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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 4 March 2020
Recording Academy fires ousted CEO, citing investigations

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The The academy said it had
Recording Academy on engaged in some settle-
Monday fired Deborah Du- ment discussions with Du-
gan, its former president gan but opted to fire her
who called into question instead, and will begin the
the integrity of the Gram- search for a new CEO.
my Awards nominations "We could not reward her
process and said she was with a lucrative settlement
sexually harassed by a top and thereby set a prec-
lawyer for the organization, edent that behavior like
which she called a boys' hers has no consequence,"
club that coddled and fa- the academy's executive
vored powerful men. committee wrote in a letter
The academy said the de- to members. "Our members
cision was reached after and employees, and the
"two exhaustive, costly in- entire music industry, de-
dependent investigations" serve better than that."
about Dugan and her alle- Dugan's attorneys said in a
gations. It said the reviews statement that the acad-
found "consistent manage- emy's decision to fire her
ment deficiencies and fail- and immediately notify
ures," though no specifics media outlets "further dem-
were offered. In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, Recording Academy President/CEO Deborah Du- onstrates that it will stop
Dugan had been on ad- gan participates in the 62nd Grammy Awards nominations news conference at Studio 43 at CBS at nothing to protect and
ministrative leave since Broadcast Center in New York. maintain a culture of mi-
mid-January, when she was Associated Press sogyny, discrimination, sex-
ousted after a complaint ual harassment, corruption
of mistreatment from a during a business meeting, "While I am disappointed voting process and discrim- and conflicts of interest."q
longtime Recording Acad- which she detailed in a dis- by this latest development, inate against women and Dugan's EEOC complaint
emy employee, which the crimination complaint filed I am not surprised given the people of color." alleged that Joel Katz, an
academy said Monday with the Equal Employment Academy's pattern of deal- Dugan's ouster played out influential music attorney
was one of multiple com- Opportunity Commission. ing with whistle blowers," days before the acade- and the academy's gen-
plaints from people across Dugan said Monday that She said in a statement. " my's most important night, eral counsel, tried to woo
the organization. Dugan the academy's investiga- So, instead of trying to re- the Grammy Awards, a her romantically and at-
had raised several issues tions did not include inter- form the corrupt institution ceremony that made no tempted to kiss her against
about the way the orga- views with her, or address from within, I will continue mention of her or her al- her wishes during a dinner
nization ran and accused her claims of conflict of in- to work to hold account- legations of a rigged vot- last year that had been
its top lawyers of acting in- terest and voting irregulari- able those who continue to ing process for some of the presented as a business
appropriately toward her ties. self-deal, taint the Grammy ceremony's top awards. meeting.q

Chanel hosts pared-down show as virus keeps many VIPs away

By THOMAS ADAMSON the monochrome display. MIU MIU
Associated Press Here are some highlights on There has been renewed
PARIS (AP) — Chanel the last day of Paris Fashion focus on Miuccia Prada af-
staged a comparatively Week for fall-winter 2020 ter she announced during
low-key affair for Paris Fash- ready-to-wear. Milan Fashion Week that
ion Week as the coronavi- CHANEL she had hired Belgian de-
rus outbreak kept many of "A very simple, very pure signer Raf Simons as co-cre-
the regular VIPs and fash- momentum. Romanticism, ative director of the family
ion editors away. The stal- but without any flourishes," house that she directed to
wart Parisian design house is how Vivard described the icon status.
streamed its show online. collection. said Viard. The first show since then for
Some of the guests who Evoking French film direc- Prada's little sister brand,
came to see Chanel's fall tor Claude Chabrol's 1968 Miu Miu, did not disappoint
collection up close Tues- film "The Does," a drama creatively. The "intellectual"
day wore CC-branded about seduction that fo- Models wear creations for the Chanel fashion collection during fashion display was a pas-
face masks. cuses on bisexual lovers, Women's fashion week Fall/Winter 2020/21 presented in Paris, tiche of itself.
Artistic director Virginie Vi- female models walked the Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Bright color, intentionally
ard channeled restraint in runway together and chat- Associated Press contrasting checks, faux
the collection, a marked ted like intimates for the animal fur and sumptu-
departure from her prede- first looks. The models wore dropped Juliette sleeves. personal style. A loose wool ous shimmering silk gowns
cessor and mentor, the late stylish retro black leather Modeled by Cindy Craw- jacket in Chanel's emblem- merged divergent refer-
Karl Lagerfeld. Although boots, ones with a brandy ford's daughter, Kaia Ger- atic pink with a soft-spiky ences for disruptive and
the show took place at the bell-shaped collar at the ber, it had guests clicking collar was also a high point. quirky effect. Old school
Grand Palais exhibition hall mid-calf that turned out to their cameras. Voluminous The one drawback of the glamour came in a emer-
on the Champs-Elysees, be the collection's leitmotif. studded jodhpurs opened tasteful showing were some ald green crinkled silk col-
simplicity was the Chanel Viard's simplest designs up at the bottom cut a of the overly flashy jewelry umn dress modeled with
"mot du jour, from the set were the most effective: A beautiful silhouette . that often distracted the 1930s-style wavy hair that
of tiered white steps to the black silk bodice dress with This design, Viard said, was eye from the show's central looked like it had been left
pared-down aesthetic of the top lobbed off and an homage to Lagerfeld's aesthetic. in curlers a little too long.q