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G-SHOCK has announced a new fitness watch, the GMDB800 series, that can track steps, record workouts and more. The style, which arrives in pastel pink and black with rose gold detailing, features a compact silhouette that makes it ideal for smaller wrists.

Using Bluetooth connectivity, the watch can be linked to the G-SHOCK Connected app which functions as a pedometer and accelerometer. When used in tandem with the app, the new model can also measure calories burned and create timed workouts for interval training.

The Casio G-SHOCK GMDB800-4A and G-SHOCK GMDB800-1A in pink and black respectively, retail for $99 USD and releases later this month at the G-SHOCK website.

Paying tribute to the 2020 Jamaica Carnival, which has been postponed to October due to coronavirus-related concerns, Nike dresses its new Air Jordan 4 Retro in a Rasta-inspired white, red, green and yellow colorway. Dubbed “Do The Right Thing,” the sneaker features a white pebbled leather upper and ombre netting at the toe and sides that fades from green to yellow to red. A gray midsole flecked with black is finished off with a green and black outsole. Black laces and a black tongue printed with the Jumpman logo in white complete the shoe.

The Air Jordan 4 Retro Women’s “Do The Right Thing” retails for $195 USD at the END. website, where customers can enter a draw to purchase the sneaker.

A new issue of Vogue Italia releases digitally on April 10 and in light of the global coronavirus pandemic, the publication has decided to feature a blank cover in lieu of its usual cover star. Editor-in-Chief Emanuele Farneti penned a statement explaining the magazine’s decision, recently posted to Instagram.

Farneti states that just under two weeks ago, Vogue Italia was planning to print an issue involving a twin project with L’Uomo Vogue that had been in the works for some time. However, “To speak of anything else — while people are dying, doctors and nurses are risking their lives and the world is changing forever — is not the DNA of ‘Vogue Italia.’ Accordingly, we shelved our project and started from scratch,” Farneti explains. He goes on to explain the significance of a blank, all-white cover:

“White is first of all respect. White is rebirth, the light after darkness, the sum of all colours. White is the colour of the uniforms worn by those who put their own lives on the line to save ours. It represents space and time to think, as well as to stay silent. White is for those who are filling this empty time and space with ideas, thoughts, stories, lines of verse, music and care for others…Above all: white is not surrender, but a blank sheet waiting to be written, the title page of a new story that is about to begin.”
Virgil Abloh‘s take on the classic Nike model arrives in a combination of royal yellow hues and stark white tones. The two-tone deconstructed upper sports mesh, leather and suede material, along with the signature stitched-on Swooshes. Abloh’s iconic branding can be found on the pair’s medial side , lacing system and midsole, while Jordan Brand‘s Wings appear on the collar panels. Rounding out the design is the white sole embellished with the word “AIR” in black.