GARDEN GROVE – Rancho Alamitos learned the hard way last year that even when you think you have enough wins to make the football playoffs, nothing is guaranteed.

Last year’s Vaqueros finished third in the six-team Garden Grove League. That used to assure a team of a CIF-Southern Section playoff berth. But with the new playoff system, in which teams are placed into divisions via a power-points profile, a good place in a league’s final standings might not be good enough.

There were too many No. 3 teams in 2017 CIF-SS Division 11 to fit them all into the 16-team bracket. Rancho Alamitos didn’t make the cut.

A pregame conversation Thursday night with Rancho Alamitos coach Mike Enright verified that Enright remains miffed and mystified.

Rancho Alamitos, out to get as many league wins as it can this season, beat Santiago 16-14 in the Garden Grove League opener for both teams at Garden Grove High.

The Vaqueros improved to 3-3 overall. In nonleague they defeated Anaheim and Godinez and lost to Carpinteria, Savanna and Garden Grove.

Santiago is 3-3. The Cavaliers in nonleague beat Anaheim, Century and Costa Mesa and lost to Estancia and Magnolia.

Final – Rancho Alamitos 16, Santiago 14 @ocvarsity pic.twitter.com/lZuA0WA2uz

— Steve Fryer (@SteveFryer) September 28, 2018

Rancho Alamitos senior running back Nathan Kanyavong rushed for 99 yards and a touchdown on 28 carries. He also had six receptions for 33 yards.

How important, knowing that the Vaqueros were not invited to the ’17 playoffs, was it to win the league opener?

“Very important,” Kanyavong said, “especially to all the seniors. We want to get that league championship and make it to the playoffs this year.”

Vaqueros sophomore quarterback Michael Lee completed 17 of 24 passes for 139 yards and a touchdown. Mark Diga had eight receptions for 68 yards.

Israel Martinez kicked a 21-yard field goal in the fourth quarter that proved to be the winning points.

Santiago senior running back Anthony Mendez rushed for 112 yards, including a 78-yard touchdown, on nine carries.

Enright has seen the Vaqueros offense steadily improve while the defense remains stout.

“We’re young,” Enright said, “but one thing about these kids is they’re tenacious. And Kanyavong is a special player for us.”

The Cavaliers, who Enright said “played their tails off,” scored first on Mendez’s long run. Rancho Alamitos tied it 7-7 on Kanyavong’s 1-yard touchdown run that finished a 14-play drive that covered 82 yards.

Rancho Alamitos took a 14-7 lead in the third quarter on a 19-yard touchdown pass from Lee to Joseph Santa Ana.

Martinez’s field goal made it 16-7.

Santiago cut its deficit to 16-14 on a 43-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Bernardo Monroy to Ulises Mendez with 1:46 remaining in the game. Santiago’s ensuing onside kick was recovered by Rancho Alamitos.

Santiago plays Bolsa Grande at Garden Grove High on Oct. 5. Rancho Alamitos plays Los Amigos at Bolsa Grande High on Oct. 5.

“Dress good to look good. Look good to feel good. And feel good to run fast!”
That quote from Olympic champion Florence Griffith Joyner holds particular resonance for Virgil Abloh, who after his collaboration with Nike and Serena Williams teamed up again with the sportswear giant for his spring Off-White ready-to-wear show. This time, he turned his attention to track and field, a theme that ran through his seasonal statement, from the racing bibs sent out as invitations to the stadium-themed set and the models themselves. The designer tapped eight female star athletes to walk in his show at the Garage Amelot in Paris.
Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner opened the show in crisp white shirts and short skirts. Kaia Gerber was close behind, in a shirtdress with a tank top pieced together from Nike socks. With their metronomic clips, the models easily outpaced the athletes, overtaking some as they wound their way around the track, while a jumbotron flashed their names and countries of origin.
Some of the sports stars blended in effortlessly. Vashti Cunningham, a U.S. high jumper and the daughter of former NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham, flexed her 6-foot, 1-inch frame in a tiered cream tent dress, paired with white

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Rick Owens let it burn. Nihilism. His less-than-idyllic California youth. He threw it all metaphorically on the pyre he erected in the courtyard of the Palais de Tokyo for his spring show and lit the match. Across the Atlantic, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was wrapping her testimony that might prevent a man who stands several times accused of sexual misconduct from coasting into a lifetime appointment on the highest court in the U.S. The culture is going up in flames.
Owens’ structure was a crude model of Tatlin’s Tower, the Russian Constructivist monument to communism and modernity that was never built. “I wanted to burn down a utopian monument,” he said before the show, going on to describe the women he conjured in the collection as witches. “California witches because they’re in hiking boots and cut-off jeans. Where I grew up, that’s what we all wore….So I brought my utopian California youth to Paris and I’m setting it on fire.”
It was a powerful, prescient concept. Around the burning tower walked a parade of witchy women decked in jackets, hoodies, bra tops and short destroyed denim. The silhouettes were short, all jutting angles, topped off with angular wire headpieces and bug-eyed sunglasses

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BERLIN — Hugo Boss is keeping things close to home with its latest capsule collection: Boss “Made in Germany.”
While the Metzingen-based giant is more normally inclined to emphasize its global expertise, Boss is now openly celebrating its heritage with a 12-piece capsule for men and women designed and manufactured in Germany.
“Made in Germany” is not exactly new for Boss, pointed out chief brand officer Ingo Wilts. The brand’s full canvas suits are all produced in Boss headquarters. “But we’re proud to be the biggest premium fashion-maker in Germany, and thought it would be great to do something German and celebrate our heritage.”
He added, “We also know that whenever we go outside Germany, in France or Asia, for example, they really appreciate [articles] made in Germany. Though it was a big effort to find someone who makes knits and leathers here.” The lion’s share of the collection, which has a natty tailored slant, was manufactured at Boss headquarters in Metzingen.
Built on the brand’s tailoring DNA and working with Italian fabrics exclusively developed for Boss, the collection features six revamped classics each for men and women. Men have their pick of a double-breasted coat and blouson in a bonded wool check, a burgundy

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MILAN — Signaling the importance of the Japanese market for Valentino, the Rome-based luxury house will hold a runway show in Tokyo on Nov. 27 to present its men’s and women’s pre-fall 2019 collection. This is the first time the two ready-to-wear divisions will be presented together on the runway and it is the first show the company will hold in Tokyo since the Eighties.
“I have always been fascinated by the Japanese idea of beauty as imperfection and permanent transformations; I think it embodies the modern vision of beauty,” said creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. “This country has always used tradition as a boost to understand and travel to the future. My intention today is to establish a respectful connection between our two cultures.”
Marking the event, Valentino’s flagship boutique at Ginza Six will be temporarily transformed into a new generation concept store conceived by Piccioli and Sarah Andelman, the former creative director of Colette. The venue will carry unique products conceived especially for the store. There will also be pieces created in collaboration with local artists, artisans and brands. They will be exhibited in a visual display that will be unveiled the day before the show on Nov. 26.

Valentino’s Ginza Six flagship. 
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THE MET’S SUNDAY BEST: Last-minute museum-goers still have 10 days to catch the record-breaking “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fifth Avenue location and The Met Cloisters.
With 1.3 million visitors at the Upper East Side museum and nearly 200,000 at The Met Cloisters — and counting — the show is the most-visited one for The Met’s Costume Institute. Spanning 60,000 square feet and 25 galleries, the exhibition is the largest that has ever been staged. A myriad of designs from Thierry Mugler, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Thom Browne, Azzedine Alaïa, John Galliano for the House of Dior, Claire McCardell, Madeleine Vionnet, Isabel Toledo, Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino, Elsa Schiaparelli and other designers are on view throughout the Met. The layout inevitably is leading many attendees to areas of the museum beyond the Costume Institute. On the flip side, visitors who may be in search of non-fashion exhibitions may be introduced and perhaps tempted to explore more in The Costume Institute.
The success of the exhibition has been another winning moment for The Costume Institute’s curator in charge Andrew Bolton, who has helped to rev up attendance numbers in recent years. “Heavenly Bodies” appears to be closing

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