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MILAN (AP) — Models descended an emergency escape staircase to access the Francesca Liberatore runway during Milan Fashion Week on Sunday, as if to beckon the world to find a route away from the desperate human suffering around the globe. Liberatore comes at the runway with an artistic sensibility, but due to global turmoil she said she didn‘t want to turn her Spring-Summer 2026 collection into a warm-weather narrative.Instead, she expressed her growing concern through the staging and the soundtrack featuring two Tears for Fears songs: “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and ‘‘Mad World,’’ sung by the Italian singer…

MILAN (AP) — Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean returned to the Milan runway on Saturday after a three-year absence with a collection produced with artisans in Bhutan and an appeal for more political support for the withering class of artisans that gives luxury fashion its edge.“I said I would come back when I had something to say,’’ Jean said backstage.An appeal for artisansJean has long supported global artisans in her collections combining Italian tailoring with textiles, artistic details and garments sourced from traditional artisans in order to help safeguard their cultural heritage.Now, she says “Italian craftsmanship is dying out,” as fewer…

MILAN (AP) — Louise Trotter’s debut as creative director at Bottega Veneta on Saturday contained moments of fantasy most evident in the fringe that bounced on coats and swirled like shiny bristles on glimmering skirts and jackets.Trotter, a British designer who joined Bottega Veneta in January, is one of four creative directors who made their hotly awaited debuts in Milan this season, following Demna at Gucci, Simone Bellotti at Jil Sander and Dario Vitale at Versace. ‘Bottega’ means workshopBottega Veneta has some of the finest craftspeople in Italian luxury, and Trotter said they were an inspiration to her Spring-Summer 2026…

MILAN (AP) — The devil wore Dolce & Gabbana on Saturday, with Meryl Streep taking a front-row seat at the designing duo’s Milan theater in character as Miranda Priestly for “The Devil Wears Prada” sequel. Streep wore Priestly’s customary sunglasses and a Dolce & Gabbana vinyl raincoat as she entered the theater escorted by security and trailed by Stanley Tucci, who plays her art director in the film. Throughout the runway show, set to music by Italian singer Patty Pravo, Streep’s character consulted with Tucci, their eyes casting up and down the runway as models passed. The Dolce & Gabbana…

LONDON (AP) — The historic British train journey that laid the foundations for much of the modern age is being celebrated Saturday on the 200th anniversary. On Sept. 27, 1825, the first steam powered railway engine to run on a public railway — George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 — made its 26-mile (42-kilometer) journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway between Shildon and Stockton via Darlington in the northeast of England.It was a small but significant milestone which augured rapid changes in the way Britain, and subsequently the world, lived, traded, traveled and communicated.Though the Stockton & Darlington was not…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Golden lion tamarins and Hoffman’s two-toed sloths have become unlikely roommates in a brand new habitat at the Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society in Florida. Both species are native to the forests of South America, which is why the new habitat features a thick canopy of trees. The golden tamarins, with their distinct orange mane, love frolicking in the treetops, while the sloths are perfectly happy hanging from the trees.“Maybe the golden tamarins think of the sloth as more furniture because they don’t really do too much. They’re more sedentary,” said Devin Clarke,…

MILAN (AP) — Versace’s “intimate event” to launch Dario Vitale as the new creative director during Milan Fashion Week on Friday sprawled over two floors of a 17th-century palazzo and attracted hundreds of screaming Chinese pop star fans outside waving bunches of green and light blue balloons.Vitale’s debut collection was a full-throttle return to the overtly sexualized Versace of the 1980s and 1990s — seen in the snug high-waisted jeans cinched as tightly as possible, the revealing open-sided T-shirts, the dresses left carelessly open in the back, and the joyous bursts of primary color. The flamboyant energy of that decade…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Some call it a useless bureaucracy. Others praise it as a key tool of humanitarian aid, peacemaking and global diplomacy.Whatever their core beliefs, nearly every national leader agrees the United Nations is a valuable stage to make their case before the world. And it’s a stage no one enters in anything but their finest clothes, a fact on vivid display at the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week.For many diplomats and national officials, the General Assembly to provided an opportunity to show off clothing with not just elegant cuts and fabrics, but a symbolic…

AutoZone’s customer and shareholder obsession made it a Wall Street darling—and thousands of its employees millionaires. But can one of the top stocks of the last three decades keep it up in the face of new rivals and fewer tinkerers? Phil Daniele was working for a competing auto-parts chain when Auto­Zone entered the Jacksonville, Florida, market in 1986. Daniele had worked in car stores since high school, paying his way through college by stocking shelves. He joined AutoZone in 1993 as a store manager in training before being given his own store after a few months, the first of ten…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Australian scientists tested the strength of bite-resistant wetsuits by allowing sharks to chomp the materials at sea and found that the suits can help keep swimmers safe.Fatal shark bites are vanishingly rare, with less than 50 unprovoked shark bites on humans worldwide in 2024, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History. But increased sightings of large sharks in some parts of the world have swimmers, surfers and divers looking for new ways to stay safe.Scientists with Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, tested four bite-resistant materials and found they…