WOOLMARK named the winners of its International Woolmark Prize British Isles heat yesterday in London, with Le Kilt and Matthew Miller picking up the womenswear and menswear awards respectively. With their AU $70,000 prize money, they will now be expected to spend the next two months creating a capsule collection made of Merino Wool and move forward to compete in the global final, set to take place early next year.
“The prize has given me an opportunity to look at wool in a new way," said Le Kilt designer Samantha McCoach, who chose to focus her intricately woven collection on wool denim. "The challenge was that working with wool comes naturally to me, it’s at the heart of my brand but I wanted to do something new which is why I looked at innovations in wool denim.”
For Matthew Miller, it was his modern interpretation of tailoring that won him the menswear prize, with judge Jason Basmajian (CEO of Cerruti) saying that Miller "showed true passion producing a look that is luxurious but still cool".
“Winning the prize is amazing and receiving recognition from your peers on your designs, including the judging panel is fantastic,” said Miller following the award. “Wool is one of the most important and luxury materials and a high-performance fibre but I wanted to give it a much more youthful feel."
Basmajian was joined on the panel by Emilia Wickstead, Daniel Kearns (creative director of Kent & Curwen), Anita Barr (group fashion buying director for Harvey Nichols), and Candice Fragis (buying and merchandising director for Farfetch) to select the two winners from this year's impressive finalists.
The last winners of the accolades were Gabriella Hearst and Cottweiler, who picked up their awards in Paris earlier this year. At the event, head judge Natalie Massenet outlined the importance of the prestigious award.
"I think it’s the heritage that’s pretty incredible when you think back to the fact that when they were young designers Karl and Yves Saint Laurent won it. For the people who took part today, I think they have a special future," she told us. "Beyond what it does for the winner, I think having this incubation and level of research, being among the most inspiring young designers and seeing how they use this fabric in the most modern of ways is very important."
I do not know is not my personal growth of the inherent habits of the beginning of each year at the beginning of the New Year, I will give myself to develop some growth plans, such as work plans, life ideas, learning goals, travel plans, financial planning and so on. These plans can not talk about how vigorous, not to mention the so-called big dream, but because of these sort of plan, actually feel that they have a year to run the goal and direction .
Because of this, these years, I feel like I get rid of laziness, regain confidence, but also to achieve a lot of small wishes.
For example, from 2009 to 2010, I plan to spend two years to accumulate funds to my parents in the house from home, perhaps because of the pressure to have the power of reason, I not only work very hard, usually as much as possible to save money , And later, I actually rely on their own work bit by bit accumulation and part-time writing manuscript fee, earned to the parents in the home from the small building of thousands of dollars, round their first dream after graduation, but also round A good wish for my parents to live.
2011, I told myself that this year in any case I have to use spare time to complete two or three small plans: fitness, test driver's license, travel. That year, I participated in a lot of physical exercise, the body has been very healthy, the whole people are full of youthful vitality, a whole year down even the cold is very rare. And work, fitness, I desperately practice car examination, in July, when I wish to use for three months time, completed the driver's license examination, as we have a few units with a driver's license of the female staff The And that year, I also honor their travel commitments, went to Xiamen, Guilin, the North Sea and other places to travel .
Later every year, I was so, almost no year to give yourself to develop some small plans. For example, in 2012, lasted five years of love long-distance running, I and Mr. intend to get married, so we choose in the picturesque Lijiang on hand wedding, so that the beauty of the landscape witness the moment and eternal. For example, in 2013, I feel that my work encountered a bottleneck, so I intend to quit, that year, after some preparation and efforts, I got the wish I have been eager to try a job.
Later time, year after year, time is changing, the plan is changing, but the same is that I always adhere to the plan, choose to start, never stopped footsteps. From the marriage and children, buy a car to buy a house, to try their own interests and so on, every realization of a small target, I have to cheer for their own cheer.
Perhaps this one is a small plan, the realization of small aspirations, seemingly modest, even in the eyes of many people, simply can not talk about what to achieve, but for me, it is because there is no generous family conditions , There is no inherent advantages of appearance, but nothing can be used outside the resources, so these bits have become valuable and valuable. They not only let me bid farewell to the low self-esteem, regain confidence, but also let my life really happened gratifying changes. And for a girl in the country alone, this time and again to achieve and transformation, like a tree of the foundation, even if it can not wanton bloom for a time, but also can work hard to take root until one day Deep roots, it will be able to breeze blooming.
I often say that making the plan is my own way to get rid of the most common lazy approach. Indeed, when I developed a plan, I put it in the most prominent position every day, to remind myself to go to achieve it, once I am slightly slack and lazy when I have a sense of inexplicable sense of self-blame Self-blame often prompted me to clenched his teeth, warned myself to insist, and again and again to adhere to the teeth, gave me a lot of unexpected good results.
This is probably why so many years I have been insisting on planning and choose the real reason for starting it, I do not want to let myself wasted years, muddy and messy through every day.
Speaking of which, I remember today there is a friend working in Shenzhen and I chat when talking about the Hunhunee this word. He said he went to work the first day of today, but I feel nothing to do, Hunhunee over a day, that life is not a little passion. I am joking with him, saying that you are disgusting with the leisure days, if you are too busy to fly up is not you very excited about it He said, he'd rather busy, so that there is no time to cranky, there is no time to worry, but no leisurely feeling of panic.
The truth is so, sometimes, we are idle down, began to cranky, the more you want the more sad, the more sad the more melancholy the more disturbed, and this mood once the cycle down, is not a good thing. So, I often tell myself, when they feel nothing to do leisurely time to panic, we must consider to find something to do their own, even if it is a small number of things, such as reading books, watching movies, The
These little things seem to be minimal, but gave us the goal and direction of running forward, and once the goal and direction of running, we fear the road longer ?
An investigation into alleged sexual misconduct at an event in 2013 has led to AngelList partner Lee Jacobs going on indefinite paid leave of absence, sources tell TechCrunch and the company has now confirmed .
AngelList was informed of the incident two weeks ago. According to a source familiar with AngelList’s internal working, on July 13th, AngelList told employees via Slack that “Some of you have noticed that Lee is no longer available on email or Slack. He is on leave for personal reasons indefinitely and will be unavailable for contact. Jake and Parker are taking on his responsibilities temporarily while we figure out the longer term.”
The incident allegedly occurred while Jacobs was the managing partner and co-founder of Edelweiss, a group of angel investors. He lists himself as having become an advisor to AngelList in December 2013 and a partner in September 2015 .
AngelList had yet to make any public statement about the situation. After several requests for comment, the company’s COO Graham Jenkin told TechCrunch “We’re investigating a report about an alleged incident that occurred before an employee joined the company. The report is from a third-party. The employee is on leave and we can’t comment further while we’re investigating.”
AngelList partner Lee Jacobs is on leave of absence during an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct
TechCrunch is keeping details of the alleged sexual misconduct private at the request of the victim, and their advocate who we spoke to. The complaint lodged with AngelList by the victim’s advocate alleges that Lee Jacobs sexually assaulted a woman during an event attended by others in the tech industry on March 17th, 2013 . The victim’s advocate says distress from the incident caused the victim to leave the San Francisco Bay Area.
The advocate claims that AngelList’s leadership team was offered a chance to speak with the victim on the phone but the company declined. The team has signalled a preference for the victim to instead work with law enforcement and press criminal charges before AngelList will get further involved.
This ongoing situation comes during a cultural shift in Silicon Valley. Following whistleblower Susan Fowler’s revelations about sexual discrimination at Uber, more scandals came to light and CEO Travis Kalanick resigned. Since then allegations of sexual harassment or assault have led to the resignation of Binary Capital founding partners Justin Caldbeck, 500 Startups founder and GP Dave McClure, and Ignition Partners’ Frank Artale.
As public support for victims and whistleblowers grows, the risk of retaliation against those who speak up may decrease. That could lead to more allegations that could shake up the tech industry that’s long been dominated by menand cavalier attitudes towards professional decorum.
Some in the tech scene worry that male VCs may selfishly avoid meetings with female founders or move them to less conducive office settings to minimize their own risks of being called out for bad behavior. But illuminating the hard truths about how women are treated in tech is an important step towards increasingly equality in the industry .
This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Strdio.
As a child， Xiliu was smart and liked to read biographies of ancient sages. She decided to follow the examples of previous worthies and leave behind a reputation that would be noted for generations to come. At the age of nineteen she married Gao Sheng， who had just olst his wife and had a son named Changfu. Ayear later Xiliu gave birth to a boy and named him Changhu. Before long， Gao Sheng， still young， died of an illness， leaving Xiliu to care for her sons. Seeing Changfu was often truant in his studies， Xiliu sent him to work with the shepherd boys as punishment. Changfu could not his knees and asked his mother to allow him to return to school. Xiliu refused， and Changfu， like a beggar， huddled himself up with cold. A grandmother in the village inter ceded and took care of the boy. Xiliu told her，"If Changfu is ready to take a beating of 100 strokes， I'll take him back."Changfu decided that he would take the beating. Aware of Changfu's genuine repentance for his errors， Xiliu did not beat him and asked him to continue his studies you beauty hard sell.
Changhu was a slow-minded child， so Xiliu asked him to quit school and work in the fields. But Changhu was so lazy that he often neglected work. Xiliu then asked him to engage in trade， but he used up all his money in gambling. At last， Xiliu sent him to Luoyang to sell goods， where he was put into jail for using fake silver in a whorehouse. In jail he suffered a lot. One day Xiliu called Changfu in and said："I gave the fake silver to your brother on purpose， intending to make him suffer you beauty hard sell.
Now you go and get him out."Back home， Changhu knelt before his mother， bitterly remorseful. He finally gave up evil and returned to good. Fellow villagers then began to understand Xiliu. She loved her children by tempering them in sufferings you beauty hard sell.
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Brother must have passed through the years in a hurry, remembering his father bringing him here as a boy. "A ways back," Brother said in his clipped North Saugus fashion, outlander, specific, no waste in his words. Old Oren Bentley, it had been told us, had walked five miles through the unknown woods off Route 16 as a boy and had come across the campsite, the remnants of an old lodge1, and a great curve in the Pine River so that a mile's walk in either direction gave you three miles of stream to fish, upstream or downstream. Paradise up north SmarTone.
His Venerable Self nodded again, a man of signals, then said, "Knowed him way back some. Met him at the Iron Bridge. We passed a few times." Instantly we could see the story. A whole history of encounter was in his words; it marched right through us the way knowledge does, as well as legend. He pointed2 at the coffeepot. "The boys'll be off, but my days down there get cut up some. I'll sit a while and take some of thet." He said thet too pronounced, too dramatic, and it was a short time before I knew why.
The white wicker rocker went into a slow and deliberate motion, his head nodded again. He spoke3 to his sons. "You boys be back no more'n two-three hours so these fellers can do their things too, and keep the place tidied up SmarTone."
The most orderly son said, "Sure, pa. Two-three hours." The two elderly sons left the campsite and walked down the path to the banks of the Pine River, their boots swishing at thigh4 line, the most elegant rods pointing the way through scattered5 limbs, experience on the move. Trout6 beware, we thought.
"We been carpenters f'ever," he said, the clip still in his words. "Those boys a mine been some good at it too." His head cocked, he seemed to listen for their departure, the leaves and branches quiet, the murmur7 of the stream a tinkling8 idyllic9 music rising up the banking10. Old Venerable Himself moved the wicker rocker forward and back, a small timing11 taking place. He was hearing things we had not heard yet, the whole symphony all around us. Eddie looked at me and nodded his own nod. It said, "I'm paying attention and I know you are. This is our one encounter with a man who has fished for years the river we love, that we come to twice a year, in May with the mayflies, in June with the black flies." The gift and the scourge12, we'd often remember, having been both scarred and sewn by it SmarTone.
