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Jonathan Anderson Is Leaving Loewe After Rampant Rumors

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11 months ago

March 17, 2025

Jonathan Anderson Is Leaving Loewe After Rampant Rumors

Finally, after months of rumors, it’s official: On Monday, LVMH announced that Jonathan Anderson, the designer who transformed Loewe from a minor Spanish leathergoods house into a cultural lodestar and is one of the buzziest names in the LVMH stable, a favorite of Daniel Craig, Greta Lee and Josh O’Connor, was leaving the brand.

“What he has contributed to Loewe goes beyond creativity,” Sidney Toledano, the chief executive of the LVMH Fashion group, said of Mr. Anderson in the news release. “He has built a rich and eclectic world with strong foundations in craft which will enable the House to thrive long after his departure.”

Where Mr. Anderson goes next, and who takes his place, was not revealed. Cliffhanger!

Not really.

Planned designer moves have been leaking like a sieve since last fall. Things could always change, but it is widely accepted that Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, the American founders of Proenza Schouler who stepped down from their label in January, will be taking Mr. Anderson’s place at Loewe. Mr. Anderson is expected to move to Dior, where he will most likely take the reins of both women’s and men’s wear, the first designer to unite the two halves of the house in decades.

The mystery is not so much what happens next. The mystery is why it is taking so long, and unfurling so publicly. Even in a DOGE world where firings seem like everyday news, even in a world where designer change has begun to seem like the norm, this has been a painfully drawn-out procedure.

It’s easy to forget, in the fun of playing the fashion equivalent of fantasy football, that the designers involved are human beings rather than chess pieces, with teams of more human beings for whom they are responsible. As a result, Dior has a women’s wear designer, Maria Grazia Chiuri, who has been walking around for months with what seems to be a phantom guillotine hanging over her head.

Ms. Chiuri, 61, was the first woman to lead Dior in its approximately 80 years — and one of the few women at the head of a mega-luxury brand. In her nine years as artistic director of women’s wear, she helped take the brand from an estimated 2 billion euros in revenue to about 9 billion euros. She was also responsible for injecting a feminist note into its narrative and supporting female-led collectives and artists around the world, especially in India. Whatever anyone thinks of Ms. Chiuri’s work — and it could verge on the banal — or her politics (ditto), there’s no doubting her contribution to the business, her work ethic or her place in Dior’s history.

Yet according to the word on the street, Mr. Anderson, 40, has not only been finishing up his Loewe term but has also been working on a shadow Dior collection, even as Ms. Chiuri continues to work on her own. When Mikey Madison wore a remake of a 1956 Dior gown to the Oscars rather than a look from the current collection, it seemed like a portent. The rumors became so rampant that they helped prompt Kim Jones, the Dior men’s designer since 2018, to resign after his last show rather than exist in a state of further insecurity. (His position has not been filled, giving credence to the idea Mr. Anderson will take over both sides of the business.)

And the rumors cast a pall over not only Ms. Chiuri’s couture in January and her ready-to-wear show last month, but also Mr. Anderson’s Loewe presentation. “Was it the last or wasn’t it?” was as much a part of the reactions to the show as the designs themselves. It’s hard to commit to a designer’s vision — to buy into it — when it’s unclear if there’s a commitment to, or from, the designer himself.

It is possible, of course, that the extended ambiguity is partly Ms. Chiuri’s doing. It’s possible that she is in the middle of a protracted contract negotiation about exactly what shape her departure will take and that no one involved is legally free to address the situation. It is generally believed that her cruise show in May, which will be held in Rome, her hometown, will be her farewell. LVMH declined to comment on why the transition was taking so long or why the news was being released in piecemeal fashion. Sometimes, refusing to address rumors is the best way to make them go away.

Not this time, however. This time, the rumors simply became the accepted state of affairs. Which makes it hard not to wonder why everyone involved did not simply acknowledge the truth, even if it emerged at an inconvenient time, the better to move forward. That would have cast Ms. Chiuri’s final Dior collections and Mr. Anderson’s last at Loewe as collectibles rather than question marks. It would have made the changes exciting rather than anti-climactic.

After all, if fashion reveals anything, it is that closure, as well as transparency, has its own kind of chic.

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Flavor Flav is among women’s hockey team fans outraged by presidential snub

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February 24, 2026

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Flavor Flav is among women’s hockey team fans outraged by presidential snub

American rapper and television personality Flavor Flav watches on during the Women’s Monobob Bobsleigh at the Cortina Sliding Centre, on Sunday February 15, 2026 at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Italy.

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After President Trump snubbed the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team, some of its fans were quick to respond. Among them, Flavor Flav, the erstwhile member of the pioneering rap group Public Enemy and television personality known for the bejeweled clocks he wears as signature necklaces.

In a locker room call over the weekend, Trump invited the U.S. men’s hockey team to the White House to celebrate their gold medal victory over Canada, and offered to transport them there on a military plane.

“I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team. You do know that,” he added, to laughter from the male athletes. To underscore his apparent disdain for the women’s team, Trump joked that he would likely be impeached if he didn’t.

The U.S. women’s hockey team won a gold medal of their own at the Olympics, also trouncing Canada. Players declined the president’s invitation to the State of the Union address, which came in the wake of his phone call to the men’s team.

Flavor Flav was quick to offer an alternative. “If the USA Women’s Hockey Team wants a real celebration and invite… I’ll host them in Las Vegas,” the rapper wrote on his official Instagram channel. “Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real.”

In recent years, Flav has fashioned himself as an enthusiastic proponent of the Olympics, acting as an official “hype man” for this year’s bobsled and skeleton teams. He also sponsored the U.S. water polo teams at the Paris Olympics in 2024, in part after learning how little women athletes earn.

“I actually love this for Flavor Flav,” says Frankie de la Cretaz, an independent journalist who writes the queer-oriented Out of Your League newsletter. “For him, this really started when he got behind the women’s water polo team during the Summer Olympics. And to be clear, the U.S. is one of the only countries that does not federally fund their elite Olympic and national team athletes. Many of them are funding themselves through sponsorships.

De la Cretaz likened the effort to crowd funding, and added that women athletes tend to be far more under-resourced than men.

Flav’s public stand in support of the female hockey players is quite a turn, De la Cretaz added, for a celebrity who once referred to twin female contestants on his VHS reality show Flavor of Love as “Thing One” and “Thing Two.” Over the past few years, Flav has supported female athletes consistently, they said, and not just during the high-wattage events of the Olympics. “He never does it in a way that feels demeaning or performative. And I have nothing but respect, actually, for the way he’s shown up for women athletes.”

De la Cretaz said they saw more hypocrisy coming from a president who has worked to ban transgender athletes. “So much of the anti-trans sports push has been about quote unquote, protecting women’s sports. And if you want to ‘protect women’s sports,’ it actually would be about investing and giving them the equal opportunity that men have and respecting them as athletes.”

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Martin Short Comedy Show Postponed Following Daughter’s Death

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February 24, 2026

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Martin Short Comedy Show Postponed Following Daughter’s Death

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Comedy Shows delayed after daughter’s death

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February 24, 2026
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Martin Short‘s comedy show with Steve Martin — “The Best of Steve Martin and Martin Short” — has been postponed following the sudden death of his daughter, Katherine.

Short was set to take the stage with his “Only Murders in the Building” co-star this weekend in Milwaukee and Minneapolis for their comedy tour … however, according to the websites for the venues, the shows were postponed due to “unforeseen circumstances.”

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We spoke to staff members for the theaters who told us it’s unclear whether the shows will take place … but it seems after the day went on, a decision was made behind the scenes to pull the scheduled performances from happening.

Both sites acknowledge that tickets will be honored for a future rescheduled date when determined.

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We broke the story, Short’s 42-year-old daughter Katherine died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Law enforcement sources told us LAPD and the fire department responded to her Hollywood Hills home Monday, shortly after 6:40 PM PT, where she was found deceased.

A representative for the family gave us a statement, saying … “It is with profound grief that we confirm the passing of Katherine Hartley Short. The Short family is devastated by this loss, and asks for privacy at this time. Katherine was beloved by all and will be remembered for the light and joy she brought into the world.”

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Katherine — the daughter of Short and Nancy Dolman, Martin’s wife of 30 years, who passed away in 2010 of ovarian cancer — worked as a social worker in Los Angeles after receiving her bachelor’s degree from NYU and her master’s in social work from USC several years later.

While her father is obviously very famous, Katherine mostly stayed out of the public eye … attending a few events with her father throughout the years. She was the eldest of Short’s three children.

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Why Gavin Newsom refuses to be a ‘bystander’ in this political moment

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February 24, 2026

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Why Gavin Newsom refuses to be a ‘bystander’ in this political moment

Gavin Newsom is in his final year as governor of California, but lately, he’s been touring the country to energize voters ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think it’s really important for the Democratic Party not to give up on red states and rural parts of the country,” he told NPR at an event organized by local Democrats in the town of Manning, South Carolina. Newsom is also widely considered a potential presidential candidate for 2028 — a possibility he has not ruled out — and he sees himself as a leader of Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump, often mocking his brash style on social media.

“I’m putting a mirror up to President Trump and I’m fighting fire with fire and I am punching a bully back in the mouth,” he told NPR.

At the same time, Newsom has embraced conversations with major right-wing figures such as Steve Bannon and Ben Shapiro on his podcast, drawing criticism from members of his own party. The governor sat down with All Things Considered for an interview ahead of the release of his memoir, Young Man in a Hurry. He discusses how his struggles with dyslexia shaped his childhood and career, his strategy for dealing with President Trump, and how he thinks the Democratic party should meet this political moment.

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