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Promotion: British designer Paul Smith has applied his signature stripes to an outdoor furniture collection made in collaboration with Italian brand De Padova.The outdoor furniture collection builds upon the original Paul Smith + De Padova Everyday Life collection, which was launched last year.The initial instalment, which included sofas, poufs and armchairs as well as coffee tables and leather accessories for the living room, has been extended to include outdoor pieces made using outdoor fabrics and iroko wood frames.

It is one of the few things apart from Christmas sales to guarantee overnight queues on the high street, and H&M's latest designer collaboration this time with luxury French fashion house Mugler had people lined up around the block.Hundreds of people queued outside H&M's flagship London store on Regent Street on Thursday, while some determined shoppers had waited overnight since Wednesday, in something of a high street renaissance.

A sign advertises Yeezy shoes made by Adidas at a store in Paramus, N.J., on Oct. 25, 2022.After cutting ties with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, Adidas now plans to sell its stock of unsold Yeezy shoes and donate the proceeds to charity.Seth Wenig/AP Adidas plans to sell its stock of unsold Yeezy shoes and will donate the proceeds from the sales to charity, CEO Bjorn Gulden said Thursday.

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An angry Kanye West, aka Ye, grabbed a phone from a paparazzi photographer and threw it into oncoming traffic while she recorded him, according to claims in a lawsuit filed in Ventura County.Video of the incident was recorded outside a Newbury Park sports facility on Jan. 27 where West's child was reportedly playing in a school game, according to the clip recorded by photographer Nichol Lechmanik.

Image Le Rhodia, a new cafe-restaurant in Paris's Bourdelle Museum, features family-style tables with ceramic bases by the Brittany-based artist Cyril Dennery and handmade rice paper lighting fixtures by the designer Celine Wright.Credit...Marielle Gaudry This spring, the recently renovated Bourdelle Museum in Paris's Montparnasse district opened a luminous new cafe-restaurant, Le Rhodia, named after the French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle's daughter.

Alexa Chung has said women are being dismissed, misdiagnosed and left floundering before getting tested for endometriosis.The fashion designer, presenter and model, 39, said she received treatment for the painful condition while a cyst was being removed.In a piece for British Vogue, she details her and other women's experiences and also cites medical professionals' advice.

Stella McCartney will deliver a spoken word performance with a conservation theme at the Coronation Concert to celebrate the crowning of the King and Queen.The speech by the fashion designer, who has championed a vegan lifestyle and sustainable design throughout her career, will reflect her and the King's shared passion for environmental sustainability, the BBC has said.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A fashion designer based in San Diego has said she was in awe after going viral by crafting six jackets for her father with zips attached so he does not get cold during dialysis treatment.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Tracey Emin has laid bare the realities of life post bladder cancer.Writing in The Independent on International Women's Day, the artist - who features on The Independent'slist of most influential women - describes in stark detail what it is like to live without a bladder after hers was removed in an operation in 2020.

Mourners described an unrelenting sense of shock and anguish Thursday as they remembered four Buffalo Grove High School students at a memorial near the site of a multicar crash that took the teens' lives two days prior.The crowd of hundreds included the high school's principal, Jeff Wardle, who said "the pain has been almost unbearable the last couple days."

Several defendants face charges in connection with murders and robberies at Manhattan bars that terrorized the city's gay community, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.The homicides last spring drew wide attention to a danger that has long stalked New York's nightlife: the use of easily obtainable drugs to incapacitate, rob and sometimes kill.

Katy Perry has revealed she spent the night in Windsor Castle ahead of delivering a spectacular performance at the King's Coronation Concert.The US singer, 38, gave an electric rendition of her hit tracks Roar and Firework at the celebratory event held in the grounds of the castle on Sunday evening, dedicating the latter to the King in honour of the work they do together with the British Asian Trust and their Children's Protection Fund.

April 8, 2023, will mark the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death at the ripe old age of 91.The celebrations will be numerous, no doubt, and the Picasso Museum in Paris has done something unique.For the exhibition Picasso Celebration: The Collection in a New Light, they have invited an English man, already surprising, the fashion designer and lifestyle guru Sir Paul Smith to bring his artistic flare to re-contextualize the collection for the 21 st century.

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one.Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, March 27- April 2. Details and times are subject to change.Josh Lucas and Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama.Credit...Peter Iovino/Touchstone Pictures SWEET HOME ALABAMA (2002) 7:30 p.m. on Freeform.

It looks like Pharrell might actually love those blurred lines (the ones between musician and fashion designer).The musician will succeed the late designer Virgil Abloh as the creative director for the men's section of the fashion house."Pharrell Williams is a visionary whose creative universes expand from music to art, and to fashion - establishing himself as a cultural global icon over the past twenty years," Louis Vuitton stated in an Instagram post on February 14. "The way in which he breaks boundaries across the various worlds he explores, aligns with Louis Vuitton's status as a Cultural Maison, reinforcing its values of innovation, pioneer spirit, and entrepreneurship."

American producer Pharrell Williams has been named creative director of menswear at French fashion house Louis Vuitton, a position held by Virgil Abloh before his death.Louis Vuitton announced that Williams' title would be instated "effective immediately", with his first collection set to be presented in June 2023 during the menswear season at Paris Fashion Week.

German car brand Mercedes-Benz has created the Project Mondo G puffer jacket-informed car as its contribution to Moncler's Genius collection, which was unveiled at London Fashion Week.Designed as an "eye-catching sculptural object", the car is a version of the Mercedes-Benz G-Class with a reflective silver roof and wheels that resemble a puffer jacket.

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Saudi Arabia's plans for a giant cube-shaped supertall skyscraper in downtown Riyadh.The overwhelming response from commenters to the cube-shaped skyscraper was to draw comparisons with the Star Trek alien group The Borg, whose space ship was known as The Borg Cube due to its shape.

Mickey Drexler, the veteran retail executive who ran J. Crew and the Gap for many years, finally sold his TriBeCa townhouse, a former coffee-roasting plant built in the 1890s that he transformed into a fashionable single-family home.The sale price was $23.5 million, which was a sizable discount from the nearly $30 million he had sought when the house, at 464 Greenwich Street, first hit the market almost seven years ago.

K ate Moss, Victoria Beckham and Stormzy were among the famous faces who attended a memorial service for the late fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood in London.Many guests styled themselves in classic Westwood fashion, with tartan designs and colourful, bold tailoring on display at the service which was held at Southwark Cathedral on Thursday.

From left, David Duchovny, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Eddie Murphy and Nia Long in "You People."(Parrish Lewis/Netflix) (3.5 stars) "You People," a very, very fresh and funny love story starring Jonah Hill and Lauren London, has all the bones of its rom-com antecedents: the opening meet-cute, in which Hill's Ezra mistakes London's Amira for his Uber driver; a scowling father of the bride (Eddie Murphy) who can't stand the unworthy groom; several hilariously awkward meet-the-parents scenes; and not one but two kooky wedding planners (Deon Cole and Andrea Savage).

as part of creative platform What Design Can Do's Make it Circular Challenge, four designers discuss circular design and the industry's responsibility to "radically redesign the world we live in".The Make it Circular Challenge calls on creatives to submit imaginative ideas that prevent waste "from what we eat and wear, to why we buy and how we build" and aims to prompt designers to develop sustainable products and processes.

In the flurry of headlines surrounding the "Varsity Blues" scandal, it might have been easy to overlook Donna Heinel.The 61-year-old Southern California woman was not like dozens of others charged in the nationwide scam, not a big-time college coach nor a wealthy executive, nor a famous television actress.

NAIROBI, Kenya A gay activist and fashion designer was murdered and his body found stuffed inside a metal box in Kenya, the police said on Friday, in another episode that raised questions about dangers and discrimination faced by gay people across the East African nation.Edwin Chiloba's body was found in the box after it was dropped by the side of the road from a moving vehicle with no license plate in Uasin Gishu county in the country's west.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Read in Spanish / Leer en español Earlier this month, visitors to Yaeko Yamashita's clothing store on Valencia Street Street near 22nd Street, Laku, found it closed.Instead, there was a note handwritten in pink in the window display.

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In 2018, when interior designer Jenna Chused of Dumbo-based Chused & Co. decided her family of four should quit their cramped two-bedroom apartment and look in earnest for a permanent home, an elegant grand dame townhouse with soaring ceilings and a full complement of marble mantels was the first one they saw.

The Chancellor has asked the Treasury to look into how much could be raised by closing the controversial non-dom tax loophole.Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak have come under fire for refusing to abolish the arrangement for those who live in this country but pay no UK tax on their offshore income, with Labour accusing the pair of shielding the super-rich from contributing their fair share.

The Chancellor has asked the Treasury to look into how much could be raised by closing the controversial non-dom tax loophole.Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak have come under fire for refusing to abolish the arrangement for those who live in this country but pay no UK tax on their offshore income, with Labour accusing the pair of shielding the super-rich from contributing their fair share.

Labour has accused Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt of shielding the super-rich from paying their fair share of tax by refusing to abolish the non-dom loophole.The Chancellor said on Friday it would be the wrong thing to end the controversial arrangement for those who live in the UK but pay no tax on their offshore income.

Rishi Sunak has told a Cop27 reception hosted by King Charles at Buckingham Palace that the world will experience more human suffering if we continue to allow climate change to ravage our planet.The prime minister is attending the UN climate conference in Egypt next week after a U-turn, but Charles will miss the gathering of world leaders, business figures and environmentalists.

As Rishi Sunak prepares to become Britain's third prime minister this year, curiosity about his wealth hovers in the public's mind like thought bubbles filled with crisp British pound notes.Just how rich is he?This year, The Times of London estimated that Mr. Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty, were worth more than $800 million, placing them among the 250 wealthiest British people or families.

From Madonna to Taylor Swift, writer and philosopher FT examines the ever-changing metric of music rankings

A few days ago, I woke up to find out on Twitter that Taylor Swift had surpassed Madonna as the female artist with the most Top 10 hits in Billboard history.This announcement wasn't entirely a surprise, because a day or two before, everyone had been sharing a remarkable screen grab of the Billboard Top 10, all slots of which were occupied by songs from Swift's album Midnights, released less than 24 hours previously.

We've been eagerly awaiting director Rian Johnson's follow-up to 2019's delightful Knives Out, and now we have the final trailer for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.Daniel Craig and his Southern drawl are back and in better form than ever as quirky detective Benoit Blanc, and he has an equally colorful all-star ensemble cast of suspects.

The ban on the Twitter account used by Ye, the rapper and fashion designer formerly known as Kanye West, was not lifted by the company this week, despite reports circulating widely on Friday that it was.His account was never banned in the first place.Twitter took a different action two weeks ago, restricting his account after he posted an antisemitic tweet.

Following the opening of multiple downtown Los Angeles restaurants and bars, chef and humanitarian José Andrés is set to debut another restaurant in the neighborhood next year.The as-yet-unnamed restaurant and bar will occupy the rooftop of the historic Trust Building - where fellow celebrity chef Curtis Stone was previously announced to open a restaurant with his brother - and is expected to launch by the end of 2023.

PARIS  French chic isn't just about fashion.It's about furniture, too.With Le Chic! Arts Decoratifs et Mobilier de 1930 a 1960, one of France's less well-known public institutions, Le Mobilier National, a national repository for French decorative art objects, is showcasing interior decor's answer to power dressing.