NATO’s Survival Guide & Chanel’s Charvet Calculus

Jul 3, 2026

NBCU’s Next Chapter, Hollywood’s Covid Recovery, America’s Best President

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon medley of Puck’s best new reporting. Here’s what you need to know… and stick around for more on the Chanel-Charvet connection.

Line Sheet: Chanel just acquired Charvet, the 188-year-old Parisian shirtmaker that had become something of a cult obsession among sophisticated luxury consumers. Lauren Sherman digs into the succession dynamics that drove the Colban family to the Wertheimers and what the acquisition tells us about the state of true luxury independence in 2026. [Inner Circle Exclusive]
Dry Powder: Brian Roberts’s fateful decision to split Comcast and NBCUniversal is either a straightforward corporate reorganization or the opening move of a much bigger sale process. Bill Cohan hops on a call with top Comcast executives to interrogate the real strategy behind the decoupling. [Read More]
The Best & The Brightest: NATO’s annual summit convenes next Tuesday in Ankara—the 10th since Trump took power a decade ago, and the latest exercise in praying he doesn’t blow the whole thing up. Julia Ioffe examines the growing internal pressure to abandon the meeting’s annual cadence—and whether these public displays of disunity are doing more harm than good. [Read More]

Meanwhile, on the pods…

The Grill Room: Julia Alexander and Dylan Byers reunite to discuss how the Comcast-NBCU split could reposition NBCU as a buyer rather than an acquisition target. [Listen Here]
Fashion People: Lauren is joined by superstar super-stylist Jason Bolden to chew over the business and ethics of styling, which brands are working right now, the transformation of luxury, and more. [Listen Here]
Impolitic: John Heilemann sits down with Avett Brothers bassist Bob Crawford to make the case that John Quincy Adams is America’s “most extraordinary ex-president” and arguably its greatest all-around public servant. [Listen Here]
The Powers That Be: Peter Hamby rings up Matt Belloni for the scoop on where Luca Guadagnino’s big OpenAI movie is landing after Amazon dropped it—and why Hollywood is on pace to have its most profitable year since the pandemic. [Listen Here or Watch Here]

And now, a little more on the Wertheimer family’s new shiny toy…

FASHION

Charvet Pride

Yesterday, Chanel announced it would acquire Charvet, the 188-year-old shirtmaker with a single store on the Place Vendôme. As Lauren reports, the news landed with a sense of inevitability for anyone who’d been paying attention. Indeed, the collaboration between Charvet and Matthieu Blazy for his first Chanel ready-to-wear collection had already made the brand a symbol of what luxury should be for sophisticated consumers. Charvet is singular, uncompromising, and a little weird. The only head fake, Lauren writes, was that we assumed those attributes explained why the family would never sell out.

Well, they did. According to the official press communication, the acquisition came out of the work they did together. Lauren reports that Jean-Claude Colban and Anne-Marie Colban, the brother-and-sister team that runs Charvet, may have even initiated the conversation, drawn by what Chanel has done with its collection of specialized ateliers and reassured by the Wertheimer family’s reputation as careful, private custodians. Chanel has promised creative independence, and Lauren believes it—for now. The initial changes will be operational: H.R., tech, etcetera. Ultimately, the lesson is that nothing truly lasts forever—but sometimes the bad thing happens and it’s not actually so bad.

Click here to read Lauren’s full story.

WALL STREET

William D. Cohan

Breaking Up Comcast Is Hard to Do

Both David Zaslav and Bob Iger considered splitting up their entertainment conglomerates, though neither ultimately went through with it. Will Brian Roberts actually go all the way?

WASHINGTON

Julia Ioffe

Is It Time to Cancel the Annual NATO Summit?

The alliance’s summer meeting, which became a yearly event after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has since devolved into an annual display of Trump-induced disunity. “It’s not productive. It risks being destructive,” said one former defense official. So why keep taking that risk every single year?

MEDIA

Dylan Byers

Julia Alexander

Inside the NBCU Custody Battle

Julia and Dylan reunite to talk through the implications of the Comcast–NBCUniversal split—a move that could reposition NBCU as a buyer rather than an acquisition target with Netflix and Amazon among the potential suitors. Then they turn to a revealing Beehiiv report on the newsletter business, and break down why niche topics like finance and investing are dominating the industry leaderboard.

FASHION

Lauren Sherman

Jason Bolden’s Red Carpet Reign

Lauren’s guest is the superstar super-stylist best known for his work with Taraji P. Henson, Nicole Kidman, Michael B. Jordan, Cynthia Erivo, and, most recently, Josh O’Connor. They discuss working retail, the business and ethics of styling, the nuances of celebrity-fashion contracts, which brands are working right now, the transformation of luxury, and so much more.

WASHINGTON

John Heilemann

Bob Crawford: Avett Brothers, John Quincy Adams & Other Joys of Americana

John welcomes Avett Brothers bassist Bob Crawford to discuss his new book, America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams, From President to Political Maverick. Crawford explains how J.Q.A., after a mediocre single term in the Oval Office, blossomed into America’s “most extraordinary ex-president” and arguably its greatest all-around public servant; the evolution of Crawford’s popular history podcast, The Road to Now; and the genesis of the recent, seemingly unlikely collab between the Avett Brothers and Faith No More frontman Mike Patton.

HOLLYWOOD

Peter Hamby

Matthew Belloni

The Powers that Be Daily, Starring Peter Hamby

Sam Altman Biopic Drama & Hollywood’s Box Office Bounce!

Matt Belloni joins Peter with the scoop on where Luca Guadagnino’s big OpenAI movie is landing after Amazon dropped it. Matt also digs into the surprisingly strong box office numbers in 2026 and why Hollywood is on pace to have its most profitable year since the pandemic.

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