TOMMY ENCORE: Tommy Hilfiger will present the spring 2018 Hilfiger Edition collection at the 92nd Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence, Italy, which runs from June 13 to 16.
“Our presentation at Pitti in February showed our commitment to digital selling and innovation, and we are excited to return for a second season with another innovative one-of-a-kind installation,” said Hilfiger.
Hilfiger Edition offers up classics with a contemporary spin done in premium fabrics and luxe details. According to the company, the four-day Hilfiger Edition collection installation will feature “unique digital sales platforms” and visual merchandising fixtures, including the brand’s digital showroom.
A signature People’s Place bar setting will complement the digital installation. Named after and inspired by the first Hilfiger store in 1969 located in Hilfiger’s hometown of Elmira in upstate New York, People’s Place is meant to be a curated social hangout where guests can come together to discuss the collection and take part in customization experiences.
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“We want to deliver a feeling of happiness and style to people,” designer Janet Yeung explained about her new-to-market footwear brand, Iri.
Iri was originated in 2016 by cofounders Yeung, who serves as the brand’s creative director, and Latif Nawab, and is based in New York. Yeung was brought up in South Korea and Hong Kong and before creating Iri, graduated from The New School’s Parsons School of Design and designed for Marc by Marc Jacobs and Steven Alan. Nawab has over 10 years experience within the fashion industry, having worked in retail in London and moved to New York, where he developed international and domestic wholesale businesses for the likes of Tim Hamilton and Waris Ahluwalia. The two met through mutual friends in November of 2016 and although neither had professional experience in the footwear industry, took the leap and went into business together.
The brand’s inspiration is based around Yeung’s grandmother’s three most important ideas to live by: “[Having] positivity, optimism and living life with joy.” The word “Iri” stands for a town in South Korea where both Yeung and her maternal grandmother were born, creating a full-circle story with the brand. Yeung plans to concept each season around a
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HUNTINGTON BEACH – A Colorado man will be arraigned Monday, May 15, for the cold case murder of two men in downtown Huntington Beach in 1994.
The Huntington Beach Police Department reopened the case last year and sought the Orange County Cold Case Homicide Task Force for assistance.
With newly developed evidence, Lamberto Ricci Castillo, 64, was arrested on April 27 in Alamosa, where he lived, and was charged with two felony counts of murder, according to a press release from the police department and Orange County District Attorney issued Sunday, May 14.
Castillo is accused of verbally confronting Chen “Cosmo” Maui Blanchard and Kenny Paul Sommer, both 23, as they were socializing near Main Street and Orange Avenue on the evening of March 31, 1994. Castillo is accused of walking away after the argument and returning to the scene around 10:15 p.m. with a handgun.
An off-duty officer only witnessed the argument. Castillo is accused of shooting Blanchard and Sommer several times and fleeing. Officers responded to multiple calls of shots fired in the area and found the victims on the ground. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Further details on the case will be revealed at a press conference 2 p.m. Monday, May 15 at City Hall next to the city council chambers at 2000 Main St. in Huntington Beach.
Sentence enhancements for Castillo include two counts of the use of a firearm. His arraignment is scheduled at 10 a.m. Monday, May 15, at Department CJ-1, Central Jail in Santa Ana.
The maximum sentence would be life in state prison.
The decisive victory of Emmanuel Macron for president of France over Marine Le Pen is being widely hailed as a victory of good over evil, and an affirmation of open migration flows and globalization. Certainly, the defeat of the odious National Front should be considered good news, but the global conflict over trade and immigration has barely begun.
On both sides of the Atlantic, there are now two distinct, utterly hostile, opposing views about globalization and multiculturalism. The world-wise policies of the former investment banker Macron play well in the Paris “bubble” — and its doppelgangers in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo and London — but not so much in the struggling industrial and rural hinterlands.
The trade dilemma
For much of the past half-century, the capitalist powers, led by the United States, favored free trade, even with terms often vastly unbalanced. Now President Donald Trump has undermined this orthodoxy. But anti-globalism transcends conservatism. Besides the National Front, which won over a third of the vote, doubling its support from 2002, the other rising political force in the country, far-left socialist Jean-Luc Melenchon, is at least as hostile to free trade. Much the same can be said of the ascendant Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party.
Globalists argue that the free trade regime, primarily promoted by the United States, has been a boon to the world economy. Certainly, the last half-century has seen enormous progress in some countries, most notably in East Asia, and led to a general decline in global poverty. It has also produced lower prices for consumers in America and elsewhere.
Yet, there has been a price to pay, perhaps not in Newport Beach or Beverly Hills, but definitely in areas such as Lille, France, or Rust Belt Ohio, where workers and communities suffered for free trade “principles.” The trade deficit with China alone, notes the labor backer Economic Policy Institute, has cost the country some 3.4 million jobs between 2001 and 2015.
Immigration splits
Immigration presents, if anything, a more divisive issue. A clear majority of Europeans, notes a recent Chatham House survey, oppose further immigration from Muslim-majority countries. Concerns over migration, a London School of Economic report found, fueled Brexit even more than trade and economics. Nor is this just a reaction of the old. Le Pen did far better among the young, winning some 44 percent of all 18- to 24-year-old voters.
On this side of the Atlantic, most Americans favor less immigration and, according to a recent Pew Research Center study, also want tougher border controls and increased deportations of the undocumented. Most, including Republicans, may not identify with the less temperate sentiments of Trumpians, but 60 percent, according to a March Gallup poll, are worried about illegal immigration and oppose the more adamant expressions of progressive dogma, such as sanctuary cities. According to a February Harvard-Harris Poll survey, some 80 percent of Americans oppose the notion of sanctuary cities.
Coming next: The great recalibration?
Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron could not be more different in tone and approach, but to succeed they will need to navigate the challenges of globalization in a way that meets the needs of their electorates. Trends and technologies may cross borders easily, but electorates retain their interests and identities. Rather than cling to a narrow perspective, perhaps both men can find a way to keep the trading system, and some limited immigration, without disrupting too many lives and the economy.
Macron, today’s poster child for the globalists, is targeting London’s financial sector to bring back some high-end jobs to Paris, and could morph into an almost Trumpian protectionist, with the European Union serving as the preferred zone. For his part, Trump seems less likely than once believed to suppress trade, but he seems determined to make “deals” to turn the terms more in the favor of U.S. workers.
The two newly elected leaders will confront some who embrace open borders and others who want to close the country off to newcomers. Neither approach makes sense, given the cultural and economic anxiety of many citizens, as well as the important contributions made by immigrants, particularly in the United States. Immigrants are critical to our lagging entrepreneurial sector, as laid out by the Kauffman Foundation. They also have played an oversized role in technology and other industries. Overall, 40 percent of all Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or their offspring. Some industries, including tourism and agriculture, could face major crises unless Trump finds a way to allow workers to come in as legal guest workers, rather than undocumented immigrants.
This will require something in short supply today: a reasoned approach. The fulminating xenophobia of a Le Pen or Steve Bannon may be repugnant, but equally unreasonable and out of touch are the trade dogmas of the Davos group or open borders notions now embraced by many on the left.
Finding a way toward some sort of great recalibration, a middle ground between extremes, may be difficult in these polarized times, but it may be the only way to address critical issues without making the future far worse than the recent past.
Joel Kotkin is the R.C. Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange and executive director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism (www.opportunityurbanism.org).
ANAHEIM — Seconds before the first puck dropped Sunday, someone tossed a catfish onto the ice, which would have been outrageously odd were this not the NHL playoffs.
Evidently, the pitched fish was intended to carry on a Nashville Predators tradition, although it also allowed the Ducks, at the start, to be only the second most-dead thing inside Honda Center.
In Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, however, the home team sprang brilliantly to life, soon enough this time to put together a 5-3 win and tie the series at a game apiece.
In desperate need of an adrenaline-spiking spark, it helped that the Ducks had a player whose motor compares favorably to an American television icon, pink floppy ears and all.
“The one thing that’s been consistent with him (is) he’s been a type of Energizer Bunny,” said Coach Randy Carlyle, speaking of Ondrej Kase and inviting a fuzzy fictional character into a very cold and real ice hockey showdown.
Moved up in the second period to the line featuring Ryan Getzlaf and Nick Ritchie, Kase scored the goal that pulled the Ducks even, 3-3, then was out there six minutes later when Ritchie produced the eventual game-winner.
That’s how important depth is in the NHL postseason, Kase, a 21-year-old from the Czech Republic in just his fifth career playoff game, coming through after replacing long-time Ducks staple Corey Perry.
“Moving him up and down in our lineup gives us some flexibility,” Carlyle said. “He’s a fearless player for his size (6-foot, 180 pounds). He goes into the (tough) areas and can make plays with good players.”
Various Ducks have been spotted walking around the locker room lately wearing T-shirts that, on the back, read “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies.”
This is presumably a nod to the strategy of populating the area in front of the opposing goalie and not a reference to the members of the media, who, with the Ducks advancing two rounds, have grown to reach hallway-choking numbers.
Bodies, bodies, bodies in front of Pekka Rinne is pretty much a necessity when facing Nashville’s goaltender, a 6-foot-5 deterrent who’s about as inviting as a closed garage door.
Kase’s score Sunday was an example of the benefits of jamming the traffic in front of Rinne.
As defenseman Shea Theodore sent the puck toward the Predators’ goal, no less than five players — including Kase, Getzlaf and Ritchie — congested the front of the net.
The puck then deflected off someone or something and slipped free to Rinne’s left, where Kase picked it up and slid it — just barely — into the goal.
It was so just barely, in fact, that Kase didn’t even recognize this shining moment of his career as it happened in real time. He never saw the puck pass the goal line.
“Nick Ritchie said goal,” he explained, “and I started celebrating.”
And so the Ducks survived another listless start. Oh, they attempted to show more life early on Sunday, although, frankly, it would have been difficult for that not to happen.
They opened Game 1 on Friday with sloth-like sluggishness, the Ducks performing in a manner that suggested they forgot the players are expected to take their pregame naps before arriving at the arena.
The game operations folks at Honda Center tried to help. For a fleeting moment two minutes into the game, the overhead scoreboards listed the Ducks as having 99 shots on goal instead of the one they actually had at that point.
Yet, they still gave up the first goal, took the first penalty, surrendered the first power-play goal, took the second penalty, allowed the second goal and, 16 minutes in, had just two shots on goal.
The second Nashville tally was particularly discouraging in that goaltender John Gibson lost sight of the puck so completely that James Neal could have scored using a spatula.
Predators forward Viktor Arvidsson apparently eclipsed Gibson with one of the NHL’s all-time most comprehensive screens, Gibson looking and leaning to his left as Neal flipped the puck into the sudden open space to his right.
The sequence was defeating and deflating, all of Honda Center joining the home team in going limp.
But goals 99 seconds apart to finish the first period and start the second lifted the Ducks back into a 2-2 tie and provided the spark they needed, a spark Kase kept lit as the middle period progressed.
“I think it’s great,” the winger said of the victory. “If we were losing (the series) 2-0, it would be so hard.”
Sure, the Ducks now have come from behind in six of their nine postseason wins. But another loss Sunday would have tested this team on all sort of levels, both mental and physical.
Not only are the Predators the hottest team going, but this franchise — and it mostly has been this same roster over the past two postseasons — enters Game 3 on Tuesday having won nine in a row in the playoffs at Bridgestone Arena.
“We know how important these games are,” Carlyle said, “and every one gets more important as we go forward.”
That’s the fact everybody understands today, even that poor catfish.
ANAHEIM — Fire at their heads. The rest of them will follow.
Nick Ritchie was cruising down left wing Sunday afternoon and suddenly had a puck bounce primly off the wall and into his nitro zone.
There was nothing between Ritchie and Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne. There was also no time for playoff bromides to ring in Ritchie’s ears, like “There are no pretty goals in the playoffs.” Prettiness depends on the eye on the beholder, and the blinking eyes behind the mask.
Ritchie let it go, right at Rinne’s head, and it wound up in the top right corner of the net. That put the Ducks ahead 4-3, and they eventually won Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, 5-3. It was the second time in five nights that Ritchie had gotten the BLT goal, the one that Broke the Last Tie. The previous one was in Game 7 against Edmonton, and it was the same hollow-point fastball that isn’t supposed to get past today’s goaltenders.
Brandon Montour led the way down the right side and shoved the puck to Ryan Getzlaf, whose tipped pass led Ritchie, and created the space.
“He (Rinne) is a butterfly goaltender so you just try to shoot it high,” Ritchie said. “It ended up in the right spot.”
Rinne was a steel curtain as the Predators ran roughshod over Chicago and St. Louis in the first two rounds. His save percentage for the playoffs was .950 in Nashville’s first 11 games.
But on Friday Jakob Silfverberg and Hampus Lindholm struck from distance, and in Game 2 Sami Vatanen put the Ducks on the board with a power-play goal, their first in 21 tries, and Ritchie took off the driver and scored as well.
All those bombs generally were so well-placed that it’s hard to question Rinne. But at the very least the Ducks have shaken off the spell that he imposed during last year’s first round.
“I just closed my eyes and shot it as hard as I could,” Vatanen said, vouching for the wisdom of simple fans.
Nashville coach Peter Laviolette thought Vatanen’s goal was the proximate cause of the loss. Rarely is there such a bold line of demarcation, but the Ducks did nothing right before Matt Irwin took that tripping penalty on Ondrej Kase. They did very little wrong afterward.
Oh, there was the curious backwards pass that Silfverberg tried to send toward Getzlaf, which became a runaway for Nashville and a goal by Filip Forsberg that made it 3-2. But then Shea Theodore, another one of the young Ducks who sees shooting daylight in a coal mine, put a puck on Rinne, and Kase cashed in the rebound for a 3-3 tie.
And there was a scramble in front of John Gibson that required levees, bomb shelters and blocked shots by Ryan Kesler and Josh Manson. The Predators didn’t score there, and couldn’t coax another puck past Gibson even though they won a string of faceoffs in the third period, and kept forcing icing as the Ducks gasped and the clock remained strangely still.
But when the last-minute draw arrived, Kesler beat Ryan Johansen and got the puck to Getzlaf, who found Antoine Vermette for the empty-netter.
“We’ve got a pretty calm group,” Vatanen said, not speaking for the paying customers.
Getzlaf has become the common thread for all of this. For years he was joined to Corey Perry’s hip. He turned 32 on Wednesday, Perry turns 32 today.
That changed this season. Then Patrick Eaves came over and, with his finishing ability, lit a match to Getzlaf’s line. Then Eaves got hurt in the Edmonton series. Perry rejoined Getzlaf, sometimes with Rickard Rakell. On Sunday Getzlaf played with Kase and Ritchie, neither of whom had participated in an NHL playoff game until this season.
“Getzie’s a world-class player,” Coach Randy Carlyle said. “There might be times when we overuse him, but when you have that option you’re going to take advantage of it.”
In this game Getzlaf had three assists and was plus-2. In 13 playoff games he has 18 points and is plus-10.
Top centers make the game easier for others. For the real top centers, it doesn’t matter who the others are.
“There’s a few minor adjustments that you make when you play with different guys,” Getzlaf said. “I know when these kids come up, they’re going to go hard, so I’ve got to get them the puck down low. But in the end it’s just hockey. They’re here for a reason. I just have to work off them, the best I can.”
Next stop is Nashville, for Game 3 Tuesday. Fire when ready, because they might not be.