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MLS Review: In-form Martinez lifts Atlanta, Altidore scores brilliant goal for Toronto

September 8, 2019 | News | No Comments

The Venezuelan continued his goalscoring run as the defending champions thrashed 10-man Houston on Wednesday

Josef Martinez continued his prolific form in a resounding win for Atlanta United, while Jozy Altidore scored a stunning goal for Toronto in MLS action on Wednesday.

Martinez netted a brace as defending champions Atlanta crushed the 10-man Houston Dynamo 5-0 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

After Alberth Elis was sent off in just the sixth minute for making contact with the referee, Darlington Nagbe got the scoring started for the hosts before Brandon Vazquez’s close-range header made it 2-0.

Martinez’s header from a Julian Gressel cross extended Atlanta’s lead on the hour-mark before the Venezuelan finished brilliantly again 19 minutes later.

The striker has scored six goals in four games since returning from the Copa America, while Gressel sealed Atlanta’s win.

Frank de Boer’s men moved into second in the Eastern Conference, sitting three points behind leaders Philadelphia Union.

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At BMO Field, Altidore’s fine goal led Toronto to a 3-1 win over New York Red Bulls.

Altidore produced a brilliant flick from a Tsubasa Endoh cross to give the hosts the lead before Alejandro Pozuelo’s penalty.

Tom Barlow pulled a goal back for the Red Bulls in the 63rd minute, but Ashtone Morgan’s strike helped lift Toronto into sixth in the east.

Elsewhere, the New England Revolution hammered the Vancouver Whitecaps 4-0 and the Columbus Crew twice came from behind to salvage a last-gasp 2-2 draw with the Chicago Fire.

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Ukrainian label Ksenia Schnaider is breathing new life into old denim

September 7, 2019 | News | No Comments

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Rocking and shocking consumers is the bedrock on which the fashion world has been built: clothes polarise buyers, shoes arouse divisive emotional connections and accessories  tug at our purse strings until we commit to invest. But there is at least one agreeable fashion truth that cannot be overstated: no item of clothing has endured as affectionately since its introduction as the inimitable pair of jeans.

Though they need no introduction (and likely predominate most of our wardrobes), tackling a legacy that dates back to 1873, when jeans originated, is no small feat. And, while it is true that Instagram has facilitated a new class of emerging digital-native designers to take to the international stage, encouraging shoppers to wear in a new pair of jeans from an unknown label is a lofty challenge most designers would shy away from.

But not husband and wife Anton and Ksenia Schnaider, whose novel approach to denim has helped their brand, Ksenia Schnaider, to cut through the noise. After launching in 2011, the designer duo pivoted from silk and wool and began toying with old denim, releasing their first pair in 2015. Their weird and wonderful wares – asymmetrical jeans and demi-denims (a style made famous by Bella Hadid where two pairs of denim are layered over one another) – immeditately caught the attention of retailers like Selfridges and raremarket and precipitated a cult following that counts Celine Dion and Gigi Hadid as fans.

Now, the designers chat to Vogue about their circular design process, the importance of sustainability and the gamut of references as unexpected as their offerings (from meme culture to modern art) that serve as inspiration for their jeans.

Born of Ksenia’s personal love of the material (“it’s my daily wear; I’m a denim girl”), and the now husband and wife’s budding relationship (“we started dating, then we started living together [and] slowly we started working together”), Ksenia Schnaider’s foray into denim began with two pairs of old jeans, which Ksenia stitched together to make them anew. 

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“It became a meme on the Internet, on Instagram, and lots of influencers started [sending] direct messages,” she explains, recalling that Selfridges came flocking first. “They said: ‘we need more denim than one style. We need denim jackets, denim skirts’ and so on… So I came back to Kiev and started searching for denim manufacturers,” Ksenia explains. This modern beginning cultivated the designers’ interests in the intersections between social media, advertising and  fashion, with Anton citing “a mix of internet culture and contemporary art and just the area around us” as key sources of inspiration. 

Ksenia Schnaider pre-fall 2019. Image credit: Ksenia Schnaider

The result is an approach to denim that plays up the mundane and pays homage to the brand’s unconventional digital start (the label has amassed nearly 55,000 Instagram followers). “We always try to recreate basic jeans and to invent something new,” explains Ksenia. “New silhouettes, like asymmetrical jeans or demi-denims… We do patchwork, and we also work with denim leftovers… we like to make [denim] fun, to put irony on everything,” she continues.

And to make content that is extremely meta too. For their campaigns, the designers consult key influencers and models to style and capture their look books, with every image featuring a model mid-selfie becoming an instant identifier of the brand. 

Ksenia Schnaider pre-fall 2019. Image credit: Ksenia Schnaider

Though their output is always creative and tongue-in-cheek, it’s never without consideration of the brand’s environmental impact and its potential to educate, especially in their native Ukraine. “Ukrainian people are a little bit unaware of recycled materials, recycled polyester or vintage denim, so they still need to learn about it,” admits Ksenia, who together with Anton has started local clean-up initiatives and hosted roundtables to highlight issues of sustainability.

“We recycle lots of old, vintage denim that [the designers] source from different second hand markets,” the brand’s publicist, Ilona Kyslova, explains with the designers over the phone, noting that 30% of their collections is made of recycled denim. “They use materials from their previous collection; all the leftovers,” she adds. Anton echoes the designers’ resourcefulness, which remains tethered to a fashion focus: “we want to find balance between sustainability and fashion-forward thinking. We want to combine it.”  

As Ksenia Schnaider look to the future, expanding their offerings with each season and persuading consumers to be more adventurous with their denim style, their mission is both simple and environmentally-viable. “We always try to think about the person who will wear it and how he or she will feel… [When you wear Ksenia Schnaider] you should feel cool and fashionable but without any effort.” 

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Can Bullet Journaling Save You?

September 7, 2019 | News | No Comments

Devotees of the Bullet Journal, a cultish notebook-organization system tagged in more than eight million posts on Instagram, will tell you that there are two kinds of notebook people: those who keep multiple notebooks and those who keep just one. Most of us are multiple-notebook people, living our lives haphazardly, writing things down as we go: a notebook for the office, another for groceries and appointments, one for dreams and doodles, one for furtive rants. The multiple-notebook person maintains a wall calendar, a desk calendar, and two calendar apps. She has scribbled a list of movies to watch on a sticky note that she will never find again. She has an app full of cryptic asides (“Rice bowls,” “Bat room”). She has no idea where her bank details are. The multiple-notebook person lives in a kind of organizational purgatory. Her intentions are good, her approach delinquent.

Ryder Carroll, the thirty-nine-year-old digital designer who invented the Bullet Journal, used to be a multiple-notebook person. Born in Vienna to American teachers, he was a squirmy, distracted child, constantly behind and anxious in school. As a teen-ager, he was given a diagnosis of attention-deficit disorder, and he began to develop small journaling tricks to get through his classes; in college, at Skidmore, he carried around six notebooks to keep track of everything. He also scrapbooked and made collages. He started writing down his thoughts in short bursts throughout the day and found that it calmed him, allowing him to see past his anxieties to their root causes. “When there’s a barking dog outside, you can’t hear anything else,” he told me recently, by way of analogy. “But when you go to the window you realize there might be something wrong, you think about it, you get the context. It’s barking at something. You actually get up and look. And, for me, writing is that process.”

In the years after college, Carroll took night courses in Web design and worked for media companies, mostly in New York. “That’s when the Bullet Journal really started coming together,” he said. He slimmed down and organized his books. He noticed that many of his co-workers kept journals, too, though they did so irregularly. “I was, like, well, I use my notebook in a pretty unique way,” he said. One week, in 2013, he built a Web site and shot a video explaining his method. He hoped, he said, to “mitigate a lot of the heartache I had to go through to figure this out on my own.”

The result was a set of organizational instructions: Marie Kondo for the notebook. Basically, you take a journal, number the pages, and create an index so you can find everything. From there, you can list tasks, write diary entries, and build out a minimalist calendar. Like CrossFit, Paleo, and other hyper-efficient communities, Bullet Journaling—or BuJo, as it is known online—has developed its own vocabulary. Participants identify as Bullet Journalists. There’s a daily log, a monthly log, and something called a future log. There are symbols for notes, events, and tasks, and additional symbols to indicate when a task has been completed, scheduled, moved to another section, or deemed irrelevant. (The method takes its name from the bullet point, as well as the word’s suggestion of speed.) There are collections of related material, like languages you’ve failed to learn or miles you haven’t run. There are trackers for anything you feel compelled to track: sleep, workouts, mood, alcohol. Each day, you practice “rapid logging.” Each month, you review everything you wrote down and move only what is meaningful to the next monthly spread, in a spine-straightening process called migration.

Carroll’s video was picked up by productivity blogs and soon went viral. A few years later, Bullet Journaling has grown into a global community, with subsets of every variation: BuJo for students, BuJo for mothers, BuJo for veterans, #menwhobullet. It has taken off on the Internet as a kind of mindfulness-meets-productivity trend that equates organized journaling with an ordered interior life. It promises to help you achieve your goals and declutter your mind. Carroll released a book, last October, called “The Bullet Journal Method,” which is now a best-seller. He no longer uses multiple notebooks (and he no longer needs other jobs). “It’s helpful to have one source of truth,” he said. “That’s what the Bullet Journal is for me.”

One hot day in July, I met Carroll at the Morgan Library & Museum, in Manhattan. He had been on book tour on and off since October, first in the U.S., then in Europe, and finally in Asia. I arrived slightly late, out of breath and frazzled in the heat, to find him sitting in the museum’s entryway calmly reading a novel. He was wearing a black dress shirt buttoned all the way up and square tortoiseshell glasses. When I approached, he carefully marked his page with a bookmark and placed his book inside a nearly empty leather satchel. How had his morning been? He considered the question. It had been good, he said. He had been practicing some self-care.

He had come to see an exhibition on Walt Whitman. Inside, we found edits for the poem “Mannahatta” that Whitman had scribbled on a piece of paper. “There’s something about handwriting that just allows you to glimpse a whole different aspect of a person,” Carroll remarked. He said that in his own notebook he switches among four or five different handwriting scripts, depending on his mood (block letters for information, cursive for emotions). At a copy of “The Odyssey of Homer,” from 1863, Carroll examined Whitman’s loose signature. “The curls in his letters are very open,” he said.

Whitman was a multiple-notebook person, an exuberant and haphazard note-taker. “He would write on forms—legal forms, tax forms,” Sal Robinson, a curator of the show at the Morgan, told me later. As a clerk, and then a newspaper editor, “he was sort of awash in paper,” Robinson said. “There are these photos of him just sitting in his chair, and there’s paper all the way up to his knees.” In the second section of the exhibit, Carroll and I found a small journal below a wall text reading “This humble notebook contains a crucial clue to Whitman’s development.” On the pages were several trial lines for “Leaves of Grass,” in which Whitman experimented with using the ‘I’ that characterizes much of the poem. “That’s one thing that’s so cool about seeing old notebooks,” Carroll said, looking awed. “It’s like the origin of thought. That’s when it happened, that’s the moment when that began to exist in the world.”

If Whitman was drowning in paper, Bullet Journalists are more likely to lose themselves in a sea of posts on Instagram, where BuJo has blossomed. As with many social-media trends, there’s a performative aspect to Bullet Journaling. You get the sense, in some of the more beautiful posts, that it took more time to make the to-do list than it would have to complete the to-dos. A page designed for a vacation packing list might include a hand-drawn map. A page listing tasks for a backyard renovation might have a tiny pocket of seeds. But, in the BuJo community, authenticity is prized. Nicole Barlettano, a graphic designer and illustrator in New Jersey, runs a BuJo Instagram account called @plansthatblossom with a hundred thousand followers, on which she hosts a doodle contest and tracks her habits in decorative spreads. “I don’t try to sugarcoat anything,” she told me. “If I didn’t floss all week, I’m not going to hide that.” BuJo post are often photos of diary entries, which lends them a strange intimacy. One user’s skin-care tracker notes, “Struggling with acne breakouts, but was able to get it under control. Not eating dairy = helpful!” A page with a background of vintage ticket stubs describes an allergic reaction to shrimp.

One of the more endearing aspects of BuJo is the sheer delight in paper goods on display, even via a virtual medium. Madeline Stone, a twenty-four-year-old project manager in Bellingham, Washington, runs the Instagram account @whiskeymug (“coffee-fueled bookworm & collector of days”). She learned to Bullet Journal from Carroll’s instructional video, in which only his hands and his notebook are visible. (Many Bullet Journalists use this form in their own posts, branding their hands with rings or nail polish. Carroll told me that BuJo influencers sometimes come up to him on book tour and show him their hands. “That’s the only time I’d know who they are,” he said.) Stone decorates her spreads with line drawings of everyday objects, such as sweaters or mason jars. “Handwriting is very calming to me,” she said. “I’ll print out teeny square photos to tape into the journal.”

The real appeal of BuJo lies in the illusion of control it offers; anyone might be saved. “I just love crossing things off a list,” Barlettano said. “I used to put things on my to-do list after I’ve done them, just so that I can cross them out.” Mark Figueiredo, a creative director at an investment-management firm in Maryland, runs an Instagram account called @menwhobullet, which he started in part as a resource for male Bullet Journalists who want to get organized. “I just wanted to create a space to help other guys, because planning is often seen as a feminine thing,” he said. When I spoke to Stone, of @whiskeymug, she was busy restoring a fixer-upper with her boyfriend and had chosen a new theme for her monthly spread. “I’m thinking progress,” she said. She had included an original poem at the bottom of the left-hand page, secured with washi tape:

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In the afternoon, over a seltzer with lemon at the museum café, Carroll pulled out his own battered notebook, a special-edition BuJo Leuchtturm in black. It was covered in stickers from his recent book tour: Austria, Japan, Morocco, China. “I turned my Bullet Journal into my suitcase,” he said. At home, he has twenty-eight used Bullet Journals that date back to just after he graduated college. (A handful of older iterations were destroyed by a flood in his Brooklyn apartment.) At one point, he briefly opened his notebook to reveal a spread of neat block lettering in a minimalist grid design. “I’m not going to walk you through the inside because I’m one of those people who keep it for everything,” he said.

Carroll’s book grew out of his desire to explain components of BuJo unrelated to productivity. “The Bullet Journal method’s mission is to help us become mindful about how we spend our two most valuable resources in life: our time and our energy,” he writes. (The book opens with a Venn diagram of “productivity” and “mindfulness,” with “intentionality” in the center.) He told me that, in the early days, the questions he received from Bullet Journalists were technical: How many collections can I build? Should my writing be efficient or decorative? Then they turned more existential. “People would be, like, ‘What is a meaningful goal?’ ” he said. “It’s a much harder question, but one that occupies me all the time as well.”

I had brought my own notebook, a teal Moleskine with a bright yellow band running along its side. I had bought it two years earlier in a rush of optimism (Those colors! That yellow band! Surely!), and, since then, it had, with the stubbornness of an adorable yet petulant child, refused to become organized. Lately, my need for order had taken on a new urgency. I was moving to a new country, looking for an apartment, applying for a visa, planning a wedding, and I had been diagnosed as having a tricky medical condition. My life was in upheaval. I leafed through my messy notebook for Carroll, who looked a little pale.

“Do you use the dash-plus system?” he asked hopefully, eying a mark next to a note about thank-you cards that resembled a plus sign. I did not.

“All right,” he said.

I’d brought with me a brand-new notebook, dark green with lined pages. (“I prefer dot-grid, but you can use whatever works for you,” Carroll said.) In the next hour, he helped me set it up. “The Bullet Journal is designed to embrace the chaos that is life,” he said. We made a meta page with my intentions for the journal and a “brain dump” for anything on my mind. He had me draw bullet points instead of a checkboxes for tasks, because, he said, “Things aren’t binary; things begin, they pause, they resume, they get moved.” We talked about the BuJo practice of “A.M. and P.M. reflection,” when you look over the day’s notes. “For us, lists aren’t just stuff we have to do,” he said. “Each task is an experience waiting to be born.” He pointed to my list of tasks. “This is the potential substance of your future.” Looking at it, I felt a sudden, melancholy clarity about how this would all go down: a surge of willpower, a trial period spiralling into sloppiness, and an eventual return to my multiple-notebook days. Or maybe not. Maybe this time . . .

It was getting late, and Carroll’s voice was a little hoarse. We started packing up. “I like to describe what I do as giving people an empty house that they fill with their own life,” he said on the way out. “Only add what serves you, and be patient with yourself, because it’s a new thing. You’re not doing it right, you’re not doing it wrong, you’re just figuring it out as you go along.” He paused. “It’s another reason why I love the notebook,” he said. “It’s like every day is another chance.”

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Hello from Harry Potter

September 7, 2019 | News | No Comments

From:
Mr. Harry Potter
Aurors Department Head
Magical Laws, Enforcement Division

To:
Headmistress Minerva McGonagall
Hogwarts Academy

Dear Minerva,

When I drop off James and Albus for the new school year, I’m so looking forward to seeing you and delivering the Golden Snitch that I signed for the silent auction. I hope it raises a few galleons toward refurbishing the Sorting Hat, which was looking dodgy even back in the day, when it gave me a sword to kill that basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets. Mad times—but I’m glad I was able to help, in whatever small ways, to save Hogwarts from destruction.

I write, however, on another subject. This fall, James will begin his third year on the Gryffindor quidditch team, but he has yet to start a game. I would never ask you to intercede with the coach, of course, but, as you know, wizarding universities expect to see many extracurricular boxes checked, and James’s only other activity is his work with stained glass. His teachers say he’s turning out cathedral-quality stuff, but we’re told that art achievements alone won’t cut it—even his (unobjective-parent alert!) spectacular depiction of me and my friends rescuing the Philosopher’s Stone.

Let me first acknowledge the obvious: last year, James struggled with his broom-flying. Happily, we have solved that problem. He has been diagnosed with flying-attention deficit—he’s overly distracted by birds, clouds, and whatnot. So, in a fit of inspiration, I contacted Firebolt broom-makers (I confess I played the “H.P.” card), who made James a special broom that gives him a minor electric jolt when his attention wanders. His strides using it this summer have been absolutely phenomenal. However, to ride it in official school games, it looks like he will require a brief letter from you (which I’m happy to compose) to the Quidditch Society, explaining that he really does need this special accommodation.

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Having not played last year, James understandably has developed some anxiety around quidditch, so we’ve had Nobbler, our house elf, certified as an emotional-support elf (you won’t believe how cute his little vest is). On the rarest of occasions—it’s not likely, and almost certainly won’t happen—James may need Nobbler to ride behind him on his broom. And he’ll require the house master to sign off on Nobbler living with him—I believe this might qualify him for a single this year? We don’t want any special treatment, of course, but Nobbler does need to sing James to sleep and we wouldn’t want to disturb any other students.

I hope you’ll forgive a father these requests. More than anyone, I know what a privilege it is for my kids to attend my alma mater. After all, I had to drop out of school to collect the horcruxes and unite the Deathly Hallows before defeating Voldemort. I envy this generation, who are able to enjoy their student years unimpeded. But then a peaceful world in which children can be children was always our shared goal, wasn’t it? It also happens to be the subject of James’s latest stained-glass piece, which, by the way, would look stunning in the Gryffindor common room. We would probably have to crane it in, but that’s for a later discussion.

As an aside, when I see you in September, I’d like to pick your brain about my memoirs. My dream is to use the book proceeds to build a new, fifth house at Hogwarts, to maximize the school’s potential—we currently have to reject too many good (and full-paying) applicants owing to lack of space. I’ve heard people say that the house should be named after me, an absurd idea that I’d strenuously oppose, but I do think “The McGonagall Visitors Center at Potter House” has a lovely ring to it.

Bill Weasley sends his regards. Currently his wife, Fleur, is headmaster at Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, and is always joking that I should send our kids there. A laughable notion, given my history with Hogwarts, but I did visit recently and, wow, their new quidditch field is spectacular.

Fondly,

Harry Potter

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Lukaku offers 'ideal characteristics' for Conte's Inter – Zola

September 7, 2019 | News | No Comments

The Italian great talked up a potential move to the Serie A side for the Manchester United forward, who he thinks fits the club’s manager perfectly

Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku is an “ideal” signing for Antonio Conte’s Inter, according to Gianfranco Zola.

Inter head coach Conte has made no secret of his desire to sign Lukaku, who is at the centre of ongoing and, so far, fruitless negotiations between the Serie A side and United.

Lukaku – contracted to the Red Devils until 2022 with the option of a further year after joining from Everton in a £75million deal in 2017 – has not played for United during their pre-season tour.

Zola witnessed Lukaku firsthand during his time as Chelsea assistant last season and the Italian great talked up the Belgium striker’s potential move to Milan.

“Lukaku would make a big impact at Inter, as he has the ideal characteristics for Conte’s football and has the kind of physicality from the Premier League that puts him a step above the rest in Serie A,” he told FCInterNews.

“Having said that, I believe the real strength at Inter will be Conte himself. He’s really fired up after the Chelsea experience and then taking a year off. He’ll want to transmit that determination to the squad.

“We know how good Antonio is at transmitting grit, intensity and sporting aggression. I am sure Inter will be one of the principle antagonists to Juventus this season.”

Lukaku, who has acknowledged a desire to play in Italy and hinted his future could be away from Old Trafford with United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer preferring Marcus Rashford up front, scored 12 Premier League goals last season.

The 26-year-old scored 15 goals across all competitions as United finished sixth in the Premier League and lost to Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals. 

He has also earned the public backing of Conte as a player the manager would like to have with him in Serie A. 

“He is a United player and for this reason we must show great respect for the club, for the player and also for my own players,” he told a media conference earlier this month . 

“Lukaku is a player that I like because I consider him a player that could improve our team.

“On one side is my will and my hope. On the other side we will see what we find with the club.”

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Delph left Man City for Everton to increase chances of playing for England

September 7, 2019 | News | No Comments

The 29-year-old felt it was time for a move in search of more playing time as he hopes to keep his England career going

Fabian Delph says he made the decision to leave Manchester City in hopes of boosting his chances of playing for England. 

Delph completed an £8.5 million ($11m)​ move to Everton last week, ending a four-year run with the City side he joined in the summer of 2015. 

Having won the Premier League twice with the Manchester club, Delph made the decision to leave in search of more regular playing time this summer, with Everton his landing spot heading into the new season as he hopes to keep his place in the England squad. 

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“From a personal point of view, I felt it was time for a change,” he said to The Daily Mail. “I could have stayed there. They were happy with me. I wasn’t told to leave. I played quite a key role within that squad.

“I had a fantastic four years there, thoroughly enjoyed it, but I wanted a new challenge. I wanted to play more football.

“Playing for England is massive for me, so if I’m playing more regularly, there’s more chance of me being selected.

“I’ve got a great relationship with Gareth [Southgate] and the England lads, we’re a really close group. The mentality there is fantastic.”

Delph has been a regular for England under Southgate and started the Nations League semi-final loss to the Netherlands earlier this summer.

The move to Everton should offer a regular starting spot for the 29-year-old, though it also brings an adjustment to a new manager. 

And while Delph was impressed with Pep Guardiola’s style at his old club, he claims training under his new boss Marco Silva is tougher than it was with the Premier League champions. 

“The volume is a lot higher, we cover a lot more distance,” he said. “There’s a lot more intensity and you definitely feel like you’ve worked come the end of the day.

“I love it. There’s nothing worse for me than going home with energy.

“City’s training is very good, it’s shorter and sharper and is the way the manager likes the lads to play.”

Having drawn 0-0 with Wigan on Tuesday, Everton will take on Werder Bremen in a pre-season friendly on Aug. 3 before facing their first Premier League test of the season against Crystal Palace a week later. 

 

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Angers vs Arsenal: TV channel, live stream, squad news & preview

September 7, 2019 | News | No Comments

The Gunners’ latest pre-season trip takes them to France, where they will help the Ligue 1 side celebrate their 100th anniversary

Arsenal travel to Stade Raymond-Kopa in France to meet Angers in friendly action on Wednesday.

It will be the second time in four days that the Gunners have played a Ligue 1 club, having suffered a disappointing 2-1 defeat to Lyon in the Emirates Cup on Sunday.

Unai Emery’s side, though, have enjoyed a strong pre-season campaign, in which they have beaten Bayern Munich and Fiorentina, and drawn with Real Madrid.

Angers, meanwhile, have organised this match in order to celebrate their 100th anniversary and will want to make it as much of a celebration as possible.

Game Angers vs Arsenal
Date Wednesday, July 31
Time 6:30pm BST / 1:30pm ET
Stream (US) fubo TV (7-day free trial)

In the United States (US), the game can be watched  live and on-demand with fuboTV (7-day free trial) .

New users can sign up for a free seven-day trial of the live sports streaming service, which can be accessed via iOS, Android, Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and Apple TV as well as on a web browser.

US TV channel Online stream
beIN Sports / beIN Sports en Espanol fubo TV (7-day free trial)

In the UK, the match will be shown on Premier Sports 1 and available to stream on Premier Sports HD.

UK TV channel Online stream
Premier Sports 1 Premier Sports HD
Position Angers squad
Goalkeepers Butelle, Petkovic
Defenders Ait Nouri, Bamba, Cisse, Manceau, Pavlovic, Pellenard, Thomas
Midfielders Capelle, Mangani, Pajot, Reine-Adelaide, Santamaria
Forwards Alioui, Kanga, Lopez, El Malali, Pereira Lage

Angers could hand a debut to Mathias Pereira Lage, who arrived on Tuesday from Ligue 2 outfit Clermont.

However, they will be without Angelo Fulgini, who suffered an adductor injury against Feyenoord that will keep him out for between six and eight weeks.

Former Arsenal man Jeff Reine-Adelaide should start in midfield.

Position Arsenal squad
Goalkeepers Martinez, Macey
Defenders Chambers, Sokratis, Mustafi, Medley, Monreal, Thompson, Maitland-Niles
Midfielders Xhaka, Burton, Olayinka, Mkhitaryan, Nelson, Willock, Guendouzi
Forwards Martinelli, Aubameyang, Nketiah, John-Jules

Alexandre Lacazette will be missing for Arsenal after twisting an ankle against Lyon at the weekend, though the injury is not as serious as it first appeared.

Hector Bellerin, ​Rob Holding, Konstantinos Mavropanos and Emile Smith Rowe are all injured.

Dani Ceballos has not travelled to France, while Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac are again left out.

Laurent Koscielny is absent as he attempts to manufacture a move back to France, while goalkeeper Bernd Leno has also been left out of the 20-man travelling squad.

Arsenal are rated as 8/15 favourites to win this match with Bet365. Angers are a 9/2 shot, while the draw is 10/3.

Click here to see all of bet 365’s offers for the game, including goalscoring markets, correct score predictions and more.

Nine days out from the start of the Premier League season, Arsenal play their penultimate friendly in what has been a packed summer against Ligue 1 side Angers.

It will be the sixth pre-season match in 15 days for Unai Emery’s side, who have won three, drawn one and lost for the first time on Sunday against Lyon.

Despite that setback, things are coming along nicely for the Gunners, who finally completed a move to sign William Saliba from Saint-Etienne, albeit loaning him immediately back, while a deal for Lille star Nicolas Pepe is expected to be completed imminently.

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Goalkeeper Bernd Leno certainly thinks the blend in the squad is the correct one, as he explained to the club’s official website in the aftermath of the Lyon match: “When you see how the experienced players help the young players adapt, it’s very good. And you see on the pitch everybody is like a big family, but we can also talk about negative things. Nobody gets mad at each other. I think it’s also important to be honest with each other. That’s what you need for a good performance and for a good team.”

After the setback at the weekend in a match in which Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had given them the lead, they will want to bounce back with a more positive result in eastern France.

Angers, though, will be doing their utmost to ensure that their 100th birthday celebrations are not dampened. The Ligue 1 side have released a collector’s edition shirt especially for the occasion, and are seeking to build on a decent pre-season that saw them suffer a first defeat of the summer against Borussia Monchengladbach on Saturday.

This also represents a small chance to get one over on Emery, who beat Angers five times in five matches when in charge of Paris Saint-Germain – including the 2017 Coupe de France final.

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New creative collective uses fashion and art to educate youth

September 7, 2019 | News | No Comments

A creative collective of artists based in New York and London are
connecting over their shared desire to use fashion, art and music to change
today’s fragmented international political climate. Called
the Dozens Collective, now part of the New York-based creative-technology
incubator Floreo Labs, the group started as a streetwear fashion brand that
has since grown into a design agency full of creatives using their artwork
to bring their cultural views to the the fore.

The Dozens aims to creatively educate active youth about the benefits of
global political awareness. Together with Luna Legacy, a music-minded
community of conscious artists and activists from London, the two groups
are connecting this spring on Smoke + Apple, a creative showcase designed
to nurture a positive impact on global communities by helping them raise
political awareness through music events, creative pop-ups, political
awareness campaigns, artistic collaborations and many more cross-cultural
artistic events. The event will take place in Brooklyn on May 2nd.

The power and ideas from the collective will be commemorated in the
showcase of performing artists based on both sides of “the pond,” as well
as a new collection of The Dozens-branded media, apparel and accessories,
available on location at Kinfolk 94 in Brooklyn during the show and for a
limited time on The Dozens website.

For further information visit www.buythedozens.co.

Logo courtesy of The Dozens

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Kylie Jenner to launch baby line including apparel and footwear

September 7, 2019 | News | No Comments

Kylie Jenner is looking to expand her empire. After reaching billionaire
status with her beauty brand Kylie Cosmetics, the 21-year old filed for
trademarks for “Kylie Baby” and “Kylie Baby by Kylie Jenner”, according to
the US Patent and Trademark Office.

WWD reports that the trademarks were filed for a wide range of products,
including bottoms, dresses, footwear, jumpers, sweaters and costumes for
use in children’s dress up play. The news comes just days after Jenner
announced a vegan skincare line called Kylie Skin to be launched on May
22.

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Jenner became a mother last year. She has a daughter with rapper Travis
Scott.

Picture: Kylie Cosmetics Facebook

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Zalando wants candidates with an analytical mind and a strong sense of fashion

September 7, 2019 | News | No Comments

FashionUnited publishes a series of interviews dedicated to the most requested professionals in the fashion industry, both by the brands and by companies active in fashion and luxury e-commerce. We decided to hear from fashion and e-commerce companies to understand the most popular roles, how much can be gained by those in these positions, what are the best training paths and attitudes required to find a job and make a career in fashion and luxury. This week we interviewed Astrid Arndt, vice president of business engagement and recruitment for Zalando, e-tailer with headquarters in Berlin, which closed the first quarter with revenues up 15.2 percent to 1.4 billion euros.

What are the most sought after profiles now and what will be the most popular in the coming months?

Zalando wants to become the starting point for fashion, providing over 26 million customers in Europe with the most relevant assortment in fashion and beauty. We offer over 400,000 items from almost 2,000 brands. To make sure we have the latest trends and brands that our customers are looking for, merchandisers and buyers are always in demand at Zalando. Because we base all our business decisions on data, in addition to a strong sense of fashion, these roles also require an analytical mindset. Being able to extract data allows both merchandisers and buyers to better understand customer requirements and make the right decisions in their daily work. In the recruitment process, we also focus on trend forecasting and brand strategy skills.

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What do these professions do? How much can they aspire to earn?

Buyers and merchandisers work closely together and their job is to ensure that our customers have access to the right choice of products, which means providing them with the right trends and clothes at the right time and at the right price. Buyers are responsible for planning and selecting the items to sell in our fashion store. This role requires the ability to make decisions based on the synthesis of several factors such as customer demand, quality or brand policy. Possessing an exceptional sensitivity to market trends, keeping up and responding to market changes as well as understanding the needs and behaviors of consumers to provide them with a commercially sustainable choice are other necessary requirements for this role. Merchandisers are involved from planning to delivery of collections by brands, ensuring timely deliveries. They also play a key role in forecasting, stock planning and performance monitoring.

Salaries and the activities performed by these roles are highly dependent on the level of experience. Specifically, Zalando’s remuneration model follows internal remuneration bands established according to work families to ensure fair compensation for similar professional profiles and is complemented by variable factors at management level such as stock options. Professional growth is also extremely encouraged in all roles at Zalando. We offer great flexibility and development opportunities through internal training and mentoring activities and staff rotation in different tasks, to name but a few.

What kind of training and skills are needed?

For these roles we are looking for graduates, a course of study in fashion management or retail management is considered advantageous but not mandatory. Much more important is the practical experience in these roles to develop the necessary skills. The skills required depend on the level of seniority, but generally good stakeholder management, clear communication, a solution-oriented approach and analytical thinking are highly valued for these positions.

Do you find it difficult to find the right professionals for your research?

Sometimes it can be difficult to identify niche profiles; for example, buyers who have experience in a very specific category such as denim menswear with off-price experience. This profile should have experience not only in men’s denim but also in an off-price business model, such as Zalando Privé.

What are the right characteristics and aptitudes to work in an environment like yours?

The right candidates should identify with the values that characterize Zalando’s corporate culture: deep customer orientation, entrepreneurial mentality, speed and team spirit. These values allow us to offer our customers the best possible shopping experience and to offer our partners the best possible environment. It is also very important to be versatile and open to new experiences. We aim to find the right candidates who are able to see things in perspective and always report their actions to our business strategy.

The original version of this interview was published on May 9th, 2019 on FashionUnited Italy. The text has been translated and slightly abbreviated for an international audience.

Photos: Zalando headquarters in Berlin, credit Svenja Krüger, from the Zalando press office

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