Though Mr. Jones used to have an apartment in Paris, he had given up the lease when he got the Fendi job, to reduce distractions. Instead, he stays in the same room in the same hotel every time he goes to Paris or Rome, kind of the way Mark Zuckerberg wears the same thing every day so he doesn’t have to think about it. “The biggest honor you can get is to be offered the job Karl Lagerfeld did,” Mr. Jones said. As he talked, Mr. Jones was wearing a black Loro Piana vicuña knit he said had been a Christmas present. Among them was one that Woolf had inscribed to Vita Sackville-West, her lover; one owned by Noël Coward; and another owned by John Maynard Keynes.

Source: New York Times January 25, 2021 07:52 UTC