Anne-Laure Descours is Chief Sourcing Officer at Puma and Member of the Management Board. FashionUnited spoke to her via video call in her office in Hong Kong about the management style of women versus men, the challenges facing the supply chain in times Covid-19 and the message she has for recent graduates. Please describe your career up to this point in your own words. I have always been curious and, in a certain way, also a bit simple. I moved to Hong Kong 25 years ago, after working as a buyer for a company owned by the Otto Group in France. I fell in love with the city and I…

Despite Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s objections, climate change became the focal point—at least initially—of the first Group of 20 (G20) meeting this year, as President Barack Obama urged for world leaders to prioritize the environment over the economy in a speech on Saturday. Click Here: Cheap Chiefs Rugby Jersey 2019 He pointed to the U.S., Australia, and China in particular as countries whose bigger carbon footprints put them in bigger environmental debt. “No nation is immune and every nation has a responsibility to do its part,” Obama said in his remarks in Brisbane on the first day of the annual summit. “[T]he US and Australia has a lot in…

More than one hundred people who have been arrested over the last week during dramatic protests against a tar sands pipeline on Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia had their civil contempt charges thrown out by a Canadian court on Thursday, giving a legal boost to the movement that says it will continue to fight the dirty energy project by the Kinder Morgan corporation. “If [Kinder Morgan] can’t even get GPS coordinates right, how are we going to trust them to ship oil through our port without an accident?” —Lynne Quarmby, Burnaby Mountain protester and arrestee As the Vancouver Observer reports: For Canadians concerned about resource extraction and climate change, the…

Few if any people, given recent history and the consistent position of the Obama administration, are expecting that former President Bush or any of his top officials will ever see the inside of a U.S. courtroom (not to mention a prison cell) for their role in authorizing the torture of suspected terrorists. Despite that dim view, however, calls for prosecutions are now louder than they’ve been in years and new hopes have surfaced that international prosecutions could fill the void left by the unwillingness of the U.S. to pursue such charges. As Michael Rattner, president of the legal advocacy and human rights group Center for Constitutional Rights, declared on Thursday,…

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) announced Friday that he will decide by March if he will enter the 2016 presidential race—and whether he’ll run on a Democrat or Independent platform. In an interview with the Associated Press, Sanders said his nomination would be more than a political game. “I don’t want to do it unless I can do it well,” he said. “I don’t want to do it unless we can win this thing.” Sanders said he would make a “gut decision” about running and acknowledged that Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton would be his primary opponent. Although Sanders is a socialist, his views on many issues regularly align with Senate Democrats.…

FBI and US Justice Department prosecutors are recommending bringing felony charges against disgraced former CIA Director David Petraeus, the New York Times reported last night. It is up to outgoing Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to decide whether to seek an indictment that could send Petraeus to prison. Petraeus resigned from the C.I.A. in November of 2012 when it became public that the married Petraeus was having an affair with Paula Broadwell, an Army Reserve officer who was writing his biography. F.B.I. agents discovered that Petraeus was giving Broadwell highly classified top-secret documents that she was not authorized to see or possess. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT “Mr. Holder…

The apparel sector needs to review its industry as responsible consumption and the desire for less and mindful shopping grows. It is no longer enough to rely on the freshness of new trends. In order to be convincing, fashion is rethinking its values, committing itself to good causes, raising its CSR policy a notch and, above all, communicating its good will tirelessly. However, another approach is possible, that of the product itself. When it comes to fashion, outside of sportswear, selling a product to the average consumer by talking about its degree of innovation is not really a widespread technique-this could well change. For a few seasons now, and even…

Racing Point team boss Otmar Szafnauer says “flu-like” symptoms convinced Lance Stroll to pull out of the Eifel GP weekend, but the Canadian has not displayed any signs of COVID-19. Stroll had not been feeling well since the Russian GP at Sochi two ago, said Szafnauer. But multiple COVID-19 tests in the run-up to this weekend’s round at the Nürburgring returned negative results. “Since we left Russia he hasn’t been that great, I think he had a bit of a cold,” commented the Racing Point team boss. “At first we thought well, we were in Russia, we better get tested for the virus. We’ve tested him multiple times, including the…

Thousands of people marched through cities and towns across Germany on Monday calling for tolerance and racial equality in the face of the country’s rising Islamophobic demonstrations that fall under the banner of the far-right, extremist organization Pegida. At least 17,000 people took part in the anti-racist mobilizations, including more than 10,000 people in Munich, 6,000 in Magdeburg, and many more at rallies in Wuerzburg, Nuremberg, Berlin, and Duesseldorf, according to estimates from AFP. The showing, however, was smaller than last week’s approximately 100,000 anti-racist marchers across Germany. Citing alleged terror threats, police banned a Pegida march, initially slated to take place on Monday in the eastern German city of…

Fed up with conservative economics and fueled by Syriza’s recent victory in Greece, tens of thousands of Spaniards flooded the streets of Madrid on Saturday to say: “No to Austerity and Yes to Change!” The march, dubbed the “March for Change,” is the first mass demonstration in support of the country’s new leftist party, Podemos, which is Spanish for “We Can.” According to reports, demonstrators chanted “yes we can” and “tic tac tic tac” suggesting the clock was ticking for the country’s two main political parties. Many waved Greek and republican flags and banners reading “The change is now.” “This is not about asking for anything from the government or…