Saint Laurent, in the person of its Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello, invited Ghanaian photographer born in 1929 James Barnor – the first photojournalist from his country-to exhibit some 20 photographs within the exhibition spaces of the Saint Laurent Rive Droite boutiques in Paris and Los Angeles.

At 93, Barnor still stands as a shining example of a forerunner of the times; he immortalized his people’s liberation in 1957 from European colonization; worked for the Daily Graphic, an emanation of the Daily Mirror in Africa; for the South African magazine Drum; and founded his Ever Young photography studio in Jamestown, one of the oldest districts in the Ghanaian capital Accra. In the late 1950s he moved to London where he documented the period between 1964 and 1970-the so-called Swinging Sixties, years when the United Kingdom went through enormous social and cultural changes that made it what it is today-as well as the African diaspora in the country. After this period, he returned to Africa where he founded and activated the first color processing workshop bringing a breath of fresh air throughout his country and beyond.

The exhibition hosts a series of the artist’s photographs, both in black and white and in color, through which one can glimpse the incredible naturalness, immediacy and genuineness of his work and philosophy where the subjects photographed range from ordinary people to figures who have made it to the history of our culture such as Muhammad Ali.

As a child of the 1980s I feel a certain distrust of any kind of artificial intelligence that I am now almost forced to interact with.
To me, they are all progenitors of Skynet, a revolutionary AI based on an innovative neural network processor that, in the cinematic world of Terminator – created by James Cameron – will achieve self-awareness by rebelling against all of humanity, unleashing a nuclear holocaust and reducing humanity to hiding to avoid being completely annihilated and trying to counter the now dominant machines through a network of rebels.

Leaving aside the fears that are daughters of my age, today AI is a topic of discussion that holds sway in every area of our lives, both work and social, and in some cases it is very valuable indeed.

Today, however, I don’t want to make a disquisition on AI, I don’t have the expertise let alone the skills, what I want to bring to everyone’s attention instead, is the incredible video made by Patreon user demonflyingfox, which shows us a fake trailer of a hypothetical Harry Potter saga movie but set in a world where everyone dresses Balenciaga.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The result is 55 seconds in which Snape and Voldemort address Potter with phrases such as, “What is the difference, Potter, between H&M and Balenciaga?” or “There is no good and evil. There is only Balenciaga”.
“The effect is somewhere between classic Harry Potter and a Harry Potter directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky”, said demonflyingfox himself.
Apparently there will also be a sequel, seriously eh, but I don’t think it will be titled “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”.

Below you can take a look at the video, enjoy.

Tra le sneaker simbolo del basket NBA a partire dalla metà degli anni ‘80 c’è senza dubbio la adidas Rivalry, lanciata nel 1986 ai piedi di Patrick Ewing. La stella NBA – due volte oro olimpico (Los Angeles 1984 e Barcellona 1992), introdotto nella Hall of Fame e undici volte All Star – ha fatto sì che il nome della Rivalry venisse associato in modo inconfondibile ai parquet di tutto il mondo, dagli Stati Uniti fino a quelli europei, diventando una silhouette simbolo di adidas e di tutti gli appassionati di basket.
adidas lancia ora insieme a Foot Locker una nuova campagna per raccontare un nuovo capitolo della Rivalry, dando la possibilità a tutti di vincere un seggiolino al più importante evento cestistico europeo: la final four di Eurolega.

adidas e Foot Locker portano la propria community dritta dove i grandi atleti si sfidano in Europa. Dal 29 marzo al 12 aprile 2023, acquistando un modello di Rivarly negli store Foot Locker di Via del Corso a Roma o di Corso Vittorio Emanuele II a Milano, sarà possibile partecipare al Rivalry Court Games. A ciascun cliente, insieme al paio di sneaker verrà rilasciata una cartolina da grattare, che potrebbe trasformarsi in un pass d’onore per il parquet della Eurolega.
Grattando la cartolina compariranno una serie di numeri, la sfida è quella di riuscire a totalizzare un numero uguale o maggiore a 12, se così sarà, potrete recarvi in cassa a chiedere il vostro biglietto per la competizione di basket più importante d’Europa, con ai piedi una sneaker che sui court è nata e con i quali continua ad avere un rapporto speciale.

Oltre a quelli già citati, gli altri store in cui sarà possibile partecipare al Rivalry Court Games sono: 
– Padova – Piazza Garibaldi, 11
– Bergamo – Orio Center, Via Portico, 60
– Como – Via Plinio, 13
– Roma – Via Ottaviano 1/3, Piazza del Risorgimento 22/26
– Torino – Shopville Le Gru, Via Crea, 10
– Napoli – C.C Giugliano In Campania, Via Santa Maria a Cubito
– Marghera – Via Pietro Arduino, 20

The campaign launched by adidas and Foot Locker to celebrate the Chile20 collection has come to an end. Made for the 1962 World Cup, the collection became an aesthetic manifesto for artists in the music scene and a true cultural phenomenon.
In 2023, the German brand is celebrating Chile20’s 50th anniversary, and for the occasion the stores in Via del Corso in Rome and Corso Vittorio Emanuele in Milan were involved, with an initiative that celebrated the past while looking toward a more inclusive future.

By shopping for a piece of the new collection, presented in the “Alumina” and “Chalk Brown” colorways, customers also received a special fanzine that gave a special prize to two customers. In fact, inside just one of these poster-zines for each store was a “golden ticket,”  that gave access to the drawing of a special sound box with a microphone, headphones and everything needed to listen to and record new music inside.
The new campaign by adidas and Foot Locker consolidated the link between the Chile20 collection and its community of fans. It also gave a new image to the iconic collection, telling a chapter of the phenomenon that paved the way for Hip Hop artists, allowing them to feel part of a movement that has expanded over the years, influencing creativity on many levels.