SS26, Charli XCX’s new single, is neither rock nor dance—it is fashion.
And apocalypse, too: “Yeah we’re walking on a runway that goes straight to hell,” Charli sings on the album’s second single.
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China sends embryo models into space to test whether human reproduction is possible beyond Earth
A necessary experiment to find out whether humanity’s dreams of galactic colonisation are truly within reach.
Bezos said Mamdani should stop going after billionaires, and the very next day Mamdani ordered Amazon to pay nine million dollars in outstanding traffic fines
Fines issued because Amazon delivery drivers leave their vans parked in the middle of the street with the engine running, polluting the air.
The tech bros did everything they could to convince the Pope that AI is a net good, but their efforts didn’t amount to much.
Judging by the contents of Leo XIV’s first encyclical on AI, Big Tech’s diplomatic efforts, after sending its envoys to the Vatican in recent weeks, appear to have left him largely indifferent.
A study suggests civilizations don’t collapse because of catastrophes, but because they begin to consume more than they can sustain – and that may already be happening to ours
The researchers also note that the futures in which we manage to survive are not impossible, but they would require conditions that simply don’t exist on Earth today.
The FAO says the world has just six months left to avoid a global food crisis
For the agency, the decisions governments and farmers make now on fertiliser use, imports, funding, and crop selection, will be critical.
SS26, Charli XCX’s new single, is neither rock nor dance—it is fashion.
And apocalypse, too: “Yeah we’re walking on a runway that goes straight to hell,” Charli sings on the album’s second single.
A board game is about to be released in which you play an office worker trying to survive corporate life without burning out
L’anteprima mondiale della nuova stagione di Euphoria sarà al Coachella
È la prima volta che al Coachella si tiene una prima di film o di una serie tv. L'appuntamento è per l'ultima notte del festival, per una proiezione sotto le stelle.
13 Jun 2026
Cate Blanchett will produce the film adaptation of Fashionopolis, Dana Thomas’s exposé on fast fashion
Through her production company Dirty Films, she will be involved in the project. The film will be written and co-produced by Dana Thomas, and directed by Reiner Holzemer.
The red carpet is no longer just a parade of aesthetics: it has become a site of ideological positioning.
A shift Cate Blanchett anticipated years ago, quietly normalising high-fashion recycling and turning the world’s most exposed runways into a megaphone against textile overproduction and beyond.
At the 2022 SAG Awards, she wore a Giorgio Armani look detailed with lace taken from a previous gown; the same piece later resurfaced, re-worn, at the 2025 Venice Film Festival.
Her commitment to circular fashion also extends to her peers. Last March, she opened her personal archive to lend Zendaya a black Armani Privé gown, already worn by Blanchett in 2022 and again in 2025, later styled by the Dune actor during the press tour for The Drama.
Now, Blanchett is taking the system-level argument behind the camera.
Through Dirty Films, founded with Andrew Upton and Coco Francini, she has joined the production team of Fashionopolis, the documentary adaptation of Dana Thomas’s 2019 investigative book (Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes).
The project is entering financing, and already reads as a dissection of a $3 trillion industry, one built on speed, scale, and hidden extraction.
Described by The New Yorker as “a compass for reconciling consumerism and sustainability,” the book is now being translated into film by Reiner Holzemer, a director who has made his name mapping the inner worlds of fashion and design.
His films, Martin Margiela: In His Own Words, Dries, Thom Browne: The Man Who Tailors Dreams, have focused on solitude, process, and authorship inside fashion’s most closed systems.
Fashionopolis moves elsewhere. From the singular to the structural. From the atelier to the system.
The aim is not just exposure, but mapping: the networks reshaping how clothes are made, moved, and consumed.
Dana Thomas, New York Times journalist and voice of The Green Dream, returns to the material she helped define, having already written Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams for Luca Guadagnino.
She is joined by Bronwyn Cosgrave (The Super Models), with Danielle Perissi overseeing as executive producer.
Dirty Films completes the framework. Blanchett’s company already operates across eco-focused projects like Climate of Change, alongside socially charged work including Carol and Stateless.
As greenwashing seeps deeper into both fashion and Hollywood, Fashionopolis positions itself less as commentary than counter-narrative.
Blanchett’s presence ensures this doesn’t stay inside industry walls. As Thomas has noted, the future of ethical consumption begins in the most ordinary gestures: what we buy, what we wear, what we choose to watch.
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