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06/09/2026

Collars! Cuffs! Colours! The 9 Autumn Trends That Are Coming For Your Top Drawer"Jeans and a nice top" just got an upgrade.

'Jeans-and-a-nice-top' just got an upgrade.

06/09/2026

Labor Day Weekend Is Live & So Are These Not-to-Miss Footwear Deals — Here’s What to Shop and WhyFrom $40 Nike recovery slip-ons to 70-percent-off winter boots, this is what you should stock up on during the biggest shoe sale of the year (before Black Friday, that is).

From $40 Nike recovery slip-ons to 70-percent-off winter boots, this is what you should stock up on during the biggest shoe sale of the year (before Black Friday, that is).

05/09/2026

From the Archive: Tennis GOATs Who Defined Original Center Court StyleFrom Arthur Ashe to Billie Jean King, WWD revisits the tennis legends whose talent and style helped change the game.

Tennis has always been fashionable, but in the 1970s, soon-to-be GOATs mastered their game and created center court style.

05/09/2026

Hilary Duff Wore the Exact Shoes That Make Capri Pants Look Polished, Not TweeSmart.

These shoes are foolproof.

04/09/2026

I Know You Have Excellent Taste if You Wear One of These Trending Autumn Colour CombinationsTrust me.

Trust me.

04/09/2026

What to Watch: Hermès May Be a Bellwether for China’s Luxury ReboundThe luxury leader continues to outpace its peers, but tougher comparisons, a slower growth rate in China and a narrowing premium are lowering shares.

Hermès faces slowing growth expectations as shares drop 32%. Analysts assess China’s impact and the luxury market’s evolving dynamics.

04/09/2026

After The Sydney Swans Headlines Fade, Victim-Survivors Will Still Be Living With What Comes NextContent warning: This article discusses alleged sexual violence in a way that may be distressing to some readers.

Australia knows exactly what to say when an allegation of sexual violence becomes public. There will be statements about just how seriously we take the matter. Commitments to education, reviews of workplace or club culture so that it doesn’t happen down the line. Shiny promises that this time we care. What we rarely ask is: what happens next? To this alleged victim. Right now. After she reports.

When a group of Sydney Swans players were recently suspended following conduct involving a hotel room, heavy drinking and women brought back after curfew, much of the public conversation focused on the players and the club. Much of it focused on the fate of the season. The suspensions related to breaches of club standards, not the sexual assault allegation itself — and even that action only came after intense media and sponsor pressure. It’s unlikely to have happened at all had the allegation been protected by a suppression order.

This is not about deciding guilt through headlines. This is simply a request: did you notice how quickly the person who reported the alleged harm disappeared from the story? Unless it was to slut-shame her, of course. Speaking of guilt, it’s funny how quickly we forget how many hours of investigation, corroborative witness statements, evidence gathering and legal assessment it takes before someone is even charged with an offence. The irony is that many of the people most passionately invoking “due process” and ideas about fairness when commenting on the Swans players have never asked what fairness looks like for the alleged victim-survivor. Because we have become extraordinarily sophisticated at protecting the rights of the accused in public discourse while remaining remarkably indifferent to the rights and interests of the person who reported the harm.

We talk about reputational damage, club culture, legal risk and what institutions must do to prevent the next incident. The conversation moves forward while the person at its centre is left to navigate what has already happened alone. Prevention matters. Consent education, bystander programs and cultural change are essential. I’d be crazy to say otherwise. They are also the safest promises an institution can make.

The irony is that many of the people most passionately invoking “due process” and ideas about fairness when commenting on the Swans players have never asked what fairness looks like for the alleged victim-survivor.Sarah Rosenberg

Prevention doesn’t implicate those in power — it allows them to commit to a “better future”. Supporting a victim-survivor means confronting the system she is trapped in right now. That system can take years from someone’s life. It can demand repeated interviews, the surrender of deeply personal information and enduring humiliating and aggressive questioning about some of the worst moments of one’s life.

Across most Australian jurisdictions, a victim-survivor does not have an independent lawyer representing her interests throughout a sexual assault case. So she will navigate that system alone. She is a witness for the prosecution, legally peripheral. Decisions about charges, evidence, plea deals and how the case proceeds are largely made around her. The justice system relies on her participation. It gives her very little power within it.

Australia has effectively built its sexual violence response around two people: the accused person, whose legal rights are clearly defined, and the hypothetical future victim we hope prevention programs will protect. This is the gap governments should be urgently addressing. Victim-survivors are everywhere, right now, and they need our help. That help is in reach.

That’s why I have been pushing so hard for the past 3 years for victim-survivors to get access to independent legal advice from the moment they enter the justice system — a push that led the Australian Law Reform Commission to formally recommend it last year, backed by $21.4 million in federal funding. They need someone who can explain their rights, protect their privacy and advocate for them when decisions affect their safety. They should not have to become legal experts to understand who can access their counselling records, or why they would be accessed in the first place. They should not have to chase police, prosecutors or courts for basic information about a case that supposedly revolves around them. Their ability to navigate the process should not depend on where they live or whether they can afford private advice.

Prevention doesn’t implicate those in power — it allows them to commit to a “better future”.Sarah Rosenberg

We are willing to spoon-feed young men we think can’t possibly understand consent, but won’t implement reform that could shift outcomes for victim-survivors dramatically. Providing independent legal representation would not undermine the presumption of innocence. It would recognise that fairness is not a finite resource. Protecting the rights of an accused person does not require ignoring the rights and wellbeing of the person who reported the harm. The justice system is not a zero-sum game.

The Swans story will eventually disappear from the news cycle. There will be another allegation, another institutional statement and another promise to improve things for next time. The woman at the centre of this time still has to live through everything that follows. Every prevention strategy carries an uncomfortable truth: sometimes prevention will fail.

If Australia knows how to speak to women before violence happens, then we have not built a response to sexual violence; we have built a prevention campaign.

Sarah Rosenberg is the Executive Director of With You We Can, an online resource demystifying the police and legal processes for victims of sexual violence while working to improve them.

If you have experienced sexual violence and need crisis support, please call 1800RESPECT at 1800 737 732. If it is an emergency, call 000.
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03/09/2026

I Can Tell You're a Fashion Person If You're Wearing One of These Outfits This SeptemberSo simple, yet so chic.

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03/09/2026

What to Watch: Brands, Retailers Are Battling Luxury Handbag Fatigue“Underlying demand for handbags is weakening,” according to Bernstein analyst Luca Solca. But accessible purveyors are picking up the slack.

Brands are battling luxury handbag fatigue by shifting prices and injecting new creativity, while retailers skew assortments to more affordable niche brands.

03/09/2026

Adults Isn’t The New Friends — It Feels Deeply Connected To New GirlSeason 2 of Adults has truly taken over my entire personality, and I’m so glad that the FX comedy is finally getting the love it deserves. But I would also like it noted (for the record, and perhaps etched into the history books) that I was there from the start. And because I’m an OG fan, I would like to formally ask all new fans to stop comparing it to Friends and turn their attention to New Girl instead.

I know why people reach for Friends. Adults focuses on friends who live together, date within a concerning radius, have meals together, and so on. It’s an easy reference point. But I’m a Friends hater, and I won’t apologise for being right. I know that’s not a universally popular position and I’m not here to tell anyone their comfort show is bad. Humour is absolutely personal. Your favourite joke could be my scroll-time joke. But I rewatched Friends fairly recently, genuinely open to having my mind changed, and spent a lot of it waiting for the moment it would properly click for me. It didn’t.

That’s probably why I feel comfortable making this call. I’m a sitcom person. When life gets too loud, I would much rather spend time with Leslie Knope, Jessica Day or the residents of Apartment 23 than sit quietly with my own brain. If I’m putting on a comfort show, I want weirdos with strong opinions, poor boundaries, and a habit of turning a small issue into something that requires a group meeting.

Which brings us to Adults. Samir, Billie, Anton, Issa and Paul Baker all live together in Samir’s family home in Queens. Their friendship is the whole engine of the show: close enough to be caring, tangled enough to be exhausting, and always at risk of becoming somebody else’s problem. One person cannot have a bad date, a work crisis or a strange guest on the couch without it becoming an event for the house.

That feels deeply New Girl to me. The house is where everybody’s separate lives collide. In Friends there were actually four households at any given time. The singular home is where you hear the argument through a wall, where the person who claims not to care is suddenly involved, where an innocent problem turns into a plan that nobody has thought through.

Adults Season 2 gets to have fun with this. Billie crosses paths with the 20-year-old who inherited her fake ID. Issa starts thinking seriously about fertility, then hosts Acid Night with Paul Baker. I simply can’t imagine Ross and Rachel hosting Acid Night, can you?

The season also shows Anton processing his sister beginning a family. It has the same emotional flavour as Jess Day dealing with her dad marrying her high school acquaintance: an adult milestone becoming an opportunity to realise, with horror, that the people around you are moving through life at a different speed. Both shows are somewhat rooted in realistic situations.

The Raccoon episode, in particular, feels like a perfect New Girl-coded descent into household madness: a trapped animal, altered states, unresolved romantic tension and a friend group learning that avoiding one difficult conversation tends to create six worse ones. My own rats in the wall did not join me in a th*****me, thankfully, but the mere premise gave me flashbacks to the badger in the vents during Cece’s wedding-that-never-was. Nature really does have a way of making a housemate crisis everyone’s problem.

Then, there’s the pace. Adults moves quickly and lets its characters say the wrong thing, then keep talking. I just don’t think the word “Nomenclature” would hit in an episode of Friends. The jokes in Adults and New Girl can be absurd, but the worries underneath them are familiar: jobs that make you miserable but give your week a shape, career anxiety, confusing friendships, relationships that seem fine until they very suddenly are not.

Reviews of Season 2 have pointed to how much more assured the show feels now, especially in the way its ensemble bounces off one another. That’s the good stuff. Everyone’s funny on their own, but the show works best when somebody’s small decision ripples through the house and forces everyone else to reveal something annoying about themselves.

I do occasionally wish it had more time. Eight episodes asks a lot of a comedy, particularly one with this many characters and moving pieces. Sometimes a storyline can feel as though it’s racing to land before the credits. That’s not really a complaint about the people making Adults. It’s a complaint about streaming-era comedy and the ongoing refusal to give us the episode where nothing much happens except someone loses a key, gets ignored by customer service, or starts a house fight over the last Buldak ramen. God forbid a girl wants a filler episode.

Still, I don’t actually think Adults needs to be filed entirely beside New Girl, either. The comparison helps explain its housemate energy, but the show has a voice of its own and fits better in a newer era. There has been a recent run of young-adult comedies that are strange, quick and emotionally specific. Overcompensating and potentially Sterling Point (although more drama leaning) belong in that conversation, too. They feel real while being absurd, and I love each of them for different reasons. I refuse to discuss Not Suitable for Work because I am still grieving what could have been.

But these shows deserve their own corner in the comedy world. They’re willing to push a joke until it becomes uncomfortable, then make the discomfort funny. It understands that being a young adult can involve a lot of admin, a lot of uncertainty, and the strange intimacy of having people around who know your worst habits before you do.

So yes, I understand the Friends comparison. I just think it misses the point. Adults is closer to the glorious domestic chaos of New Girl, while still being happily, distinctly itself.

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