Ever Dye raises €15 million to advance to the industrial stage
French biosourced textile dye specialist Ever Dye has announced the raising of €15 million to…
Dior: Jonathan Anderson debuts with a novel new look
Published October 1, 2025 In a season of debuts, the biggest so far was at Dior on Wednesday, where Jonathan Anderson debuted in women’s wear spectacularly with a novel new vision of the house’s famed New Look. Dior – Women’s Spring/Summer 2026 runway show – FashionNetwork.com Or new looks rather, as Anderson riffed on many…
Google DeepMind and Ross Lovegrove partner on design and AI
Our approach: distillation and dialogue We worked with the studio to curate a high-quality dataset of Ross’ personal sketches, using it to fine-tune our text-to-image model, Imagen. By training the model on the studio’s selected work, we were able to incorporate the core components of Ross’ design language — the specific curves, structural logic and…
NASA’s asteroid deflection test had unexpected and puzzling outcome
Illustration showing NASA’s DART probe, upper right, on course to strike the asteroid Dimorphos, left, which orbits Didymos Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA/AP/Alamy After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew a…
Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent Getty Images Pope Leo XIV speaking at the Raising Hope climate conference near Rome In his first major statement on climate change, Pope Leo XIV has hit out at those who minimise the “increasingly evident” impact of rising temperatures. Re-iterating the words of his predecessor Pope Francis, the new Pontiff lambasted critics…
Sale of La Perla’s Italian and UK units to Peter Kern’s La Perla Atelier now official
Translated by Nicola Mira Published October 1, 2025 Luxury lingerie label La Perla is now part of the portfolio of Luxury Holding’s La Perla Atelier, MIMIT, the Italian ministry of business and made-in-Italy has said. It indicated that “following the transfer of the Bologna production facility, the sale of La Perla Manufacturing, previously in extraordinary…
Moët Hennessy in legal dispute with former CFO over NDA breach
By Bloomberg Published October 1, 2025 Moët Hennessy and its former finance chief are embroiled in a legal dispute after the drinks company accused him of violating a non-disclosure agreement by allegedly leaking internal information related to a sexual-harassment case. LVMH unit faces legal clash as ex-CFO challenges dismissal terms – DR Mark Stead signed…
Google collaboration with the University of Waterloo
Professor Edith Law will be the inaugural Google Chair in the Future of Work and Learning. Professor Law is an esteemed Computer Science professor and Executive Director of the University of Waterloo’s newly established Future of Work Institute, widely recognized for her pioneering contributions to fostering human-AI collaboration in the pursuit of enhanced creativity. She…
Gymshark will open first permanent US store next month
Published October 1, 2025 Having test-marketed a physical store in New York last year, Gymshark’s ready to open its first permanent US store later this year. Gymshark x R.A.D The UK-based gymwear brand and fitness community advocate is preparing to open a 4,000 sq ft flagship at Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, one…
Unlocking AI’s full potential requires operational excellence
Capturing, documenting, and distributing knowledge at scale is critical to organizational success with AI. Yet our survey showed only 16% of respondents say their workflows are extremely well-documented. The top barriers to proper documentation are a lack of time, cited by 40% of respondents, and a lack of tools, cited by 30%. The challenge of…
The billion-year reign of fungi that predated plants and made Earth livable
New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding evidence of their influence on ancient terrestrial ecosystems. The study, led by researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and collaborators, indicates the diversification of fungi hundreds of millions of years before…
