Kanye West's Yeezy line of sneakers added 1.5 billion euros to Adidas' revenues in 2021, which is about 12% of their entire shoe business. But this success has put the company at the mercies of a man who kind of revels in controversy. Orae Algunbi: Ye went on an anti-Semitic tirade with tweets and interviews that got him booted off of Twitter and Instagram.
The power station in Zaporizhia has served as an impromptu military base for Russian forces—but danger is mounting and there are signs that troops may soon give it up. The sportswear-industry boom that has much of the world wearing high-performance kit may soon come to an end. And why teenage angst is such a good fit for horror films.
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