Extra Extra: Here’s What You Missed from the Week of December 10, 2017

Last week, Instagram added two big updates: ‘Stories Archive’ and ‘Stories Highlights’, which allow the user to now archive and permanently display their stories, add them as a highlight, reshare their stories, share them as a post, or turn off the feature completely. Highlights appear under your profile now. Here, Stories can be grouped and assigned themes, like a collection of your favorite pet moments, for example.

The Kardashian-Jenner clan has a long history of “copycating” without giving due credit. This week, Kim Kardashian came under fire for directly lifting designs by Rei Kawakubo and Demna Gvasalia for her children’s line, TheKidsSupply. Whistle-blower Instagram account @Diet_Prada pointed out that an original Comme des Garçons jacket and a sparkly sequined dress by Vetements were copied in their entirety.

Kardashian responded quickly by saying that her TheKidsSupply designs were intended to be “homages” to the original designers, and that 100 percent of the proceeds from both pieces will be donated to the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles – sounds like damage control to us.

Pantone’s annual ‘Color of the Year’ announcement is hotly anticipated in the design world as it signals the presiding color trend for the coming year. For 2018, the company has announced the shade “Ultra Violet,” which it describes as a “dramatically provocative and thoughtful purple shade” that “communicates originality, ingenuity, and visionary thinking that points us toward the future”. Be prepared to see this color dominate in the beauty, fashion, and interior worlds in the coming year.

After a year in the making, Nike will unveil its first hijab for athletes in January 2018, created in collaboration with a variety of athletes, from weightlifter Amna Al Haddad and boxer Zeina Nassar to figure skater Zahra Lari. By continually giving their feedback throughout the creation process, these sports professionals ensured that Nike’s hijab was capable of high levels of performance. Made from a lightweight technical mesh, the fabric is breathable and stretchy, but comes with elastic lining so that the head covering will not slip while engaged in activities.

For reasons we cannot begin to fathom, Donald Trump took to Twitter the day after Thanksgiving to declare that he had been contacted about being named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’, but that he judiciously “took a pass” – cue the eye rolling. In a year packed with painful schadenfreude and irony, Trump did end up being part of the magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ announcement, but not in the way he expected.

Instead, Time named “The Silence Breakers”, or the group of women who have come forward this year about sexual assault and harassment. These brave whistle-blowers are the reason that men like Donald Trump, Roy Moore, Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, and Louis CK have been exposed as serial abusers. For the most part, the silence breakers’ fearlessness and fortitude have led to men in power being toppled from their positions or resigning in disgrace, which in turn has encouraged more women to come forward about their traumatic experiences.