âDuring lockdown, I danced alone a lot,â recalls Camille Miceli, accessories creative director at Louis Vuitton, of the months she spent outside of social exchange. âI love to have friends with me, and not being free to do what I want gets on my nerves very easily.â If she wasnât dancing with herself, then she was crouching in the one good Wi-Fi spot in a rented house in Cap Ferret, the chic beach town on the west coast of France, where, along with her husband JeÌroÌme, she cobbled together group games of belote (a form of bridge) and Scrabble over Zoom. âMy husband and I were playing with two other people. Scrabble was a mess.â Each player had their own IRL board and tiles, to create a consistent game across households. (To the suggestion that there are perfectly serviceable group digital solutions, Miceli admits she is not online much.) The rest of the time she worked to finish up Vuittonâs resort accessories collection. âThe DHL g
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“What I have really cherished,” says Joseph Altuzarra, sat behind the desk of his white and bare-walled New York office, “is that I feel really lucky to have been able to communicate with a lot of other designers and business owners who I wouldn’t normally have spoken with. To be able to have conversations about the challenges that we’re going through and how they’re tackling it.”
Altuzarra is talking about how he’s been coping during the pandemic. The designer only moved back into the city at the end of September having been residing in the Hamptons – he recently opened a new store on East Hampton’s Maine street – since March.