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Each year, the Chanel Métiers d’Art show delivers a jolt of sumptuous glamour worthy of the holiday season. This year’s runway took place in Dakar, Senegal (the house’s first-ever show in Africa), and the departure harkened an arrival of bold, textured, and abundant looks accompanied by easy beauty. Basically, the ideal antidote to the winter’s bitter cold.Photographed by Acielle / Style Du MondeThe Chanel Métiers d’Art collection is the product of an ongoing creative collaboration between creative director Virginie Viard and a cadre of artistically minded conspirators—musicians, choreographers, directors, but mostly friends—with the resulting looks borne of a similar sort…

EXCLUSIVE: The Biden administration must keep up with China on the development of “strategic technologies” and needs to do much more to keep its competitive edge against America’s top security threat, Sen. Todd Young told Fox News Digital.”It’s essential that we outcompete China, because, frankly, they don’t share our values,” Young said at the Aspen Security Forum in Washington, D.C. “They continue to steal our intellectual property, our material prosperity. But they really threaten through their military action, our way of life and that of our friends and neighbors.””So as long as they continue their misbehavior, we need to work…

Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past a Lululemon store in San Francisco, California, on Monday, March 29, 2021.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading.Lululemon – Shares of athletic apparel company Lululemon shed 9% after it said that it sees a weaker fourth quarter than Wall Street analysts expected from the company. For the third quarter, Lululemon beat expectations, reporting earnings of $2.00 per share and $1.86 billion in revenue. Analysts polled by Refinitiv expected $1.97 in earnings per share and revenue of $1.81 billion.DocuSign – DocuSign jumped 16% after the company…

Washington CNN  —  President Joe Biden had already personally informed Cherelle Griner that her wife was being released from Russian detention when aides arrived with more news: Brittney Griner was now securely out of Russia – and on the telephone. “It’s Joe Biden,” the president said when the call was patched through. “Welcome, welcome home!” Nearly ten months after Brittney Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport, the jubilant moment in the Oval Office on Thursday amounted to the culmination of prolonged, frustrating negotiations and one painful decision that left another detained American disappointed and wondering what his fate may…

Apple is abandoning its plans to launch a controversial tool that would check iPhones, iPads and iCloud photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) following backlash from critics who decried the feature’s potential privacy implications. Apple first announced the feature in 2021, with the goal of helping combat child exploitation and promoting safety, issues the tech community has increasingly embraced. But it soon put the brakes on implementing the feature amid a wave of criticism, noting it would “take additional time over the coming months to collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features.” In…

Detectives probing the “targeted attacks” on two power stations last weekend that left thousands of North Carolina residents in the dark have been searching online for a possible motive, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News.The FBI is assisting local authorities as they sift through a host of online conspiracy theories to see if any served as a motivation for Saturday’s gun attacks on two Duke Energy substations that knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in Moore County, the officials said. Almost immediately after the power went out around 8:15 p.m. Saturday,…

A video released Thursday showed the tarmac exchange between WNBA superstar and Olympic champion Brittney Griner and convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.Russian state media showed Griner and Bout boarding their respective planes to return to their home countries. The footage of the tarmac exchange was presumably shot in the United Arab Emirates, according to state TV.The video was released hours after the official announcement of the swap was made. Before getting to the exchange, Griner is asked what her mood was and whether she knows where she was flying to. She says she was “happy” and didn’t know where…

The Met Office extended its cold weather warning yesterday to a seven-day cold snap with ice and freezing fog with the government warned its cold Weather Payments of £25, triggered by the big freeze in 300 postcode areas, will make little differenceVideo LoadingVideo UnavailableThe video will auto-play soon8CancelPlay now Snow and severe frosts are heading for the UK from an Arctic blast threatening temperatures of -12C. The Met Office extended its cold weather warning yesterday to a seven-day cold snap with ice and freezing fog. Its forecast comes as research found millions of low-income households cannot afford to heat their…

People line up to enter a store during Black Friday shopping at Fashion Outlets of Chicago in Rosemont of Greater Chicago Area, Illinois, the United States, on Nov. 26, 2021.Joel Lerner | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesLululemon on Thursday reported sales and profit that topped estimates, but the company offered softer guidance than expected for the fourth quarter.Shares of the company fell more than 7% after hours.Here’s what the company reported for the three-month period compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv:Earnings per share: $2, adjusted, vs. $1.97 expectedRevenue: $1.86 billion…

It’s a serious style challenge to come up with an outfit that’s both put-together and, more importantly when it’s freezing outside, warm. It all comes down to the coat, of course; It can make or break a look, considering it’s the very first thing you see. And this season, celebrities have been embracing the idea by rocking statement coats that do all the work for you. Particularly, bold trench coats have been trending—in shimmering metallics, strong colors, or interesting silhouettes. These aren’t your classic beige Burberry trenches! Stars have stepped out in a number of eye-catching trench coats these past few…