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Fashion Network
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Fashion Network
Baby blue is the new red: Ferrari unveils capsule with Charles Leclerc
Ferrari made an early appearance in Monte Carlo—but not on the racetrack. On May 21, just days before the May 25 Grand Prix, the Prancing Horse brand transformed Monaco's Fairmont Hotel in shades of baby blue and unveiled an exclusive capsule co-created by creative director Rocco Iannone and rising Formula 1 star Charles Leclerc. On the afternoon of May 21, beneath a sky painted in countless shades of blue, which reflected both the turquoise of Nikki Beach's pool and the deep tones of the Mediterranean Sea, Ferrari revealed the limited-edition 'Ferrari for Charles Leclerc' capsule. Dancers showcased the collection in a high-impact performance that embodied movement and energy. 'This dynamism perfectly aligns with Ferrari's spirit and the essence of this capsule. We wanted to inspire joy and playfulness,' Iannone told at the event. This sense of freshness and authenticity also emerged through the chromatic harmony of the set, which centered entirely around baby blue—the signature color of the capsule and Leclerc's personal favorite. Ferrari covered the presentation space with its visual identity, from the poolside runway to lounge seating, daybeds, and umbrellas, all reflecting the capsule's hues. In collaboration with Iannone, Leclerc translated his personal off-track style into garments and accessories that reflect his daily life—from travel to leisure. 'Authenticity was essential for me. I wanted something that felt true to who I am and how I live. I travel nearly every day for races, and I always carry my jewelry, watches, helmet—and, of course, my clothes,' Leclerc explained. The capsule includes around 30 men's and women's looks, alongside a garment trunk, helmet case, and jewelry box. 'This is the first time Ferrari has created trunks. They're fully handcrafted in leather and lined with jacquard silk-like fabric, decorated with houndstooth patterns and our signature Prancing Horse symbols. Each piece is made to order, and the wait time reflects the craftsmanship behind them,' Iannone noted. Key pieces include racing-inspired sweatshirts and T-shirts, cotton parkas and pants with oversized carry-all straps, driver suits, and knitwear made with technical yarns. Ferrari enhanced these pieces with dimensional textures and embossed detailing. Some items feature the reversed initial 'L' for Leclerc's surname. The denim offering includes light-wash styles and uniquely dyed pieces featuring irregular color patterns created through immersion dyeing. 'I've always loved fashion and design. Ten years ago, before I made it to Formula 1, I even started working on my own collection, but I had to put it aside. Now, with Rocco and the team, we've finally made it happen,' said Leclerc. The project represents an evolution of the Ferrari Cabinet concept, which first appeared with the Spring/Summer 2025 collection. This concept blends precision design with the emotional use of color, innovative materials, and refined detailing. 'I'm a very curious person. I love experimenting with new styles and silhouettes. I tend to favor looser cuts. Ten years ago, I wore super skinny jeans—but not anymore.' The capsule also includes a special tribute to Leo, Leclerc's beloved dachshund. 'I love sweatshirts—they're comfortable and make me feel 'protected.' I wanted Leo to have one too, so we added it to the collection,' concluded the young Ferrari driver with his signature sweet and genuine smile. The collection also features accessories ranging from driver gloves to sunglasses marked with the Prancing Horse emblem, as well as baseball caps and hybrid sneakers with double hiking-style lacing. Ferrari rounded out the offer with a reinterpreted version of the Nello The Ferrari Tool Case bag, which uses the same materials and details as the travel trunks. The bag's shape takes inspiration from mechanic toolboxes and features metal bolts and fringes reminiscent of the horse's mane. Ferrari will sell the capsule in a limited run, at accessible luxury prices, via its online store and in boutiques located in Maranello, Milan, Rome, and Miami. The brand also opened a new pop-up shop inside the Fairmont Hotel on May 21, which will remain open for one year. Covering approximately 90 square meters, the space features a unique design concept and houses Ferrari's fashion and lifestyle collections, including licensed lines, collectibles, and limited-edition products.
Fashion Network
7 days ago
- Automotive
- Fashion Network
Baby blue is the new red: Ferrari unveils capsule with Charles Leclerc
Ferrari made an early appearance in Monte Carlo—but not on the racetrack. On May 21, just days before the May 25 Grand Prix, the Prancing Horse brand transformed Monaco's Fairmont Hotel in shades of baby blue and unveiled an exclusive capsule co-created by creative director Rocco Iannone and rising Formula 1 star Charles Leclerc. On the afternoon of May 21, beneath a sky painted in countless shades of blue, which reflected both the turquoise of Nikki Beach's pool and the deep tones of the Mediterranean Sea, Ferrari revealed the limited-edition 'Ferrari for Charles Leclerc' capsule. Dancers showcased the collection in a high-impact performance that embodied movement and energy. 'This dynamism perfectly aligns with Ferrari's spirit and the essence of this capsule. We wanted to inspire joy and playfulness,' Iannone told at the event. This sense of freshness and authenticity also emerged through the chromatic harmony of the set, which centered entirely around baby blue—the signature color of the capsule and Leclerc's personal favorite. Ferrari covered the presentation space with its visual identity, from the poolside runway to lounge seating, daybeds, and umbrellas, all reflecting the capsule's hues. In collaboration with Iannone, Leclerc translated his personal off-track style into garments and accessories that reflect his daily life—from travel to leisure. 'Authenticity was essential for me. I wanted something that felt true to who I am and how I live. I travel nearly every day for races, and I always carry my jewelry, watches, helmet—and, of course, my clothes,' Leclerc explained. The capsule includes around 30 men's and women's looks, alongside a garment trunk, helmet case, and jewelry box. 'This is the first time Ferrari has created trunks. They're fully handcrafted in leather and lined with jacquard silk-like fabric, decorated with houndstooth patterns and our signature Prancing Horse symbols. Each piece is made to order, and the wait time reflects the craftsmanship behind them,' Iannone noted. Key pieces include racing-inspired sweatshirts and T-shirts, cotton parkas and pants with oversized carry-all straps, driver suits, and knitwear made with technical yarns. Ferrari enhanced these pieces with dimensional textures and embossed detailing. Some items feature the reversed initial 'L' for Leclerc's surname. The denim offering includes light-wash styles and uniquely dyed pieces featuring irregular color patterns created through immersion dyeing. 'I've always loved fashion and design. Ten years ago, before I made it to Formula 1, I even started working on my own collection, but I had to put it aside. Now, with Rocco and the team, we've finally made it happen,' said Leclerc. The project represents an evolution of the Ferrari Cabinet concept, which first appeared with the Spring/Summer 2025 collection. This concept blends precision design with the emotional use of color, innovative materials, and refined detailing. 'I'm a very curious person. I love experimenting with new styles and silhouettes. I tend to favor looser cuts. Ten years ago, I wore super skinny jeans—but not anymore.' The capsule also includes a special tribute to Leo, Leclerc's beloved dachshund. 'I love sweatshirts—they're comfortable and make me feel 'protected.' I wanted Leo to have one too, so we added it to the collection,' concluded the young Ferrari driver with his signature sweet and genuine smile. The collection also features accessories ranging from driver gloves to sunglasses marked with the Prancing Horse emblem, as well as baseball caps and hybrid sneakers with double hiking-style lacing. Ferrari rounded out the offer with a reinterpreted version of the Nello The Ferrari Tool Case bag, which uses the same materials and details as the travel trunks. The bag's shape takes inspiration from mechanic toolboxes and features metal bolts and fringes reminiscent of the horse's mane. Ferrari will sell the capsule in a limited run, at accessible luxury prices, via its online store and in boutiques located in Maranello, Milan, Rome, and Miami. The brand also opened a new pop-up shop inside the Fairmont Hotel on May 21, which will remain open for one year. Covering approximately 90 square meters, the space features a unique design concept and houses Ferrari's fashion and lifestyle collections, including licensed lines, collectibles, and limited-edition products.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
For eBay, experiences are all about AI
This story was originally published on CX Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily CX Dive newsletter. AI has become so widely used throughout eBay, that it's easier to 'ask which teams are not leveraging AI' than to list the teams or experiences that do, President and CEO Jamie Iannone said during a Q1 2025 earnings call Wednesday. EBay has broadly rolled out AI to improve experiences for sellers and buyers in areas ranging from product feeds to customer service. One example is Magical Listings, which uses AI to simplify the product listing process. More than 10 million unique sellers have used the tool to create over 200 million listings. EBay's is backing up its AI-powered investments with organizational changes. The company is combining its product and market teams to improve its speed, alignment and customer centricity, according to a Wednesday announcement. Jordan Sweetnam will lead the newly combined global markets and product team as chief commercial officer, while Chief Product Officer Eddie Garcia will leave the company. 'I am deeply grateful to Eddie for his outstanding partnership and visionary leadership in shaping our product strategy, which has significantly advanced eBay's offerings and customer experience,' Iannone said during the earnings call. 'He has built a world-class team, and his legacy positions us well for future success.' CFO Steve Priest will also leave the company on July 31. Until then he will remain with the company in an advisory position to help onboard incoming CFO Peggy Alford, who will join on May 12. The executive changes follow on the heels of first quarter financial results that topped expectations. Revenue grew 1% year over year to $2.6 billion, according to a company earnings report. The company recently launched browsing pages for used apparel that use dynamic content organized by themes and subcategories, according to Iannone. The new apparel feed progressively loads visual and interactive content as users browse the page, and it can offer content including autoplay videos, promotions and curated compositions. The change builds on the launch of two other AI-powered fashion features introduced last year. Shop the Look lets customers see what different items would look like together, while Explore recommends options based on a customer's input such as a customer's size and preferred styles. More updates are planned for the fashion shopping experience in the future. 'Throughout 2025, you'll see more innovation in fashion as we work towards solidifying our platform as the trusted destination for pre-loved branded fashion products, where customers can truly shop head-to-toe across a breadth of brands and price points,' Iannone said.
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Sports Cards Lead eBay Growth as Goldin, PSA Drive Volume
Sports cards highlighted eBay's start to 2025, helping the sales platform post first-quarter revenue and profit that beat Wall Street expectations. 'We're really pleased with the trading cards growth. It grew healthy double digits year-on-year in Q1, and growth accelerated for the ninth straight quarter,' eBay CEO Jamie Iannone said in response to a question from Deutsche Bank analyst Lee Horowitz on an earnings call Wednesday evening. 'What I feel really good about … is that the growth in trading card volumes that we've seen in recent quarters has been mostly driven by sold item growth, not just [average sale price]—which signals the growth is more sustainable.' More from Trump Tariffs Hit Big Names as Sports Stocks Flounder in April Evan Turner Defeats Former Agent in Chinese Shoe Stock Sale Dispute Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia and Collectibles in History While eBay didn't disclose specific figures for trading cards, management said sports cards were the largest contributor to sales growth on the platform for the second straight quarter. The business overall posted revenue of $2.59 billion in the period ended March 31, up about 1%, and net income of $1.38 a share, better than Wall Street expectations. Ebay shares opened trading Thursday up about 3% at $70.05 (EBAY). Iannone said Goldin Auctions, which eBay bought a year ago, added 0.3% to the volume growth in the quarter, assuming neutral currency impacts, with the sports memorabilia specialist expected to add 0.2% to sales growth in the current quarter. Both are notable given the company's overall growth picture. The company also said a partnership with PSA, the card-grading service owned by billionaires Steve Cohen and Dan Sundheim with sports card collector Nat Turner, has been a strong contributor to trading card sales since integrating with the eBay platform in the latter half of 2024. PSA has sold 500,000 cards through its eBay storefront since the third quarter, when PSA allowed consignment of cards on eBay. Services to streamline listing, reselling and directing cards to PSA for grading also helped business, the executive said. Iannone sounded a positive note over the potential impact of tariffs, at least on the collectibles segment, given trading cards are largely an internal U.S. market and tend to be less reactive to spending pullbacks by consumers compared to purchases of new items. For the current quarter, management said they expect net revenue to come in around break even, between a decline of 1% to a rise of 2% assuming neutral foreign exchange (the dollar has been weakening against most other currencies, however). 'Tariffs and other trade policy changes have created significant uncertainty for our sellers and buyers,' eBay chief financial officer Stephen Priest said in prepared remarks on the earnings call. 'Quarter-to-date, we have observed healthy volume trends due to strength in our focus categories and what could be a modest pull forward of demand from consumers worried about increased costs and complexity at U.S. customs in the near future.' Best of Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia and Collectibles in History The 100 Most Valuable Sports Teams in the World NFL Private Equity Ownership Rules: PE Can Now Own Stakes in Teams Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Runway Rundown: Milan Fashion Week Ends On A Sartorial High
After more than a full month of shows, events, celebrity-packed front rows, street style moments, and an over-active rumour mill, you'd be forgiven for suffering from more than just a little Fashion Week fatigue at this point. But the final two days of Milan Fashion Week ensured guests were newly filled with vim, vigour and inspiration aplenty to face the rest of the season ahead. FIND OUT MORE ON ELLE COLLECTIVE Getting the fifth day off to a rip-roaring start was Ferrari, where longtime creative director Rocco Iannone presented a collection that oozed grown-up sophistication. Inspired by the legendary automotive brand's 'Officina' – 'an artisanal workshop, a centre for study, a design lab, and the blueprint to launch a collection into production', as the show notes explained – Iannone played with proportions, materials and contrasts to craft clothes that felt as cutting-edge yet timeless as one of the brand's luxury cars. Think sharp pinstripe tailoring topped with a signature red tie and opulent shearling; luxurious burgundy leather skirts, dresses and jackets covered with fabulous fringing; hand-dyed denim with a trompe l'oeil scrunched effect, and lashings of gold, green and chocolate-brown to boot. But beyond Irina Shayk, Adriana Lima and Amelia Gray Hamlin walking the red-carpeted runway, it was a multi-coloured, hand-dyed and polished leather trench that really felt like the star of the show. Next was Ferragamo, where creative director Maximilian Davis had also set out a red carpet of sorts – but here, it was made up of thousands of red rose petals. The looks that subsequently emerged were worthy of every single one. The British-born designer presented a collection inspired by the German Tanztheater 'and the unbound expression of their liberated choreography', as she show notes explained. Hints of the 1920s and 80s – decades key to the expressionist dance genre – could be spotted throughout, whether in the form of drop-waist, lace-appliqué silken slips, utilitarian leathers and tailoring, dreamlike prints, or the florals taken directly from Ferragamo's iconic Eighties campaigns. Despite his rather lofty reference-points, Davis is a master of crafting collections that feel innately relevant to the modern woman, instantly desirable, and supremely wearable too. It's safe to say that between all the chic skirt-suits, oversize coats, silky minis and new iterations of the cult Hug handbag, guests left with an alarmingly hefty new wish-list. Show-goers seeking sartorial inspiration for the party circuit, meanwhile, were spoilt for choice at Dolce & Gabbana. The brand's AW25 collection was aptly named 'Cool Girls' and featured all the OTT outerwear, off-duty outfits, and sparkly, see-through, sultry separates you could hope for. Lingerie-inspired looks were front and centre, denim was low-slung and bedazzled, oversize menswear-esque pieces styled seamlessly with the ultra-feminine, and the sunglasses were bigger than ever – perfect for the morning after walk of (no) shame. All the while, real-life 'cool girls' including Naomi Campbell, Delilah Belle, Jessie Andrews and Heart Evangelista sat front row, and models emerged onto the streets outside the venue for a DJ set by Måneskin bass player Victoria De Angelis, kicking off Saturday night in style. Show-goers were back bright and early on Sunday morning, however, for Dolce & Gabbana's second spectacle of the season: the Milan debut of emerging designer Susan Fang, that was supported by the Italian luxury brand. The Chinese-born, London-based designer's 'Air•Memory' collection could not have been more markedly different from Milan's usual tendency towards the sophisticated and minimal, or glamorously outré. Fang, who usually shows in London, brought a dream-like, ethereal quality to the final day of Milan Fashion Week with her signature pastel-coloured, light-as-air, ultra-delicate tulle designs. 'The collection pays tribute to my mother, Ai Lan,' she explained to ELLE UK. 'I've incorporated her vibrant paintings—self-taught and full of life—into the collection, transforming them into sequins, embroidery, and denim art, which captures her love of nature and the joy of her memories.' 'Showing in Milan is an incredibly special experience for me, as it's a city that holds deep personal and cultural significance,' continued Fang. 'Milan is a hub for Italian craftsmanship, and the opportunity to present "Air•Memory" there allows me to merge my Chinese heritage with the rich tradition of Italian artistry. It's the perfect place to showcase a collection that blends diverse cultural inspirations.' Incidentally, the final show of Milan Fashion Week's AW25 season was also about returning to one's roots, and taking inspiration from diverse cultural spheres – albeit in a decidedly more classical, Italian luxury way. We're talking about Giorgio Armani, of course, who closed out the week on a high with his glorious 'Roots' collection. The epitome of effortless elegance, models emerged wearing flowing silk trouser suits, impeccably tailored jackets, softest cashmere knits, and shimmering embroidered dresses made for the red carpet. The palette was dominated by neutrals: sandy and golden shades of beige, deep browns, quartz-blue and endless greige, all inspired by 'the volcanic hues and mineral glows of sun-scorched earth, reassuring in its ancestral purity', as the show notes explained. And as ever, the smiles on the models faces were telling of an overall softness and ease in the collection, that even extended to the bags and shoes. As Armani himself put it, these are pieces 'designed for light yet assured steps, communicating an innate sense of confidence.' That's something we can all aspire to. ELLE Collective is a new community of fashion, beauty and culture lovers. For access to exclusive content, events, inspiring advice from our Editors and industry experts, as well the opportunity to meet designers, thought-leaders and stylists, become a member today Might Also Like Pyjamas You Can Wear All Day 10 Hand Soaps To Make Your Bathroom Feel Like A Fancy Hotel 8 Of The Best Natural Deodorants
