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Prabowo Names New Foreign Minister, Police Chief

A fresh foreign minister and a new police chief arrived in the same sweep of Thursday's cabinet reshuffle.

President Prabowo reshuffled his cabinet this week, installing career diplomat Arrmanatha — known as Tata — as Indonesia's new foreign minister, and promoting Comr. Gen. Suyudi Ario Seto, previously head of the National Narcotics Agency, to national police chief in place of Listyo. Arrmanatha had been one of three deputy foreign ministers Prabowo appointed last October, serving under outgoing minister Sugiono, and said after his inauguration that he intends to build on the government's existing foreign policy.

The timing matters: Indonesia's economic chiefs are already navigating a battered rupiah, soaring oil prices and global turmoil, with commentators warning them not to let things slip now. A new face at the foreign ministry and the top of the police force adds another layer of transition for a government managing crises on several fronts at once.

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Levi's Hires Skechers' Finance Chief

John Vandemore leaves Skechers for the top finance job at Levi's, replacing longtime CFO Harmit Singh.

Levi's has a new chief financial officer. John Vandemore, who spent nearly a decade at Skechers after earlier stints at Mattel and Disney, is taking over the role from Harmit Singh, who had held the post for years. The move was announced this week as part of the usual churn of finance leadership across major apparel and footwear companies.

Moves like this one are worth watching precisely because they're unglamorous: a CFO change signals how a company plans to run its books through a tougher retail stretch, not what it will put on the runway. Vandemore's path — toy and entertainment giants, then a footwear brand, now denim — says something about how fungible finance leadership has become across consumer categories.

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Piccioli Dresses Up Denim At Balenciaga

Balenciaga's Pierpaolo Piccioli applies intricate couture techniques to everyday staples like denim and bombers for Spring 2027.

At Paris Fashion Week, Pierpaolo Piccioli's Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2027 ready-to-wear line took the house's couture-level craftsmanship and pointed it at the most ordinary pieces in anyone's closet: denim and bomber jackets. The result, as the show put it, proves couture can be casual — intricate techniques usually reserved for gowns applied instead to clothes people actually wear every day.

It's a neat reversal of fashion's usual direction, where everyday pieces get a touch of elevation rather than couture getting dressed down. For a house watched closely for signals about where luxury is headed next, putting that level of handwork into a bomber jacket is itself the statement — blurring the line between what's precious and what's ordinary.

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Only two of five autonomous vehicles finished a high-speed race on a notoriously tricky Formula 1 track.

Two driverless cars crashed at speeds of 155 mph during a race around a famously difficult Formula 1 circuit. Of the five autonomous vehicles that started, only two made it to the finish — the rest came undone on the track's blind corners, the kind of turn where a car can't see what's coming until it's already committed.

The failures are being read as useful rather than embarrassing: a real-world stress test of what happens when self-driving systems meet conditions far more demanding than ordinary traffic. Pushing autonomous cars to their limits on a closed track, rather than finding the limits on public roads, is exactly the kind of experiment that could make everyday self-driving systems safer later.