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And…roll credits! Earlier tonight, Pierpaolo Piccioli presented his second women’s ready-to-wear collection for Balenciaga. Titled ClairObscur, it was dedicated to illuminating forms of character through the exploration of shadows, in part inspired by the dramatic tenebrism of Caravaggio. To import some contemporary dramatics into his “fresco of humanity,” Piccioli framed his show in partnership with Sam Levinson, the creator of the TV series Euphoria.The two friends have been working on this Balenciaga project for several months. Simultaneously, Levinson has been gearing up for the release of the third season of his magnum opus, which returns to HBO on April 12…

The woman at the door wore a plush lobster headdress.She sat in the front hallway of a multistory event venue in Manhattan, beside a bundle of wristbands. If she granted you one, the world of ClawCon beckoned behind her — full of vibey pink and purple lighting, lobster claw headbands, multicolored name tags, sponsor information stations, and a demo stage underneath a skylight. Hundreds of people were gathered to celebrate OpenClaw, the AI assistant platform created by Peter Steinberger in November 2025.OpenClaw (previously known as Clawdbot and Moltbolt) has quickly become popular in the tech industry for being open-source, in…

The current DraftKings promo code gives new users $200 in bonus bets if your first $5 bet wins, and Saturday features arguably the best rivalry in sports to take advantage of this offer. Top-ranked Duke hosts No. 17 North Carolina in each team’s final ACC game of the regular season, and the Tar Heels are one of only two teams to defeat Duke this year. Although the SportsLine Projection Model isn’t projecting another North Carolina victory, it is siding with the Tar Heels to cover as 17.5-point underdogs for Saturday college basketball best bets at DraftKings. North Carolina will be…

Over the past week, residents across the Gulf have watched missiles and drones cross the night sky—sometimes followed seconds later by bright flashes as air-defense systems intercept them. In cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, videos of interceptions have spread quickly across social media, turning what is normally a largely unseen security architecture into something suddenly visible.Authorities have urged people not to film or share footage online of interceptions or military activity, warning that such videos could reveal sensitive information about defense operations.Iran has launched waves of missile and drones toward several Gulf countries in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes which…

If you don’t make boosting your child’s self-esteem “one of your top priorities” as a parent, you could jeopardize their future success and happiness, says mental performance coach Cindra Kamphoff.”Parents need to be more aware of the confidence crisis in America today, and they need to be really deliberate about increasing the confidence of their kids,” says Kamphoff, the founder of the Mentally Strong Institute, a mental coaching firm for business leaders and athletes.Nearly half of all Gen Z workers in the U.S. struggle with inadequate confidence, including negative self-comparisons to those around them, says Kamphoff, citing a survey of…

David Barnett has learned a lot since first launching PopSockets more than a decade ago.  As the tale goes, the former philosophy professor was looking for an easy way to hold his headphones and went on to create one of the most viral phone accessories of all time: A device that grips to the back of the phone and can be used as a kickstand or a handle — better known as the PopSockets.  Barnett sat down with Equity this week to talk about his journey building this company from his garage, why he decided to never take on traditional…

Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu has withdrawn from the world championships later this month, an unsurprising move for the defending champion after she won the first Winter Games gold medal by an American woman in more than two decades.Liu, 20, would have performed alongside Olympic teammates Amber Glenn and Isabeau Levito when worlds begin March 24 at O2 Arena in Prague. Bradie Tennell was the first alternate but declined, so Sarah Everhardt will take Liu’s place on the U.S. team.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedLiu retired after the 2022 Beijing Games only to launch a triumphant comeback two years later. She became…

Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI’s controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s resigned from her role leading the company’s robotics team. “This wasn’t an easy call,” Kalinowski said in a social media post. “AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got.” Kalinowski, who previously led the team building augmented reality glasses at Meta, joined OpenAI in November 2024. In her announcement today, she emphasized that the decision was “about principle, not…

The music cut out after only 16 all-black looks. Although each of them contained more technical complexity and visual surprise than is sometimes found in entire collections elsewhere, this still felt brief. There was a moment of pause. Then from backstage came a cluster of six looks, all of them versions of a look that had come before, but this time in the cutsiest, most saccharine of pinks.These huge and stately abstract envelopments, so broad of beam that the models had to step aside for each other when crossing over on the narrow runway, were sent out so close together…

We’ve all been subjected to different levels of what scientists have called “Star Wars Bullshit Nonsense” over the decades. But The Mandalorian and Grogu might be reaching a new level with the live-action debut of Rotta the Hutt, son of crime lord Jabba (RIP, but not really) and voiced by Jeremy Allen White. In a recent Empire interview, White and director Jon Favreau briefly talked up the now-grown Hutt. While White talked up the performance side of things—he “listened to Jabba” to get his voice Hutt appropriate—Favreau compared the character to Michael B. Jordan’s Adonis Creed in that they’re both defined by the…