Lauren Santo Domingo on doing your own thing
-- Lauren Santo Domingo, in a good Q&A with blogger Mark D. Sikes.
LSD is someone with whom I intrinsically have very little in common (she was born wealthy in New England and has the Bergdorf blonde hair and style and savvy and je ne sais quoi that goes along with all of that, in addition to being a founder of a successful company.) I just dig that she is so unabashedly who she is.
Priorities in hiring
"I love having talented people around me to help me... I'm not scared of talent. I'm scared of bitches, but I'm not scared of talent."
Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz had an Interview Magazine-style conversation with Dr. Sanjay Gupta in the March issue of Harper's Bazaar. I especially liked this part, where Elbaz talks about who he surrounds himself with at work.
A perfect conduit
--Nora Ephron in a January 1967 profile of Johnny Carson published in the New York Post
Vanity Fair published a really good story on Johnny Carson's rise in this month's issue. I've always heard about the massive impact Carson had on American culture, but never quite got it myself until now.
The article included part of the snappy Nora Ephron quote excerpted above, starting at "just sophisticated enough..." -- I found the beginning of it thanks to a search on Google Books. It explains the Iowa-born, Nebraska-bred Carson's appeal perfectly.
Here is another interesting stat, from another VF article published this month: At its peak, Johnny Carson's Tonight Show had an audience of more than 15 million viewers per night. At the moment, Leno's Tonight Show has around 3.7 million viewers.
"It's very difficult to know where to be."
We find ourselves having that conversation about getting older and how much London has changed and how much New York City has changed.
"But the world's changed," says Blanchett. "It's very difficult to know where to be. I used to live with people about whom I thought, Why have you completely pulled up stakes and gone to the coast? Couldn't you have just moved to the suburbs? Or quit your job?
It's like going dry, I imagine. Because sometimes life is so fast and so absolute that the only way you can change things is by actually shifting your life utterly and totally to a different hemisphere. You can't partially change. There's no semi-revolution."
-- From a candid and refreshingly well-written interview (less focus on clothes, more on personality, culture, and atmosphere) with Cate Blanchett in the January 2014 issue of Vogue magazine.
