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Vogue
07-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
3 Fall 2025 Shoe Trends You Can Already Wear
The line-up of autumn/winter 2025 shoe trends reads like a wishlist of wardrobe classics. A fresh batch of fashion sneakers had the front row craning their necks at the runway shows, including styles presented by Miuccia Prada, who has become a master purveyor of excellent off-duty footwear. Together with Raf Simons, Ms. Prada complemented paper bag-waistband skirts with leather sneakers, complete with intentionally-distressed details like scuffs and raw edges. At Miu Miu, meanwhile, the final product was quite the opposite: smooth leather trainers, realized in retro silhouettes, with intricately-stitched accents and buckles. In today's comfort-driven age, these Miu Mius could fall into the 'smart shoe' category, but for those with a penchant for more trad takes, an array of lace-ups also featured on the runways – Victoria Beckham, Rabanne and McQueen were but a few brands that demonstrated easy-to-achieve polish. Willing to embrace a heel? Knife-edged styles courtesy of Saint Laurent, gathered satin pumps at Dries Van Noten and pointed takes at Tom Ford will satiate a stiletto appetite. Here, Vogue highlights a hat-trick of standout autumn/winter 2025 shoe trends – and where to shop them, now – updated as retailer deliveries drop. The Top Fall/Winter 2025 Shoe Trends Photos: Courtesy of Bally, Rabanne, Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein and Victoria Beckham Derbies and Brogues Even the simplest of outfits can benefit from a great shoe: a T-shirt and jeans pairing, for example, is immediately elevated with the addition of a high-shine derby or brogue. The autumn/winter 2025 runways presented an abundance of options, plus a healthy bank of styling inspiration to make getting dressed in the morning that little bit easier. Photos: Courtesy of Stella McCartney, Polo Ralph Lauren, Prada, Miu Miu, and Simone Rocha Next-Gen Sneakers Each season, a selection of wishlist-worthy options enter the fore. While sportswear behemoths will no doubt contribute a plethora of viral styles to the sneaker sphere in the coming months, fashion types will be fawning over Miu Miu's buckled trainers, Prada's distressed styles, Simone Rocha's ribboned laces, and Stella McCartney's retro pairs. Photos: Courtesy of Saint Laurent, Tom Ford, Dries Van Noten, Ferragamo, and Prada Fashion Pumps What makes a pump a 'fashion' pump? When it's given special treatment by a top-tier designer, of course, by way of extravagant bows, frilled flourishes, satin wraps or heels that could (metaphorically) splice a diamond. Saint Laurent, Dries Van Noten, Ferragamo, Tom Ford, and Prada (naturally) delivered on all fronts.


Arab News
18-06-2025
- Business
- Arab News
Sony expands LED display family with Crystal LED CAPRI
Sony is expanding its lineup of LED walls with the debut of Crystal LED CAPRI. The new CAPRI series achieves a maximum brightness of 1,500 cd/m2 with a 2.50 mm LED pitch size. Key features include high refresh rates and brightness, a wide color gamut, and anti-reflection. Additional benefits include installation flexibility, familiar structure, streamlined maintenance, and compatibility with Sony's ecosystem of virtual production technologies. The new models, ZRD-VS25FB and ZRD-VS25FM, are compatible with the Brompton controller and the Megapixel controller, respectively. The CAPRI models are targeted to a broad range of customers looking to cost-effectively support virtual production applications, including television, feature films, commercials, and broadcast, as well as for rental and staging purposes. The CAPRI series offers options that ensure the high picture quality synonymous with Sony at a more accessible price. CAPRI also complements Sony's premium flagship Crystal LED VERONA. The CAPRI series is expected to be available this winter. A sample of the CAPRI was on display on June 11-13 at InfoComm 2025 in Orlando in Sony's booth. 'With the announcement of CAPRI, Sony is furthering our commitment to the creation of spatial content, such as virtual production, by giving a wider range of users opportunities for flexibly showcasing images in high fidelity,' said Rich Ventura, vice president, professional display solutions, Sony Electronics Inc. 'We've broadened our lineup to offer more cost-conscious choices, which expand the market in support of high-quality virtual production at every level and ensure the growth of Sony's distinctive virtual production ecosystem.' Impressive picture quality Virtual productions rely on high quality imagery. The CAPRI series combines high refresh rates of up to 7,680 Hz to reduce scanline artifacts and ensure smooth, fluid motion. With a high brightness of 1,500 cd/m2, complemented by coverage of over 98 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut, the displays accurately reproduce lifelike images. Additionally, the new models feature anti-reflection capabilities to mitigate the impact of reflection from lighting equipment. Fast and easy installation The latest CAPRI series also takes advantage of recent installation advancements to ensure fast and efficient setup. Offering a 1:1 cabinet optimized for temporary installations, such as virtual production stages, the models can quickly and easily be assembled and dismantled using locating pins for easy alignment and a tool-free lever locking mechanism. Industry standard control Through alignment with Brompton's Tessera SX40 and Megapixel's HELIOS, the CAPRI models maintain control using the same familiar tools and interfaces already commonly deployed in the industry, alleviating the need for additional training and maximizing uptime. Streamlined maintenance To keep virtual productions focused on the creative processes, the CAPRI has thoughtful features that simplify maintenance. LED module blocks can be changed from the rear and feature status indication lights for easily identifying which blocks need service.

News.com.au
08-06-2025
- Climate
- News.com.au
Huge start to Australia ski season as snow dumped on NSW, Victoria
Australia's snow resorts have seen a bumper start to the season as a cold front sweeps through the country's south east, sending temperatures and powder plummeting. Blizzard conditions have hit ski fields in NSW and Victoria over the weekend, bringing the biggest start to the snow season in years. In one clip shared by Hotham Alpine Resort in Victoria, a man can be seen wading through knee-high snow after a massive dump. '51cm storm total,' the resort wrote on social media. 'We're not skipping leg day at Hotham!' In NSW, Thredbo is reporting 26cm on the ground and Perisher's live snow cam shows a peak of around 35cm. 'And just like that, winter 2025 is here!' Thredbo wrote in a post. 'Snow is falling and there's over 50cm in the forecast … let's GO!' Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Jonathon How said overnight snowfall marks being reported included 25cm at Perisher, 32cm at Hotham, 26cm at Buller and 37cm at Falls Creek. 'So really, really big numbers,' he said. Mr How said Perisher, Thredbo and Charlotte Pass could see another 10 to 20cm on Sunday. 'We've got a couple more centimetres to come in Victoria and pretty much anywhere above about 900m will get snow today across the alpine areas.' He said snow was also expected to fall in new areas west of Sydney on Sunday, including parts of the Blue Mountains and Central Tablelands. 'And so we're expecting snow at Oberon. Even orange could get some flurries this afternoon and evening at some of the hills around Lithgow. 'So the snow level (will be) falling to around 800m tonight across the central tablelands.' Colleague Dean Narramore, from the Bureau, said on Saturday that the south east could expect days of low temperatures and heavy snow dumps in Alpine areas. 'Where this cold front has come from, and where it's dragging the air from, is actually well south of Australia,' he said. 'And that's why we're going to see temperatures drop three to give degrees, and daytime highs might not even break out of the single figures in the south east of Australia as we move through Sunday and Monday.' A low pressure system developing off the coast of Victoria would also bring windy conditions and rain, which would fall as snow in the Alpine areas, he said. Weatherzone's Anthony Sharwood predicted on Friday that there could be as much as 70cm of snow falling at high resorts by Tuesday, and up to 30cm at lower resorts.

ABC News
05-06-2025
- Climate
- ABC News
Australia's snowiest weather in three years ahead for long weekend
South-east Australia will collectively shiver this long weekend as a mass of polar air from sub-Antarctic waters brings several days of showers, highland snow and well-below-average temperatures. The cold snap has the potential to bring the heaviest rain in one to two years across southern South Australia and south-west Victoria, a blessing for farmers who are desperate for relief from a record dry 16 months. The wintry storm is also likely to produce Australia's most widespread snow in years — ideal timing for alpine resorts for the opening of the ski season. The past two winters have been very lean snow-wise across Australia — both in terms of the ski season and non-alpine falls. And while winter 2025 is likely to be warmer than normal in general, the frigid air surging north will reduce speed once it reaches Australia, leading to a prolonged polar outbreak from Saturday, including potentially the most widespread snowfalls since 2022. Across the alpine regions, snow will fall above between about 800 and 1,200 metres for at least four days, comfortably below the elevation of our ski slopes, which sit mostly at a height between 1,400 to 2,000m. Modelling is confident the Saturday-Sunday period will drop around 40 to 60 centimetres across the major resorts, which in most years would equate to one of the best dumps of the season. Further snow will fall across the Alps from Monday; however, it's currently unclear whether the back half of the event will bring only a few centimetres each day or further moderate falls. For non-alpine regions, the prospect of snowfalls down to 800 metres raises the potential for a winter wonderland in numerous towns along the Great Dividing Range. In terms of extent, Victoria's snowiest day should be Sunday, followed by NSW on Monday when a dusting is likely on both the southern and central ranges, including around Oberon, Orange and the Blue Mountains. There's even the slight possibility of a quick flurry of snow in the hills around Canberra on Monday, and a few flakes may reach the northern NSW ranges on Tuesday. The Barrington Tops region of the Upper Hunter will also receive snow — falling on multiple days from Sunday onwards due to its high elevation above 1,500m. While major winter storms are more common from late June to August, it was only three years ago that a series of early June fronts brought similarly cold conditions and snow. On that occasion, well over one metre fell on the higher Alps in less than two weeks, so while this event is notable, it's far from record-breaking. For our capitals, temperatures will remain well above June records despite plummeting as much as 4 degrees Celsius below average, including the coldest maximums of: Sunday Adelaide 13C — coldest day since July 2024 (12.5C) Melbourne 12C — coldest day since September 2024 (10.8C) Monday Canberra 9C — coldest day since July 2024 (8.5C) Sydney 16C — was colder on June 4th (14.1C) Tuesday Brisbane 20C — was colder on May 30th (18.9C) The coldest air will bypass Tasmania, resulting in Hobart's maximums of around 14C being slightly above the June average. The presence of sub-Antarctic air well into the mid-latitudes will cause a low-pressure system to form and then track east through Bass Strait this weekend. Low-pressure systems bring rain, and thankfully for farmers, the system's slow movement will supply at least four days of showery weather. However, even before the low develops, a cold front will spread showers east through SA, Tasmania, and Victoria today with an average fall of 1 to 10 millimetres to whet the appetite ahead of the main event. As the low forms on Saturday the intensity of precipitation will increase, although totals will be highly dependent on location. Since winds spin clockwise around a low in the Southern Hemisphere, areas exposed to a westerly will see the heaviest falls on the mainland, including the SA coast and ranges, south-west and mountain Victoria, and the western slopes of the NSW southern ranges. Winds to the south of the low will swing from northerlies to easterlies, also leading to heavy falls across northern and eastern Tasmania. The forecast is more complex for Gippsland, with rainfall intensity dependent on whether the low track south to Tasmania or into eastern Bass Strait from Monday. The map below shows how much rain could accumulate over a five-day period, which would represent the heaviest falls in a year or two for some regions, including: As with most powerful fronts and lows, this weekend's system will generate a belt of strong winds. The Bureau of Meteorology has already issued warnings for strengthening north-westerly winds ahead of the first front for Friday and are likely to reissue warnings for areas of the coast and ranges when the low spins up near Bass Strait. The region likely to face the full force of the low on Saturday is along the coast near the SA-Vic border, where gusts may exceed 100 kilometres per hour, strong enough to bring down trees and lead to damage and power outages. Damaging gusts may also impact central SA and the NSW ranges on Saturday, before the threat eases slightly from Sunday onwards.

RNZ News
02-06-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
A warmer winter is on its way, NIWA says
By John Lewis , Otago Daily Times Climate scientists are predicting winter 2025 could be warmer than usual. Photo: Tom Kitchin Electricity bills may deliver less of a hammering this winter if NIWA's outlook for the next few months comes to fruition. It shows temperatures from June to August are "very likely" to be warmer than average this winter, meaning fewer cold snaps and frosts than usual. NIWA National Climate Centre forecasting principal scientist Chris Brandolino said El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions in the tropical Pacific remained neutral at present, but there were "residual signals" that indicated weak La Nina conditions were persisting. Occasional La Nina-like atmospheric patterns might still emerge over the next three months, he said. "However, international guidance indicates about a 70 percent chance for the tropical Pacific to remain in an Enso-neutral state over the next three-month period." He said higher-than-normal atmospheric pressure was expected to the east of the country, leading to northeasterly flow anomalies that might shift to a more northwesterly direction towards the end of the three-month period. That means seasonal air temperatures are expected to be above average across all New Zealand regions for the winter season. "While cold snaps and frosts will occur, they are expected to be less frequent than usual." On the West Coast, Southern Alps and foothills, inland Otago, and Southland, temperatures were very likely to be above average, he said. Rainfall totals, soil moisture levels and river flows are about equally likely to be near normal or above normal. Temperatures were also very likely to be above average along coastal Otago, he said. "Rainfall totals are most likely to be in the near normal range, and soil moisture levels and river flows are about equally likely to be near normal or above normal." Brandolino said for the remainder of the calendar year, ENSO-neutral conditions were expected to persist. "The guidance available, however, suggests the possibility for La Nina conditions to return by summer 2025-2026." La Nina can bring more northeasterly winds to New Zealand, leading to drier conditions in the south and southwest of the South Island. - This story was first published by Otago Daily Times