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      <title>Y's and Fake As Flowers Dye Indian Quilts in Edo Black</title>
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      <description>A six-piece capsule uses traditional kantha embroidery, then submerges it in historic Japanese mourning-dye techniques. The result is a category collision that neither label could have executed alone.</description>
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      <title>JJJJound x New Balance 740 Drops August 6</title>
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      <description>The Montreal design studio revives an early-2000s New Balance runner with a muted stoneware palette.</description>
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      <title>Dansk Returns to Copenhagen, and the Object Comes Home</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A $250,000 bankruptcy acquisition sends a midcentury icon back to the city whose name it carries.</description>
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      <title>Spider-Man: Brand New Day Posts $927 Million Global Opening</title>
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      <description>Sony and Marvel's latest Spider-Man film opened to $355 million domestic and $572 million international, the second-largest opening weekend in box office history.</description>
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      <title>Deryck Whibley's Walking Disaster Ships Its Third Drop</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Sum 41 frontman's clothing line lands another release while the band prepares for reunion touring, folding merch economics into a post-hiatus playbook.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <title>Kei Ninomiya Puts Hiroshi Fujiwara in a Football Shirt and Calls It Culture</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The FW26 campaign for DSM's Comme des Garçons offshoot assembles a cast of cross-disciplinary names to model sportswear reworked into something deliberately unwearable on any pitch.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <title>Sanrio x Bleach Collab Surfaces, Character Selection Already Noted</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Social posts from early August confirm a Sanrio collaboration with the Bleach anime franchise, with collectors already observing which characters made the cut.</description>
      <dc:creator>Signal Writer</dc:creator>
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      <title>Pokémon x Krispy Kreme Leak Surfaces Ahead of Official Announcement</title>
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      <description>A reported collaboration between Pokémon and Krispy Kreme has leaked, continuing the IP's pattern of quick-service activations.</description>
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      <title>Crocs Ships the ROY Before the Culture Names It</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Steven Smith's Mellow-foam slip-on arrives at $80, positioned as a technical silhouette in a brand still defined by its clog.</description>
      <dc:creator>Rem Okafor</dc:creator>
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      <title>Precious Okoyomon's 25-Foot Teddy Bear Slide Opens MoMA PS1's Courtyard for Two Years</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The New York museum's inaugural Courtyard Commission hands a public outdoor space to an artist known for living ecosystems and unsettling stuffed animals, locking in a single vision through summer 2028.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <title>FIFA's 25-Page Pitch Values Global Football at 450 Events Per Year</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A leaked sales deck reveals the governing body's plan to sell a 20 percent stake in its commercial operations while more than doubling its annual event count, a formula that sets federation payouts against player welfare.</description>
      <dc:creator>J.P. Larsen</dc:creator>
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      <title>PARCO's Fall Campaign Cites a 1927 French Text on Japanese Aesthetics</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Japanese retail group's &quot;Nostalgic Future&quot; campaign, directed by Purple magazine founder Christophe Brunnquell, anchors its visual identity in a century-old European study of Japanese sensibility.</description>
      <dc:creator>Signal Writer</dc:creator>
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      <title>LinkedIn Adds an AI Slop Button and Retires the Feature That Produced It</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The platform's new reporting option arrives alongside the quiet removal of its AI post-enhancement tool.</description>
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      <title>JJJJound's PUMA Mostro Leaves the Friends-and-Family Drawer for a Japan Raffle</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A grayscale Mostro that lived as a private edition since its quiet production is now entering public circulation through a single PORTER Omotesando raffle, compressing the gap between insider access and retail purchase.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <title>AVAU Opens First Permanent Boutique in Milan's Brera District</title>
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      <description>The Italian fragrance house, run by three Catalani siblings, takes its first brick-and-mortar space at Via Fiori Chiari 7, designed with Crosby Studios.</description>
      <dc:creator>Signal Writer</dc:creator>
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      <title>Lalique Opens Its First Directly Operated Kansai Boutique at 106 Square Meters</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The French crystal house moves from wholesale dependency to controlled retail in Japan's second market, a shift that reveals more about distribution economics than design ambition.</description>
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      <title>RM's Personal Collection Enters SFMOMA This October</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The BTS leader's private art holdings will occupy museum walls in San Francisco, marking a shift from collector to co-curator that few pop figures have managed.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <title>Nicholas Daley's Spring/Summer 2027 Pulls From Spiritual Jazz</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The London designer's new collection translates improvisational music into texture and craft, continuing a decade-long practice of building clothes from sound.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <title>Starbucks Japan Enters Gachapon Territory on Its Anniversary</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The coffee chain marks its Japanese market anniversary by releasing blind-box plush charms shaped like menu items, a format borrowed from the country's most entrenched retail ritual.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <title>Gallery Dept. Enters Eyewear With a Five-Silhouette Debut</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Josué Thomas's label launches its first optical collection, testing whether the distressed aesthetic that sold denim can move faces.</description>
      <dc:creator>Rem Okafor</dc:creator>
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      <title>J. Press Hands Mordechai Rubinstein the Oxford Button-Down</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The 122-year-old Ivy outfitter releases a capsule with the street-style photographer who spent two decades documenting its natural habitat.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <title>Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Opens December 11, Twenty Years After Announcement</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The Gehry-designed museum sets its public debut for late 2026, closing a two-decade gap between institutional ambition and operational reality.</description>
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      <title>NEIGHBORHOOD Scales Its Incense Chamber Into Gallery Objects at Harajuku</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The brand's ceramic collectible, already scarce at retail, becomes a limited-edition art piece at the IDOLS OF SMOKE exhibition.</description>
      <dc:creator>Rem Okafor</dc:creator>
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      <title>The National Portrait Gallery Acquires Charli XCX's Brat-Era Portrait</title>
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      <description>A Harley Weir photograph from the 2024 album cycle enters the permanent collection in London, marking one of the fastest artist-to-institution timelines in the gallery's recent acquisitions.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Almine Rech pairs the late pop artist's Cooper Square workspace with a duet exhibition during Armory Week 2026, twenty-two years after his death.</description>
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      <title>Joe Freshgoods Opens a Café-and-Store Hybrid in Chicago's West Town</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The streetwear designer who built a following on limited drops now wants you to sit down and stay awhile.</description>
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      <title>Drake's Neuromancer Credit Marks a Quiet Turn Toward Long-Form Production</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Apple TV's adaptation of William Gibson's 1984 novel lists the artist as executive producer, a role that positions him behind the camera on a project with no musical component.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <title>Marvel Confirms Gosling as Ghost Rider for 2028</title>
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      <description>The announcement at San Diego Comic-Con pairs Gosling with director Shawn Levy, their second collaboration after Star Wars: Starfighter.</description>
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      <title>Pace Berlin Puts a Working Bar Inside the Gallery</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A recreation of Friedrich Kunath's Los Angeles studio bar anchors a group show about nightlife, collapsing the distance between art object and social space.</description>
      <dc:creator>Inez Castor</dc:creator>
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      <title>Supreme Secondary Market Sales Up 19 Percent in 2026</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>StockX data shows the brand has reclaimed its position as the top-selling apparel label on the platform after years of declining relevance.</description>
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