Watch what musician Paul Smith had to say in 2011
Through the International Festival of Creativity Cannes' YouTube page, we bring to you a series of ‘Cannes Learnings’ from the past.
Here we feature snapshots musician Paul Smith’s session from 2011.
In this video, Smith reads a letter she wrote to her former partner Robert Mapplethorpe a few days before he died in 1989.
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