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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Princess Eugenie Embraces Summertime Florals in Rebecca Vallance Dress at the ‘Thirty Six for Coral' Art Exhibition in France
Princess Eugenie traveled to Nice, France, for the 'Thirty Six for Coral' art exhibition on Thursday. The British royal family member attended the event and made remarks ahead of the exhibit supporting coral preservation and global sustainability. For the special occasion, Princess Eugenie opted for a design wholly evocative of the summertime season. The royal wore a sleeveless midi dress courtesy of Rebecca Vallance, featuring a bouquet of blue orchids cascading across the fabric. More from WWD How Timothée Chalamet Popularized the 'Old Money Haircut' for Men With a Modern Spin on Timeless Elegance Princess Diana's Trooping the Colour Looks Through the Years: Suiting Up in Catherine Walker, Going Monochrome in Jan Van Velden and More Hailey Bieber's Rhode Earned $20 Million in Media Exposure After E.l.f. Beauty Acquired the Brand for $1 Billion The Rebecca Vallance midi dress featured a playful blue orchid vine print design crafted from a premium linen blend. The dress' silhouette included a collared halter neckline with a structured lapel, and a fitted bodice with cinched waist for added definition. Adorning the waist was a rope belt. Rebecca Vallance's design also included a sleek, low-open back. Princess Eugenie completed her look with stain, open-toe mules courtesy of Staud. Princess Eugenie has long been an advocate for sustainability and global preservation. In April 2024, the British royal attended a fashion sustainability panel in London, wearing a design courtesy of Gabriela Hearst, a designer who's made sustainability a cornerstone of her eponymous label's mission. Rebecca Vallance is a brand that strives for sustainability, sharing a similar vocation with Hearst. The Australian fashion label endeavors to meet ethical sourcing standards as part of its practices, per the brand's sustainability statement. Given her stance on sustainable efforts and conservation, Princess Eugenie's style choices — which include wearing designs by Rebecca Vallance and Gabriela Hearst — reflect the British royal's dedication to global preservation, making her fashion part of a broader movement. View Gallery Launch Gallery: Princess Eugenie's Royal Wedding in Photos Best of WWD Princess Diana's Trooping the Colour Looks Through the Years: Suiting Up in Catherine Walker, Going Monochrome in Jan Van Velden and More Princess Beatrice's Looks at Royal Ascot Through the Years, Photos Princess Beatrice's Royal Ascot Looks Through the Years: Favoring Florals in Zimmermann, Going Classic in Black-and-white Jonathan Simkhai and More
Cosmopolitan
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
We Found Olivia Rodrigo's Exact Polka Dot Micro Shorts
Is there anything Olivia Rodrigo can't do? Before checking major milestones like "headline a major U.S. festival" and "collaborate with rock legend David Byrne of The Talking Heads" off her bucket list at last weekend's Governors Ball in New York City, she also further cemented her fashion icon status by nailing not one, but two of the summer's biggest trends in one budget-friendly outfit. Ahead of her headlining performance on Saturday, O-Rod was spotted strutting around NYC in a pair of linen polka dot micro shorts from Reformation. Not only is her exact pair somehow still in stock (although some sizes seem to be going fast!), they're just $98, so you can copy Olivia's look without blowing your budget. While the Sour songstress completed her ensemble with a rugged pair of biker-inspired boots to match her edgy aesthetic, it's easy to incorporate polka dots into preppy, classic, or vintage-inspired outfits, too. Dare we say it's one of the most versatile patterns out there? Not to mention, this isn't the first time the Grammy winner has been spotted wearing polka dots, further proving it's one of this year's hottest trends. If you're more into the micro shorts trend than polka dots, the Ref shorts come in solid colors, too. We've seen everyone from Dua Lipa to Daisy Edgar Jones and Dakota Johnson wear itty-bitty shorts, so it was only a matter of time before Olivia jumped on the trend. And spoiler alert: During her performance later that night, she wore yet another pair of hot pants, this time in a bold red complete with studs. If you're inspired to steal Liv's look but not inspired to dish out $98, we found more polka dot shorts in a variety of cuts starting at just $9. Looking for a denim version? We're big fans of the larger dots on this pair from ASOS. And while there are plenty of similar micro shorts available, we're also loving this longer style, ideal for Old Hollywood-inspired looks. Madison McGee is a commerce editor at Hearst Magazines. For the past year, she has contributed shopping content, gift guides, product testing, and deals coverage across Hearst's portfolio, which includes Good Housekeeping, Women's Health, Men's Health, House Beautiful, Elle, Town and Country, Esquire, Country Living, Oprah Daily, and more. Prior to joining Hearst, she was a staff writer at BuzzFeed and worked in book publishing. Madison is a graduate of the University of Mississippi's journalism program, and holds a Masters in Publishing from New York University. When she's not scouting out the best deals, she can be found reading, cheering on the Baltimore Ravens, or exploring New York City's indie bookstores.
Business Insider
09-06-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
An AI startup raised $24M to help media companies make high-quality video faster and cheaper. Here's its pitch deck.
Moments Lab is part of a growing number of AI startups raising money to reshape Hollywood and related fields. Moments Lab provides tools that index video libraries and create new videos from raw footage. The company recently raised $24 million in Series B funding from Oxx, with participation from Orange Ventures, Kadmos, Supernova Invest, and Elaia Partners. It plans to use the funding to build on its existing tech and roll out an agentic AI tool. To date, it's raised $37.4 million. Paris-based Moments Lab was founded by twin brothers Fred and Philippe Petitpont in 2016. Philippe was a product manager for French media company TF1 Group, while Fred was a tech lead at French ad holding company Havas' BETC Digital. They say they saw a need for media and entertainment companies to produce more video at a lower cost to feed the growing streaming ecosystem. Their clients include Warner Bros. Discovery, Banijay Entertainment, Fullwell Entertainment, Hearst, Thomson Reuters, Sinclair, and Amazon Ads. Moments Lab's core tool, MXT-2, breaks down and indexes video footage into components, like people who are on screen and what they're doing, and generates descriptions of them. Its key pitch is that it saves users time and money. Philippe Petitpont said the tech can identify soundbites for clips for social media and things like trailers and highlight reels about seven times as fast as an employee could, citing internal research. He also said some clients have reported making twice as much revenue from social media using the product. "For them, it's a way to create new revenue streams," Petitpont told Business Insider, referring to revenue from social media. "Before now, it was very complicated for production companies to create a revenue stream because there was a huge need for humans — it's a very tedious task." Moments Lab's newer agentic AI tool, which it says Hearst is among those testing, takes raw video material and turns it into rough cuts using written prompts. Petitpont said the AI agent can do this at a fraction of the time it takes people to do the work. He said its most promising application so far is in reality TV. Scripted TV is still a work in progress. Petitpont said Moments Lab has gained momentum with Hollywood companies since the beginning of the year, as they face pressure to make more shows at lower costs. He said it's signed a big studio as a client, though he wouldn't name it. "The demand from Netflix, Amazon's Prime Video, Peacock, is so strong that production companies need to produce more content than ever before, and they don't have more money to produce a show," he said. "Being able to produce at lower cost is more important than ever. That's where they're interested in using new approaches." AI tools are widely used in Hollywood to make production processes more efficient and, for now, generate short videos from text. But Hollywood is highly protective of its intellectual property, which is a barrier to adoption. Another is its labor unions, which worry that AI will replace their members. Petitpont said one of the most time-consuming parts of the sales process is assuring companies' legal teams that it won't use their IP to train its model. Moments Lab says its model is trained on a dataset of 1.5 billion assets that it describes as a mix of open-source content and content from partners that are part of its research program (a consortium of research labs, media rights owners, and tech companies). The company doesn't shy away from the idea that automating work done by assistant editors and others can reduce the need for human workers. Petitpont said one US financial media client told him it expects to use fewer editors as a result of using its tech. "The big question is: Will the assistant start to be the senior editor, or will the job disappear?" he said. "We don't know yet." One thing there seems to be broad agreement on in the industry is that AI usage will grow — not only to save time on pre- and post-production functions, but make high-quality original video fast. Other startups that tackle film editing functions include Runway, Filmustage, and Imaginario. Petitpont said the ability for media companies to use AI to help make full-length documentaries based on their video libraries is only several months off, imagining a company building a film on the history of America using decades of news footage. In a year, he expects Moments Lab to be able to provide predictive modeling tools that will let editors maximize the audience a given video will get. "That's what we believe will be the next thing, and we're not very far from that because audience data is very easily available on YouTube," he said. "The tech is not the issue, it's more the rights." Check out key slides from the pitch deck Moments Lab used to raise its Series B, with some confidential information removed. Its clients are in sports, media, and consumer brands Moments Lab Moments Lab lists some of its clients, including Hearst, LVMH, Banijay Entertainment, and Brut. It also gives proof points: 15,000 users 250,000 hours of video 50 enterprise customers 3,000 hours of video processed daily The company touts its expertise and awards Moments Lab It's working to make rough cuts from raw footage It cuts the time it takes to sift through raw footage Moments Lab Moments Lab's key employees and investors Moments Lab
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The Best Support, Community, and Advocacy Resources for Trans People in America
Welcome to Love Transcends, a special project by Cosmopolitan that celebrates the resilience, wisdom, hope, and joy of the trans community as its members navigate romantic love. Through in-depth interviews and personal essays, trans people share what it's like to date, hook up, break up, and fall in and hold onto love in the midst of sweeping anti-trans legislation and attacks on personal safeties and freedoms of expression. Click here to see the entire collection. Hearst Owned Since January, the current U.S. presidential administration has overseen a wave of anti-LGBTQIA+ executive orders erasing federal recognition of gender identity; restricting access to gender-affirming care; gutting protections in education, health care, and public accommodations; and banning transgender people from the military—to name a few. All of which can make life for trans folks in America feel more precarious than ever. But help does exist for those in need—or for those just feeling uncertain and alone—in the form of groups working tirelessly to safeguard transgender rights and freedoms. Keep reading for a Cosmopolitan- and GLAAD-vetted list of places to get crucial health services, information on legal aid, and access to online and in-person communities. (And even if you're not trans yourself, you can still be a powerful ally by volunteering, donating, signing up for newsletters, and supporting these organizations in countless other ways.) GLAAD GLAAD is a nonprofit that works to ensure accurate and inclusive representation of LGBTQIA+ people in media and culture. The organization consults with entertainment studios and news outlets (including Cosmopolitan), runs public outreach and engagement campaigns, and elevates LGBTQIA+ voices through storytelling and advocacy. They're a major source for comprehensive data and media analysis, as well as tools that track LGBTQIA+ legislation. They also host events, award shows, and more. Trans Legislation Tracker The Trans Legislation Tracker monitors and documents anti-transgender legislation at all levels of the U.S. government. Want to know if your state bans transgender people from accessing health care? Or whether it allows trans students to participate in sports? Click here to check. The site also provides data and tools to help you understand (and engage with) proposed and passed bills. Transgender Law Center The biggest trans-led organization in the country, the Transgender Law Center advocates for the rights and self-determination of transgender and gender nonconforming people. It empowers communities under attack—including BIPOC, disabled, and HIV+ individuals—through leadership programs and advocacy. It can also provide legal aid, in some cases representing trans people in lawsuits related to employment, health care, immigration, and more. Advocates for Trans Equality This trans-led nonprofit is dedicated to advancing transgender rights through government advocacy, legal services, voter engagement, and community organizing. In addition to working with policymakers to draft laws that protect the trans community, the organization also offers individual support—it can assist people with updating legal documents and provides legal services for name changes. Trans Lifeline (877) 565-8860 This trans-led hotline offers personalized emotional and financial support to members of the community. It has trained hundreds of operators and answered hundreds of thousands of calls from trans people seeking resources, crisis assistance, and more. Translatable Founded by Dwyane Wade and his daughter Zaya, Translatable is an online community created to spark meaningful conversations between trans youth and their families. Its mission is to foster understanding, celebrate self-expression, and strengthen family bonds. You can check out the website or Instagram page to take part in its projects. Here We Are Launched in 2024, Here We Are amplifies the voices of transgender Americans. Through videos and personal narratives, it promotes trans visibility and advocacy, encouraging open and authentic expressions of gender identity across the nation. Watch its videos and explore its stories to learn more about the larger trans community. The Trevor Project The Trevor Project is a mental health and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQIA+ youth. It provides 24/7 counseling services, advocates for protective laws, and conducts research studies to ensure the safety of the LGBTQIA+ community. Visitors can get involved by volunteering as crisis counselors; exploring the resource center for answers to common questions about identity, mental health, and safety; or connecting with peers through TrevorSpace—an online support community for LGBTQIA+ youth. PFLAG PFLAG is a nationwide organization dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for LGBTQIA+ people and their families. With hundreds of local chapters across the country, PFLAG offers community events, educational workshops, and legislative advocacy for individuals and families seeking connection and support. Human Rights Campaign The Human Rights Campaign—the largest LGBTQIA+ civil rights organization in the country—advocates for equality and justice for LGBTQIA+ people. It mobilizes voters to elect leaders, lobby for inclusive legislation, and work to increase public understanding and visibility of the community. You can join by making monthly donations, signing up for the newsletter, attending events like marches and rallies, and so much more. ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union works to protect people's individual freedoms and advocates for reproductive justice, transgender equality, immigrants, and many other communities. Its legal team challenges many laws restricting gender-affirming medical care, military service, the legal recognition of name and gender marker changes, and more. You can visit its site to sign petitions and send messages to government officials, reach out for legal assistance, and more. You Might Also Like Here's What NOT to Wear to a Wedding Meet the Laziest, Easiest Acne Routine You'll Ever Try
Motor Trend
07-06-2025
- Automotive
- Motor Trend
Hyundai's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology - Episode 45
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