Published October 5, 2025 Japan’s leading fashion houses once again made a major splash at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday, as evidenced on the sixth day of the women’s ready-to-wear shows for spring-summer 2026 by three of the country’s most emblematic labels: Junya Watanabe, Noir by designer Kei Ninomiya, and Comme des Garçons. On the … Read more
Published October 5, 2025 Saturday night in Paris witnessed the debut of Pierpaolo Piccioli at one of fashion’s most mythical marques, Balenciaga. With Meghan Markle and Lauren Sanchez applauding front row, this was surely the most sophisticated new designer inauguration so far. See fashion showBalenciaga – Spring-Summer2026 – Womenswear – France – Paris – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight … Read more
Published October 5, 2025 Paris Fashion Week entered its fifth day with an especially intense programme. In particular, the womenswear ready-to-wear shows for Spring/Summer 2026 revealed designers’ pursuit of freshness and lightness. Leonard Paris and Giambattista Valli were prime examples. Vetements, for its part, opted for provocation. See fashion showLeonard Paris, Spring-Summer 2026 – ©Launchmetrics/spotlight … Read more
Published October 3, 2025 In a day that descended into dirty teeming rainy, Paris was treated to four memorable collection by five non-French designers: American Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough’s debut at Loewe, Harris Reed at Nina Ricci, Sarah Burton at Givenchy and Victoria Beckham. Loewe: The American friends debut with brio Another day, another … Read more
The House won’t return to session next week as Speaker Mike Johnson had previously indicated, according to a notice made during Friday’s pro forma session. The move came after the Senate voted a fourth time Friday to reject a House-passed continuing resolution that would break the ongoing government shutdown. Johnson and House GOP leaders have … Read more
The government shutdown will go into a second week. Senators rejected another opportunity Friday to reopen agencies and are now out of session until Monday, when leadership is expected to force a fifth vote on a House-passed proposal to fund the government through Nov. 21. The stalemate comes as the fallout from the shutdown is … Read more
The Trump administration intends to make hiring skilled workers from other countries more expensive. Source link
Former Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is making a play for her old St. Louis seat in Congress, she announced Friday on X, a year after losing a primary in part due to her opposition to Israel. “I ran for Congress to change things for regular people,” she said in a video announcement. “I’m running again … Read more
It’s the Senate’s last chance of the week to avoid a shutdown. There’s no sign it’s happening — but Republicans believe another failed vote Friday could help push Democrats closer to desperation and a potential off-ramp. If the vote on the GOP-led CR goes the same way as the previous tries, “we’ll give them the … Read more
If Republicans want to quickly bring the government shutdown to an end, they will need to get one particularly formidable Senate Democrat on board. New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has emerged as a central player in the bipartisan back-channeling that has ramped up this week as congressional leaders and President Donald Trump remain locked in … Read more