Saturday, July 6, 2013

Zoom on Resort: MaxMara, Clover Canyon, and More

If Gucci's sparkly pajamas aren't your speed, today's batch of resort shows offers up the usual helping of bold color and graphic patterns, along with some legitimate winter staples. At Sportmax, the collection went the corporate route, drawing inspiration from Ron Jude's photographs of American Wall Street types from the nineties. Filled with pinstripes, heavy leathers, and wool staples including trousers and skirts, the palette was limited to black, white, gray, and a hint of pink — a nod to the color of the Financial Times. One sweater was especially interesting up close: a printed organza overlay bonded to the wool of the sweater, creating an unusual texture. 

Over at  MaxMara, the collection was more abstract; ballet, the Fauve spirit, and Henri Matisse's Dance served as reference points. Bits of candy-colored mink accented the collars of coats while duo-tone clutches and tiny fur bags were crave-worthy. A color-blocked coat in pink, green, and gray was reminiscent of a delicious ice cream treat —  a welcome reprieve from winter's drabness.

For those looking for something more exotic, Clover Canyon demonstrated their understanding of kaleidoscopic digital prints with vivid images of Cuba and other tropical locales. The pieces felt appropriate for a modern-day Carmen Miranda, with cheeky references like a sweatshirt featuring an older woman wearing a floral crown while smoking a cigar. Another dress combined the lush imagery of the jungle with clean white inserts, creating a graphic and architectural option for your next vacation. Click ahead to see these looks up close and personal.


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Editor's Letter: Windows 8 gets its start back

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In each issue of Distro, Editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.

DNP Editor's Letter Windows 8 gets its start back

There are times when you need to stay strong, ignore the criticism and do what you know is right. Then, there are some times when the masses are right and listening is the smart thing. With Windows 8, Microsoft made many radical changes, not the least of which being the deletion of the fabled Start button. This week we got our first taste of that operating system's first major update, Windows 8.1, and it includes a number of notable upgrades and improvements. Perhaps the most notable? The return of a Start button. Well, sort of.

It's now called a "Start Tip" as it isn't a proper button, but you can click on it and bring up the tiled Start Screen interface. So, the Start button is back, but not the Start menu. That's fine by me, as I don't think hidden, contextual elements make much sense in a keyboard-and-mouse environment. And the other tweaks are nice, including a far more comprehensive Settings section, a functional lock screen and, finally, the ability to adjust the size of applications that you've snapped to either side of your screen. Maybe in Windows 8.2 we'll get fully resizable windows!

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Tim Cook joined many other notables speaking at the D11 conference and, as he often does, dropped a lot of interesting sound bites and factoids. First off, he said that wearable devices are "incredibly exciting," but thinks that Google Glass is not something that will have "broad-range appeal." The glasses form factor, he thinks, will be something many users won't want to commit to. He then, coyly, went on to say that he enjoys the wrist-worn Nike FuelBand -- as if you needed any more indication of where Apple's own wearable will go on your body.

The phone is coming later this summer and will be called the Moto X, a name that gives me all sorts of wonderful ideas for an adrenaline-filled marketing campaign.

Cook also said that the upcoming WWDC would have a strong focus on iOS and OS X, the expectation being that we'll finally see the retooled mobile operating system. Who knows, maybe OS X will finally step away from the increasingly more obscure cat-based naming system, too. Finally, he indicated that Apple has sold a whopping 13 million Apple TVs, and that half of those have been sold in the past year alone. Maybe there's room for an actual Apple-branded TV after all.

Motorola is taking the unusual (but thoroughly commendable, in my opinion) step of building its next major smartphone here in the US of A. Fort Worth, Texas, specifically, at a factory formerly used by Nokia, making it the first Motorola smartphone built here. The phone is coming later this summer and will be called the Moto X, a name that gives me all sorts of wonderful ideas for an adrenaline-filled marketing campaign.

Lenovo, meanwhile, announced that it would finally be bringing its growing stable of smartphones to the American market sometime before the end of the year. It's a hugely competitive market, CEO Yang Yuanqing acknowledged to The Wall Street Journal, but with PC sales sliding, it's one that his company can't afford to ignore.

DNP Editor's Letter Windows 8 gets its start back

LG, meanwhile, finally showed off its white Nexus 4 officially -- a phone that we unofficially got our hands on at I/O two weeks ago. It launched this week and it might just mark the company's final Nexus device. For now, anyway. European VP Kim Wong said LG "does not need such a marketing success again," which we'll take to mean that the company thinks it can do just fine with its own custom skin. Stock Android, we're told, is unfortunately not in the immediate future for devices.

With the buzz surrounding the Xbox One settling down after last week, hype machines surely taking a bit of a breather ahead of E3 in a few weeks' time, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida decided it's a fair time to get people talking about the PlayStation 4 again. More specifically, about how it works with the PlayStation Vita. Games for Sony's next home console will all run on the Vita via Remote Play -- excepting those games that depend on Move or other specific hardware. Additionally, the Vita can be used to deliver a second-screen-like experience, a la the Wii U. However, since not every PS4 owner will have a Vita, we're dubious about just how well integrated that functionality will be.

In this week's Distro, I'm taking you inside the XPRIZE to show you how the philanthropic and forward-thinking organization decides what's worthy of its considerable support. We also have my interview with wearable-computing pioneer Thad Starner about just how Google Glass came to be. There's a pair of reviews: the Samsung ATIV Book 7 and Huawei Ascend Mate; Ross Rubin discusses the state of the BlackBerry keyboard; and TechShop CEO Mark Hatch sits down for Q&A. We hope you'll make us your primary screen for a little while and enjoy.


This piece originally appeared in Distro #93.

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Twitter adds inline profile editing, drag-and-drop photo uploads

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Twitter adds inline profile editing, draganddrop photo uploads

Twitter has made it just a tad easier to tweak your profile information by offering the option of changing them inline. The feature, which is available through both the website and its official mobile apps, enables faster changes to your account bio, as well as drag-and-drop upload capability for your header and profile photos. It's a small change, but ultimately it's meant to encourage users to keep their accounts fresh and relevant. Check out the video below the break to see exactly how it works.

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Google: 'We won't be approving any facial recognition Glassware at this time'

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While the public decides how to deal with Google Glass-wearing cyborgs walking among us, there are already startups trying to add facial recognition to the device. That includes the MedRef for Glass app for Doctors and an API created by Lambda Labs that's on the way. Unfortunately, apparently due to privacy concerns, a post tonight by the Project Glass team says that it will not approve any app using the tech for release -- at least until it has some privacy protections in place. That's the same standard it previously said would need to be met before it added facial recognition to its own services.

We've been listening closely to you, and many have expressed both interest and concern around the possibilities of facial recognition in Glass. As Google has said for several years, we won't add facial recognition features to our products without having strong privacy protections in place. With that in mind, we won't be approving any facial recognition Glassware at this time.

Without approval, we don't expect to see any standard apps with the API built-in, however with the headset's current wide open nature, we assume interested hackers will be able to get the software running if they so desire. So, how comfortable do you feel having a conversation with someone wearing Glass, considering third parties may add extra features even if Google itself is not involved? Check out the full statement from Google linked below, as well as a look at Lambda Labs from TechCrunch.

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Man Learns Difficulty of Maintaining Hairless Pubic Area

Comedian and actor Adam DeVine is some kind of spokesman for male pubic grooming. He revealed to GQ what a pain it is.

If you've never shaved your junk before, you need to block off two hours of your time, because it's going to get serious. There's going to be some heavy lifting down there, but don't be afraid. You can take Norelco's Click & Style in the shower, where I like to do my shave, because you don't want to leave little pube trimmings all over, because then your bathroom's just a mess, and when your loved one comes home and there are pubes all over the sink, and around the toothbrush area — that's break-up material.”

Not that you want your sex partner to know you spent two hours achieving a childlike mons pubis.

“Girls don't want to know ... It's like how we don't want to hear how they poop. They're supposed to be angelic creatures who don't do anything disgusting. They don't want to hear about how we power-squatted in the bathroom and shaved our nut-sacks. So you really have to do a good job down there, and make it look like, Hey, I'm willing to maintain this. I'm willing to put in the work for you, because I love you and care about you. But also, I'm not putting in that much work. You don't want it to be too nice. Have it look good, but don't make it seem like this is what you spent your entire afternoon on.”

Who wants to break it to him about ingrown hairs?

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Men&#8217s Answer to Leaning In: The Fraternity of Paternity

Earlier this week, Esquire and the Cut lamented how hard it is for men, like women, to have it all, as they say, especially without a sisterhood to lean in to and gab about it with. But Bloomberg Businessweek reports that some men are, in fact, forming support groups to address the challenges of being a working parent. They’re just in Canada.

In Toronto, Deloitte consulting group has a working dads group, Deloitte Dads, a.k.a. “The Fraternity of Paternity.”  According to writer Sheelah Kolhatkar, for Deloitte working dads, child-rearing is not about finding work-life balance. “They don’t believe in ‘balance,’” she writes, because they don’t see spending time with their kids as antithetical to work. For them, child-rearing is a part of their job, and they’re on the clock, smartphone charged, 24-7. “Magder and his colleagues sound in many ways like typical MBA guys, only they’re applying the principles of efficient management to the task of parenting,” she writes. Also unlike a Lean In circle: there’s no guilt, no self-flagellation, and minimal feelings.

Behold, a day in the life of Alpha Dad Rob Lanou:

Kolhatkar says this level of efficiency suggests “men might actually be better at handling women’s issues than women.” (Pause for spit-take.) But to me, this sounds exactly like the schedule woman and “Can Women Have It All?” writer Anne-Marie Slaughter was working at the State Department until she realized it was insane, leaned the heck out, and, well, kicked off this entire conversation. There’s lots more to think about over at Bloomberg Businessweek (including an interview with the father of the Men’s Rights Movement), and in the meantime, any men who want to talk about their feelings and/or turn off their BlackBerrys are welcome at my lunch table/Lean In circle.


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