Day: February 17, 2022

Kors brought the sparkle in celebration of his Fall/Winter 2022 collection Tuesday night at live music venue Terminal 5. As models strutted down the catwalk in glittering gowns, neon-hued knits and statement outerwear, Grammy-winning artist Miguel performed songs from Prince including “Raspberry Beret” and “I Would Die 4 You.” After the past two years of the pandemic, Kors said he wanted to give his New York Fashion Week audience a live performance. And he certainly brought the glitz. “In this collection, there is not a tracksuit, flip flop or sneaker,” Kors said in an interview before the show. “This is really all about being polished, feeling glamorous Hey Dudes  and hitting the streets.” Many of the celebrities in attendance wore black, the designer's color of...

That's what former FBI supervisory agent Stanley Ruffin tells viewers in “RACE: Bubba Wallace," a Netflix docuseries that chronicles the only Black driver at NASCAR's top level and his professional rise and personal role in social justice issues. The series is targeted to a non-NASCAR audience unfamiliar with Wallace's emergence or the facts surrounding the noose found in his garage stall at an Alabama track. Wallace had successfully called on NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag at its events in June 2020. Two weeks later, NASCAR told Wallace a noose had been discovered in his assigned stall at Talladega Superspeedway. The incident occurred at the height of a national racial Hoka Sneakers reckoning following the murders of Black men George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. Wall...

By BEATRICE DUPUY, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prabal Gurung blended his love for his adopted city of New York and his homeland of Nepal in a Fashion Week show featuring psychedelic flower prints imbued with a New York edginess. Gurung left behind the more political themes of some past collections for a dreamy travel vibe in Wednesday's show at Spring Studios in downtown Manhattan.Hoka Shoes ,The designer married dip-dyed prints and textiles from Nepal with a New York sensibility: plunging silky tops, form fitting mid-length dresses, and thigh-high boots. “It’s a New York love song to Nepal,” Gurung said in an interview before the show. “It’s a celebration of women here and there.” The designer, who was born in Singapore and raised in Nepal, said in show not...