Since Adidas lured NBA star James Harden away from Nike last year with a reported 13-year, $200 million sponsorship, fans have been waiting to see what the partnership would produce. The big-bearded Harden is known as one of the cooler guys in a very stylish league, and Adidas said it would give him his first signature sneaker.
Fans of Glasgow’s Celtic club don’t take kindly to the word “no.” After a group of them took to Facebook to ask supporters to wave Palestinian flags at the team’s Aug. 17 game against Israel’s Hapoel Be’er Sheva, UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, warned them not to do so. (UEFA prohibits messages “of a political, ideological, religious or provocative nature” at its matches.) When the fans defied the warning—displaying dozens of Palestinian flags during the Aug. 17 match—UEFA slammed their team with displaying an “illicit banner,” a charge expected to carry a hefty fine when the case is heard on Sept. 22.
US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte is already suffering the financial consequences of his Rio mugging story.
H&M is under fire for contracting with factories that allegedly violated child-labor laws.
The Olympics are about competition. Athletes work for years for the chance to sort themselves into a hierarchy of winners and losers on the world’s biggest stage. It’s why billions around the planet watch, but it’s not all that characterizes the games.
The Olympic gold-medal winner in the women’s 400 meter last night (Aug. 15) didn’t run across the finish line. She flew.
Much of the ad is dark. It shows US Olympian Michael Phelps swimming, and his grueling workouts outside the pool and international competitions. The ad’s theme, and its tag line, are this: ”It’s what you do in the dark that puts you in the light.”
When the world’s best swimmers raced in the 200-meter individual medley last night (Aug. 11), one finished far ahead of the pack: Michael Phelps.
At the Rio 2016 Olympics tonight (Aug. 11), the stage is set for what’s likely to be the culmination of one of the greatest Olympic rivalries in history.
The Olympics are a time of great highs and lows, sometimes for the same person.
Adidas is bringing some new manufacturing to the US.
Same-store sales are a nice, simple indicator of a business’ health. They filter out noise from store openings and new retail channels, and zoom in on whether stores that have been around a year or more are seeing sales rise or fall.
This October, the US Supreme Court is scheduled to take on a case with major implications for designers of all sorts. It centers on how much Samsung should pay Apple for infringing on iPhone design patents. But a broad coalition of designers—including Dieter Rams; Stefan Hans Sielaff, design director at Bentley; Nicolas Ghesquiére, creative director at Louis Vuitton; and many others—argues that the case hinges on how we value design itself.
Far off over Maracanã stadium, fireworks burst brilliantly over the lavish opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic games. In the foreground, a group of people watched on a rooftop, the ramshackle construction of homes in the favela called Mangueira evident around them.
In the lead up to the 2016 Rio Olympics, many people believed Brazilian soccer legend Pelé would light the Olympic cauldron to officially kick off the competition at the opening ceremonies. It’s an honor typically bestowed on a sporting hero of the host country, and Brazil arguably has no greater living sports figure than Pelé.
The opening ceremony of any Olympic games tells a story about the country hosting it, and how it wants the world to see it.
Athletes aren’t the only ones who’ve waited years to compete in the 2016 Olympics. For rival sports brands, it’s time to vie for the spotlight.
For more than a decade, the standard for cool in women’s denim has been leg-hugging, low-rise skinny jeans. But what’s cool in fashion is often about subverting the status quo, at least superficially. So what in theory could be cooler than roomy, high-waisted jeans of the sort that many a mom has been known to wear?
Nike built its golf business around Tiger Woods. But Woods’ prime is in the past, and now so are Nike’s golden years for golf. After sales that went from flat to just plain falling, Nike announced yesterday (Aug. 3) that it’s abandoning golf clubs, bags, and balls all together.
When the eyes of the world are on the US women’s gymnastics team at the Rio 2016 Olympics, they will see sparkles.
Raf Simons, the former creative director of Christian Dior and Jil Sander, and one of the most influential menswear designers of the past two decades, has officially been confirmed as Calvin Klein’s new chief creative officer.
When you think of the industries that allow a person to acquire a massive fortune—the kind that makes them the wealthiest person in a country, or continent—your mind probably goes to fields such as technology, or oil.
On a man, a tailored jacket and matching pants are called a “suit.” Put these same garments on a woman, though, and they transform into a “pantsuit.”
For decades, millions of women around the US have turned to Vogue magazine and its longtime editor, Anna Wintour, for advice on what to wear.
