<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Briefly Alert</title><description>The morning&apos;s essentials, discreetly.</description><link>https://brieflyalert.io/</link><language>en-gb</language><item><title>Nike’s Saucy Leather Air Max Is Straight from Italy</title><link>https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/nike-air-max-95-lux-one-block-down/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/nike-air-max-95-lux-one-block-down/</guid><description>Milan-based One Block Down has teamed up with Nike on a new Air Max 95 Lux, the model&apos;s first return since the 2019 Supreme version. The black pair has rippled leather uppers, a leather &quot;mesh&quot; panel near the laces, Big Bubble soles and One Block Down logos. It costs $200 and is due on Nike&apos;s website on November 6, with three more colorways expected later. Source: Highsnobiety.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:33:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Fashion</category></item><item><title>Catch a movie at Cine Tutu, the new São Paulo cinema by Isay Weinfeld</title><link>https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/cine-tutu-sao-paulo-cinema-isay-weinfeld-brazil</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/cine-tutu-sao-paulo-cinema-isay-weinfeld-brazil</guid><description>Architect Isay Weinfeld, who co-directed a feature film in 1988, has designed Cine Tutu, a 114-seat independent cinema and the first street cinema in São Paulo&apos;s Vila Madalena. Visitors pass through a café-bar and a lounge-style waiting area with olive-green banquettes, then reach a screening room with floral-print seating, an 8.9m screen, 4K projection and Dolby 7.1 sound. The venue, founded by Paulo Velasco, is one of the locations for the 50th São Paulo International Film Festival. Source: Wallpaper.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:33:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Lifestyle</category></item><item><title>How do you create a design to last for a 1,000 years?</title><link>https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/nebbia-interlude-new-zealand-paererewa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/nebbia-interlude-new-zealand-paererewa</guid><description>London studio Nebbia, founded by Madhav Kidao and Brando Posocco, has completed Interlude, the second work in New Zealand&apos;s Paererewā programme, which aims to produce 1,000 pieces built to endure for a millennium. The climbable, portal-shaped sculpture stands on a cliff in Jardine Park and is made from basalt bluestone sourced in Timaru. The designers say it need not stay unchanged, since the region&apos;s seismic activity and the vast timespan mean it may weather or fragment over time. Source: Wallpaper.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:33:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Lifestyle</category></item><item><title>Is having urine the color of Mountain Dew normal?</title><link>https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/oct/25/urine-what-color-experts</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/oct/25/urine-what-color-experts</guid><description>A doctor who gives dietary advice to several members of Trump&apos;s cabinet said this summer that his neon yellow urine, which he compares to Mountain Dew, is normal. He ties it to eating only meat and fermented foods. The piece notes that diet affects urine color and turns to experts on which shades to expect. Source: Guardian Life and Style.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:33:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Lifestyle</category></item><item><title>‘What’s the safest way to defrost chicken?’ We’re answering your food safety questions</title><link>https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/live/2026/oct/25/food-safety-conversation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/live/2026/oct/25/food-safety-conversation</guid><description>The Guardian US is holding a live Q&amp;A on food safety at noon ET on 26 October, with experts Rachel Sherman and Caroline L Schauer. The Drexel food lab has also tested products including air fryers and nonstick cookware, with Cosori and Our Place singled out. The piece says food safety once meant rinsing lettuce and getting chicken to 165F. Source: Guardian Life and Style.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:33:28 GMT</pubDate><category>Lifestyle</category></item><item><title>Lime bike jousts? Why youth culture is embracing the medieval era</title><link>https://www.theguardian.com/global/2026/oct/24/lime-bike-jousts-why-youth-culture-is-embracing-the-medieval-era</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theguardian.com/global/2026/oct/24/lime-bike-jousts-why-youth-culture-is-embracing-the-medieval-era</guid><description>Medieval imagery is turning up across pop culture, from chainmail-wearing musicians to high-fashion catwalks. This week in east London, two men staged a joust on Lime bikes using PVC pipes. Artist Corbin Shaw&apos;s Feast of Fools, shown alongside Frieze, drew on a medieval festival where peasants could mock the wealthy, and Troye Sivan plays a knight in his Party video. Source: Guardian Fashion.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:09:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Fashion</category></item><item><title>Nike’s Skate-Engineered Air Forces Are “Instant” Classics</title><link>https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/instant-skateboards-nike-sb-air-force-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/instant-skateboards-nike-sb-air-force-1/</guid><description>Nike SB has added Tokyo to its Air Force 1 &quot;City Pack&quot;, working with Instant Skateboards. A first limited run came out on October 9 in black suede with royal blue Swooshes and Instant branding. A second version with no logos follows on October 31, sold exclusively overseas and joined by polo shirts, laces and stickers, while Nocturnal, Fly Streetwear and Ben-G are set to release their own pairs soon. Source: Highsnobiety.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:09:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Fashion</category></item><item><title>This Dunk Comes With Built-In Mamba Mentality</title><link>https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/nike-kobe-dunk-low-protro-mamba-eterno/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/nike-kobe-dunk-low-protro-mamba-eterno/</guid><description>Nike has announced the Kobe Dunk Low Protro Mamba Eterno, a lifestyle shoe tied to a global initiative with the Bryant family honoring Kobe and Gianna Bryant through sport, youth basketball and design. It puts Protro performance technology into a low-top Dunk shape, with a deep orange jacquard weave and black leather overlays. Details include Mamba Eterno lettering on the insoles, Kobe&apos;s logo on the tongue tab and his signature on the heel tabs. Source: Highsnobiety.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:09:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Fashion</category></item><item><title>Across scattered cities, here’s to bringing back the impromptu encounter</title><link>https://monocle.com/the-faster-lane/bringing-back-the-impromptu-encounter/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://monocle.com/the-faster-lane/bringing-back-the-impromptu-encounter/</guid><description>A Monocle columnist in Lisbon recounts friends dropping by on a Monday evening with only a short phone call as warning. It prompts him to recall the spontaneous visits of his childhood in Canada and London, and to wonder why they faded in big-city life. The evening turned into drinks, snacks and talk of France, Europe, cinema and Portugal&apos;s prospects. Source: Monocle.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:09:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Lifestyle</category></item><item><title>Greg Wise on how he and Emma Thompson coped with failed IVF</title><link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/25/greg-wise-on-how-he-and-emma-thompson-coped-with-failed-ivf-we-hit-an-existential-crisis-she-was-not-a-proper-woman-and-i-was-not-a-proper-man</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/25/greg-wise-on-how-he-and-emma-thompson-coped-with-failed-ivf-we-hit-an-existential-crisis-she-was-not-a-proper-woman-and-i-was-not-a-proper-man</guid><description>Actor Greg Wise looks back on the many IVF attempts he and Emma Thompson made to have a second child after their daughter Gaia was born. He describes a lonely, unacknowledged grief for a child who never arrived, and says the couple never sought counselling. Thompson blamed herself for being unable to conceive, and nothing he said changed her mind. Source: Guardian Life and Style.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:09:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Lifestyle</category></item><item><title>Jean Prounis&apos; &apos;Moderne&apos; jewellery collection is inspired by art deco New York</title><link>https://www.wallpaper.com/watches-jewellery/jean-prounis-moderne-jewellery-collection</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.wallpaper.com/watches-jewellery/jean-prounis-moderne-jewellery-collection</guid><description>New York jeweller Jean Prounis has launched &apos;Moderne&apos;, a collection paying homage to the city&apos;s art deco era, made in 22-carat yellow gold with rock crystal, diamonds and other gems. Her team studied pochoir prints at the New York Public Library, local architecture and archive pieces by Cartier and Maison Fouquet. The theme is also personal, as her great-grandfather co-opened the Versailles nightclub in 1936, and the pieces include tasselled sautoirs and square-cut diamonds. Source: Wallpaper.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:09:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Lifestyle</category></item><item><title>Thom Yorke on bringing the Radiohead and Shakespeare mash-up, ‘Hamlet Hail to the Thief’, to the Barbican</title><link>https://www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibitions-shows/radiohead-thom-yorke-on-hamlet-hail-to-the-thief-interview</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.wallpaper.com/art/exhibitions-shows/radiohead-thom-yorke-on-hamlet-hail-to-the-thief-interview</guid><description>Hamlet Hail to the Thief fuses Radiohead&apos;s 2003 album with Shakespeare&apos;s play. After short runs in Manchester and Stratford-upon-Avon in 2025, it is being readied for three months at London&apos;s Barbican. In rehearsals, Thom Yorke, co-creator and orchestrator, works with a band and actors led by Samuel Blenkin as Hamlet. Source: Wallpaper.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:09:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Lifestyle</category></item></channel></rss>