Supreme's Nike Cross Trainer Low Collab Shine As The Best Footwear

The month of October has officially rolled into its second week, and as the excitement over Halloween and the rest of the years holidays continues to heighten, sneaker brands are locked and loaded to drop a ton of new heat. In this week’s action we’re going to see major releases from the likes of New Balance, Nike (NYSE:NKE +2.00%) , Jordan Brand, adidas (XETRA:ADS.DE +1.06%) and more, but before we run through those, let’s first summarize all of the major headlines that popped up in the sneaker world last week.

The adidas team came out swinging last week as well and showed off a plethora of new footwear offerings. Its most important collaborator in Kanye West previewed a new adidas YEEZY 700 V3 “Copper Fade” assemblage along with the upcoming adidas YZY BSKTBL KNIT “3D Slate Blue.” Additionally, the German sportswear imprint partnered with Sneaker Politics for a World’s Fair-inspired Equipment Prototype, a Top Ten team-up with ESPN and a flame-covered ADIZERO Pro RNRS for the Boston Marathon.

Other brands that also created some noise included New Balance which announced release info for its newest collection with Salehe Bembury, teased a 574 collab with Miu Miu, as well as a New York-influenced 992 with J. Crew. Moreover, Reebok teased its last Beatnik collection for the FW21 season, Vans partnered with the Los Angeles MOCA for a four-piece footwear capsule and ASICS gave us release details for its TRABUCO MAX collaboration with Brain Dead.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Welcome Their New Addition To The Family

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle welcomed their daughter Lilibet to the family 4 months ago, and an insider has said that they've moved seamlessly into being a bigger family. Their 2-year-old son, Archie, has “a lovable and sweet nature” which has made him the perfect older brother.

Archie is “coming into his own” according to their source and his parents are “so in awe … and feel blessed beyond words.”

“The Sussexes do have nannies to call on when their schedules get crazed, but they’re still extremely hands-on and try to keep the hired help to a minimum for the most part,” the insider explained. “It’s been easier for them with Lili in many ways, even though it’s twice the work, technically, because they’ve been able to use a lot of the techniques they learned with Archie and take care of things like feeding or bathing without too much fuss.”

Prince Harry is also “the most caring dad,” and raising his two kids in Montecito, California has been “just paradise for Harry.”

Unfortunately, relationships remained strained between Prince Harry and his brother, Prince William, who has been having trouble coming to terms with the Sussexes' decision to remove themselves from senior duties to the Royal Family and leave the U.K.

Finding Freedom author, Omid Scobie, said that the relationship between the two princes “is still very much one of distance.”

He added, “I don’t just mean physical [distance], across the Atlantic, but they are not talking that much. … [There are] still feelings of anger [about] the way the couple carried out their departure from their royal lives.”

Scobie continued to say that they still come together for big events, like the death of Prince Philip and a recent unveiling of a statue of their late mother, Princess Diana. But in private, it's hard for them to see eye-to-eye.

“They are very different men. And I think that William has certainly become someone who is really living his life for the crown, for the institution,” Scobie said. “Harry has really sort of gone completely in the opposite direction.”

But Archie had a much warmer relationship with his sibling and apparently gives his baby sister “lots of kisses.” The source said his parents have taught him to be “kind [and] loving” to her with no “jealousy issues.”

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'Squid Game' Is Entertaining The World But What Is The Feeling In South Korea

“Koreans love to be No. 1, but No. 1 at the cost of kind of airing your dirty laundry is a somewhat different thing," said Professor CedarBough Saeji.

HONG KONG — Why are South Koreans watching “Squid Game”? Because everyone else is.

The nine-episode horror series on Netflix has hit No. 1 in 90 of the streaming service’s markets around the world, including South Korea, where it was made.

“I got to the point where I could not hold a conversation without watching the show,” said Jung Dunn, a security analyst in Seoul, the South Korean capital.

But the show also strikes a nerve because it unflinchingly addresses a problem that is particularly entrenched in South Korea: debt and the never-ending struggle to pay it off.

The cast of “Squid Game” features some of South Korea’s biggest stars, including Lee Jung-jae as the protagonist, Seong Gi-hun, a hopelessly indebted father who receives a business card from a stranger offering him a way out. Along with 455 other contestants — from all walks of life but all deeply in debt too — he agrees to compete for a cash prize of 45.6 billion won (about $38 million) by playing a series of traditional Korean children’s games, only to discover that elimination from each round means death.

“There’s this dissonance between Korean pride that this Korean show is dominating Netflix all around the world, and the discomfort with what the show appears to expose about Korea,” said CedarBough Saeji, an assistant professor of Korean and East Asian studies at Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea. “Koreans love to be No. 1, but No. 1 at the cost of kind of airing your dirty laundry is a somewhat different thing.”

That South Korea also produced “Parasite,” the 2020 Oscar winner for best picture that also focused on themes of inequality, has probably accentuated this discomfort, Saeji said.

Still, “Squid Game” is wildly popular in its home country.

The show was released on Sept. 17 just before Chuseok, a Korean holiday similar to Thanksgiving when families gather, the perfect time for binge-watching. The surge in network traffic led one internet service provider to sue Netflix to cover its costs.

The fervor has also spilled over into real life. A street vendor in Seoul who provided the makers of “Squid Game” with dalgona, a brittle sugar candy at the center of one of the games, told Reuters that he had seen a boom in business.

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L'Oréal Hosts Runway Show For Women’s Rights During Paris Fashion Week

Beauty giant L’Oréal Paris paid tribute to women’s rights movements during a public show as part of Paris Fashion Week, with a theme that honoured women’s empowerment and diversity. The event was hosted at the Parvis des Droits de l’Homme, where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was first established.

Developed as a bold feminist statement, the show, Le Défilé L’Oréal Paris, strayed away from the form of a typical fashion show, instead, intending to highlight the brand’s belief in self-worth and self-expression. The event was broadcasted in 30 countries, with a backdrop of the Eiffel tower defining the panoramic set-up.

Now in its fourth edition, Le Défilé L’Oréal Paris welcomed 26 of the brand’s global ambassadors and spokespeople, including Katherine Langford, Helen Mirren, Camila Cabello, Amber Heard and Soo Joo Park. Alongside the cast, 20 dancers and performers took to the stage, with L’Oréal’s global makeup director Val Garland and her team on hand to create looks for the diverse range of individuals involved.

Looks on the runway were provided by 19 brand partners, with the likes of Balmain, Elie Saab, Giambattista Valli, Mugler and Pierre Hardy lending luxury and ready-to-wear pieces for the show. The multiple collaborations united the beauty and fashion worlds into one stage for the global occasion.

The show falls in line with the brand’s ‘Stand Up Against Street Harassment’ outreach programme, developed in 2020 as an initiative striving to educate the public on how to approach the subject of street harassment.

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Snapchat Introduces Tool To Help Young People Run For Office

"If Snapchatters want to make sure that the issues they care most about are represented by leadership, then they need to run," a Snap executive said.

Trinity Sanders has big plans once she graduates from high school.

First, Sanders, who is from upstate New York, wants to go to college and then law school to become a civil rights lawyer. From there, she wants to run for office to become a U.S. senator.

To help her achieve her political goals, she said, she might look to an unlikely resource: Snapchat.

Snapchat released a tool Tuesday called Run for Office to help young people who have political aspirations learn what steps they'll need to take to run in local elections.

"I know that there's many people that I personally use Snapchat with, so to be able to do it right from our phones, yeah, sign me up," said Sanders, 17.

Run for Office will help eligible Snapchat users, many of whom skew younger, find local races they are eligible for that pertain to their interests, the platform said.

"If Snapchatters want to make sure that the issues they care most about are represented by leadership, then they need to run," Sofia Gross, Snap's head of policy partnerships and social impact, said

The tool will walk them through what they'll need to do to become candidates. Users will also be able to nominate friends who they think would be good fits for particular offices.

Gross said young users are politically active, especially with voting.

"We've seen how passionate they are about the issues they care most about," Gross said. "And so we feel helping them run for office at the local level, where they can understand how to make a difference on the issues they care most about, is a natural next step in their civic journey."

The Run for Office tool will be available as a "mini," a utility that can be used directly without leaving Snapchat. The tool is powered by BallotReady, which curates information from election websites across the country.

When users click on the tool, they'll be asked whether they want to get started or whether they want to nominate a friend.

Next, users will enter their ZIP codes so the app can find races in the their areas. Then they will select issues they are passionate about so the app can narrow down what races would be good fits. Examples include issues like immigration, jobs, the economy, social services, drug policy and more.

After users select their interests, the app will show them available offices that pertain to those interests in their areas and whether those races are at the local, county or state levels. Once users select an office, they will be given a brief description of the role and whether the races were contested in the last election.

From there, the app will show them the requirements to run, including rules like age and location. Once users have made their choices, they will then have the option to team up with organizations who have partnered with Snapchat and run the political gamut.

Some of the groups that partnered with Snapchat include the conservative group Run Gen Z, the Democratic women's group Emerge, the veterans and national leaders group New Politics and the progressive group Run For Something.

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