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We are living in unprecedented times. It feels dramatic to say, but clearly, as so many industries and cities grind to a halt in the face of COVID-19, it’s true. And more importantly, there’s a very real human toll to the coronavirus; we at Fashionista are thinking of David Lat, our colleague and founder of…

Westworld season 3 is playing out, to put it in screenplay terms, like an Act 3. There’s been no confirmation from HBO that this is the last season of Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s sci-fi epic, but the paths of hosts Dolores, Bernard, Maeve, plus the corporate entities entangled in their awakening, are all barrelling…

The coronavirus pandemic has caused a global shortage of face masks, pushing people around the world to start making their own. A Jordanian designer, a Rwandan tailor, and an Italian upholsterer are all offering handmade masks to the public. Meanwhile, students at a school in Colombia are making their own masks from recycled materials. View more episodes of…

A pair of Good News sneakers Good News With the fashion industry today employing one sixth of the world’s population, there is huge potential to make an impact. The industry accounts for nearly 20% of all industrial water pollution annually, and it releases 10% of our carbon emissions into the air. In the past two…

Two new Apple product reviews published on our site and our YouTube channel this week: the 2020 versions of the MacBook Air and the iPad Pro, reviewed by Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and executive editor Dieter Bohn, respectively. Nilay and Dieter also co-host The Verge’s podcast The Vergecast, so on this week’s episode, they dive…

Caroline Rush, Chief Executive of the British Fashion Council, at the opening of London Fashion Week in February 2020.Photo: Lia Toby/BFC/Getty ImagesAfter the CFDA and Vogue announced they’d be repurposing their annual Fashion Fund to provide relief to U.S. fashion businesses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, the British Fashion Council launched its own effort to help the…

Photo: Edward Berthelot/Getty ImagesThese are the stories making headlines in fashion on Monday.How will the fashion industry change after the pandemic?In an opinion piece for Business of Fashion, Angelo Flaccavento shares his thoughts about the fate of the fashion industry, which has been hard hit by the deadly Covid-19 outbreak, writing, “…this crisis is an…