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Tokyo, Japan CNN —Tokyo Fashion Week concluded perhaps its most successful edition since the Covid-19 pandemic, with more international guests and buyers returning to Japan’s capital for the Fall-Winter 2024 edition. Up-and-coming labels were joined on the program by mainstays of Japanese fashion, like Mikio Sakabe. “Every person in Japan has their own style.”Scroll down for some of the best street style looks from Tokyo Fashion Week. Moeri Karasawa/CNNAttendee Bunta Shimizu wearing a colorful outfit at Tokyo Fashion Week on Thursday. Matt Jelonek/Getty ImagesGuests in eye-catching looks on the fourth day of Tokyo Fashion Week.

Persons: —, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, Hanae Mori, Yu Masui, “, ”, Christopher Kane, Uniqlo, Natsumi Maso, Ryu Kobayashi, Soga Takahashi, Moeri Karasawa, CNN Ryu Kobayashi, Marc Jacobs, ” Kobayashi, Bunta Shimizu, Matt Jelonek, Ui, Yves Saint Laurent, Daisuke Fujii’s, Himari Semans, Daisuke Fujii, Sena, Karasawa, CNN Daikokudou Nero, Justin Shin, Yu, Ashley Williams, Reishito, Bill Whitten Organizations: Japan CNN, Tokyo, Tokyo Fashion, CNN Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Russia, “, Osaka, Himari

☆ Can anyone save the internet? Neal Agarwal is trying, one Hampster Dance at a time.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Brian Barrett | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Internet Artifacts is the latest project from Neal Agarwal, the creative 25-year-old coder who launched neal.fun six years ago today. "I grew up at the tail end of that era of the internet," Agarwal said. Internet Artifacts has taken closer to three months. Internet Artifacts takes several touchstones of the anteplatformian internet and places them on literal digital pedestals. As delightful as Internet Artifacts is to click through, it also provides valuable context for Agarwal's larger ambition.

Persons: Neal Agarwal, Agarwal, antic, Steve Jobs, Jamie Cohen, It's, coders, he'd, —, Bill Gates, Josh Wardle, Neal, neal.fun, Brandon Chilcutt's, Jessa Lingel, Nicole He, Matthew Rayfield, Brian Moore, Wardle, what's, There's, Brian Barrett Organizations: today's, Adobe, Apple, Developers, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, CUNY, Virginia Tech, Ripley's, The New York Times, Napster, University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, Immaculate Grid, MacWorld, Wired, Yorker Locations: Queens, Fairfax , Virginia, MSCHF, New York

☆ This PC is infused with real human blood
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Blizzard is giving away a blood-infused PC to one lucky winner, as well as hosting a blood drive. The game studio, which is behind popular games like "Diablo IV" and "Overwatch," is giving away a PC that might be part of a vampire's dream gaming setup: a liquid-cooled PC that's infused with human blood. The blood donations and the blood-infused PC are both a reference to the newest season of "Diablo IV," Season of Blood, which launched on October 17 and features vampire powers. However, you don't have to be 18 or over to enter the giveaway for the blood-infused PC. In 2021, Lil Nas X released a custom pair of Nike Air Max '97s infused with a drop of human blood in each pair.

Persons: Nas X, Tony Hawk, —, Lil Nas, Nike Air Max, MSCHF Organizations: Service, Nvidia, Blizzard, PC, Nike Air

☆ MSCHF’s ‘microscopic’ Louis Vuitton handbag sells for over $63K at Joopiter auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A minuscule handbag measuring just 657 by 222 by 700 microns (or less than 0.03 inches wide) sold for over $63,000 at an online auction Wednesday. Barely visible to the human eye, the fluorescent yellowish-green bag is based on a popular Louis Vuitton design — though it is the work of a New York art collective, not the luxury label itself. Microscopic 'Louis Vuitton' handbag sold for $63K at an auction, the latest project from art collective MSCHF. MSCHFThe sale was hosted by Joopiter, an online auction house founded by American musician, record producer and designer Pharrell Williams. “Pharrell loves big hats, so we made him an incredibly small bag,” he told the newspaper.

Persons: Louis, Louis Vuitton, Pharrell Williams, Williams, Louis Vuitton’s, Kevin Wiesner, “ Pharrell, MSCHF, ”, Andy Warhol, Damian Hirst, Birkin, Iggy Azalea, Janelle Monáe, ’ Organizations: CNN, Louis Vuitton, Joopiter, New York Times, Nike Locations: New York, Brooklyn, American

☆ A microscopic, knockoff Louis Vuitton handbag smaller than a grain of salt just sold for $63,750
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A typical Louis Vuitton handbag can set you back a few thousand dollars, but this microscopic knockoff is even pricier. It's smaller than a grain of sea salt and comes with its own microscope to view it, MSCHF says. Kevin Wiesner, MSCHF's chief creative officer, told The New York Times that the collective hadn't obtained permission from Louis Vuitton to use the design. LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. MSCHF says the handbag is "smaller than a grain of sea salt."

Persons: Louis Vuitton, MSCHF, —, Louis, Kevin Wiesner, hadn't, MSCHF MSCHF, Lil Nas, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg Organizations: Louis, Service, New York Times Locations: Brooklyn

☆ The brand behind the viral Big Red Boots has made a microscopic handbag 'smaller than a grain of salt'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The brand behind the viral Big Red Boots is releasing a tiny handbag 'smaller than a grain of salt.' MSCHF's Microscopic Handbag is bright green and modeled on a Louis Vuitton handbag. MSCHF, a New York-based art advertising collective, said it's exhibiting a tiny handbag at Pharrell William's auction house JOOPITER in Paris from June 20 to 24. MSCHF's Microscopic Handbag under a microscope. "Microscopic Handbag takes this to its full logical conclusion.

Persons: Louis Vuitton, —, Boots, Pharrell William's, Kevin Wiesner, MSCHF, Weisner, Lil Nas, Gabriel Whaley Organizations: Service, Louis, Louis Vuitton Monogram, New York Times, Times, Red Locations: New York, Paris

☆ What Is This? A Handbag for Ants?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Callie Holtermann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

MSCHF, the creative collective responsible for the Big Red Boots that clomped across New York Fashion Week in February, is thinking smaller for its next accessory release. On Wednesday, the group plans to unveil its Microscopic Handbag, a specklike rendition of Louis Vuitton’s OnTheGo tote. This is not the kind of tote bag that can be filled up with vegetables at the farmers’ market: At most, it could be used to carry around a platelet or two. Kevin Wiesner, the chief creative officer of MSCHF, positioned the bag as a commentary on the impracticality of ever-shrinking luxury handbags. “I think ‘bag’ is a funny object because it derives from something rigorously functional,” he said in an interview.

Persons: Louis Vuitton’s OnTheGo, Louis Vuitton, Kevin Wiesner Organizations: Big Red, New York, Louis Vuitton’s OnTheGo tote Locations: New

☆ I tried a site where AI matched me with someone based on my 'hotness' rating. It's really messed up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Hot Chat 3000 is a dating website where AI determines your "hotness" using huge datasets. When a user enters Hot Chat 3000, they're asked to upload a picture of themselves as electronic music hums in the background. "Hot Chat 3000 very deliberately sets out to expose, visualize, exacerbate these biases," the site says. Which is to say that no one should take their Hot Chat 3000 "hotness" score seriously. There are no names in the world of Hot Chat 3000; instead, everyone is identified by their score.

☆ MSCHF's latest release is a double-ended sneaker that makes fun of our obsession with putting shoes on fast
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Danni Santana | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The MSCHF BWD releases April 11 via a one-hour draw on the art collective's website and mobile app. Actor and music artist Donald Glover sported the MSCHF BWD shoes at a recent NBA game. Similar to its Big Red Boot release in February, MSCHF organized a photoshoot for the new BWD sneaker. MSCHFMSCHF additionally commissioned a photo shoot of a model wearing the BWD shoes around New York City. But not all of MSCHF's creations are as wacky as that, or even its upcoming BWD shoes.

☆ Amazon’s head of HR rejects employees’ return-to-office petition
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Beth Galetti, the company's HR head, formally responded to a letter that gathered ~30,000 employee signatures. Galetti wrote in her email that Amazon's guiding principle is to "make our customers' lives better and easier every day." My colleague Eugene Kim obtained Galetti's full email and walks us through how Amazon employees feel about the response. In other news:MSCHF's Tax Heaven 3000 dating simulator is supposed to help you prepare your 2022 US federal tax return. Carta offers popular software to help employees manage their equity.

☆ This dating-simulator game says it'll help prepare your taxes as you play — and criticizes TurboTax as 'predatory'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

MSCHF announced a free dating simulator that it says helps prepare your 2022 US federal tax return. The game is scheduled to launch April 4, but its listing on the Steam platform has been removed. A screenshot from MSCHF's "Tax Heaven 3000" website, showing a character description for "Turbo." The dating simulator is scheduled to launch on April 4, but the game's storefront page has been removed from the popular platform Steam. A screenshot from MSCHF's "Tax Heaven 3000" dating simulator.

Some companies have expressed concern that a ruling against Jack Daniel's would weaken their control over their brands and reputations. The toy mimics Lynchburg, Tennessee-based Jack Daniel's famous whiskey bottles with humorous dog-themed alterations - replacing "Old No. "Jack Daniel's loves dogs and appreciates a good joke as much as anyone," the company told the justices in a brief. "But Jack Daniel's likes its customers even more, and doesn't want them confused or associating its fine whiskey with dog poop." VIP Products has said a ruling favoring Jack Daniel's would make it easier for trademark owners to stifle free speech.

☆ Why these absurd red boots are suddenly all over TikTok and Twitter — and listing for as much as $1,000 on StockX
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Danni Santana | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

MSCHF's oversized big red boots, releasing on February 16, have taken social media by storm. The latest viral release from the company is their "Big Red Boot," which goes on sale February 16 for $350. In a release describing the boots, MSCHF said the boots were made of TPUrubber shell, EVA foam, along with 'Red' and 'Big.' MSCHF calls these shoes "Cartoon boots for a Cool 3D World." Big Red Boots are REALLY not shaped like feet, but they are EXTREMELY shaped like boots."

☆ The best food marketing stunts of the year
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“The Big Cheez-It Tostada and Big Cheez-It Crunchwrap are in such Big demand that our limited offer is no longer available,” the chain said. Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Fancy FeastOver the summer, Fancy Feast invited people to answer the question: What does cat food taste like? The restaurant dishes drew inspiration from Fancy Feast Medleys, cat food that is itself inspired by human food like salmon primavera and turkey florentine. The restaurant’s menu was created by Amanda Hassner, in-house chef for Fancy Feast, as well as restaurateur Cesare Casella, a Michelin star winner, according to a Fancy Feast press release. Papa JohnsAs a permanent addition to the Papa Johns menu, the no-crust, toppings-only Papa Bowls are technically not a stunt.

☆ The hottest holiday gift is a massive, half pound Fruit Loop
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Just in time for the holidays, artist collective MSCHF is releasing its newest playful art piece: a giant, 930-calorie, $19.99 fruit loop. The unauthorized massive fruit loop is the group’s latest lighthearted experiment with consumerism. Each one weighs “almost half a pound,” according to MSCHF’s website for the product. In an emailed statement, Kellogg spokesperson Kris Bahner told CNN that the “Big Fruit Loop” constitutes copyright infringement. “Kellogg Company does not have a relationship with MSCHF and we were not involved in the creation of the Big Fruit Loop.

☆ An ATM art installation mocks wealthy Art Basel guests by ranking their bank balances on an arcade-like leaderboard
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An ATM at Art Basel Miami Beach is ranking users' bank balances with photos of them. Of the 93 ATM users seen in one recording, the bottom eight had $0.00. Daniel Greenberg, MSCHF co-founder, told CNN that "ATM Leaderboard' is an extremely literal distillation of wealth-flaunting impulses." The art collective chose the Miami location because "there is a dense concentration of people renting Lamborghinis and wearing Rolexes." And because the leaderboard keeps a continuous record, MSCHF hopes that they can show the ATM at more events as well.

An ATM installation at Art Basel Miami Beach is displaying and ranking people's bank balances. An ATM is typically used in conjunction with a checking account, which would mean people have tens of thousands — even millions — readily accessible. A checking account shouldn't hold all your moneyA checking account is only one part of a smart banking setup. One checking account is for bills, and the other is for spending via debit card. One savings account is for your emergency fund, and the second is for other goals.

☆ Рэпер Lil Nas X выпустил «сатанинскую обвуь» с каплями человеческой крови
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-30 | by ( ) nokta.md time to read: +1 min

Креативная компания MSCHF и американский рэпер Lil Nas X разработали кроссовки Satan Shoes («Сатанинская обувь»), в которых, как утверждают создатели, использовали человеческую кровь. Более того, кровь собирали не медицинские работники, а работники фирмы. Всего MSCHF объявила о выпуске 666 пар обуви по 1018 долларов каждая. 28 марта компания Nike объявила, что никак не связана с рэпером Lil Nas X или MSCHF. фото: скриншот видео Lil Nas X \www.youtube.comnokta

Persons: Lil Nas, Дэниел Гринберг, Гринберг, Лука Organizations: New York Times, Nike

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