SHOWnews: Jacquemus On Paris, Kendrick Lamar On Revenge and More

Sportopia Plays To Win At Selfridges This Summer

Paris 2024 Olympic hysteria catches onto Selfridges in the form of ‘Sportopia,’ an event running through July and August as their entire Oxford operation transforms into a sports-adjacent venue like never before. Sportopia engages legions of fans from mass to niche sports interest levels. If tennis is your thing, go cheer Carlos Alcaraz onto Wimbledon’s final round on the Selfridges rooftop while having lunch at Le Club Lacoste. In mid-July, fans of the 400 and 800-meter swimming relays can keep time with OMEGA timekeepers as the official Olympic sponsor collaborates with Selfridges’ Corner Shop on an immersive swimming concept. If you prefer armchair entertainment, check out the 2024 Euros or Bend It Like Beckham in the Selfridges cinema. Other Sportopia highlights include Harry Gordon’s Bar redesigned as an all-American Sports simulation, a six-week open where visitors can scale climbing walls at Selfridges in London on Edwards Mews (from 18 July) and at the atrium in the Birmingham store (from 25 July). Sportopia display windows on Orchard and Duke Street present the artistic perspectives sports can shape as Corbin Shaw and Anna Lomax were invited to create works on site that look at the emotional connection competition provides (Shaw) while Lomax explores the adrenaline highs from winning’s ecstasy through sculpture. This summer, Sportopia competes to be your in-store arena for sports-inspired shopping, sculpture and film.

Jacquemus Has Paris The Palm Of His Le Swoosh

The XXXIII year of the Olympiad in Paris would be incomplete without its main sponsor, Nike, reuniting with its prodigal fashion son, Simon Porte Jacquemus. Nike and Jacquemus have created a third collection of 10 distinct lifestyle-based essentials that reimagine sportswear as the lodestone connecting athletic performance to fashion. The collection pushes fashion — headlined by the Nike x Jacquemus Air Max 1 and the red-hot, Sha’Carri-clutching Le Swoosh bag — into campaign film territory where Jacquemus expresses joy from ‘the collection as a mix of sport, fashion and culture in the most beautiful city in the world, where Nike athletes will take centre stage this summer.’ Check out the film to get your own joy from Serena Williams, Central Cee, Juliette Binoche, Rina Sawayama and the queen — Carine Roitfeld.

Kiko Kostadinov and ASICS Put The Rubber On The Road

As that 2024 Paris Olympics fever inches closer and closer, consider your need for new Kiko Kostadinov and ASICS trainers. Let the Métro become your bestie as you bypass nasty Olympic road traffic in your brand new GEL-FLAMMAE style, feet flexing proudly showcasing Kostadinov’s updated designs from the ASICS netball archive. The floral rubber toecap matches the same traction pattern on the rubber sole to emphasise advanced functionality when pounding the pavement to 11 Paris venues or kitting out your netball squad this summer. As British photographer Rosie Marks is an expert at lensing constant enthusiasm of communities, generations and sports, ASICS and Kiko enlisted her eye to capture the GEL-FLAMMAE in its natural environment — on net-ballers of all ages. That this ASICS partnership connects Kostadinov and Marks again to work together as a team, to accomplish a mission bigger than yourselves, is directly on-brand this summer. Get your Olympics feelings (or something like them) from 12 July on at the Kiko Kostadinov flagship or kikokostadinov.com.

Off-White™ Will ‘Be Right Back’ With A New Trainer

Off-White™ takes inspiration from 90’s nostalgic high performance shoes designed for running (or for Rawkus Records concerts) to flip and reverse functionality for their new ‘Be Right Back’ (BRB) trainer. A shoe style usually seen in rap ciphers, indie-sleaze-be-damned Rock Steady concerts or worn by the holders of Krylon spray cans, Off-White™ promotes the ‘BRB’ to literally embody its iconic web 2.0 meaning to take a break from the daily intensity of nonstop interaction. The ‘Be Right Back’ believes you simply, gotta, breathe. Good things happen when you breathe. To quote Fabolous: I'm a breath of fresh air in a fresh pair. That statement sounds stylish yet tranquil, right? So take a second to exhale, then relax, consider your next path AFTER you purchase the new BRB’s and — since Off-White™ clearly has us in our 00’s rap bag — ‘Breathe, Stretch, Shake’ to tap into the zone of what defines you. Could you be at the intersection of sport and style like Off-White™? If yes, the BRB codes are like songs about your inner sounds with a fresh take on Off-White™ logo design and 11 colourways, four of which connect to the you that relishes club nights in New York, Paris, Milan and of course, Miami.

MCM and Jaden Smith Present Luggage Upcycled From Oceans

Harper Collective, the sustainably-minded concept from Jaden Smith and former Selfridges director Sebastian Manes, partners with Germany’s MCM on a personalised capsule luggage set that marries the visions of each company. Harper Collective and MCM both seek alternative solutions to straightforward fast luxury consumption. Harper Collective produces their travel cases in Italy using 70% of recycled plastics reclaimed from oceans and post-consumer use. MCM adds their 48-year expertise in luxury manufacturing, enthusiasm to innovate and keen interest to contribute to eco-friendly production development. MCM deadstock components — recycled nylon for luggage interiors, webbing straps to bind packable contents, belts from various decades — mix with Harper Collective’s own perfected elements like abandoned fishing nets, also from our oceans. A digital product passport (DPP) allows customers to authenticate their pieces by scanning a blockchain-linked NFC serial chip. This genuine commitment to sustainability and transparency in the luxury sector places Harper Collective and MCM in distinctive, authentic air in the fashion industry. The 3-piece collection is available from 11 July at the Harper Collective shop-in-shop at Selfridges, MCM global flagships and the Harper Collective website.

Kendrick Lamar Blends Vengeance With Style In ‘Not Like Us’

Kendrick Lamar’s Juneteenth epoch ‘Pop Out’ Concert coincidentally occurred on day two of Paris Men’s Fashion Week. A few takeaways from that Wednesday day are Juneteenth obviously, then how both rap and fashion beef seemingly resemble each other. Lamar’s months-long lyrical torching, identity slashing, paranoia stoking, Graham family flogging evisceration of Drake reflects fashion’s own piping hot history. Anyone recall Karl Lagerfeld and Pierre Bergé viciously sniping at each other for decades? Or Bergé cattily sass Yves Saint Laurent successors Tom Ford and the excellent, equally sassy Stefano Pilati? We have seen Hedi Slimane’s victories — each win tangible in cash — over both Kering and Day 1 CELINE haters, Azzedine Alaïa with model gang shade a hypocritical Met gala exhibition and Virgil Abloh’s soggy excuses for stealing Walter Van Beirendonck’s original ideas. Fashion and rap beef simply goes together like…the Kendrick Lamar and Martine Rose relationship, on full celebratory display in his new ‘Not Like Us’ clip. See Lamar’s victorious sway-step with his fellow L.A. residents in a muscular leather riders jacket from Ms. Rose’s Highgate community center show. Watch Lamar politick with his homies in Ms. Rose’s sleek raglan doll jacket in army green. This was from her Pitti show, itself a certain victory lap of sixteen years being bigger, faster and stronger than tragic late heads who just learned how to pronounce Martine Rose after Balenciaga menswear (shame on you all). Kendrick Lamar weaponised unsung fashion designers for dual retribution with acute precision in ‘Not Like Us.’ As scene one opens with Lamar wearing a track jacket from California countryman Willy Chavarria, you think of the blood, sweat and semen that Chavarria has given menswear over 30 years (again, shame on you all). As a seated Kendrick bops to his own karaoke, he pairs the Chavarria trackie with Stefan Cooke shorts from their ‘Away’ collection. On the runway, it was paired with a grey, drop-waist hunting jacket that completed the Balenciaga menswear conversation Nicolas Ghesquière started twenty years ago. Stefan Cooke and Jake Burt speak so Kendrick Lamar can scream. He told you so. They told you so. They all told you so.

Loop Yourself Into Select This Outdoor Festival Season

As Glastonbury Festival approaches, it’s time to start packing your bags for an unforgettable experience filled with music, vibrant crowds, and electric energy – but amidst music excitement from loud crowds and loud, excitable friend groups, Loop earplugs suggest the importance of ear protection from climbing decibel levels. Created for and by music obsessives, the Loop Experience 2 is designed for festivals and outdoor events to provide 17dB SNR of noise reduction. Plus, they look like candy.

Kiko Kostadinov presents ‘Hypathia’ with ECCO.Kollektive

In their final instalment for ECCO.Kollektive, Laura and Deanna Fanning of Kiko Kostadinov, the sister duo present ’Hypathia’. The collection of shoes, bags, and womenswear merges the allure of technology with fantasy along with ECCO’s legacy of precision, technology and innovation. Rooted in curvilinear lines and space-age shapes, creating soft, enveloping designs, the collection highlights advanced technological tools with minimal, sharp designs. Retro-futurism influences the bag designs, combining utilitarian and vintage elements with modern twists. Clothing in the collection reimagines classic leather motorcycle and flight uniform styles, featuring soft, draped leather suits and jackets with contrasting colour piping and elegant details. Kiko Kostadinov’s sequel for ECCO.Kollektive is a cohesive blend of innovation and nostalgia, presenting functional classics that merge fantasy and technology.