February 25, 2020
New talents bring in fresh silhouettes with new proportions and reinterpretations
New talents bring in fresh silhouettes with new proportions and reinterpretations. ModelS wear creations part of the DSquared2 men's Spring-Summer 2018 collection, presented in Milan, Italy, Sunday, June 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) Milan: Second day of Milan Fashion Week saw a fresh breeze as young designers took the spotlight bringing in fresh silhouettes with new proportions and reinterpretations of old summertime favorites from linens to stripes.Prada RealityMiuccia Prada took inspiration from graphic novels for her latest collection, which aims to create a dialogue between the virtual world and the real world.She employed two artists - James Jean from Los Angeles and Ollie Schrauwen of Belgium - to create graphic stories on a human and not superhero scale. They covered the walls of the showroom and became the prints that defined Sunday's menswear collection in Milan.Scenes included a monkey with X-ray vision who it later turns out is mechanical and an oversized spider descending to pick up houses.Nylon jumpsuits defined the Prada silhouette, belted at the waist and gathered at the ankles and cuffs with plastic Prada labels. Shirt collars were turned up. There was a shorts version worn with Prada men's knee socks and pointy leather shoes.The silhouette was repeated in casualwear, with sweaters tucked into athletic-style trousers. Meshed sweaters of horizontal stripes tucked into houndstooth pattern trousers turned up into a thick cuff. Sandals with socks anchored those looks.Graphic prints appeared in both pastel colors and black and white on shirts, jacket panels and bags. Prada said she added overcoats to unify the looks.Textures at FerragamoGuillaume Meilland's second collection for Ferragamo is inspired by the Mediterranean coastline shared by his native France and adopted Italy.The looks are defined by texture: cable-knit fishermen's sweaters, velvety shorts, corduroy trousers and suede laser cut tops, all hearty fare for wind-swept seaside strolls. The designer also added touches of whimsy like sea horse prints and coral key chains."Yes I like the idea of having, for me, something very Italian, something very much linked to the idea of the holidays and the seaside," Meilland said backstage. "Textures, colors, we are trying combine soft velvet, English fabrics and heavy linens ... The fluid and something more rough."The looks combined for an effortless silhouette that Meilland said was inspired by the 1960 French film "Purple Noon," based on the Patricia Highsmith's "Ripley" novels.Ferragamo's footwear included penny loafers or slip on moccasins with rubber soles adorned with the trademark buckle for the city or rope accents for the seaside.Bikkembergs creationsLee Wood laid the seams bare at Dirk Bikkembergs during his second season as its creative director.The clean collection revealed the construction details that create rhythms with their repetition, from the patchwork trousers to the intarsia knitwear.Wood said he was inspired by the brutalism architectural movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s that stood against adornment."I wanted it to be brutal. I wanted it to be honest. I wanted it to be like men should be," Lee said backstage. "I don't want to see men all pretty and perfect. I think a man should be rugged."The lines were simple, with neat T-shirts with scooped necks paired with urban patchwork trousers cut from natural fabrics. The cuffs were turned up to reveal the rough seam. Heavy boots and utilitarian sandals anchored the looks.
Suit jackets were worn with shorts that were nearly bloomers in proportion, a fob to summer, while some trousers were festooned with maxi-pockets. Tops, by contrast, were soft, like one that was a patchwork of gold, light blue and white.While the materials were mostly natural fibers and the color palette based on hues of blue, white and slate gray, the collection closed with flashes of green and Japanese technical fabric.Yolo from KoreaKorean designer Munsoo Kwon made his Milan debut in the Armani theater with a collection that contained some measure of autobiography.
The triptych collection includes pieces based on European tailoring, Korean military wear and a series of character looks. The thread that connects them all: The YOLO phenomenon, previously, before the invention of abbreviation-loving social media, known as "You Only Live Once."The 37-year-old Kwon expresses his whimsy with out-of-proportion cuts: Boyish striped sweaters that are part of his character series are gigantic with wide, trailing arms, dwarfing the wearer.The military looks are elongated and soft, not your usual regimented rendering. And the tailored outfits are clean and elegant, featuring pinstripe pants with long belts worn with a pajama-inspired top and a trench coat with bell sleeves
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February 20, 2020
You now have a display which can double as a pretty capable
You now have a display which can double as a pretty capable gaming machine in and of itself along with drive your favourite games in the glorious 4K master race provided you have beefy enough hardware. Let that sink in. That’s right, it’s time for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018. However, now, a couple of years into its life, the whole VR sector in terms of gaming has been a little underwhelming.Next up we have an exciting announcement from Team Red, a.. As has been the trend of years past, our favourite companies are showing off their latest wow factor goodies one after the other leaving our jaws to drag along the floor as we peruse what each of them has to offer. This year it’s all gaga over innovations and huge displays. With rising innovations in VR technology.
Announcements that made an impactThis year it’s all gaga over innovations and huge displaysIt’s that time of the year again when us tech freaks get giddy with anticipation as we see what the year ahead holds in store for us in terms of all the transistor induced goodness that the companies throw at us.k. Since my preferences in peripherals are less ‘futuristic’ I have never much taken to MAD Catz’s design philosophy, however, for those of you missing the ultra-robotic and futuristic design language, get hyped!And lastly we have HTC.NVIDIA is no alien to innovation and has consistently managed to wow us via their partner brands year in year out with some tech or the other, this year, is definitely the year of the displays.Samsung’s ‘The Wall’. While the TV is impressive, it’s limited by, well, practicality, however, I am curious to see how the new display panel technology evolves.For those of you who are fans of gaming peripherals that resemble transformers, well Mad Catz is back after going bankrupt with a range of new hardware that includes a new wireless RAT Air mouse, a Strike 4 keyboard and Freq 4 Gaming headset. This is accompanied by a new motherboard line as well, namely the X470 series of motherboards.
The new BFGDs are 65 inch, 4K 120Hz IPS panels with a built in NVIDIA Shield. This has been primarily due to the extremely high cost of entry for the new tech, with the device itself along with the hardware required to drive it properly being insanely expensive, as well as a lack of a variety in the games on offer for the platform. In conjunction with Acer, ASUS and HP, NVIDIA has unveiled the new Big Format Gaming Display. When the VIVE was announced a few years ago, it was all the rage. While people who have invested in VR and more specifically in the VIVE, will be thrilled to hear that the device is set to receive a whopping 78 per cent increase in resolution, to those who don’t care about or can’t afford VR (which is a significant share of the gaming audience) this news will definitely be falling on deaf ears. Still on the AM4 socket, AMD has announced Ryzen 2.
CES 2018 goes over the topThis year, the biggies didn’t light up the gaming scenarioEvery year CES gives us tech that we daydream about, along with some that fall a little short of the mark, either because they are too ambitious and you know that it’s not going to be worth the while or money, or it just doesn’t resonate with your personal taste. AMD.0, these CPUs are going to be on a 12 nm dye and promise on bringing more improvements to IPC along with clock speeds and thermals.The CES 2018 has received a mixed reaction this year.
They have laid down the launch map for their CPUs for the year and the most exciting bit of news is that a Ryzen refresh is coming in April 2018. Again, not one for subtlety, the wall is Wholesale floor insulation a 146 inch TV, yes, it’s quite literally a wall and features a new display panel technology called microLED which it claims is far superior to OLED. Gigabyte teased their top-end motherboard for this series and they feature actual physical heat sinks for the VRM, something that is going to lend itself immensely to lowering temperatures on the new systems sporting these awesome motherboards.Here are some of the announcements that will definitely leave you, the gamer, on the edge of your seat, unable to wait till these technological monstrosities hit the store shelves near you.a. While intel is going through the whole Meltdown debacle, and NVIDIA is going large with the BFGD, AMD is going small. Well, since we have the amazing out of the way opportunity, here’s what didn’t light up our eyes with excitement at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show
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February 10, 2020
You need to manufacture local products in local markets
Apple benefits in Asia from a network that goes beyond sub-contractors
assembling smartphones, tablets or laptops.Whether politically motivated or not,
Apple is not in the same position as automakers which relocated US factories
overseas to cut costs, according to IHS manufacturing processes chief analyst
Dan Panzica."I have discussed with my major clients about going to (the US) and
they are also willing to invest, including Apple,†Foxconn founder Terry Gou
said in Taipei.
You need to manufacture local products in local markets,†he
said.Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry says moving manufacturing to
the US was more logical than a political one. xps foam
Suppliers Donald Trump has vowed to force Apple to bring production to US.
Making things locally gives better control of distribution networks and lets
manufacturers customise goods for local markets, he said. Taiwan-based Foxconn
has given no details, and Apple did not comment..Apple benefits in Asia from a
network that goes beyond sub-contractors assembling smartphones, tablets or
laptops.
The Apple jobs were never here,†Panzica said.Major Apple contractor
Foxconn this month confirmed that it is considering a $7-billion investment to
make flat panels in the US in a joint project with Japan’s SoftBank. San
Francisco: As US President Donald Trump pushes hard for goods to be "made in
America,†how realistic is it to expect Apple to stop manufacturing its iconic
devices in China?The newly inaugurated President had vowed during campaigning
that he would force Apple to bring production to US soil.
The entire supply
chain grew in China,†Panzica added. Apple never moved jobs offshore, it created
them there. China also offers sources of important raw materials, along with
cheap, flexible and abundant labour to keep iPhone assembly lines cranking
along. It would be "very hard to replicate†that situation with US workers
without using "more robotics and less workforce,†undermining the political aim
of creating jobs here, according to Endpoint Technologies analyst Roger Kay.Yet,
as other big companies have sought to appease the new administration with
promises of jobs or investments in the US, Apple has stayed low-profile.The
California-based firm relies on a dense ecosystem of companies that make
components and spare parts for its devices too
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