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Marvel and Jewelry Label GLD Enter Licensing Agreement

Fans can now proudly show off their allegiance to Spider-Man or Captain America, thanks to a new deal between jewelry lifestyle label GLD and Marvel Entertainment.
As per the terms of the multiyear licensing agreement, Marvel has granted GLD access to its catalogue of intellectual property, including characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The GLD x Marvel collection will range in price from $79 to $99 and will be comprised of pendants featuring Marvel characters on designs in solid gold and precious stones.
GLD is also offering fans the opportunity to vote for which 10 characters or groups should be released first among Iron Man, Spider-Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Black Widow, Doctor Strange, Gamora, Groot, Loki, Vision, Venom, Hydra and Thanos.
Characters like Iron-Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Gamora and Groot will be represented by their faces, while the remaining characters are represented by their weapon or symbol.

Black Panther, one of many Marvel superheroes that may appear in the first GLD x Marvel collection. 
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According to the brand, the partnership had been in discussion for one year. The license covers all characters from the Marvel Universe, including comics, television shows and video games.
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Brooks Brothers to Stop Selling Product Made From Exotic Skins

Brooks Brothers will no longer sell products made from exotic animal skins such as crocodile, ostrich and lizard.
In thanks, PETA, the animal rights group, sent the company a box of vegan crocodile-shaped chocolates.
“Behind every crocodile- or snakeskin item is an animal who experienced a violent, bloody death,” claimed Tracy Reiman, PETA’s executive vice president. “PETA thanks Brooks Brothers for protecting these vulnerable animals.”
In 2018, Brooks Brothers stopped purchasing mohair in response to PETA’s investigation of angora goat farms in South Africa. It now joins Jil Sander, Chanel, Diane von Furstenberg, Hugo Boss, Victoria Beckham, Vivienne Westwood and other fashion brands that have banned exotic skins.
Only a fraction of the brand’s business was in exotic skins, according to a spokesperson, and it includes shoes, bags and small leather goods. The retailer stopped designing and ordering skins around a year ago and is selling through the last of that remaining inventory.

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Gigi Hadid Confirms Pregnancy Rumors

The Internet went been ablaze this week when reports circulated that Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik are expecting their first child together. Now, she’s making it official.
Gigi Hadid confirmed that she is pregnant in an interview with talk show host Jimmy Fallon.
“We wished we could have announced it on our own terms, but we are very excited and grateful for everyone’s well wishes and support, so thank you,” Hadid told Fallon in an at-home, quarantine edition of “The Tonight Show.” Hadid is in quarantine along with sister Bella Hadid at their mother Yolanda Hadid’s farm in Pennsylvania. Hadid, who turned 25 on April 23, continued, “In this time, it’s a nice silver lining to be home together and really experience it day by day.”
Hadid was especially excited when the topic of her Cake Boss-created birthday cake came up. “I don’t know if it was, like, my hormones right now or just quarantine emotional-ness [sic], I cried every five minutes for an hour. Every time I thought that Buddy [Valastro] made my cake, I cried of happiness.” Hadid said about her everything bagel birthday cake, which she posted on her Instagram account.
Watch Hadid’s interview with Fallon below.

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Valentino’s Fall 2020 Campaign Will Raise Funds for the Spallanzani Hospital

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Gigi Hadid Breaks Her Silence and Confirms Her Pregnancy in First Interview

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Normal People Makes Small But Significant Changes To Sally Rooney’s Novel

The Hulu adaptation lifts lines directly from the book. But the changes the show makes are what will stick with you.

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Virtual Concert Apparel Collections – Travis Scott Has Dropped New ‘Astronomical Tour’ Merchandise (TrendHunter.com)


(TrendHunter.com) Following his Fortnite Astronomical Tour, Travis Scott has dropped new merch for his virtual concert.

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The Chateau Marmont Set to Return — Eventually

There isn’t a hotel as closely identified with Hollywood as the Chateau Marmont, which is probably why people have been talking a lot about its future amid the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus.
Rumors abound lately that the 90-year-old hotel and restaurant, still a favorite haunt of celebrities and industry types the world over, has been so pummeled by the coronavirus that it won’t be able to reopen, and its owner, Andre Balazs, might be forced to sell. The hotel laid off nearly its entire staff (242 people) the same day California and Los Angeles went into lockdown and closed all nonessential business. Employees received no severance and the layoffs are listed as “permanent” in a required disclosure filed with the state. Other hotels that enacted layoffs listed them as “temporary,” like the newer but very popular San Vicente Bungalows in L.A., which has laid off all of its 144 staffers, and The Peninsula in New York, which has laid off 460 people. 
But, the Chateau’s quick move to layoff staff without pay is thought to have saved the company a considerable amount of money, leaving it able to wait out the pandemic for a time, and eventually to start moving

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