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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Anti Social Social Club Unveils First Global Flagship in Seoul
LONDON — Anti Social Social Club, the direct-to-consumer streetwear label, is expanding into brick-and-mortar on Friday with its South Korean distributor, Kasina, to open its first global flagship in Dosan, a trendy neighborhood in the Gangnam area of Seoul. The flagship space, designed by Seoul-based studio Archi@mosphere, is adorned with industrial pink anodized aluminum, glass-paneled walls and a cement floor. More from WWD Yahoo Mail Unveils AI Mobile App Feature and Collabs With Anti Social Social Club From K-beauty to J-beauty and Beyond - Inside Asian Beauty's Next Chapter Peter Kim Brings Taverniti on Board as Creative Director of D-R-G-N It features a selection of the brand's ready-to-wear offerings, like the Quickstrike lines with Assassin's Creed and WWE, and a Seoul exclusive 'Chapter Dosan' collection. The store also will showcase a rotating display of rare vintage cars. Romney Jacob, vice president of brand at Marquee Brands, which acquired Anti Social Social Club in 2022, said the store has some of the best neighbors in the street fashion scene in Seoul: Supreme, Palace and Noah. Coinciding with the opening, the store will host an archive exhibition featuring playful items such as camping gear, frying pans, lanterns and past collaborations, like the Playboy cushion and sleep mask. Ian Coates, founder and creative director of Anti Social Social Club, will host a series of talks with artists and fashion industry professionals in South Korea to explore the brand's evolving identity. Jacob said South Korean culture has been integral to the brand since its inception. 'According to our lore, a bad breakup with a Korean girl was the motive behind the founding of the brand, and Korean graphics and characters have been frequent design motifs. It's fitting to commemorate our 10th anniversary with the opening of our first flagship in the country that inspired it all,' she added. The brand and its Seoul team have also codeveloped a customization program exclusive to the flagship, allowing visitors 'to immerse themselves in the ASSC ethos in the physical world that will add richness and texture to the experience in a way that just isn't possible online,' according to Jacob. 'Our retail environment will have ASSC Easter eggs hidden around the store, constantly changing, allowing us to create an experience that keeps both our superfans and new customers coming back. Combine that with a full slate of activation programming for future collaborations, and we will take the ASSC experience to the next level,' she touted. A new lineup of products is planned to be released every week. The international expansion comes after Anti Social Social Club had largely stuck to its direct-to-consumer, drop model since its inception. In addition to tapping Kasina for a South Korea partnership, it last year signed on Luke 1977 in the U.K. to bring the brand to a larger customer base. The brand first started offering three drops a year, with each drop lasting roughly two hours. Anti Social Social Club was founded in 2014 by NikeTalk forum member Neek Lurk, who is no longer associated with the company. Looking ahead, Jacob said the brand's next 10 years will be reinventing the category once again. 'Much as the brand has pioneered the drop model and the use of Instagram as a marketing channel, we will continue to be at the forefront of culture and technology, figuring out the best way to hack the latest developments in these areas to enrich our customers' experiences and build our brand exponentially,' she said. 'More practically, the next decade will definitively be characterized by dedicated ASSC stores around the world, executing on a business model that is equal parts globalized and localized — a model that our 'born of the internet' brand can uniquely deliver,' she added. Jacob confirmed that the company is actively looking for like-minded brands to 'join our cause and see our future business as an accelerator of a portfolio of meaningful and commercial youth brands, providing all the capabilities necessary to allow them to fully meet their global brand potential.' Best of WWD Macy's Is Closing 66 Stores in 2025 — Here's the List, Live Updates Inside the Demise of Lord & Taylor COVID-19 Spikes Elevate Retail Concerns
Arab News
08-03-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Congo refugees pour into Burundi, conditions dire, says UN
GENEVA: Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighboring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with conditions dire at a crammed stadium camp and many stuck in fields outside, the UN said on Friday. About 45,000 displaced people are sheltering in a crowded open-air stadium in Rugombo, a few km (miles) from the border with Democratic Republic of Congo where the Congolese army and M23 rebel group are fighting. 'The situation is absolutely dire. Conditions are extremely harsh,' Faith Kasina, the regional spokesperson for East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes, told reporters in Geneva. 'The stadium is literally bursting at its seams and there is no additional space for shelter.' Sanitary conditions inside the stadium are said to be poor with only 10 to 15 stalls of latrines for tens of thousands of people. Many families are being forced to camp in open fields nearby, according to the agency. 'Numbers keep swelling, it's a race against time to try and save lives,' said Kasina, adding that the needs are fast outpacing the aid being provided. The refugees include a large number of unaccompanied children separated from their families, the agency says. On 21 February, UNHCR told a press briefing in Geneva that it would seek to move people from the stadium. However logistical challenges mean it takes six to eight hours to move large numbers of people to the Musenyi refugee site in southern Burundi. That site, which can host 10,000 people, is now 60 percent full, according to the agency. The agency has urged countries to contribute to its emergency appeal for $40.4 million for lifesaving help to support the potential influx of 258,000 refugees into Burundi, Tanzania and Zambia. The M23 advance is the gravest escalation in more than a decade of the long-running conflict in eastern Congo, rooted in the spillover of Rwanda's 1994 genocide into Congo and the struggle for control of Congo's vast mineral resources. Rwanda rejects allegations by Congo, the United Nations and Western powers that it supports M23 with arms and troops. It says it is defending itself against the threat from a Hutu militia, which it says is fighting with the Congolese military. Burundi has had its own soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there, but more recently, to aid in the fight against M23. Pro-govt fighters kill 35 civilians Meanwhile, at least 35 people were killed when pro-government militia attacked a village in the restive eastern DRC, local and security sources said on Friday. The attack happened at about 3:00 am (0100 GMT) Thursday in the village of Tambi, in the Masisi area of North Kivu province controlled by the M23 armed group. A security source told AFP that at least 35 people were killed in the attack, while local sources and an eyewitness put the death toll at more than 40. A community leader and a medical source said villagers had recently returned to the area after having fled fighting between the M23 and the Congolese army and local militia. 'The 'wazalendo' (patriots in Swahili) militia went to attack Tambi where residents had started to return... they opened fire and civilians were killed,' said one community leader, who said 43 people died. 'They put some victims in a church and then shot them. Those who were in the fields were killed there.' The community leader, a local health worker and a local resident said another group of civilians sought refuge in a house and died when the militia set it on fire. 'We counted 47 bodies in the morning,' the resident said, adding that they were buried in a communal grave. Some of the victims were unable to be identified because of their burns, he added. Different groups make up the militia, which has fought alongside the Congolese army against the M23. Their fighters are often accused of attacking civilians. The M23, which according to UN experts is backed by some 4,000 Rwandan soldiers, is also accused of abuses. The armed group resumed its fight against the government in Kinshasa in 2021 and has since seized swathes of territory in North Kivu, which borders Rwanda. A lightning offensive in recent weeks has seen it capture the provincial capital, Goma, and Bukavu, the main city in the neighboring province of South Kivu. The DRC's mineral-rich east has been ravaged for three decades by conflict and atrocities.
MTV Lebanon
07-03-2025
- Politics
- MTV Lebanon
Congo refugees pour into Burundi, conditions dire
Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with conditions dire at a crammed stadium camp and many stuck in fields outside, the U.N. said on Friday. About 45,000 displaced people are sheltering in a crowded open-air stadium in Rugombo, a few km (miles) from the border with Democratic Republic of Congo where the Congolese army and M23 rebel group are fighting. "The situation is absolutely dire. Conditions are extremely harsh," Faith Kasina, the regional spokesperson for East and Horn of Africa and Great Lakes, told reporters in Geneva. "The stadium is literally bursting at its seams and there is no additional space for shelter." Sanitary conditions inside the stadium are said to be poor with only 10 to 15 stalls of latrines for tens of thousands of people. Many families are being forced to camp in open fields nearby, according to the agency. "Numbers keep swelling, it's a race against time to try and save lives," said Kasina, adding that the needs are fast outpacing the aid being provided. The refugees include a large number of unaccompanied children separated from their families, the agency says. On 21 February, UNHCR told a press briefing in Geneva that it would seek to move people from the stadium. However logistical challenges mean it takes six to eight hours to move large numbers of people to the Musenyi refugee site in southern Burundi. That site, which can host 10,000 people, is now 60 per cent full, according to the agency. The agency has urged countries to contribute to its emergency appeal for $40.4 million for lifesaving help to support the potential influx of 258,000 refugees into Burundi, Tanzania and Zambia. The M23 advance is the gravest escalation in more than a decade of the long-running conflict in eastern Congo, rooted in the spillover of Rwanda's 1994 genocide into Congo and the struggle for control of Congo's vast mineral resources. Rwanda rejects allegations by Congo, the United Nations and Western powers that it supports M23 with arms and troops. It says it is defending itself against the threat from a Hutu militia, which it says is fighting with the Congolese military. Burundi has had its own soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels there, but more recently, to aid in the fight against M23.
