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Fashion United
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion United
Stine Goya and Umbro kick off collaboration blending fashion, football and feminism
A new collaboration merging sportswear and contemporary fashion, Danish label Stine Goya has unveiled a capsule collaboration with British athletic brand Umbro. Launching May 28, the limited-edition drop reimagines vintage football silhouettes through a distinctly feminine lens—timed to capitalise on the growing cultural relevance and commercial momentum of women's sport. The partnership is more than just a design exercise. It's a signal of how fashion brands are positioning themselves at the intersection of sport, gender equity, and streetwear. Tapping into the aesthetic currency of early 2000s nostalgia, the seven-piece collection—from windbreakers to mini dresses—channels the spirit of the Women's Euro Cup and the evolution of women's football into a stylistic manifesto. Stine Goya, best known for her vivid palette and graphic tailoring, lends her signature playfulness to the collaboration. The pieces incorporate bold colour-blocking, contrasting textures, and custom insignias. Each item riffs on Umbro's technical archives, but pivots firmly toward fashion-forward functionality, targeting a generation of consumers increasingly blurring the lines between athleticwear and personal expression. 'The fusion of sport and fashion is not new,' Goya noted in a statement, 'but reframing it through the lens of female empowerment is both timely and overdue. Women's football has long been marginalised. This collection is a tribute to its rise—and a nod to where it's headed.' For Umbro, whose footballing legacy dates back to 1924, the partnership signals a refreshed brand strategy. As Helene Hope, Umbro's Head of Global Brand Marketing, explained: 'Women's football is one of the most exciting expressions of the game today. Stine's fearless design ethos complements our democratic approach to sport.' From a retail perspective, the capsule fits squarely into the current industry focus on gender inclusivity and cultural storytelling. With growing appetite for limited-edition crossovers—particularly those rooted in sport—the collaboration is poised for strong sell-through among younger consumers. Streetwear-adjacent drops that nod to social impact now function as both brand-building and margin-driving plays. Yet, the capsule's messaging goes beyond trend. With slogans like 'Good things shouldn't take time,' Goya taps into broader commentary on equity in sport. It's a pointed reference to the systemic delays in recognition and funding for women athletes—an issue brands are increasingly being called to address in action, not just aesthetics.
The Irish Sun
02-05-2025
- The Irish Sun
The sunshine spot just three hours from Dublin with 34C summer temps, €2.50 pints & €27.99 Ryanair flights
IRISH holidaymakers heading to Spain usually head to beach resorts, but its capital city also has a lot to offer tourists. Advertisement 5 During the summer, average daily temperatures reach around 34C Credit: Getty Images - Getty 5 The town is full of stunning architecture Credit: Getty Images - Getty 5 The famous Cibeles Fountain Credit: Getty Images - Getty It is renowned for its European art, including the Prado Museum's works by Goya, Velázquez and other Spanish masters. In the heart of the city you'll see the old Habsburg - the Plaza Mayor which is lined with porticos. Nearby, you can see the baroque Royal Palace and Armory, displaying historic weaponry which is perfect for history buffs. Or to relax in the park, visit the Buen Retiro Park to enjoy the scenery and liven up your Instagram. Advertisement READ MORE IN TRAVEL The city is full of famous museums, bustling nightlife and There are a range of historic sites that are definitely worth a visit. The Prado, Reina Sofía and Thyssen museums are world-renowned, but there are several smaller ones that offer loads to tourists too. These include the Sorolla Museum and cultural centres like the Matadero or Conde Duque, which hold innovative exhibitions, concerts and guided tours. Advertisement Most read in City Exclusive You can head to see the Royal Palace, the Plaza Mayor with 400 years of history, the Puerta del Sol or the four tallest towers in GOLDEN MILE And the city is classed as the capital of nightlife, food and fashion. If you're looking to do some shopping, the Gran Via is full of different shops to suit every taste. You can head to luxury shops on the Golden Mile, vintage stores in Fuencarral, new designer markets at the Mercado de Motores, or craft workshops and bookshops over 100 years old. Advertisement You can enjoy a range of different Some markets have been turned into eating spaces like San Miguel, which is classed as a gastronomic shrine. If you're looking for a A pint will set you back just €2.50 - ideal for enjoying a drink in the sun. Advertisement And if you're looking for a And during the 5 The city is classed as the capital of food, fashion and nightlife Credit: Getty Images - Getty Advertisement 5 The city has loads to offer tourists Credit: Getty Images - Getty
Boston Globe
16-04-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Today in History: April 16, the Virginia Tech shooting
In 1928, tens of thousands of mill workers went on strike in New Bedford over a 10 percent cut in pay. The strike would last six months. Advertisement In 1945, a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed the ship Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers. As many as 7,000 people died as the ship broke apart and sank minutes after being struck. In 1947, the French cargo ship Grandcamp, carrying over 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate, blew up in the harbor in Texas City, Texas. A nearby ship, the High Flyer, which was carrying ammonium nitrate and sulfur, caught fire and exploded the following day. The combined blasts and fires killed nearly 600 people and injured 5,000 in the worst industrial accident in US history. Advertisement In 1952, state lawmaker Thomas P. 'Tip'' O'Neill announced he would run for the US House seat from Cambridge being vacated by John F. Kennedy, who was running for Senate. O'Neill would spend the next four decades in Congress, with the last ten years as speaker of the House. In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests. King defended his tactics, writing, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' In 1972, Apollo 16 blasted off for the moon with astronauts John Young, Charles Duke, and Ken Mattingly on board. In 2007, Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life. It remains the deadliest school history in US history. In 2010, the US government accused Wall Street's most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. had sold mortgage investments without telling buyers the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail. (In July 2010, Goldman agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but it did not admit wrongdoing.) In 2012, a trial began in Oslo, Norway, for Anders Breivik, charged with killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in July 2011. (Breivik was found guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder and given a 21-year prison sentence.)
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Republicans once blasted 'crony capitalism.' Now it's the plan.
Just more than a dozen years ago, Republicans' talking point was that the president of the United States should not have promoted a politically connected but troubled company. When Barack Obama ran for re-election in 2012, GOP lawmakers seized on the catchphrase "crony capitalism" to bash him for giving a speech to workers at a solar panel manufacturing plant run by Solyndra, which had received a loan guarantee under his economic stimulus program. After the company went bankrupt, Republicans argued that records showed the loan guarantee was rushed (true) and the company was backed by Obama donors (mostly false). Now, in President Donald Trump's administration, crony capitalism isn't an attack line; it's the plan. On Tuesday, Trump sidled up to a shiny red Tesla Model S in front of the White House, clutching a handwritten note that said you could drive off in one today for 'as low as $299/month.' The goal was to boost the company run by his biggest donor, billionaire federal contractor and special government employee Elon Musk, after its stock dramatically collapsed because of an ongoing boycott, uncertainty from Trump's trade wars and poor sales of its ungainly Cybertruck. Trump even wrote a check right there for the $80,000 car and said he would buy one for his 17-year-old granddaughter. If a social media influencer had posted a video like this, the Federal Trade Commission might require it to come with the hashtag #sponsored and an admission that it was a paid promotion. This was "sponcon" on the White House lawn, to use the shorthand term for sponsored content. And it was crony capitalism for the richest person on the planet, whose wealth happens to be tied up in Tesla stock. To be clear, presidents have long promoted American businesses. Teddy Roosevelt supposedly coined the Maxwell House ad slogan "good to the last drop" after having a cup, and Joe Biden once took a Ford F-150 Lightning for a spin, saying "this sucker's quick." (Sadly, the Ford Motor Co. did not pick that up as a slogan.) But neither Maxwell House nor Ford executives worked in the White House. Neither made massive donations to a presidential campaign. Trump was trying to help his top political ally by using the White House as a backdrop for free advertising, like some President's Day car sale come to life. In fact, the closest precedent in U.S. history comes from Trump's first term, when he posted a photo giving two thumbs up from the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office with cans of Goya beans and other products in front of him. In that case, too, the president was trying to boost a company facing a boycott over its association with him, as Goya's CEO was in hot water for having praised Trump. At least in that case, we know that Trump actually likes taco bowls. But this week's commercial for Tesla came after years of bashing electric cars, which he has said will leave you stranded in the desert, "cost a fortune" and are only "good if you have a towing company." He'd even specifically lambasted Teslas in the past, saying they "don't drive long enough" and the self-driving options "crash." Beyond just the cheap sales pitch, Trump had some chilling words that portend an even more serious effort to shore up Tesla. During the event, Trump ramped up his response to the spate of vandalism against Teslas in recent weeks, saying that "violence against Tesla dealership will be labeled as domestic terrorism" and that any vandals who are caught are "going to go through hell" for "harming a great American company." And in a Truth Social post Tuesday, Trump said that "radical left lunatics" are "illegally and collusively" boycotting Tesla. In Trump's first administration, his staffers would have interpreted these comments as hot air. In his second, they're far more likely to treat them as marching orders. His hyperpartisan acting U.S. attorney in D.C. has already threatened a private university for its diversity policies and a U.S. senator for a mildly inappropriate comment made years ago. And Trump now has a Justice Department that he hopes to turn into his own personal law firm. For now, it is still legal to exercise your First Amendment right to protest Tesla or simply refuse to buy its products. Ill-advised vandals will still be charged with misdemeanors in state court, not federal felonies that can carry a sentence of up to life in prison. And Tesla is still a private company that just happens to be owned by the president's BFF, not the recipient of its own massive federal contract. But we'll see how long that lasts, and whether any Republicans who lambasted Obama's supposed "crony capitalism" want to stop the real version that's happening right in front of them. This article was originally published on
Telegraph
02-03-2025
- Telegraph
I've found a way to make museums less boring
You've been in the museum for an hour and, despite trying valiantly, your concentration levels are starting to wane. Dates are swimming in your head; names, places and historical events are getting jumbled up. You want to ask a question, but the guide is focusing on his monologue and you are in any case struggling to understand his less-than-perfect English. You are suffering from Museum Head. You see the symptoms in every gallery and museum, every day of the year. Groups of tourists zombified with sightseeing fatigue. Eyes glazed, backs aching, tummies rumbling. We've all been there. No matter how fascinated or committed we may be, trying to absorb so much new information about so many dazzling works of art quickly becomes debilitating. I have a solution. The way to avoid what should be a highlight of your trip becoming a back-to-school endurance test is really quite simple. Focus on fewer things and – most important of all – choose a theme. By following a single story, a historical character, the life of a particular artist, facts will fall into place far more easily. Instead of a jumbled overview, your visit is transformed into a fascinating detective story. One which can often be extended beyond a single museum to cover other sites around a city. It takes energy of course, especially if you do your own research. But there are easier ways. Recently, I tried out a new offering from a cultural tours company – The Luminaire – which has put together a Goya-themed tour of Madrid. It's expensive, partly because it is a collaboration with the Ritz hotel, so you have to book a stay there in order to do the tour. But what you get for your money is a highly-focused experience based around the life and works of one of Spain's – and Europe's – greatest painters, Francisco de Goya. He was a brilliant artist with a compelling life story, working his way up from a modest working-class background to be appointed painter to the king. The tour, led by Dr Carlos Bayod, weaves a narrative of Goya's life through guided visits, not only to the major churches and museums where you can see his most famous works, but also some much more niche, normally private sights where Bayod has arranged special access. One advantage of the Goya theme is that it is not only an insight into his art, but also into one of the most tumultuous periods of Spanish history. The decades between the 1780s and the 1820s, when Goya was working, were when the Spanish Inquisition still held sway, when Napoleon occupied the country, and when a mild-mannered royal family was succeeded by an embittered, reactionary king. But it was also a time that saw periods of liberal government and moments of hope – such as in 1812, when Wellington marched into Madrid at the head of a liberating army. It was Goya who painted Wellington's portrait to mark the occasion, Goya who had recorded the 1808 rebellion against the French, and the brutal punishment shootings that followed on May 3. It was Goya, too, who portrayed three generations of the royal family, from the good-natured Charles III to the vengeful Ferdinand VII. The famous pair of Maja paintings, where she is shown both naked and clothed, were commissioned by the prime minister Manuel Godoy in the 1790s and, probably, depict his mistress. These portraits are all in the Prado along with Goya's first royal commission, an epic series of cartoons of hunting and rural scenes, which were to be used to make wall tapestries for the king's country retreats. They fill six rooms on the top floor of the museum with light and colour and optimism. And Bayod supplements them with a fascinating private visit to the archives, workshops and conservation studios of the Royal Tapestry Factory, which first worked on the designs and is still operating nearly 250 years later. Back on the first floor of the Prado, the mood darkens as Bayod describes the repressive regime of Ferdinand VII that threw Goya into a deep depression. The artist had all the trappings of wealth and success, but when he retreated to his villa, just across the river from the Royal Palace, he decorated the walls with the stuff of his nightmares. Now known as the Black Paintings, they were saved for the Prado when the villa was demolished in the 19th century. Goya never intended us to see them, but they remain some of the most powerful images in art history. Bayod's tour includes a private visit to the Factum Foundation, where he works. Here he has undertaken a study of the Black Paintings – whose display in the Prado is highly conjectural – to try to understand how the artist might originally have planned the sequence of frescos. I seem to have concluded my cure for Museum Head on a dark note. But at least I felt enlightened rather than confused. How to do it Nick Trend was a guest of the Mandarin Oriental Ritz hotel's Exclusive Journeys experience. The Goya tour costs from £4,520 per person, B&B for two nights and tours on three days, based on two guests sharing and including private transfers. Goya's Madrid If you want to research and put together a Madrid Goya tour yourself, here are the key sights to base it around: Hermitage Chapel, Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida Goya made the frescoes in this small church in 1798 to impress the king and although the central figure of the frescoes is St Anthony, it is the supporting cast of angels covering the niches, arches and lower parts of the ceilings that also catches the eye. They are dressed in the latest court fashions. The artist's control of perspective and his sense of how to balance the composition is extraordinary. Here too is Goya's tomb – his body was brought back from his original grave in Bordeaux in 1919, but mysteriously, his skull was missing. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts A fellowship here was a prerequisite to getting the commissions from the royal court that Goya so desperately craved. He had tried for admission twice before he was finally accepted in 1780. Two of his best self-portraits hang in the galleries, as does the great 1801 portrait of prime minister Godoy. It is also home to a complete collection of Goya's satirical etchings. The Luminaire tour includes a private tour of these and a visit to the Calcografía Nacional upstairs, where prints are still made from the original etching plates. The Royal Palace The brilliant ceiling frescoes in the throne room here, which Tiepolo painted in the 1760s, give you a clear picture of the grandeur of the Spanish court in Goya's time. But for an insight into the royal characters, you need Goya's portraits, and four of his greatest still hang here: the double pairings of Charles IV and his queen – two in relaxed pose (the king wears hunting garb and the queen a mantilla) and two in formal regalia. The Prado Museum The Prado is home to most of Goya's greatest paintings. It opened as a museum in 1819, when he was living in Madrid. It seems that he was too ill to attend the opening but it's inconceivable that he wouldn't have called in at some point, since many of his key works were already on display. The Líria Palace This grand pile, set in acres of its own gardens near the Royal Palace, is the Madrid residence of the Dukes of Alba, Spain's foremost aristocratic family, which has been at the centre of power in the country for centuries. During that time, the Albas amassed probably the world's greatest art collection still in private hands, including seminal works by Goya – who had an extremely close, possibly romantic relationship with the 13th Duchess of Alba – and paintings by Titian, Rubens and all the great painters of the Spanish Golden Age – Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco. The palace and its collection was opened to visitors for the first time in 2019 and even then only on rather stiff and restricted guided tours which gave you little time to look at the paintings. All that has now changed. An initiative by the Duke's eldest son Fernando and his wife Sofia, has opened the palace to a dramatic installation by the irreverent Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. She has delighted in displays of some of her most extravagant works, among them a pair of giant shoes made from stainless-steel saucepans which dominate the ballroom, an enormous Valkyrie made of fabric and flashing LED lights which is suspended above the main stairs and a piano sheathed in crochet in the music room. I defy you not to smile as you walk round. At the same time many of the restrictions have been lifted so that you can now visit and enjoy both the contemporary art and Old Masters much more freely than before.
