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Home furnishing giant Ikea has always shone a loving and communal spotlight on its industrial designers. Ikea has devoted pages of its annual keepsake catalogue to the people and process within its design ranks. But new for 2016 are three limited edition capsule collections that pair its interior smarts with the world of fashion. It’s […]

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After coming under fire for a swimsuit campaign featuring a darkly bronzed Isabeli Fontana, Swedish retail giant H&M has released an apology.

“We are sorry if we have upset anyone with our latest swimwear campaign. It was not our intention to show off a specific ideal or to encourage dangerous behaviour, but was instead to show off our latest summer collection,” they said in an email to AFP. “We have taken note of the views and will continue to discuss this internally ahead of future campaigns.”

Popcorn at the ready, we’re looking forward to a season of intriguing fare.

FALL FILMS

OUR IDIOT BROTHER
Paul Rudd as a cheerful stoner.
A grinning, bearded Paul Rudd—clad in baggy attire and Crocs—sweetly agrees to sell a little non-sanctioned herb to a despondent police officer in uniform while manning a farmer’s market stall. Promptly carted off to jail, he gets out early on good behaviour and returns to the fold of his three successful sisters—Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer and Elizabeth Banks—where family life proves to be entertainingly discordant.

Anna Wintour will be heading to London Fashion Week, because, like, everyone is going to be there. [The Cut]

Escada’s dunzo–the German brand will file for insolvency this week. [Bloomberg]

Once and for all, Kanye is not interning at the Gap. So says head designer Patrick Robinson, who would know. [Fashionologie]

New York Fashion Week is moving to Lincoln Centre next year. So we can all go to the opera afterwards, obviously. [nytimes.com]

Recessionista, indeed. Liz Claiborne cuts 725 jobs, while Macy’s axes 7,000. [IHT, CNN]

At FASHION, we’re always on the lookout for a good design collab. So when, for their latest album, trippy indie tribe Animal Collective found both inspiration and title—Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino Records/Outside Music)—in a Frank Gehry-designed building by that name, we felt compelled to love it. Luckily, the Baltimore-based band of odd fellows is (finally) making it easy.

With Sally Shapiro and Robyn burning up iTunes everywhere, the girls of Sweden are certainly having a little moment in le soleil. The latest addition? Twenty-two-year-old Lykke Li, with her breathy, electronic alt-pop album Youth Novels (Warner) in stores now. Already a hit in her native land, Lykke Li’s debut album tells stories from her […]

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Sally Shapiro: Remix Romance Vol. 2 (Paper Bag Records)

The world just can’t seem to get enough of this Swedish sweetheart. This is the second remix album out of Sally Shapiro’s 2007 debut Disco Romance (which we, like, covered and stuff before other people. Just sayin’).

Disco Romance by Sally Shapiro

Riding the wave of disco-infused electropop (say that three times fast) is Sally Shapiro’s shimmering debut, Disco Romance, which is finally appearing in Canada after making bouncy waves in Europe since the spring.