Under Armour is out to prove it’s playing in the big leagues. The Baltimore-based sporting goods company announced today that it has entered into a…
Pro-tips for buying clothes that will last years, not weeks
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Maybe it has happened to you before: Your new t-shirt looks like it has suddenly aged two years with one wash. A hole has opened…
Socks are the only clothes you should give this holiday season
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Socks—yes, socks—are an incredibly popular holiday gift. According to research firm NPD Group, they are the item of clothing given the most to men or…
What Nike’s $720 self-lacing sneaker, releasing today, signals about Nike’s future
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After a decade of development and a reveal back in March, Nike’s first-ever self-lacing sneakers made for general release, the HyperAdapt 1.0, hit the mass…
The fashion designers who want to dress Melania Trump as first lady, and the ones who refuse to
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Melania Trump, wife of US president-elect Donald Trump, has a tough sartorial act to follow in Michelle Obama. The current first lady has dazzled at…
Recycling or donating your unwanted clothes “is not a solution” for the planet, Greenpeace says
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The shopping mania that attends the holidays each season has arrived. On Black Friday alone, consumers in the US and around the world bought billions…
This delightful short film by Wes Anderson is an ode to DIY Christmas spirit—and to H&M clothes
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Director and symmetry-fetishist Wes Anderson has a new short film out. Called Come Together, it’s a Christmas tale about a train crew trying to make…
Gap’s CEO missed the brand’s biggest problem when he called creative directors “false messiahs”
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Art Peck, the CEO of Gap Inc., has had enough of creative directors. “We have cycled through so many, and each has been proclaimed as…
Black Friday isn’t the shopping bonanza it used to be
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The Black Friday shopping frenzy that takes place the day after Thanksgiving in the US is, at this point, as much a part of the…
Scientists have created a solar-powered fabric that would let you charge your phone with your jacket
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When it’s sunny out, there’s energy all around us. But right now, portable solar panels generally can’t store the energy they produce. It either has…
A look inside Sneaker Con, the “Greatest Sneaker Show on Earth”
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The 20,000 people who gathered at New York City’s Javits Center for Sneaker Con earlier this month were there to buy, sell, and swap; to…
Forget wearables. In the future, your clothes will connect to the internet
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Imagine you’ve just purchased a new jacket from your favorite brand. You put it on for the first time, and scan a tag embedded in…