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When the Chanel circus came to Sydney it brought bespoke barricades and 800 VICs

Celebrities including Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and Kylie Minogue sat front row at two runway events while bemused locals looked onThey came, they saw, they CC’d. This week Chanel – the world’s second-biggest luxury brand after Louis Vuitton, with sales of US$19.3bn in 2025 – mobilised an estimated team of 300 in Sydney, staging a “replica” presentation of its Cruise 2026/2027 collection, first shown in Biarritz in April.Its celebrity guest list was headlined by Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, Kylie Minogue and Baz Lurhmann. Staff included many of its head office team (French accents were omnipresent), a local production company and about 80 models, 50 of them internationally based. Continue reading...

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Meet the AI Host That Could Help You Navigate Everyday Life

Powered by NVIDIA technology, LiveX’s human-like AI Hosts are bringing conversational assistance, personalized recommendations, and multilingual guidance to airports, hospitals, stores, and public venues. Imagine arriving at an unfamiliar airport and being able to ask where your gate is, whether there’s somewhere nearby to eat, and how long it will take to get there. Now […] The post Meet the AI Host That Could Help You Navigate Everyday Life appeared first on Grit Daily News.

John Smedley will always be in vogue | Letters

Tim Heavisides recalls his fondness for the historic fashion firm and his enduring attachment to a black jumperRe your report (Fashion and tradition: how John Smedley is innovating in a tough market, 1 November), I was fortunate to grow up with a mum who was interested in good quality clothes and fashion, and who, when I was 17, bought me a black rollneck top. Think Roger Moore. Think Illya Kuryakin (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.). Think of me in the lower sixth at a rural grammar school in Wiltshire, who missed going to the Bath blues festival at Shepton Mallet in 1970. I also missed the Isle of Wight ferry once.I recall going on a school trip to see the film Kanał by the Polish director Andrzej Wajda. There were girls on the coach from the girls’ high school. Shock horror. What should I wear? My black polo top, of course. It would be perfect with my tweed sports jacket. And then Mum uttered those immortal words: “It’s made by John Smedley. You can wear it with anything.” Continue reading...

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Fearing AI disruption, white-collar workers are quitting their jobs

While there’s no evidence linking AI to mass layoffs, the tech has already ‘changed worker psychology’When artificial intelligence researcher Mrinank Sharma quit his job at Anthropic earlier this year, the news rippled across the internet. In his resignation letter, posted on X and viewed 15.3m times, Sharma warned of a world “in peril” from the technology he had helped build.“It is clear to me the time has come to move on,” he wrote. His next move: a poetry degree. Continue reading...

‘I’m not shaving my legs just to not orgasm’: 14 single women on their relationship to sex

Women of all ages across the globe open up about their sexual experiences amid a time of supposed societal sexual upheaval The recently released film Wicker is full of sex. So much sex that some theaters released a 4D version where audiences can feel their seats creak in sync with the passionate lovemaking of the protagonist, a fisher played by Olivia Colman, and her husband, played by Alexander Skarsgård.Also, this husband is made of wicker. Continue reading...