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Fashion Network
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Marc Jacobs goes vampy Victorian for fall 2025
American designer Marc Jacobs on Monday revealed his latest women's collection, once again off schedule, for the fall 2025 season, with the New York designer looking to blown-out silhouettes and doll-esque detailing. Returning to the New York Public Library, Jacobs' stage of choice for his spring 2025 collection in February, the latest offering from the New York designer was a punctuated line-up of just 19 looks, soundtracked by "Song for Jesse' by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. 'Beauty. A quality or combination of qualities that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is often associated with properties such as harmony of form or color, proportion, and authenticity," read the concise show notes, leaving the rest up to the discerning eye of guests, which included Julia Fox, Nicky Hilton, Ego Nwodim, Anna Sui, Jessica Wang, Tina Leung, June Ambrose, and fashion matriarch, Anna Wintour. See catwalk Recruiting model muses Alex Consani, Sascha Alexandra, and Agel Akol, Jacobs sent out a fairytale, whimsical collection of exaggerated proportions, which felt like a continuation of his doll-faced girls seen last season. But, instead of cartoonish, his reference was neo-19th century, made up of Victorian-inspired vampy gowns, cut with leg-of-mutton sleeves, inflated bustiers, and sweeping trains stamped by enormous bows. Not one to appropriate a historical era of fashion, the designer mixed in baggy cargo pants, and truly oversized trousers, pinned so to fit the model as she walked, as well as a billowy blouse, and very on-trend slip dress, taking his woman into the 21st century. See catwalk The majority of gowns featured lace or micro-floral prints, across a colour palette ranging from lilac purple to coffee brown and raven black, each model walking out on Jacobs' foot-engulfing heels, adding to this childlike quality of dressing up a doll. The last two gowns saw Jacobs go into vampy Victorian overdrive; one look a black-on-violet leg-of-mutton sleeve gown with deep ruffles and huge matching bow on the head. Only to be outdone by the finale dress, which had even bigger sleeves and a plaid top with a giant matching bow; black lace falling from the opening of the ruffled, billowy skirt. The blink-and-you'll-miss-it show lasted just five minutes. But, as always, it was a poignant expression from one of fashion's most incredible creative minds, at a time when originality in fashion is few and far between.
Fashion Network
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Marc Jacobs goes vampy Victorian for fall 2025
American designer Marc Jacobs on Monday revealed his latest women's collection, once again off schedule, for the fall 2025 season, with the New York designer looking to blown-out silhouettes and doll-esque detailing. Returning to the New York Public Library, Jacobs' stage of choice for his spring 2025 collection in February, the latest offering from the New York designer was a punctuated line-up of just 19 looks, soundtracked by "Song for Jesse' by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. 'Beauty. A quality or combination of qualities that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is often associated with properties such as harmony of form or color, proportion, and authenticity," read the concise show notes, leaving the rest up to the discerning eye of guests, which included Julia Fox, Nicky Hilton, Ego Nwodim, Anna Sui, Jessica Wang, Tina Leung, June Ambrose, and fashion matriarch, Anna Wintour. See catwalk Recruiting model muses Alex Consani, Sascha Alexandra, and Agel Akol, Jacobs sent out a fairytale, whimsical collection of exaggerated proportions, which felt like a continuation of his doll-faced girls seen last season. But, instead of cartoonish, his reference was neo-19th century, made up of Victorian-inspired vampy gowns, cut with leg-of-mutton sleeves, inflated bustiers, and sweeping trains stamped by enormous bows. Not one to appropriate a historical era of fashion, the designer mixed in baggy cargo pants, and truly oversized trousers, pinned so to fit the model as she walked, as well as a billowy blouse, and very on-trend slip dress, taking his woman into the 21st century. See catwalk The majority of gowns featured lace or micro-floral prints, across a colour palette ranging from lilac purple to coffee brown and raven black, each model walking out on Jacobs' foot-engulfing heels, adding to this childlike quality of dressing up a doll. The last two gowns saw Jacobs go into vampy Victorian overdrive; one look a black-on-violet leg-of-mutton sleeve gown with deep ruffles and huge matching bow on the head. Only to be outdone by the finale dress, which had even bigger sleeves and a plaid top with a giant matching bow; black lace falling from the opening of the ruffled, billowy skirt. The blink-and-you'll-miss-it show lasted just five minutes. But, as always, it was a poignant expression from one of fashion's most incredible creative minds, at a time when originality in fashion is few and far between.
NBC News
2 days ago
- Business
- NBC News
Home Depot is buying GMS for about $4.3 billion as retailer chases more home pros
Home Depot said Monday that it is buying GMS, a building-products distributor, for about $4.3 billion as the retailer moves to draw more sales from contractors and other home professionals. Shares of Home Depot were roughly flat in early trading Monday. GMS shares jumped more than 11%. As part of the deal, the Home Depot-owned subsidiary SRS Distribution will buy all outstanding shares of GMS for $110 per share, which adds up to about $4.3 billion and amounts to total enterprise value including net debt of about $5.5 billion, the company said. Home Depot said it expects the acquisition to be completed by early 2026. Home Depot's announcement also concludes a potential bidding war between the big-box retailer and billionaire Brad Jacobs. Jacobs' building-products distributor QXO had offered about $5 billion in cash to acquire GMS and said it would press forward with a hostile takeover if the company's management rejected the proposal. As Home Depot chases growth, it's gone after a steadier and more lucrative piece of the home improvement business: electricians, roofers, home renovators and other professionals who tackle large projects year-round and need a lot of supplies. Home Depot said it's speeding along that strategy with the GMS deal. Home Depot bought SRS Distribution — the subsidiary that's acquiring GMS — last year for $18.25 billion, in the largest acquisition in its history. Texas-based SRS sells supplies to professionals in the landscaping, roofing and pool businesses and it has bought up many other smaller suppliers as it's grown. Home Depot's focus on selling to professionals is well-timed. Sales from do-it-yourself customers have slowed as higher mortgage rates have decreased housing turnover and dampened homeowners' demand for larger projects because of higher borrowing costs. The company said it expects total sales to grow by 2.8% for the full fiscal year and comparable sales, which take out the impact of one-time factors like store openings and calendar differences, to rise about 1%.
CNBC
2 days ago
- Business
- CNBC
Home Depot is buying GMS for about $4.3 billion as retailer chases more home pros
Home Depot said Monday that it is buying GMS, a building-products distributor, for about $4.3 billion as the retailer moves to draw more sales from contractors and other home professionals. Shares of Home Depot rose slightly in early trading Monday. GMS shares jumped more than 11%. As part of the deal, the Home Depot-owned subsidiary SRS Distribution will buy all outstanding shares of GMS for $110 per share, which adds up to about $4.3 billion and amounts to total enterprise value including net debt of about $5.5 billion, the company said. Home Depot said it expects the acquisition to be completed by early 2026. Home Depot's announcement also concludes a potential bidding war between the big-box retailer and billionaire Brad Jacobs. Jacobs' building-products distributor QXO had offered about $5 billion in cash to acquire GMS and said it would press forward with a hostile takeover if the company's management rejected the proposal.
USA Today
01-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Josh Jacobs' 2024 season was spectacular: Is there still room for improvement in 2025?
Josh Jacobs' 2024 season was spectacular: Is there still room for improvement in 2025? Packers running back Josh Jacobs enjoyed an excellent first season in Green Bay, rediscovering his form after a subdued final year in Las Vegas. He went over 1,400 yards for just the second time in his career and had a career high 17 total touchdowns. By looking under the hood at some more advanced statistics, the level of play Jacobs hit in 2024 can be better understood in the context of his wider career, and the strengths and weaknesses of his overall game can be established. Strengths The core of Jacobs' success in his first year as a Packer was his ability to create yards after contact, both as a runner and a receiver. Among qualified running backs, Jacobs ranked in the 86th percentile for yards after contact per attempt (YCO/A), the 84th percentile in PFF's elusiveness rating (ELU) and the 76th percentile for missed tackles forced per attempt (MTF/A). His YCO/A was a career high 3.49 on the season, and his MTF/A of 0.25 was right behind his career best mark of 0.26. Add in his ability in the passing game, and Jacobs ranked in the 86th percentile for missed tackles forced per touch, as well as leading the league in missed tackles forced after the catch. He did a fantastic job all season of getting more than was blocked for him and added real value. Jacobs' impressive elusiveness in 2024 marked a significant improvement on his career average. His 99.4 rating was the highest since his rookie year and exceeded his average career rating of 70 considerably. He has always had a knack of finding the end zone as a runner, arriving in Green Bay with 46 of them in five years, and this continued with the Packers. Jacobs ranked in the 88th percentile for touchdowns per attempt in 2024, scoring on a career high 5.02% of his carries. The biggest area of improvement for Jacobs after joining the Packers was his contribution in the passing game. Utilizing him more as a receiver is something both he and the team mentioned wanting to do more of, and they backed it up. He was one of the NFL's better receiving threats out of the backfield, ranking in the 86th percentile for yards per reception among qualified backs, the 95th for yards after the catch per reception and the 81st for yards per route run, with career high marks in all three categories. Jacobs did not drop a pass in 2024, having dropped at least three in all of his previous seasons, and finally notched his first receiving touchdown as a pro. Weaknesses There are not many weaknesses to Jacobs' game, but of the few, some are fixable and some are not. Stylistically, Jacobs is simply not an explosive runner or a home run hitter, and he never has been. He ran a 4.64 40-yard dash coming out of Alabama, and using the Relative Athletic Score (RAS) system, had just an "okay" overall speed score and a "poor" explosion score. In 2024 he ranked in the 48th percentile for runs of 10+ yards, or "explosive runs" and the 38th for breakaway percentage (BAY%). These are not terrible marks by any means but highlight the fact he is not an electrifying runner. His BAY% of 22.2% is right in line with his previous career average of 22.18%, and his explosive run rate of 10.66% was actually better than his career average of 9.79%. Speaking to the Green Bay media last week, Jacobs expressed a desire to improve on his ability to break off bigger runs. He said: 'I felt like I left a lot on the table', before explaining 'I had some one on ones, where if I made a person miss or broke a tackle, it was the difference between a 20-yard gain and a 60-yard gain. That's what makes people elite." Whether this is something a runner of Jacob's type and athletic profile can truly improve on going into his seventh year remains to be seen, and seems relatively unlikely, but it is clearly a focus for Jacobs. An aspect he can continue to work on though is protecting the football. Jacobs had a career high five fumbles in 2024, ranking in the 28th percentile in fumbles per attempt. His PFF fumble grade has been just 61.4 over the last two years compared to 74.5 in his first four seasons. Fumbles are similar to drops for receivers in that they are somewhat overrated as a means of analyzing a player's overall performance. Jacobs fumbled on just 1.57% of his carries in 2024. It is still an alarming trend though, and something he needs to hone-in on. Pass protection is not a true weakness for Jacobs by any means; he was more than satisfactory in 2024, but it is an area he can still improve. He ranked in the 44th percentile among qualified backs in pressure rate allowed on snaps with an opportunity to allow a pressure, and allowed more QB hits than any other back with four, although he was above average in pass block efficiency, ranking in the 55th percentile. Again these are not disastrous statistics or anything to worry about, and both of them were worse than his prior career averages, which should give some encouragement that Jacobs can become a stronger blocker in 2025. Overall, Jacobs was one of the best all-around backs in the league last year, and the Packers will want him to mostly just keep up what he has been doing, while continuing to work on taking care of the ball better and being consistent in pass protection. His career numbers suggest he is not likely to become more explosive, but if he gets fewer carries in 2025, with second-year back MarShawn Lloyd working into the mix to give Jacobs a breather, he could become an even more efficient runner. Jacobs worked around his blocking at times in 2024, with the group having a 60.25 run block grade on the year, which is just a tick above average. In that sense, Jacobs has absolutely been worth the money so far for Green Bay. Getting more than what is blocked is technically what teams pay a back to do, and he has done exactly that. According to PFF, of the backs with 4.4 yards per carry (YPC) or better, only two ran behind worse run blocking units than than Jacobs: Tank Bigsby in Jacksonville and De'Von Achane in Miami, and they only had 168 and 203 attempts respectively compared to 319 for Jacobs. The Packers placed an emphasis on bolstering the offensive line this offseason, which is important given the type of runner Jacobs is. Expecting Jacobs to make something out of nothing at the rate he did a year ago might be unrealistic, and he needs to be given something to work with, because the explosive runs are not going to be there to pad his numbers. If Green Bay had settled for a mediocre run blocking unit, they could have set him up for a less effective year like his final one in Vegas, when a poor O-line sold him short all year. A YPC of 4.4 is still good, ranking in the 60th percentile last year, but with more rest and better blocking, it could be even better in 2025, with Jacobs firmly in the prime of his career.
