insert_link Fashion Bridget Foley is out as editor at WWD The Cut reports that Bridget Foley, the executive editor of Women’s Wear Daily, and a pillar of the paper’s fashion coverage for more than 30 years, was laid off from her position. “It’s a huge part of my life,” Foley said in an interview with The Cut. “It’s been a privilege to cover this industry through such remarkable times of change. I was privileged as a chronicler, and also as […] todayJanuary 20, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple Ticketmaster will pay $10 million for Hacking Rival Ticket Seller CrowdSurge Ticketmaster has agreed to pay $10 million for breaking into a competitors’ network. The company and its parent Live Nation admitted to hiring a former employee from rival ticket seller CrowdSurge, then using his knowledge — including old usernames and passwords — to learn CrowdSurge’s inner workings and “cut [the company] off at the knees.” “Ticketmaster employees repeatedly — and illegally — accessed a competitor’s computers without authorization using stolen […] todayJanuary 6, 2021
insert_link Fashion Designer Alexander Wang Accused of Sexual Assault Designer Alexander Wang is denying sexual assault allegations levied against him on social media last week. Earlier this month, as reported by both the New York Times and the Daily Beast, male model Owen Mooney posted two videos to his TikTok account describing a time "a really famous fashion designer" touched him inappropriately and against his will, then saying that he was referring to Wang. From there, Instagram watch dog accounts […] todayJanuary 5, 2021
insert_link Home Improvement Pantone Announces TWO 2021 Colors of the Year – get ready to Redecorate! Pantone has some predictions about what 2021 might look like, as it announces its picks for Color of the Year. Though the color giant releases trend reports every season, the Pantone Color Institute identifies a specific hue — or, on rare occasions, two — annually that it believes will reflect the sentiment, feeling or desire for any given year, based on trends in fashion, architecture, art and other creative fields. For 2021, the underlying […] todayDecember 15, 2020
insert_link Fashion Pantone announces TWO Colors of the Year for 2021, and how they’ll influence Fabrics and Fashion Pantone has some predictions about what 2021 might look like, as it announces its picks for Color of the Year. Though the color giant releases trend reports every season, the Pantone Color Institute identifies a specific hue — or, on rare occasions, two — annually that it believes will reflect the sentiment, feeling or desire for any given year, based on trends in fashion, architecture, art and other creative fields. For 2021, the underlying […] todayDecember 15, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Zoom extends its Video Limit Time on Thanksgiving so Families can virtually visit longer for Free Zoom has announced it will lift its standard 40-minute limit on free video chats for Thanksgiving Day to make it easier to spend time with friends and family virtually on the US holiday. Given spikes in COVID-19 cases nationwide and various new and existing restrictions on interstate travel, this year’s Thanksgiving will be an unprecedented affair likely involving a mix of in-person and virtual hangouts using videoconferencing software like Zoom. […] todayNovember 18, 2020
insert_link Fashion Dior Homme’s Kim Jones is the New Creative Director at Fendi Last week, Fendi announced it had hired Kim Jones — currently creative director of Dior Homme — to replace Karl Lagerfeld, who died last year, as artistic director of haute couture, ready-to-wear and fur collections for women. Since Lagerfeld's passing in 2019, Silvia Venturini Fendi had taken up that mantle, overseeing all of the design for the Italian fashion house founded by her grandparents in 1925. (Before that, she headed […] todaySeptember 14, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple Will Trump Ban TikTok in the U.S.? President Donald Trump will announce new action “in the coming days” related to Chinese software companies that his administration views as a threat to U.S. national security, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday. Pompeo said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that Trump would make an announcement on the matter “shortly.” This came on the heels of the President's announcement Friday night that he will ban the popular short-form […] todayAugust 3, 2020
insert_link Fashion The Met Gala: Fashion’s Party of the Year This year's Met Gala, held on May 6 in NYC, did not disappoint, as the fashionistas pulled out all the stops to see who could outdo one another for this year's "Camp" Theme. It seems like this event not only draws the top A-Listers from the worlds of Fashion and Entertainment, but gets bigger and bolder every year. The gala is an annual invitation-only fundraiser to benefit the museum's Costume […] todayMay 13, 2019
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