It was the moment iPhone rumormongers had been waiting for. As the camera at Apple’s Oct. 13 iPhone launch event zeroed in on Lisa Jackson, the company’s president of environment, policy, and social initiatives, those in the know anticipated what would come next.
From the rise of digital custom fittings to clothing subscription services to the Hermés Apple Watch, fashion and technology are pushing each other forward. The highly anticipated debut of Raf Simons’ first clothing collection as Prada’s co-creative director—which New York Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman singled out as “possibly the most anticipated show of the whole season”—pushed that relationship even further this week.
Four years to the day after the world noticed National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s peaceful protest against police brutality, the National Basketball Association’s Milwaukee Bucks on Aug. 26 brought their league to a halt over the same issue—this time, the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.The decision by the Bucks—a favorite to win this year’s championship—to abandon their playoff match quickly spread around the league, resulting in at least two days of postponed matches and parallel strikes by players and teams across the WNBA, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, and Tennis.
Last Thursday, Jack Dorsey told investors that while Twitter has “a really high bar” for introducing paid products, “you will likely see some tests this year” of subscription products. Twitter’s CEO is going to have to be quick on his feet. The company pulls in some of its revenue from data licensing, but the vast majority comes from advertising—which dropped by 23% in the second quarter.
The global pandemic has changed the way people get to and from work—if they’re going at all. In most cases that means fewer miles driven, vacant public transit networks, and empty airplanes. One transportation method has bucked this trend—the bicycle.
