went rogue and the missing shares, LVMH's involvement, etc. If you don't know this story, Hermes, you remember when LVMH tried to like, it seemed like they were trying to buy Hermes over 10 years ago? Ended up it was connected to this rogue Hermes heir who just like, the whole story, it's like this story is never going to end. I actually feel bad for, in some ways, both companies but now there are these missing shares, no one knows where the shares are. I don't, it's wild. So I really tried because there's been a little coverage in the English speaking crest, but like I tried really hard to sort of outline exactly what has happened and also zoom out a little bit in a way that I think most other business reporters wouldn't about like, what it all meant for the fashion industry and the brands and all that. So I hope you enjoyed it. It was an interesting one for me to do. It's a wonderful week to be in Paris as well.

It's Paris Photo, the big fair at the Grand Palais.

My kid is now correcting my pronunciation. There's just a lot of great stuff happening. I'm going to go to the fair on Saturday. I'm going to go to some talks. There are tons of shows and openings and book launches and things around the city. I did go on Wednesday to that big, and I mentioned this to Derek, we recorded before I went to this big photography show at the Bourse. Remember me? It's the Pinot collection, obviously. It's a must see. The Irving Penn Room has over 450 photos.

That alone. The Barbara Kruger is amazing. All the, I think there's some Annie Leibowitz there, Avedon there, Cindy Sherman.

It's a really amazing show. I'm going to try to go back. That was a day for me skipping lines for sure. I went to the Bourse. They had a ticket, but then I was like, I'm a journalist and they let journalists through, so I didn't have to wait in line. It was kind of awesome. If you're a journalist, if you have proof of it, you don't have to wait in line at museums, I guess. I did feel a little bad normally. But yeah, it's just amazing. Last night, I also stopped by the Mario Sorrenti show in the 11th, and I went to La Mer for the launch of their project with Alessi. They reissued two photo stand frame type things. And if you know me, you know that bad photo frames are like a big life issue for me. It's been an issue for decades. So I was very excited. I also went to the launch of Jonas Unger's Selfies book, which includes a lot of famous people, but also me because he shot me earlier this year for Vanity Fair. It's a great book. I like it a lot. And it was, I'm honored or chuffed or whatever they say to be included.

And I'm just gonna try to go to as much stuff as I can. I will also buy more books. Did you know that there are more books published than ever? We talk a bit about this in Friday's Line Sheet, but let's get going with Derek. If you are rich enough to fly to Paris before Remember Me closes, I suggest you do so.