
“I’m not totally surprised — I think he wanted a break, he wanted a change,” says Carine Roitfeld, the ultimate proponent of job-quitting, to the Daily Beast. Indeed, she and Ghesquière are old pals, and he probably gabbed to her about his departure months ago, perhaps over vodka and herrings.
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