The Sunday Digest 089
"Life's a mixed bag, no matter who you are."
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Sunday Read: The World’s Richest Family Is About to Remake the Olympics. Here’s How.
by Tom Lamont for GQ
As far as summer mid-morning couch programming goes, we’ve been absolutely feasting lately. The French Open straight into Wimbledon, an exciting Premier League season going straight into the Euros, Tour de France firing up — has it ever been better to support Euro sports that are generally disliked by the American fanship?
And that’s not even taking into account this year’s Olympics.
This week’s Sunday Read focuses on how the Arnaults and LVMH are changing the Olympics — for the fancier. Here’s an excerpt:
Last year, in a story about the family, The Wall Street Journal offered some insight into how the Arnaults make decisions, noting that they do so together as a unit, at a monthly lunch at LVMH headquarters. Dad brings a list of discussion topics on his iPad. The kids take turns to give their views. The lunch lasts exactly 90 minutes. So the Journal wrote. I ask Antoine if he can remember the meeting when the idea for a partnership with the Olympics first arose for discussion. “We did not just wake up one morning thinking of Paris 2024,” he says, pointing out that his family supported the city’s initial hosting bid almost a decade ago. “Admittedly, we weren’t in the news at the time, but we were an early supporter.” Still: LVMH didn’t reveal itself as a main sponsor until this time last year. “People were waiting for us to unveil our partnership as the [most] internationally recognized French company, and I understand that.” They took their time, he says, to get the terms of the partnership right.
Read in full here.
The Sunday Haiku: Just a lil’ golf nap.
Head on the pillow,
beer on the coffee table,
ten-minute alarm.
New Episode › Retail Therapy 079: Euro Kits and Dinner Parties
The fallout from our Summer '24 In/Out episode, our favorite kits for the upcoming Euros, why Gen-Z is embracing dinner parties more than millennials (and why we need to be better), dressing "cool" vs. dressing authentically in Nirvana shirts, the confusion behind the Noah x Timex watch drop, some articles of interest, and (of course) wishlist items.
Listen to Retail Therapy on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube (see above), and anywhere else podcasts are found. And a reminder to follow Retail Therapy on Substack!
Things I Saved This Week
Only Watch This If You Want To Cry Today
Yep, may be a good time to run back About Time. Though if I’m skewing summer movies, I should probably stick to The Great Outdoors or The Parent Trap.
Supplemental Reading
Making good on a tease from last week’s confessions, I published (the beginning of) an old short story called The Stay.
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