Published November 12, 2025 British luxury shoes and bags label Malone Souliers has a new CEO with Andrew Wright, who joins with a powerful track record, taking the helm. Malone Souliers Wright has spent eight years at another luxury British brand also specialising in footwear and bags — the globally known Manolo Blahnik. While there…
Published November 12, 2025 Turin-based BasicNet group, owner of the Kappa, Robe di Kappa, K-Way, Superga, Sebago and Briko brands, announced on Wednesday it has reached an agreement to acquire Woolrich, the historic American brand founded in 1830. The Italian firm is acquiring Woolrich from L-Gam, an investment fund established in 2013 with the support…
Published November 12, 2025 London-based luxury gifting platform The Go-To is about to make a briefest of US debuts with an immersive pop-up in the heart of New York’s SoHo this weekend. The retailer takes on its first-ever physical space on Greene Street across three days (14-16 November), introducing its range of “design-led, meaningful gifting” across…
Translated by Nicola Mira Published November 12, 2025 The European Accelerator is a new initiative by The Fashion Pact, the non-profit organisation founded in 2019 to promote sustainability in fashion. The European Accelerator brings together major luxury names such as Chanel, Ermenegildo Zegna, Kering, Moncler and Prada, with the aim of advocating collective action, starting…
Ryan Wills; Barry Hetherington; ESA; NASA; AdobeStock Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates asteroids from 0 to 10 based on how certain we are that they could hit Earth –…
The new era of Silicon Valley runs on networking—and not the kind you find on LinkedIn. As the tech industry funnels billions into AI data centers, chip makers both big and small are ramping up innovation around the technology that connects chips to other chips, and server racks to other server racks. Networking technology has…
By Reuters Published November 12, 2025 Italy is working to adopt a tax on low-value postal packages from non-European countries, politicians said, as part of measures to protect its fashion industry from low-cost foreign imports mostly from China. Temu is known for its low priced fashion and lifestyle goods – Shutterstock The move, aimed at…
Artist’s impression of a coronal mass ejection on a star Olena Shmahalo/Callingham et al. A cloud of plasma ejected by a star 130 light years away has been detected by a radio telescope on Earth, giving astronomers their first definitive observation of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from a star beyond our sun. CMEs occur…
Recently, Halloween may have brought thoughts of skeletons, but the true “skeleton age” began long ago during the early Cambrian Period, roughly 538 to 506 million years ago. During this transformative era, many of Earth’s major animal groups independently figured out how to create mineralized skeletons or shells. They typically did this in one of…
Researchers at the University of Houston have achieved a major scientific milestone in the study of heat transfer. Their new findings overturn long-standing assumptions about thermal conductivity and reveal that boron arsenide (BAs) can conduct heat more effectively than diamond, which has long been considered the benchmark among isotropic materials. The research team discovered that…
