Hoka and Beams Tease Collab at Paris Fashion Week

Hoka and Beams Tease Collab at Paris Fashion Week

PARIS — A parallel calendar of sportswear and activations has emerged alongside Paris Men’s Fashion Week each June, with a steady stream of brand events across the city competing for buyers’ and consumers’ attention. This season, Hoka used the week to both open sales of its new collaboration with Japanese retailer Beams and host a…

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JustCo’s dismal debut: Did institutional investors misjudge the company’s public market value?

JustCo’s dismal debut: Did institutional investors misjudge the company’s public market value?

Despite pivoting to profitability and laying out growth plans, its shares have slumped 42.6% below their IPO price [SINGAPORE] Some investors may have been heartened by JustCo’s announcement last week that it will open a new co-working centre in Singapore’s Central Business District. The provider of flexible workspaces came to market last month following an…

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Ukraine confirms attack on two Russian refineries

Ukraine confirms attack on two Russian refineries

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that the military carried out drone strikes on two Russian refineries during the night. He confirmed the strike on a facility in Slavyansk-na-Kubani in southern Russia, which Russian authorities had reported earlier. “We also struck a refinery in the Yaroslavl region, which is about 700 kilometres from our…

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Every Generation Gets the Fro-Yo It Deserves

Every Generation Gets the Fro-Yo It Deserves

You’ll do far better if you walk to Eighty-eighth and Madison and dip into the small, cool Madison Fare, a specialty-foods-and-candy storefront opened, in 2022, by the chef Amin Kinana, whose frozen-yogurt creations are, by my estimation, unreserved works of art. The yogurt itself is dense and almost puckeringly sour, and oh, my God, the…

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Swipeless online dating? How AI is reshaping the search for love

Swipeless online dating? How AI is reshaping the search for love

Tired of the same old dating apps like Bumble and Hinge, Marie Lansley tried talking to an artificial intelligence matchmaker. For roughly 15 minutes, she chatted with an AI voice on the dating app Known, answering questions about her upbringing, personality, education, lessons from past relationships and whether she’s looking for a serious relationship or…

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Nobody’s a Stranger When You Play “No Letting Go”

Nobody’s a Stranger When You Play “No Letting Go”

I was not alive for Dylan going electric, but I was alive for the Diwali riddim. I can’t imagine that the sixties felt so monumental. In 2003, it seemed that every other song on the radio was built on the Jamaican producer Steven (Lenky) Marsden’s backing track, named after the Hindu festival of lights and…

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Y-3 Spring 2027: A Shanked Shot

Y-3 Spring 2027: A Shanked Shot

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup writ large on this summer, Y-3’s spring 2027 outing at the Palais Brongniart couldn’t have been more on the nose. The brand born of the collaboration between Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas leaned into the current global fixation on the pitch, as the competition enters its knockout phase, transforming the…

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Soaring iPad, Xbox prices reveal pain of memory chip mess

Soaring iPad, Xbox prices reveal pain of memory chip mess

Published Sun, Jun 28, 2026 · 05:22 PM [SEATTLE] Within a span of five hours on Thursday (Jun 25), Apple and Microsoft hiked the prices for such popular products as Xbox video-game consoles, Macs and iPads. Both companies blamed an unprecedented shortage of memory chips driven by the artificial intelligence boom. And despite high-profile efforts…

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A-Sonic Aerospace hunts for Asean acquisitions, makes tech foray as it charts next phase of growth

A-Sonic Aerospace hunts for Asean acquisitions, makes tech foray as it charts next phase of growth

[SINGAPORE] As A-Sonic Aerospace ventures beyond its aviation and logistics roots into the information technology space, the mainboard-listed company is looking closer to home for growth, actively scouting for acquisition targets with an established Asean footprint. South-east Asia is where the growth is, said chief executive and chairperson Janet Tan, noting that the group’s strategy…

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Undercover Men’s Spring 2027: The Artist’s Way

Undercover Men’s Spring 2027: The Artist’s Way

Jun Takahashi is no stranger to an artistic collaboration. In the past, he’s tacked Cindy Sherman’s images onto his clothing; drawn inspiration from the set and characters of “Twin Peaks;” and worked the soft, squeezable — and subversive — works of the French plush artist Anne-Valérie Dupond into his own designs. This season, though, was…

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