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Kim Jones Leaving Fendi

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The tectonic plates of the fashion world are shifting once again.

On Friday, LVMH confirmed that Kim Jones would be stepping down from his post as women’s wear designer at Fendi after four years, but that he would remain as artistic director of Dior men’s wear, a job he has held since 2018.

The news comes just over a week after LVMH, the world’s largest luxury group, announced that Hedi Slimane would be leaving Celine and would be replaced by Michael Rider. News that itself came after LVMH’s decision to sell Off-White, the brand founded by Virgil Abloh, to the American firm Bluestar Alliance, the owner of brands like Limited Too; buy the celebrity magazine Paris Match; and sign a 10-year deal with Formula One.

The Fendi announcement provides resolution to at least one of the maelstrom of rumors that have been swirling around the fashion world all summer, roiling the industry to such an extent that they practically overshadowed the clothes during the recent round of ready-to-wear shows.

For seasons, whispers had held that Mr. Jones was not long for Fendi, creating a cloud of doubt that hung over the brand no matter what was actually going on. And despite the against-the-odds nature of the task Mr. Jones had been given.

A celebrated men’s wear designer whose work for Dior — and Vuitton before that — had been transformative for both brands, Mr. Jones had never done women’s wear before taking on Fendi. And he wasn’t just trying his hand at a new discipline; he was splitting his time (and mind) between two different houses and stepping into the footsteps of Karl Lagerfeld, the mythic designer who had transformed both Fendi, where he worked for 54 years, and Chanel. Even if Mr. Lagerfeld’s work for Fendi was less definitive than his work for Chanel — other than creating the concept of “fun fur,” he had never really established a recognizable identity for the brand —, his profile was so high it obscured the creative confusion.

Looks from Mr. Jones’s spring 2023 Dior men’s collection.Credit…Yannis Vlamos
Credit…Yannis Vlamos

These Arizona Women Are Keeping Kamala Harris’s Hopes Alive

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On Lisa Hoberg’s phone, the group chat with what she calls her “mom friends” is a politics-free zone. In the political hotbed of suburban Phoenix, it seemed safer that way. Why risk ruining 15 years of friendship by bringing up Donald J. Trump?

That meant that some of Ms. Hoberg’s closest friends had no idea she, a lifelong active Republican, had gone through a major political transformation — one that surprised even her sometimes. It meant her friend, Jill Aguirre, a 59-year-old mortgage officer, had never mentioned her worries that immigration was leading to crime at her daughter’s college campus. And she had no idea how strongly Debbie Samartzis, a 57-year-old interior designer who was a registered independent for much of her life, felt about abortion rights.

But it’s hard to hold back in an election year.

When Ms. Hoberg, 50, asked her mom friends to discard the informal politics ban and sit down to talk, they readily agreed to fill up their wine glasses around her table and let a reporter listen in.

Their conversation could have consequences. These are women poised to play a critically important role in this year’s election, a contest that may be remembered for its historic gender gap. They are the sort of women — college educated, suburban, moderate — that Vice President Kamala Harris is counting on in overwhelming margins, hoping their turnout will swamp that of working-class men who favor Mr. Trump.

They are voters Mr. Trump has, in fits and starts, tried to win over. And they explained clearly why his overtures weren’t working.

With a bit of chagrin, Ms. Hoberg says she voted for Mr. Trump eight years ago because he “had not offended me a fraction of the time that I am offended by him now.”

‘Pod Save America’ Won’t Quit

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It was past midnight on June 28, and four podcast hosts were wide awake in a hotel suite in Boston.

Hours earlier, Democrats around the nation had gone to bed stunned after President Biden fumbled through his debate against former President Donald J. Trump. Crowded around a table in a dimly lit room, the four men, hosts of the popular podcast “Pod Save America,” were trying to process what they had just seen — not only for themselves but also for their millions of listeners.

“It would be silly not to have this conversation,” one of the show’s hosts, Jon Favreau, said on the recording.

“A Brutally Honest Debate Recap,” the 892nd episode of the seven-year-old political podcast hosted by four former Obama administration officials, was a turning point in what Democrats were willing to say about Mr. Biden’s chances in the 2024 race.

For months, the hosts had acknowledged polling and reporting that showed Mr. Biden’s age was a sticking point for voters. Last year on the show, they hosted Dean Phillips, the Minnesota congressman who had wanted to challenge Mr. Biden for the Democratic nomination largely because of concerns about his age.

But like most mainstream, high-profile Democrats, the men of “Pod Save America” had stopped well short of suggesting Mr. Biden should step aside.

Before the post-debate episode aired, anyone discussing the possibility of replacing Mr. Biden was seen as a “bad Democrat,” said Alyssa Cass, a Democratic strategist who has been a guest on one of the hosts’ spinoff podcast, “Pollercoaster.” But coming from “Pod Save America,” the case for a new candidate wasn’t so easily dismissed.