Kailyn Rhone

As artificial intelligence is predicted to be the future of the workplace, only 14% of employees are being trained on Al tools, and more than half say they need training on using Al tools, according to a survey conducted by TalentLMS of 1,000 employees in the United States. 

With the increasing number of companies using AI tools to help facilitate their workplace, many U.S. employees say their work responsibilities have changed due to the Al tools used in their offices for hiring practices, managing workflow, or even replacing previous employees.

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The controversy with rapper Kanye West’s anti-Semitic comments during a podcast led many companies to cut ties with the Yeezy designer in October, one of whom was Adidas, an German sportswear company that had a nine-year partnership with Mr. West. As the company now faces a $540 million dollar loss due to unsold Yeezy stock, online resellers say the controversy has fueled demand in their sales for the product.

John Mocadlo, CEO of Impossible Kicks, an online reseller for premium sneakers and clothing, said demand for the Yeezy sneakers had increased around 30% since October, according to CNN. The Yeezy shoes were among the highest sales and most popular brands such as Jordan sneakers and other Nike products.

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Fashion is all about risks and Diesel is no stranger to it. Diesel started off Milan Fashion Week with a bang on February 21st as models strutted down a runway with a backdrop of 200,000 condoms. 

The denim brand used a mountain of Durex condom boxes to not only draw attention to the new collection but also the importance of safe sexual intimacy. 

“We like to play at Diesel, and we are serious about it,” creative director Glenn Martens said in a statement according to CNN. “Have fun, respect each other, be safe.”

As the background was seen as groundbreaking by many, it left room for some to criticize the fashion label about its decision.

“Diesel using 200,000 condoms as stage prop is crazy, fashion not beating the pollution allegations,” wrote one user on Twitter.

This wasn’t the first time Diesel had a controversial ad. Throughout the 90s, Diesel was known for promoting their brands amongst sensitive issues such as gun violence, slavery and homosexuality to name a few. 

From a young man pointing a gun telling parents to teach the importance of killing to a Black man going into a pool titled ‘whites only’ in South Africa, Diesel’s history of campaign ads has proposed the current question of if other fashion brands should use controversial topics as a leverage to promote their new collections. 

However, Diesel remains one of the hottest brands to date with collections sold out worldwide and a company value of almost 80 million dollars.

“What we made was provocative, funny, but also intellectual – we more or less tried to pick up on the conversation that was going on in society around us and make art of it” Jocke Jonason, an advertiser who worked closely with Diesel, told Dazed in 2016.

As Target stock was down 32% last year, company insiders sold $666,000 worth of stock in 2022 which indicates a possible downslide from the corporation this year, according to Yahoo Finance.

Company Insider Robert Harrison had the largest sale selling $453,000 worth of shares at around $218 per share, according to Yahoo Finance. 

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Louis Vuitton has named Grammy winning producer, musician and designer Pharrell Williams its new men’s creative director on Tuesday, calling the songwriter a “visionary whose creative universes expand from music to art, and to fashion.”

“I am glad to welcome Pharrell back home, after our collaborations in 2004 and 2008 for Louis Vuitton, as our new Men’s Creative Director,” Pietro Beccari, Louis Vuitton’s chairman and CEO said in a statement. “His creative vision beyond fashion will undoubtedly lead Louis Vuitton towards a new and very exciting chapter.”

With Williams first collection to debut during Men’s Fashion Week in Paris, many fashion labels and individuals in the industry react to the news of Williams succeeding Virgil Abloh, the former men’s creative director who died in November 2021 due to cancer. 

Osama Chabbi, a fashion stylist and commentator, mentioned how some people were criticizing the news of the fashion luxury house appointing Williams to be the menswear creative director. 

“Crazy how when a creative visionary like Pharrell Williams is appointed at a key luxury house everybody is suddenly a creative direction & design traditionalist,” Chabbi wrote on Twitter. “The mold is no longer there, there’s room for self expression and fashion is a business with KPIs, get on it.”

Robin Givhan, Senior Critic Reporter at Washington Post, is one of many who criticized the luxury brand’s decision to hire Williams.

“Abloh was groundbreaking. The choice of Williams is not,” wrote Givhan in her review. 

Givhan added in her review that Louis Vuitton’s choice “suggests that a pure designer, committed…to both the technical aspects of fashion as well as its creative expression, was not enough. That’s disheartening. It’s also simply not true.”

Williams has collaborated with several fashion brands in the past such as Adidas, Moncler and Chanel. He also worked with designer Marc Jacobs on an eyewear design for Louis Vuitton.

When Louis Vuitton first teased their handbag shaped as fortune cookie at spring/summer Paris fashion week, it instantly went viral with many consumers craving to purchase the bag on site. 

As the $2,130 fortune cookie bag sold out within the first couple of hours of its release, some consumers are starting to realize the handbag may not be as luxurious as they once thought it was. 

The handbag made out of calf leather with a detachable strap that reads “creativity listens to the heart,” doesn’t seem efficient enough to purchase for some buyers. 

“As cute as this bag is… it’s not functional. Keys and a phone and it loses its shape, not good,” wrote a viewer under a review on YouTube.

This was one of the many social media comments questioning the handbag capabilities. 

While many people adore the design, people prefer to splurge on an item they can use everyday, not just on a night out with friends. 

“I think “cookies” mode – only for short time use – for instance New Year party,” commented a viewer under a review on YouTube.

One consumer compared the packaging of the handbag to Shein, a TK that isn’t categorized as luxury. Another commented under a TikTok about how they admire the packaging more than the actual bag. 

“My fortune cookie gonna say ‘this bag was a mistake,’” commented one user under a TikTok of the handbag.