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Prabowo's Allies Start Keeping Their Distance

As the president marks two years in office, some allies are distancing themselves from his flagship free meals programme.

Prabowo Subianto marks two years in office this week, and until now he has faced little or no pushback. There have been no dissenting votes on any bills the government has put forward. That is why it stands out that some of his own allies are now distancing themselves from his flagship free meals programme, as the Jakarta Post reported on Friday.

It fits a mood captured in a Post commentary titled "Maximum coalition, minimum performance", which argues that political stability among the elite has not yet translated into improvements in the economy, public services and the quality of governance. A coalition that votes as one is not the same as a government that delivers, and the free meals programme is where allies have chosen to show some distance.

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Harrods Lights Up for Diwali, and Sales Follow

Indian footfall at the Knightsbridge store rises 50 percent during Diwali season, and Harrods has built an offer around it.

At Harrods, the lights are up for Diwali, and the business is following. WWD reports that Indian footfall at the Knightsbridge store rises 50 percent during the Diwali season. The store has responded with exclusive Gaurav Gupta couture and an expanded gifting edit, treating the festival as a serious trading moment rather than a decorative one.

It is a neat example of a department store reading its visitors closely: a specific community, a specific festival, a specific designer, and a product range built around gifting. For a luxury retailer competing for international shoppers, a 50 percent jump in one group's visits is the kind of number that justifies a tailored offer, and a couture name makes the point that the offer is meant for the occasion.

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Zane Li Takes the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund

The prize headlines a busy week that also sees Kartik Research heading to Pitti Uomo and Ye eyeing a Yeezy runway return.

Zane Li has taken the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund prize, the headline result in Hypebeast's weekly fashion round-up. Elsewhere, Kartik Research is preparing to show at Pitti Uomo, and Ye is plotting a return to the runway for Yeezy, with a show planned in Los Angeles.

Taken together, the week sketches three different routes through fashion: a designer winning recognition from the industry's own institutions, a label stepping onto the Pitti Uomo stage, and a name that rarely leaves the conversation planning a Yeezy revival in front of an audience. Which of the three leaves the longest mark is anyone's guess, but all of them are worth watching.

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Palmer Luckey's Startup Wants Genetically Modified War Dogs

Warhound, backed by $200 million, says it will create "elite working dogs" fitted with advanced body armor.

Warhound came out of stealth on Wednesday with $200 million in funding and an unusual mission: to create "elite working dogs". The startup comes from Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm, and it describes genetically modified military dogs equipped with advanced body armor. WIRED has the story of the pair's latest venture.

The size of the first funding round suggests serious backing, however strange the idea sounds. Beyond that, the details are thin: what the genetic modifications involve, how the dogs would be used, and what the public will make of engineering animals for the military. Those questions, more than the body armor, are the ones to watch as Warhound steps out of stealth.