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Spring 2027 Accessories: Highlights From Paris Fashion Week’s Presentations
PARIS — If runway shows displayed flashy accessories pushing quiet luxury out once and for all, brands presenting their new collections at showrooms here during Paris Fashion Week offered...
Better Cotton Initiative Touts Gains in Global Impact Report
The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) said that the farmers who’ve adopted their BCI Standard have made measurable progress in both sustainability and income during their time as members of...
The Only Fashion & Beauty Brands You Should Be Shopping During Amazon’s October Prime Day
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. In this article View More October Prime Day...
Ujoh Spring 2027: Blurred Boundaries
Seeking to prove that a garment can be several things all at once, Ujoh’s Mitsuru and Aco Nishizaki sought to blur boundaries, layering their signature deconstructed and layered tailored...
World
What to Read if You Loved “East of Eden”
Of the sixteen novels that John Steinbeck published before his death, in 1968, “East of Eden” was his favorite. “I think everything else I have written has been, in...
How “Edinburgh” Reimagines Time to Tell a Story of Trauma
But Chee’s first-person, present-tense narration differs from most in being, in a seeming paradox, retrospective. This isn’t exactly an innovation: the modernists experimented with it, and it’s not uncommon...
MacKenzie Scott’s Substack Novel Can’t Escape the Amazon Juggernaut
The novel is set in an America partitioned into two factions: the Dakota Membership, presumably made up of North and South Dakota, and Still United, an agglomeration of other...
Peter de Sève’s “Lapdog”
For the cover of the October 12, 2026, issue, the artist Peter de Sève depicts a scene around Central Park’s reservoir, a cherished spot in a city where access...
Business
Bold Marketing Beats Caution, New Study Finds
Playing it safe is not as safe as it looks, according to a new study from FleishmanHillard and Contagious. The research, released October 6 in New York, argues that...
Spring 2027 Accessories: Highlights From Paris Fashion Week’s Presentations
PARIS — If runway shows displayed flashy accessories pushing quiet luxury out once and for all, brands presenting their new collections at showrooms here during Paris Fashion Week offered...
Hawkish hike, but measured path ahead
The six-member MPC voted unanimously for the hike, while the change in stance was carried by a 4-2 vote. The RBI rarely describes its stance as “calibrated tightening”. The...
Airline safety grounded in terra firma
In fact, only a rare trifecta of good fortune ensured that there were no fatalities on board the flydubai flight from Dubai to Israel, which resulted from the depredations...
News
USPS Hires Shady Armed Security Service Weeks Before Midterms
Mark Ungar, a political science professor at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice in New York who has researched private security firms such as Prosegur, suggested to Raw...
Trump Spirals into Crazed Fury as GOP Pollsters Deliver Very Bad News
Donald Trump unleashed a long, crazed tirade this week about Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina. He attacked her with the vicious slur “tranny” not...
Trump, 80, Claims Iran War Ended Eight Months Before He Started It
“To date, we are not aware of any public reporting indicating the current location of the ring,” Warren and Blumenthal wrote in the letter, first reported by Newsweek. The...
Why the Hell Is Kash Patel’s FBI Making Campaign Ads?
Kash Patel’s FBI slammed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a wildly partisan, and likely illegal, propaganda video Tuesday.In a two-minute video posted on social media, the supposedly nonpartisan...
Beauty
Hawkish hike, but measured path ahead
The six-member MPC voted unanimously for the hike, while the change in stance was carried by a 4-2 vote. The RBI rarely describes its stance as “calibrated tightening”. The...
University of Colorado Denver gets UGC nod to set up campus in Hyderabad
University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) has said it has received a letter of intent from the UGC to set up a new campus in Hyderabad, making it the...
Nobody knows who is running Iran, says Trump as war enters eighth month
US President Donald Trump (Photo:PTI)2 min read Last Updated : Oct 07 2026 | 8:37 AM ISTUS President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that nobody knew who was running...
Coming soon: Faceless assessment for businesses with CGST registrations
“We want to provide faceless assessment for companies under the CGST system. This does not need GST Council approval as we are planning to do it only for the...
Celebrity
Airline safety grounded in terra firma
In fact, only a rare trifecta of good fortune ensured that there were no fatalities on board the flydubai flight from Dubai to Israel, which resulted from the depredations...
Entertain people again: CJI to Rajpal Yadav as SC hears cheque-bounce case
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Wednesday, during a hearing in a long-running cheque-bounce case against actor Rajpal Yadav, said the actor can make a good movie and...
UP Scholarship 2026-27: Who can apply, deadlines and how to register online
Students who need assistance paying for their studies can now apply for the UP Scholarship 2026. The official portal is accepting applications under the Post-Matric Other Than Intermediate (Dashmottar)...
Banks sweeten offers for retail customers as festive shopping picks up
The breadth of the offers is evident at HDFC Bank, which is set to launch its Festive Treats 2026 campaign on October 10 with more than 10,000 offers spanning...
Culture
Demo Day Lessons From PearX’s Latest Startup Class
Investors got a fresh look at early-stage AI this week, as TechCrunch highlighted five startups from the latest PearX demo day. PearX is the accelerator run by Pear VC,...
US$7 trillion data-centre boom is creating gaps in insurance cover in Apac: report
There are interconnected and concentrated risks in power, construction, operations, cybersecurity and downtime[SINGAPORE] Insuring the Asia-Pacific’s rapidly expanding data-centre sector is becoming increasingly challenging.Global insurance broker Howden identifies the...
S$7 billion wiped off OCBC value as shares slide 5.2% in heavy trade
[SINGAPORE] Shares of OCBC dropped as much as 5.2 per cent in intraday trading on Wednesday (Oct 7). As at 11.11 am, the counter was down 5.2 per cent...
Paramount completes US$110 billion Warner Bros merger, creating Hollywood giant Skydance
It will now be home to dozens of TV networks and two major subscription streaming services, Paramount+ and HBO MaxPARAMOUNT Skydance closed its US$110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros...
Style
Bold Marketing Beats Caution, New Study Finds
Playing it safe is not as safe as it looks, according to a new study from FleishmanHillard and Contagious. The research, released October 6 in New York, argues that...
“Fear Fokol” Looks Inside the Private-Security Forces That Patrol Johannesburg
Tuva Björk’s short documentary opens with a private-security officer offering a litany of the weapons he has with him in his car, recounted with a pride that borders on...
How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough
The statistical reasoning is sound, even if the ingestion test’s verisimilitude is a little hand-wavy. Bird populations change; migratory patterns, or what experts call “waves of biomass,” are fickle....
How Lists Became Our Greatest Defense Against Endless Slop
In his 1996 essay “I’ve Got a Little List,” the novelist William Gass identified our predilection for rankings as an “obsess[ion] with hierarchies.” But while our capacity to categorize...
Fashion
Dodgers, Angels receive surprising report cards from the Automated Ball-Strike system’s first season
The Dodgers were horrible. The Angels were great. No, that’s not a dispatch from topsy-turvy land. It’s their report cards following the first season Major League Baseball has utilized...
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards failed to alert parents during suicide conversations, report finds
The guardrails OpenAI put in place to protect teens don’t seem to be working, according to a new report. Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute rated ChatGPT for...
South Korean investors suffer US$1.7 billion losses from leveraged ETFs
Published Wed, Oct 7, 2026 · 12:56 PM[SEOUL] Retail investors have suffered an estimated 2.3 trillion won (US$1.7 billion) in cumulative losses from leveraged single-stock exchange-traded products tracking South...
‘Legitimate concern’: JPMorgan CEO Dimon says Anthropic’s Mythos pushed cyber risk up 10 times
Published Wed, Oct 7, 2026 · 06:54 AM[NEW YORK] Anthropic’s Mythos artificial intelligence model has dramatically increased global cybersecurity risks, JPMorgan Chase chief executive officer Jamie Dimon said.Risks from...
