DUBAI: The Philipp Plein Group, the fashion industry’s fastest growing luxury goods conglomerate, announces a multi-year collaboration between main brand PHILIPP PLEIN and international boxing superstar Floyd “Money” Mayweather. The partnership will be launched officially at the record-breaking Mayweather vs. McGregor fight taking place this Saturday in Las Vegas.
Mayweather, who is coming off of a two-year hiatus for this blockbuster encounter with MMA great Conor McGregor, will make his historic entrance into the boxing ring donning a PHILIPP PLEIN custom boxing robe and trunks, designed personally by Philipp Plein. In addition, Mayweather’s entire support team will be dressed head to toe in PHILIPP PLEIN bespoke outfits.
A capsule collection specially created to commemorate this 50th fight of Mayweather’s undefeated career will be available in limited quantities at the PHILIPP PLEIN Las Vegas flagship and on Plein.com.
The PHILIPP PLEIN/Floyd Mayweather collaboration will extend over 2 years, comprising 4 exclusive collections that will bear the Floyd Mayweather brand name across all PHILIPP PLEIN lines, in addition to Floyd Mayweather appearances at selected brand events worldwide.
Plein adds “I applaud Floyd’s winning spirit and have been intrigued by the idea of collaborating together since he joined me on the runway to present my spring/summer 2018 resort fashion show last May. His fashion sense and fearless attitude perfectly match the PHILIPP PLEIN mood and lifestyle. I am excited to see what we will come up with together.”
The deal was consummated by ONE Entertainment Managing Partner and CEO, Brent A. Johnson, JD, Floyd’s International Appearance and Brand Management lead based on the inspiration of seeing the two creative geniuses collaborate in Cannes at Philipp’s Gala Show this past May.
The PHILIPP PLEIN brand is no stranger to the sports world, and regularly collaborates with a variety of major teams and talents. From the Italian football club AS Roma to Formula One’s Nico Hulkenberg and Inter Milan’s captain Mauro Icardi. According to the designer, athletes and sports figures are ideal representatives of the PHILIPP PLEIN lifestyle, being dynamic, successful and self-confident heroes.
Floyd Mayweather states: “I am happy to collaborate with Philipp Plein, he is unique in the fashion world. Like me he works and plays hard, lives the dream, and demands the best.”
Luxury fashion group Philipp Plein announces collaboration with Floyd Mayweather
Luxury fashion group Philipp Plein announces collaboration with Floyd Mayweather
Arts festival’s decision to exclude Palestinian author spurs boycott
- A Macquarie University academic who researches Islamophobia and Palestine, Abdel-Fattah responded saying it was “a blatant and shameless act of anti-Palestinian racism and censorship,” with her lawyers issuing a letter to the festival
SYDENY: A top Australian arts festival has seen the withdrawal of dozens of writers in a backlash against its decision to bar an Australian Palestinian author after the Bondi Beach mass shooting, as moves to curb antisemitism spur free speech concerns.
The shooting which killed 15 people at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Dec. 14 sparked nationwide calls to tackle antisemitism. Police say the alleged gunmen were inspired by Daesh.
The Adelaide Festival board said last Thursday it would disinvite Randa Abdel-Fattah from February’s Writers Week in the state of South Australia because “it would not be culturally sensitive to continue to program her at this unprecedented time so soon after Bondi.”
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• Abdel-Fattah responded, saying it was ‘a blatant and shameless act of anti-Palestinian racism and censorship.’
• Around 50 authors have since withdrawn from the festival in protest, leaving it in doubt, local media reported.
A Macquarie University academic who researches Islamophobia and Palestine, Abdel-Fattah responded saying it was “a blatant and shameless act of anti-Palestinian racism and censorship,” with her lawyers issuing a letter to the festival.
Around 50 authors have since withdrawn from the festival in protest, leaving it in doubt, local media reported.
Among the boycotting authors, Kathy Lette wrote on social media the decision to bar Abdel-Fattah “sends a divisive and plainly discriminatory message that platforming Australian Palestinians is ‘culturally insensitive.'”
The Adelaide Festival said in a statement on Monday that three board members and the chairperson had resigned. The festival’s executive director, Julian Hobba, said the arts body was “navigating a complex moment.”
a complex and unprecedented moment” after the “significant community response” to the board decision.
In the days after the Bondi Beach attack, Jewish community groups and the Israeli government criticized Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for failing to act on a rise in antisemitic attacks and criticized protest marches against Israel’s war in Gaza held since 2023.
Albanese said last week a Royal Commission will consider the events of the shooting as well as antisemitism and social cohesion in Australia. Albanese said on Monday he would recall parliament next week to pass tougher hate speech laws.
On Monday, New South Wales state premier Chris Minns announced new rules that would allow local councils to cut off power and water to illegally operating prayer halls.
Minns said the new rules were prompted by the difficulty in closing a prayer hall in Sydney linked to a cleric found by a court to have made statements intimidating Jewish Australians.
The mayor of the western Sydney suburb of Fairfield said the rules were ill-considered and councils should not be responsible for determining hate speech.
“Freedom of speech is something that should always be allowed, as long as it is done in a peaceful way,” Mayor Frank Carbone told Reuters.
