Patta has followed up last year’s series of Nike Air Max 1 collaborations by launching its Spring/Summer 2022 collection. The new collection is inspired by the Patta team, reflecting ideas drawn from team members’ personal experiences, environments and culture.
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The Gentle Monster: Eyewear as Spectacle in the K‑Fashion Era
South Korean eyewear label Gentle Monster has turned sunglasses from a basic accessory into a full‑blown performance, blending K‑fashion, luxury branding, and gallery‑level retail design. Founded in Seoul in 2011, the brand built its identity on oversized frames engineered for Asian face shapes, then scaled globally with highly recognizable silhouettes. What began as a niche response to Western‑biased eyewear sizing is now a status symbol stocked in dozens of flagship stores and hundreds of reta
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Never-Released Air Jordan 6 Infrared Set for Valentine’s Day Debut
A version of the Air Jordan 6 that never reached stores in the 1990s is set for its first public release in early 2026. Jordan Brand announced that the Air Jordan 6 Infrared “Salesman,” inspired by an unreleased 1999 sample, will launch Feb. 14 on nike.com and at select retailers. The release comes during the 35th anniversary year of the Air Jordan 6. The shoe traces its origins to a seasonal preview catalog from 1999, where an Infrared colorway appeared before being removed from production. T
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Remembering James Van Der Beek: Dawson’s Creek Star Passes Away at 48
James Van Der Beek, best known for playing Dawson Leery on Dawson’s Creek, has died at 48 after a years‑long battle with colorectal cancer. His wife, Kimberly Van Der Beek, announced that he “passed peacefully this morning,” saying he met his final days with “courage, faith, and grace,” and asked for privacy for their family in an Instagram post titled “Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning.” Van Der Beek revealed in November 2024 that he had been diagnosed with st
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After Sonya Massey’s Death, An Illinois Jury Delivers a Rare Murder Verdict
In July 2024, Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson responded to a 911 call from 36‑year‑old Sonya Massey, a Black woman in Springfield, Illinois, who had reported a possible intruder at her home. Body‑camera footage shows deputies asking her to check a pot of hot water on the stove, warning “we don’t need a fire while we’re here,” then Grayson shouting that he would shoot her “right in the face” before ordering her to drop the pot and firing as she ducked and apologized; investigators l
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Seventeen’s Tiny Desk Proves K‑Pop Has Officially Cracked the “Serious Music” Canon
Seventeen just made Tiny Desk history as the first K‑pop group to perform an in‑office concert at NPR, delivering a nine‑song medley with a live band squeezed behind the famous shelves. The set, which Music Connection highlighted in its January “Song Biz” column, strips away arena‑scale production in favor of tight harmonies, reworked choreography for a cramped stage and arrangements tailored to Tiny Desk’s intimate, musician‑forward format. With only part of the group present and an audience o
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The Max Mara Art Prize for Women Goes Global, Starting With Jakarta
The Max Mara Art Prize for Women is entering a new phase, bringing in New York–based curator Cecilia Alemani to oversee its 10th edition and adopting a nomadic format that debuts with Jakarta’s Museum MACAN. As noted in ArtAsiaPacific’s “Weekly News Roundup: January 26, 2026”, the prize, launched in 2005 for women artists working in the UK and long tied to London’s Whitechapel Gallery, will now travel to a different country for each edition while still offering a six‑month residency in Italy and
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