Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published September 23, 2025 Inditex’s youth-oriented fashion label continues to add to its list of milestones. Pull&Bear staged its first catwalk show on 20 September during London Fashion Week, in partnership with emerging designer Marie Lueder. The collection, developed jointly with the German designer, forms part of the BFC Newgen…
“If [a tool is] facing the general public, then using retraction as a kind of quality indicator is very important,” says Yuanxi Fu, an information science researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There’s “kind of an agreement that retracted papers have been struck off the record of science,” she says, “and the people who…
Published September 23, 2025 Premium contemporary fashion brand AllSaints has announced two senior management promotions to the global leadership team for the group that includes its eponymous label and John Varvatos. Alex Didymiotis Alex Didymiotis has been appointed chief people officer, while Alfie Meekings is now chief transformation and technology officer, “ensuring that both of…
Published September 23, 2025 FatFace — or more specifically Fulham Parent Limited — has filed its first set of financial results including a full year of trading as part of Next. It fleshes out the basic figures for the year that it issued back in August. FatFace x V&A The accounts, covering the year to…
Plans for a second runway at Gatwick have been approved by the government, making it the latest in a string of planned UK airport expansions to receive support. The Gatwick decision could lead to an extra 100,000 flights per year. If Heathrow gets permission to build a third runway – which the government has said…
Published September 23, 2025 Two designers with careers on slow but steady boils, both working far distant from London -Rory William Docherty and Anamika Khanna from India- helped make exotic and inspiring additions to the last day of London Fashion Week. See fashion showRory William Docherty – Spring-Summer2026 – Womenswear – Royaume-Uni – Londres –…
Engineers in Australia have developed a new building material with about one quarter of concrete’s carbon footprint, while reducing waste going to landfill. This innovative material, called cardboard-confined rammed earth, is composed entirely of cardboard, water and soil – making it reusable and recyclable. In Australia alone, more than 2.2 million tons of cardboard and…
TSPO, a key biomarker of brain inflammation, could help detect Alzheimer’s disease years before memory loss and other symptoms set in – potentially leading to advances in how the disease is diagnosed and treated, according to a study published in Acta Neuropathologica. “This is the first study to really examine how early this biomarker increases…
Drinking too little water could increase our vulnerability to stress-related health issues, according to a new study from scientists at LJMU. People who drink less than the recommended daily fluid intake experience a greater stress hormone response, which is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and depression. A new study, published recently in…
Cancer Research UK-funded scientists have uncovered dementia-like behavior in pancreas cells at risk of turning into cancer. The findings provide clues that could help in the treatment and prevention of pancreatic cancer, a difficult-to-treat disease linked to 6,900 deaths in the UK every year.* The research was published on August 15 in the journal Developmental…
