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BALENCIAGA'S “CLONES” COLLECTION IS THE PERFECT RESPONSE TO THE “GUCCIAGA” HACK Balenciaga's Spring 2022 ready-to-wear presentation, titled “ Clones ” considers how our sense of reality is mediated through an increasingly filtered — perfected, polished, conformed, and photoshopped — lens. To drive the message home, Balenciaga tapped artist Eliza Douglas (who you might recognize from most of their recent shows, as well as Burberry's chaotic SS21 presentation) to model all 44 looks for women and men. See for yourself below. In the video directed by Quentin Deronzier, Douglas appears as a series of digital clones, some of which are deepfakes, or models with the artist's photogrammetry-captured and CG-scanned face digitally grafted on. It's both a critique of fashion’s “hero” item-trend fixation and a perfect rejoinder to Gucci's recent Balenciaga-hacked "ARIA" collection. The “Gucciaga” collection mixed the codes of both houses. As Alessandro Michele expl...

The Ford Mustang Mach 1 is the latest limited edition to slow the model's sales slide. At almost $20,000 more than a Mustang GT, it comes with a hefty price premium. But the beauty is more than skin deep. When it comes to the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach 1, you can hear the howls from suburbs away. And that’s just the owners. In case you missed it, there’s been an outcry over this car on social media. Depending on which thread you read, local Ford Mustang Mach 1 buyers missed out on a bunch of promised features, or are a bunch of sooks. As with many dilemmas, the truth is somewhere in the middle. Ford Mustang Mach 1 owners were right to be upset about missing features – and Ford was in the wrong, which it quickly admitted – but no amount of trolling, threats of legal action, or banging of fists on service counters was going to change anything. In promotional material in the lead-up to the local release, Ford Australia inadvertently listed as standard some features that were in fact not a...

Michael Sanchez, the brother of Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos’ gal pal Lauren Sanchez, put his beloved West Hollywood bungalow on the market amid growing legal bills. His monetary situation hit the skids three months ago when a judge ruled he was on the hook for $218,000 of Bezos’ legal fees for a failed libel lawsuit against the billionaire for a nude photo scandal. While that is less than the $1.7 million Bezos wanted, Michael still needs to fund his legal fights – he refiled defamation claims against two tabloid execs, David Pecker and Dylan Howard, in January over a March 2019 press release claiming he was the sole source of raunchy text messages and nude selfies the National Enquirer obtained in its reporting on Bezos’s affair with his sister, Lauren Sanchez. The amended lawsuit also names the National Enquirer’s former parent company, American Media Inc., as a defendant. The house Sanchez owns with Casey Ashby, a marketing executive with Gucci, is on sale for $2.5 million, according t...

Cryptocurrencies are in the green today on June 3, 2021, Bitcoin's price is currently at $37,329.93. Its dominance in the market is at 41.61 percent, a decrease of 0.40 percent over the day. Global bank JPMorgan on June 2 advised that institutional investors have so far avoided buying Bitcoin during the current dip in the cryptocurrency's price. JPMorgan strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote in a research note that bitcoin's price might fall further before stabilizing after a correction. "It now seems unlikely that we see this volatility ratio returning to the x2 levels of last summer. The best we can hope for over the medium term is for this volatility ratio to partially revert from around x6 currently to around x4 by year-end," Panigirtzoglou said, as quoted by CNBC. For other cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin, Elon Musk's crypto meme tweet on June 2 surged its prices by 28.66 percent and was trading at $0.419919, as per US-based crypto exchange Coinbase at 3:55...

Kraken brings its new Kraken crypto mobile app to the U.S.Kraken, the world’s largest global bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity has announced the availability of its new Kraken mobile app in the U.S., one of the most financially active markets in the world, following the positive reception of the app received in Europe earlier this year. The firm has announced that anyone across the U.S. can now buy or sell more than 50 different cryptocurrencies directly from their mobile phones. With its intuitive interface, sleek design, and frictionless user experience, users can set up an account and purchase digital assets at the push of a button, with as little as $10. “The past year has shown that the U.S. investor is truly a force to be reckoned with. With record numbers of Americans conducting most of their financial lives through mobile apps, it makes perfect business sense for Kraken to double down and offer up an app that enables easy access to cryptocurrencies wherever they are...

If you’re among the growing number of people interested in cryptocurrencies, you may be interested to know that nearly 7,000 people lost more than $80 million between October 2020 and March 2021 — a 1,000% increase from a year ago, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The scams include fake currency exchanges and phony “investment” websites selling the currency. More recently, more than $10 million was stolen in various cryptocurrencies in the days leading up to Elon Musk’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live.” And here’s the rub: You have no way to protect your accounts from any theft. In the world of cryptocurrency, there are no guarantees. Unlike the traditional banking world, there is no equivalent to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to cover any losses on your account. If your assets are stolen, you’re out of luck. Enabling secure access to these cryptocurrency assets is absolutely critical to preventing theft — which, as of the end of 2020, amounted to just over $10...