Click, click, click. Media loves a list. Countless outlets publish lists, WWD included. At their most purposeful and successful, lists are pithy and buzzy with a splash of controversial. And you don’t need to be an analytics wiz to know that pith + buzz + controversy = click, click, click.
Yet, while lists are very much a digital media-age sport, they are by no means its creation. John B. Fairchild started W magazine’s “In and Out” list in the Seventies. I’m not saying he invented the snarky editorial list; I don’t know who did. Other titles have long-published lists: Vanity Fair, the International Best Dressed List; Forbes, a range of “Most Powerful” and “Rich” lists, and let’s not forget that infamous trigger of high schooler anxiety and post-graduate insecurity, U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” rankings.
What’s not to love about a published list?
At the risk of sounding grand, the blatant disregard for accuracy. I don’t mean getting the essential facts right in the traditional journalistic sense; most lists, the fun ones, are subjective litanies ripe for debate and disagreement, intended to please some people and get a rise out of others. I learned that early on, given the stir W’s

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PRAIRIE GIRL: From Blenheim Palace to the Santa Monica Mountains: Christian Dior will stage its cruise show on May 11 at the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve near Los Angeles.
The pastoral setting spans nearly 3,000 acres in the Simi Hills and for centuries was the home of the Chumash Native American tribe. Nowadays its trails are used for walking, hiking, mountain biking and horse riding.
Dior said it will be the first time a fashion show will be held at the venue. It is yet another sign of women’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri’s desire to break with tradition as she reinvents the image of the 70-year-old brand to appeal to Millennials.
Last year Dior showed its cruise collection, designed by Lucie Meier and Serge Ruffieux, in the majestic setting of Blenheim Palace, the historic seat of the Duke of Marlborough in Oxfordshire, England.
Chanel showed its Greece-themed cruise collection in Paris last week, while Louis Vuitton is to unveil its line in Kyoto on May 14. Gucci, meanwhile, is holding its cruise show in Florence.

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PARIS — Making fashion more sustainable is not only a question of good citizenship, but also of preserving future profitability and revenues for apparel and footwear firms, according to a report published ahead of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit.
Fashion brands risk seeing their earnings before interest and taxes margins shrink by up to 3 percentage points between now and 2030 if they don’t take rapid action to address their environmental and social footprint, said the inaugural Pulse of the Fashion Industry study co-authored by the Global Fashion Agenda, a year-round initiative launched by the summit’s organizers and the Boston Consulting Group.
The authors aim to provide a common baseline of facts and ideas to spur action in the apparel and footwear industries, which generated estimated revenues of 1.5 trillion euros, or $1.66 trillion at average exchange, in 2016 and employed around 60 million people along their value chain.
“The facts show a clear need for acting differently. The good news is that by changing practices, the industry can both stop the negative impact and generate a high amount of value for society, while also protecting profitability,” the report said.
“We estimate that the world economy would gain about 160 billion euros [$176 billion] annually if the fashion

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EDMONTON, Alberta – The Ducks have the possibility of inserting winger Ondrej Kase and defenseman Kevin Bieksa into their lineup for Game 6 of the Western Conference second-round series against Edmonton on Sunday.

Ducks coach Randy Carlyle deemed the two as “options” for action but it isn’t clear if either or both will actually draw in. Kase and Bieksa did participate in the team’s optional skate Sunday morning at Rogers Place, but the Ducks did not going through their line rushes.

Of the two, Kase may be more likely to play after missing Game 5 because of a lower-body suffered early in Game 4 when he received a cross check from Oilers left wing Milan Lucic in front of the team benches. Bieksa is coming back from an apparent leg injury suffered in Game 1.

Nic Kerdiles may remain in the lineup after making his NHL playoff debut in Game 5. Logan Shaw is a question mark after appearing to hurt himself when taking a shot in the first overtime Friday.

Carlyle did rule Patrick Eaves out for a third consecutive game. Eaves was hurt in the Ducks’ 6-3 Game 3 win as he suffered a foot injury in a collision with Edmonton’s Patrick Maroon in the neutral zone.

Ducks defenseman Korbinian Holzer has returned to the team after dealing with a family situation in his native Germany. Holzer is not expected to play.

The Oilers will play Game 6 without minutes-eating defenseman Andrej Sekera, whom Edmonton coach Todd McLellan said won’t return for the balance of the series. Sekera left Game 5 in the first period after getting hit by Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf along the sideboards.

Eric Gryba is expected to make his first appearance in the series. Gryba will play on the Oilers’ third pairing with Darnell Nurse as Matt Benning will get bumped up to the second pair alongside Kris Russell.

ANGELS at A’S

When: Monday, 7 p.m.

Where: Fox Sports West

TV: Fox Sports West

THE PITCHERS

ANGELS RHP RICKY NOLASCO (2-2, 4.68)

vs. A’s: 4-3, 3.34

At Coliseum: 1-2, 2.83

Hates to face: Matt Joyce, 5 for 15 (.333), 2 HRs

Loves to face: Rajai Davis,1 for 13 (.077)

A’S RHP KENDALL GRAVEMAN (2-2, 3.95)

vs. Angels: 2-2, 3.28

At Coliseum: 8-10, 3.61

Hates to face: Albert Pujols, 8 for 22 (.364)

Loves to face: Kole Calhoun, 5 for 22 (.227)

UPCOMING GAMES:

Tuesday — Angels (RHP Alex Meyer, 0-1, 9.39) vs. A’s (RHP Jharel Cotton, 3-3, 4.64), 7 p.m., Fox Sports West

Wednesday — Angels (RHP Jesse Chavez, 2-2, 4.46) vs. A’s (RHP Andrew Triggs, 4-3, 2.34), 12:30 p.m., Fox Sports West

Something happened.

Either Canelo Alvarez got tired of hammering the human heavy bags that were placed in his path.

Or Oscar De La Hoya sensed that Gennady Golovkin was getting ready to join KARP (Kazakhstan Association of Retired People).

Or everyone feared the proposed Conor McGregor-Floyd Mayweather Gong Show might soak up all the remaining pay-per-view dollars in the universe.

We should not commit overanalysis on what broke the paralysis. Nor should we complain.

Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will fight Sept. 16, 2017, A.D. Yes, they will.

The announcement at T-Mobile Arena was a last-second bid to salvage Saturday night, to soothe the shame of devoting money and time to Canelo’s slow demolition of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Afterward, Golovkin walked into the ring to the tune of “Seven Nation Army,” which includes the lyric, “And I’m bleeding and I’m bleeding and I’m bleeding right before the Lord/All the words are gonna bleed from me, and I will think no more.”

Then the video board showed a promotion for “Bombs Away.”

Gee, you think this was in the works all along?

“We knew they were very close,” said Abel Sanchez, Golovkin’s trainer. “They had made a lot of progress the last few weeks. There are still some things to get done, like the location. We’ve gotten a lot of offers. I know people have said it will be in Las Vegas, and Gennady would like that because he’s never fought in Vegas, but we’ve not there yet.”

Jerry Jones has long wanted this fight to be at AT&T Stadium, and his Dallas Cowboys are not playing that day. Sanchez said the camps have heard from Dubai. Golden Boy has reserved the Sept. 16 date at T-Mobile, just in case.

The Canelo-Chavez pay-per-view numbers are supposedly very good. They will tell us if boxing has recovered from the $500 million Mayweather-Pacquiao eyesore, which attracted 4.4 million buyers and untold remorse.

Certainly the stars are lining up. Anthony Joshua’s win over Wladimir Klitschko in London nine days ago attracted 90,000 customers and was the best scrap between two legit heavyweights in 25 years (Riddick Bowe over Evander Holyfield).

In July Andre Ward will try to beat Sergey Kovalev again. Errol Spence, everybody’s favorite young welterweight, goes to London to challenge Kell Brook.

De La Hoya also waited until Golovkin turned 35 and finally showed some stretch marks

In March, Golovkin knocked down Danny Jacobs but couldn’t finish him and certainly didn’t intimidate him. He won a unanimous decision among the judges, not media and fans

Never mind that Jacobs didn’t make the 160-pound middleweight limit and was 180 when the bell rang.

“I guess it is a compliment,” Sanchez said, “when you’ve set such a high standard that people expect absolute dominance every time out.

“After Gennady destroys Canelo, as I expect him to do, he will move up in weight and then Danny Jacobs will be able to rule the middleweight division. On a scale of 1 to 10, I still think Gennady was an 8½ or a 9 that night.”

The early odds favor Golovkin nevertheless. The reason? Strength of schedule.

Golovkin not only beat Jacobs, he battered David Lemieux. Canelo hasn’t faced middleweights like that. He knocked out a blown-up Amir Khan, he dismissed the talent-challenged Liam Smith, and he won every round by miles over Chavez, who landed only 71 pitches in 12 rounds and always comes up small regardless of weight.

Anybody who really thought Chavez was a threat to Canelo deserves a free Floyd Mayweather Sr. T-shirt: “You Don’t Know (Bleep) About Boxing.”

And Canelo, who made the agreed catch-weight of 164.5 by half a pound, still didn’t knock him out.

“He (Chavez) is one of the most mismanaged fighters I’ve seen,” Sanchez said. “Everyone said (trainers) Nacho Beristain or Freddie Roach could straighten him out but they’re not magicians. Canelo did what he had to do, did nothing wrong, but I wasn’t surprised at what happened.”

Showtime analyst and former champion Paulie Maglinaggi thinks Canelo is an eaiser matchup for GGG than Jacobs was.

“It depends on how it goes,” Sanchez said. “If Canelo comes in and wants to exchange, it’s going to be like Joshua and Klitschko, and that will be good for us. But we’ll prepare for everything.”

Ten years ago the media ordained Mayweather-De La Hoya as “The Last Great Fight,” another chapter in the eternal boxing-is-dead narrative.

The truth is that you never know when the Next Great Fight happens. But we thought Canelo-GGG might never happen.

Think no more.

Check it out: Seed libraries are sprouting all over Southern California.
The intent is to promote gardening and “plant-it-forward” by preserving seeds either native to Southern California or those adapted to its environment.
One of the newest is the San Bernardino County Regional Seed Library at the Chino Basin Water Conservation District in Montclair. Here, visitors learn how to obtain seeds for flowers, fruits, vegetables and more. A key component is returning seeds, so the process continues to expand and grow.
“We’re interested in germination quality, yield and any other information that helps with categorizing the seeds,” said Dona Jenkins of the UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of San Bernardino County. “Any and all seeds are welcome, but we are focusing on edible ones and those from pollinator plants.
“This is exciting, but not new. It’s what people used to do and is important today because we have lost 94 percent of our diversity with seeds.”
Climate and environmental changes throughout the years affect gardens and seed production, she added. “There are such climate extremes these days, that it’s important to save and use seeds that have adjusted and adapted to their local surroundings. And for us, it’s also beneficial to have seeds from the location area of a seed library.”
San Bernardino County is the largest county in the nation, with wide variations in climate, soil and planting conditions. The goal is to have other seed libraries established one day in different parts of the county that cater to each environment — valleys, mountains and deserts.
Keeping local gardens and their owners happy and healthy is an integral part of work down at the Chino Basin Water Conservation District.
“Residents already know our water conservation center as a regional hub for education and inspiration about sustainable, low-water landscapes and gardens,” said Scott Kleinrock, manager of the conservation programs. “We focus on home gardening adapted to our region. We want people to have whatever they want and to do it efficiently with plenty of choices. It’s great to work with the master gardeners, who have the huge overlap with that mission.”
So having the seed library on-site is a natural fit. The San Bernardino County Regional Seed Library, located within the Landscape Design Room at the water district’s center, is a collaborative effort between master gardeners and the district.
It joins a growing list of similar depositories throughout Southern California. The granddaddy of them all — the Seed Library of Los Angeles ­— has been operating since 2010. Home gardeners learn how to sow and save what they reap there and at similar seed depositories, such as ones at the Yorba Linda and Huntington Beach public libraries.
David King, founding chairman of the Seed Library of Los Angeles, said the process is simple but requires two characteristics that aren’t always in large supply — a keen sense of observation and patience.
“Each library will save more seeds than us. If everyone saves a few, that’s an ideal to having this whole thing work,” he said. “We’ve helped other libraries get started and the more there are the better.”
But, he added, there is a distinction. “Some people think SLOLA and seed libraries are places to get free seeds, but what we really want is for people to bring their seeds back. If the process is done correctly, there will be ample seed selections every year and the best fruits and vegetables from each plant that have adapted to our climate.”
Seed Library of Los Angeles deals exclusively with non-hybrid food plants. The library also is meant to be a resource to promote local reproducible food plants. Lifetime membership is $10.
Patrons have flocked to the Yorba Linda Public Library seed library, averaging about 150 seed packets a month, said Julie Zeoli, adult services manager. It was established a few years ago with help from a state grant. The popular seed section is one of many programs that continue to attract public library visitors.
“The idea is to learn how to save them and return them after the point of harvest in order to keep repopulating local gardens. It supports a community of gardeners and seed savers,” Zeoli said. “I think people want to be healthier and maintain a sustainable lifestyle.
“We see parents coming in with their children and hopefully they can experiment and acquire a lifelong learning skill. The seed library is just one more learning service we offer to the meet the growing needs of the community.”
Yorba Linda Public Library’s seed depository encourages those new to gardening to start with “easy” ones such as beans, eggplant, lettuce, peppers and tomatoes. Even better, it prefers plants organically grown. Save only from healthy plants. Save from a number of plants to ensure genetic diversity. And label seed deposits with as much information as possible.
The scope and scale of each seed library may differ, but the goals are the same. The process encourages biodiversity, promotes regionally appropriate seeds and helps residents save money on seeds.
After each growing season ends, seed library patrons are asked to harvest extra seeds and return them. It’s pretty simple but very important.
What kinds of seeds are these libraries looking for? Edible plant seeds, seeds from pollinator plants, “native” seeds as opposed to “wild” seeds secured from someone’s yard and any that capture one’s eye (no marijuana seeds, though).
Put dry seeds in a sealed envelope and return.

Check out these seed libraries

San Bernardino County
Regional Seed Library
When: Check-out hours 1-3 p.m.
Saturdays; check-in hours 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays.
Classes: DIY seed bombs and seed paper, noon-2 p.m. today; saving your best
tomato seeds, noon-1 p.m. June 24
Where: Chino Basin Water Conservation District, 4594 San Bernardino St., Montclair
Cost: Free
Information: 909-626-2711, cbwcd.org

Seed Library of Los Angeles
What: Monthly classes, discussions and how-to videos while promoting home and community sharing.
When: 2-4:30 p.m. May 20
Where: The Learning Garden, Venice High School, 13000 Venice Blvd., Venice
Admission: $10 lifetime membership
Information: slola.org

OTHER Resources
Heirloom Seed Library, Long Beach: seedlibrary.lbgrows.org
Huntington Beach Public Library seed library: hbpl.libguides.com/seedlibrary
The Seed Library of Orange: orangehomegrown.org
Yorba Linda Public Library: ylpl.org

ANAHEIM — With as many injuries as the Angels have already endured, they are taking no chances with Mike Trout.

On Sunday, Trout was out of the lineup for the second day in a row, and third time in the last four games, resting a tight left hamstring.

“Have to be smart about it,” Trout said. “I figure we take today and yesterday and see how it feels in Oakland (on Monday)… I’m going to come to the field tomorrow ready to play and see how it feels.”

Trout sat out Thursday’s game and played on Friday. He was in the lineup on Saturday, but scratched at the last minute because it tightened up on him during pregame warmups. The decision to rest Trout was made before he even arrived at the ballpark on Sunday morning.

“The hamstring is a different animal,” Manager Mike Scioscia said. “If your shoulder is a little sore, you can DH, but if your hamstring is a little tight and achy you need to make sure you get it addressed and that’s where we are now.”

Since Trout became an everyday player in April 2012, he has missed as many as three straight games just once, in August 2013. He had a hamstring issue then. He missed two consecutive games in July 2015 with hamstring tightness.

“It’s something similar,” Trout said of the 2015 injury. “Nothing serious. I just don’t want it to get too serious.”

RICHARDS UPDATE

Garrett Richards, who has been out more than a month because of nerve irritation in his biceps, is still waiting for clearance to throw, but he feels optimistic that he’s going in the right direction.

“It’s coming along,” Richards said. “It’s advancing at its own pace, but it’s moving forward. I haven’t had any setbacks. It hasn’t plateaued yet. It’s going as we thought it would.”

Richards said he’s working out every day. The Angels are testing the strength in his biceps and comparing it to readings from before the injury. When he approaches the level he was at before, he’ll be allowed to throw again, he said.

“They won’t let me do anything until they are convinced it’s better, but I feel good,” he said. “There’s no pain or anything, so it’s kind of frustrating.”

ALSO

C.J. Cron (bruised foot) began a rehab assignment at Triple-A on Sunday. Cron is eligible to come off the disabled list on Tuesday, but the Angels are facing right-handed starters on Tuesday and Wednesday, so there may not be any urgency to get Cron back immediately. …

Mike Morin (neck) said he’s now feeling 100 percent and has begun a throwing program. Morin estimates that he’s about three weeks away from returning to action. …

Cam Bedrosian (groin) said he has been throwing at a distance of about 120 feet but he’s not sure when he will be able to get on a mound. “I thought it would be better by now, but we’re taking it day to day,” he said. …

Andrew Bailey (shoulder) and Huston Street (lat) are both throwing bullpen sessions, but Bailey is closer to beginning a rehab assignment, Scioscia said. Scioscia said there is a timetable that would have Street ready by June 1, when he’s eligible to come off the 60-day disabled list.

Miuccia Prada leaves nothing to chance.
Though always artistic and conceptual, her inspirations are also always rooted in reality and the world around her. Even more so for the resort collection Prada showed on Sunday, staged for the first time at the Fondazione Prada Osservatorio [Observatory], an exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art and visual arts. Located in the shopping arcade Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the Observatory is housed on two floors in a central building of the arcade above the central octagon, the Marchesi pastry shop and the men’s Prada store, opposite the brand’s first flagship, which opened in 1913. The show venue was at the level of the glass-and-iron dome covering the 19th-century arcade, which was reinterpreted by Prada’s go-to architect studio, Rem Koolhaas’ OMA/AMO.

The show venue. 

Prada’s flurry of transparent dresses, feathers, sequins and crystal details contrasted with the setting. “I wanted to do a modernist show, then we had this place, and the lightness and the industrial were very much inspiring,” said the designer after the show. Lest anyone think the collection was one-way, Prada also aimed for “the perfect combination,” juxtaposing her feminine dresses with sportswear elements, waterproof jackets, miniskirts in a technical material, knee-high socks and even

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The Blonde Salad is engaged.
Chiara Ferragni, the Italian influencer and entrepreneur behind The Blonde Salad digital platform and the Chiara Ferragni Collection footwear and accessories label, accepted the marriage proposal of boyfriend Fedez on Saturday night.
Italian rapper Fedez asked for Ferragni’s hand during one of his concerts at Verona‘s renowned Arena. Ferragni was attending the performance along with 30 of her best friends as part of her 30th birthday celebrations.
By the end of the concert, a little girl accompanied Ferragni onstage, where a short movie of the couple’s best moments was screened to the notes of “Forever Young” by Youth Group.
Fedez then walked in sporting a tuxedo and started to sing a new, unpublished song dedicated to Ferragni, who was wearing a crystal-embellished Saint Laurent black dress designed by Anthony Vaccarello for fall 2017. As the lyrics mentioned “Non servono anelli che ci tengono assieme”, or “we don’t need rings to keep us together,” the rapper interrupted the song by saying to Ferragni, “We don’t need rings to be together but to ask you what I’m about to ask, perhaps I do [need one]…”
 

 
He then kneeled down and offered her a round solitaire diamond ring, which Ferragni accepted in front of an

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