Marc Bain

My wife and I sometimes joke that OK Computer is the reason we met.

Women’s yoga pants may be the cornerstone of Lululemon, but they were really just the start. From that foundation the brand has shrewdly expanded into a number of categories, from outerwear to running gear to men’s clothes, which are rapidly approaching $1 billion in sales for the brand.

Adidas’s new Futurecraft.Loop sneaker claims to have achieved a holy grail of sorts for the fashion and footwear industries.

Adidas has introduced a new sneaker that it’s calling the first of its kind. Named the Futurecraft.Loop, it’s a performance running shoe that can be 100% ground up and melted back into raw materials for a brand-new shoe—without any waste.

The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris survived a devastating fire that tore through its upper reaches and brought down its spire yesterday (April 15) while stunned Parisians, tourists, and people online around the world watched in shock.

It was a major event last year when Virgil Abloh showed his debut men’s collection for Louis Vuitton. A black American designer, raised on hip-hop, skateboarding, and streetwear, was ushering in a new era at the world’s largest luxury fashion brand. How would shoppers respond?

It’s not often you see a CEO so sanguine about an ass whooping.

If you follow the fashion choices of pop stars, you may have noticed a similar set of bright, undulating prints in grading blues and oranges popping up across their wardrobes. The notable people to don the exuberant squiggles so far include Beyoncé, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, DJ and producer Diplo, rapper Swae Lee, guitarist and singer Steve Lacy, and Kevin Jonas of the Jonas Brothers.

Festival fashion is a genre unto itself, with its own laws about how people should dress.

“How do I find good office outfits with an edge?” one user asks on Itsapark, a site that the clothing retailer H&M Group launched in beta mode on April 3. “I want to look ladylike when going out on a friday evening, but heels always kill my feet, and I can’t really dance in them,” another lamented. “But small black dresses and sneakers? 😫What to do!”

Adidas and Beyoncé are partnering up.

Menswear has traveled a long road to get where it is. Just a few decades ago, most people, perhaps men especially, treated men’s fashion as an afterthought. Now sales of menswear are growing faster than sales of womenswear, and none other than Vogue editor and fashion doyenne Anna Wintour said recently that menswear is “leading creativity” in the industry (paywall).

Outdoor-clothing company Patagonia is as well-known for its environmental activism as for its popular fleece vests, which are so ubiquitous among guys in the finance industry they’ve become part of its unofficial uniform. There’s even an Instagram account, called @midtownuniform, dedicated to documenting the phenomenon.

The store buyers who pick the clothes, shoes, and other items that retailers purchase from brands aren’t as well-known as designers, models, or magazine editors, but they’re power players in the fashion industry.

As e-commerce eats up a growing share of retail, streaming takes over entertainment, and social media exerts its hold on pretty much everything, the chief digital officer once seemed a critical position in any company that wanted to remain relevant.

In China, a lot of clothes shopping takes place online, and one of the leading sites where it happens is Taobao. The Alibaba-owned site is the country’s largest e-commerce marketplace, claiming 636 million active users in 2018 (pdf).

As cocktails go, the Brown Derby isn’t a household name. But it has a history as enjoyable as the drink itself—a crisp and surprisingly harmonious blend of whiskey, honey, and grapefruit.

It was just after noon in New York when the controversial attorney Michael Avenatti announced on Twitter that he would reveal a major scandal involving Nike at a press conference tomorrow. “This criminal conduct reaches the highest levels of Nike and involves some of the biggest names in college basketball,” he tweeted.

The Nike shoes that get the most attention from sneaker fanatics and industry onlookers tend to be the high-priced sort. The Air VaporMax, for example, sells on Nike’s site for around $190, depending on the model. The Epic React and AirMax 270 both clock in at a slightly more accessible $150. More recently there was the AirMax 720, which has a price tag of $180, while Nike’s most hyped recent release has been the Adapt BB, a $350 smart shoe.

In a break from its longstanding dress code, the New York Stock Exchange allowed jeans on the trading floor today (March 21), as Levi’s, the world’s largest denim brand and inventor of the modern blue jean, once again listed on the exchange. Levi’s reportedly handed out jackets to all the traders. Some took full advantage, dressing in denim from head-to-toe.

The college admissions scandal that broke on March 12 put a blaring spotlight on the sometimes absurd lengths parents will go to get their kids into elite universities. Altogether 50 people were charged in a scam that involved school administrators, college athletic coaches, and wealthy parents accused of shelling out bribes that could add up to over $1 million.

The next few months won’t go as well as Adidas planned.

Federal authorities released details today (March 12) of what the US Justice Department is calling the largest college-admissions scheme it has ever busted. Prosecutors charged dozens of people, including exam administrators, athletic coaches, and wealthy parents who prosecutors say paid hefty bribes to get their kids into elite schools such as Stanford University and the University of Southern California by circumventing the normal admissions process.

Time is running out for UK prime minister Theresa May and the British parliament to reach a deal on Brexit. Unless they’re able to, the UK will immediately withdraw from the European Union on March 29, without a clear framework in place for what the relationship between the two will look like.