News | Good Morning Vogue | LVMH Tiffany Big Problems | Tom Ford Sustainable Plastic Watch

News | Good Morning Vogue | LVMH Tiffany Big Problems | Tom Ford Sustainable Plastic Watch

1) ‘Good Morning Vogue’ is a pilot project fashion news, a 12-part series every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of the Spring 2021 collections. GMV promises to “explore the challenges facing today’s creators and business leaders — from the nonstop pace of collections and the sense of disposability it’s precipitated, to a persistent lack of diversity and structural racism.

2. LVMH head Bernard Arnault is not amused — in fact, he is very angry that Tiffany & Co. decided to pay its shareholders a $70 million quarterly dividend in the middle of a global pandemic. Forbes writes that the deal has fallen apart not primarily by the intervention of the French government, in the form of a letter related to U.S. threats against French products.

3. American designer Tom Ford will soon launch the first high-end wristwatch crafted entirely from recycled ocean plastic. The Swiss-made watch, called the Tom Ford Ocean Plastic Timepiece, tackles the world’s plastic waste problem of 8 million tons of plastic garbage pouring into the world’s oceans each year. The actual watch design is under wraps, but you can track the big reveal on tomford.com.