Robin Givhan

I mean, I will say that certainly the world of luxury fashion under the corporate ownership of LVMH

is of particular interest because, you know, that is a conglomerate that is controlled by Bernard Arnault.

And that is someone who has a very, I would say, publicly comfortable relationship with this administration.

I mean, I don't know what goes on behind closed doors, but, you know, that is certainly...

All signs point to that.

Certainly the first time around, the first term, Mr. Arnault went to Trump Tower and met with the incoming president.

And then later on, opened a Louis Vuitton factory in Texas, and the president and

members of his team came to you know cut the ribbon i will say that they were rather quiet or as quiet as they could be within the fashion industry about the president coming to open that factory uh and did not exactly shout it at the top of their lungs um

But, you know, so there's that business aspect of it that exists.

And then to some degree, I think, and it seems to me that this is in many ways kind of been the case for a lot of people.

I feel like there's almost a kind of outrage exhaustion to some degree that for some people,

it was, they just couldn't stay at sort of high outrage.

I mean, certainly there is the issue of the tariffs and the way that that's affecting, you know, the fashion industry, but there still are, I would say a lot of designers or some designers who are being very pointed in their critique, their criticism of the administration and,

And one that immediately comes to mind is Willy Chavarria, who is of Mexican-American descent, a beautiful, beautiful designer focused mostly on menswear.

And he showed his very first collection in Paris and took that opportunity to open with the Song Hotel California in English and also in Spanish.

And the first handful of guys down that runway were, you know, brown skin men with, you know, close cropped hair wearing white T-shirts and shorts.

And they came out and they, you know, knelt in formation sort of mimicking what had been happening with detainees.

who had been sent to the prison in El Salvador.

And then that was followed with a beautiful collection that really celebrated that convergence of Mexican heritage and American and Southern California and all the things that make Willy such an interesting and wonderful and unique designer.

And so I think that was one way