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With just a week to go before the Fall/Winter fashion season hits the Paris runways, Louis Vuitton (LV) has brought in Brooklyn-based Colm Dillane, the founder of KidSuper, to collaborate on the menswear designs. In a post-Virgil Abloh era, the luxury fashion house has its eyes set on reintroducing collaborations on the runway. The announcement was made on 10 January 2023 and comes after Louis Vuitton collaborated with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama for an avant-garde collection featuring eclectic motifs and hand-printed polka dots on classic LV designs. Colm Dillane-Louis Vuitton collab: More details The collaboration and fashion week It is...

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Sheryl R. Garrison in Southern Alberta, Canada, took this image of lenticular clouds on November 12, 2022. Sheryl wrote: “It looked like a space invasion as we headed toward the mountains on the weekend. I couldn’t help but think of the headline … Breaking News: Rocky Mountains Invaded by Lenticular Clouds.” Thank you, Sheryl! Lenticular clouds are lens-shaped or saucer-shaped clouds. Generally, they typically form where stable moist air flows over mountains. When this happens, a series of large-scale standing waves may form on the mountain’s downwind side. Then, if the temperature at the...

LOS ANGELES — The Kings continued their ascent in the Western Conference standings by weaving through a game where they could not pull away until the late stages, coming out ahead 4-3 against the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday night at Crypto.com Arena. Forward Quinton Byfield set up the Kings’ first goal by winger Adrian Kempe and scored their second. Winger Gabe Vilardi scored just before defenseman Drew Doughty scored what proved to be the game-winner. Center Anze Kopitar stretched his point streak to five games with an assist on Byfield’s goal. Pheonix Copley turned away 26 shots. Forwards Nick...

Elected official from Chicago (center left) drops by the Feed Store in 2016 (Facebook). My latest quest for new chicken soup recipes started, like so many other good things in my life, with a Facebook thread. This one ranged over ethnic recipes, starting with an original post about making chicken noodle soup, with kluski noodles in an inherited “cast iron dutch oven” and ranging from different types of egg noodles (kluski are an especially delicious Eastern European variety of noodles and dumplings) to reminiscences of Springfield’s Feed Store, a soup-and-sandwiches haven on the Old State Capitol pedestrian mall for staffers...

All the rage: bunny balaclavas from fashion chain Ambush to help Chinese youth celebrate the Year of the Rabbit. AmbushAs China prepares to celebrate new year on January 22, luxury brands are gearing up for the year of the rabbit with an array of luxury rabbit-themed goods: a £29,000 gold and diamond-encrusted rabbit watch by Dior, perhaps, or an £850 floppy-eared hat from Burberry. Japanese streetwear brand Ambush has reportedly sold out of its £380 pink bunny balaclavas. The target market? China’s 400 million-strong army of young consumers, who have the power to make or break foreign brands seeking their...