London's Private Members Club Estelle Coming to the UES, An On-the-Ground Report from the Milken Conference, and Banging in the Boom Boom Room
Plus: Chaos at the Venice Biennale, the Cental Park Hat Luncheon and the New York Philharmonic's new music director
Friday morning, everyone. It has been a big and noisy week, hasn’t it? I owe you an extra letter this weekend, so look out for that.
Today’s letter is one of my favorites in a while — and after a week like this one, we all deserve it. I have never been to the Milken Conference, but when a friend with a very big job and a reason to be there offered to report back with their observations for RPS, I immediately said yes. My one request was to please, please make it legible to those of us who do not work in business and have never attended what is essentially Davos for people who don’t like snow. The last thing I wanted was a field report packed with policy jargon that I’d spend a day translating. It has been a long time since I got my business degree, and an even longer time since I worked anywhere near a balance sheet.
Luckily, our on-the-ground correspondent delivered a report that includes a little bit of everything: a party at a house Rihanna once owned, a Pitbull concert, Brunello Cucinelli pullovers, the temperature on China, Jensen Huang, private aviation gossip, Larry Fink, crypto slander, and somehow, a Taylor Swift mention. I am thoroughly impressed.
For those of you who think the Milken Conference sounds like a total snoozefest, don’t worry — the rest of RPS is your smelling salts. There’s also some exclusive news from a Community Board Meeting this week (backed up by a friend of mine) about what we know about a British members' club heading across the pond to the Upper East Side on 81st street (which hasn’t been reported in any major outlets or newsletters yet), Met Gala after-party coverage you haven’t seen anywhere else, drama at the Venice Biennale, details from the Central Park Hat Luncheon, a new maestro at the New York Philharmonic and more…
Dispatches from the Milken Conference: Notes from the Lanyard Class
