ASOS and Adidas Originals to launch exclusive womenswear collection, stage catwalk debut
In a timely launch that coincides with the women’s football Euro championships, digital fashion giant…
Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes
Mark PoyntingClimate and science reporter, BBC News BBC When Matthias Huss first visited Rhône Glacier in Switzerland 35 years ago, the ice was just a short walk from where his parents would park the car. “When I first stepped onto the ice… there [was] a special feeling of eternity,” says Matthias. Today, it’s half an…
Pierpaolo Piccioli debuts at Balenciaga, with Meghan and Lauren applauding
Published October 5, 2025 Saturday night in Paris witnessed the debut of Pierpaolo Piccioli at one of fashion’s most mythical marques, Balenciaga. With Meghan Markle and Lauren Sanchez applauding front row, this was surely the most sophisticated new designer inauguration so far. See fashion showBalenciaga – Spring-Summer2026 – Womenswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight…
Paris is torn between Elie Saab’s working girl and the whimsical creations of Japanese designers
Published October 5, 2025 Japan’s leading fashion houses once again made a major splash at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday, as evidenced on the sixth day of the women’s ready-to-wear shows for spring-summer 2026 by three of the country’s most emblematic labels: Junya Watanabe, Noir by designer Kei Ninomiya, and Comme des Garçons. On the…
Prince William to travel to Brazil for awards ceremony
Daniela RelphSenior royal correspondent PA Media The Prince of Wales will travel to Rio de Janeiro next month for the Earthshot Prize ceremony – the first time the awards have been hosted in Latin America. Earthshot, created by Prince William five years ago, awards £1m every year to five projects for their environmental innovations. There…
Yoox withdraws redundancy notices for 211 workers
By Ansa Published October 4, 2025 There is a glimmer of hope in the Yoox case: the company has suspended with immediate effect the collective redundancy procedure for 211 employees, which had been announced in recent weeks as part of the reorganisation plan initiated by the online shopping company’s new owners. Yoox Yoox has heeded…
A distinctly eclectic Paris Fashion Week featuring Leonard, Giambattista Valli, and Vetements
Published October 4, 2025 Paris Fashion Week entered its fifth day with an especially intense programme. In particular, the womenswear ready-to-wear shows for Spring/Summer 2026 revealed designers’ pursuit of freshness and lightness. Leonard Paris and Giambattista Valli were prime examples. Vetements, for its part, opted for provocation. See fashion showLeonard Paris, Spring-Summer 2026 – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight…
What looks like dancing is actually a bug’s survival trick
If you happen to be walking in the forests of Panama, you might just come across a bug that will wave at you, which scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) have been studying for a while. The matador bug (Bitta alipes) carries striking, reddish “flags” on its hind legs and performs an intricate…
Scientists finally found the “dark matter” of electronics
In a world-first, researchers from the Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have directly observed the evolution of the elusive dark excitons in atomically thin materials, laying the foundation for new breakthroughs in both classical and quantum information technologies. Their findings have been published in Nature Communications. Professor Keshav…
Doctors stunned by a cheap drug’s power against colon cancer
A Swedish-led research team at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital has shown in a new randomized clinical trial that a low dose of the well-known medicine aspirin halves the risk of recurrence after surgery in patients with colon and rectal cancer with a certain type of genetic alteration in the tumor. Every year, nearly…
Rogue planet spotted devouring 6 billion tons every second
Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead. The new observations, made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), reveal that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust…
