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Adidas has banned German football fans from customising Jerseys with the number 44 amid claims it bares a striking resemblance to the logo for the Nazi SS units. The sports brand confirmed they have 'blocked the personalisation of the jerseys' but claimed the resemblance to the Nazi symbol was unintentional. SS units were the most responsible for crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis during World War Two.

Hamas thanked Vladimir Putin for his support for the “Palestinian cause” as the terror group released a Russian hostage from the Gaza Strip on Sunday afternoon. It said its release of a Russian citizen from the war-ravaged territory was made in appreciation of the position taken by Moscow’s position on the conflict with Israel. “In response to the efforts of Russian president Putin and in appreciation of the Russian position in support of the Palestinian cause, we released a detainee who holds Russian citizenship,” Hamas said.

At one of Kanye West's first meetings with Adidas he drew a swastika on a design sketch and told a Jewish member of staff to kiss a photo of Hitler, according to an investigation by The New York Times. For more than a decade, the rapper now known as Ye had one of the most lucrative celebrity-fashion partnerships ever with Adidas, generating sales of more than $1 billion a year. But the German sportswear brand eventually cut ties with Ye in October 2022 after a series of public antisemitic tirades and offensive posts that caused him to be blocked from...

Yes, it has come to this. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) tweeted Wednesday: “I’m old enough to remember when women actually modeled women’s bathing suits, not men.” Alas, we’re way past that now in our enlightened age. If men can become top female admirals and champion female swimmers, why can’t they model the latest in women’s bathing suits? Mace was responding to a new ad campaign from Adidas, featuring a male model wearing their new women’s swimwear line.I'm old enough to remember when women actually modeled women's bathing suits, not men. 🙃 https://t.co/kOvXvmDzHt— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) May 17, 2023Adidas’ website...

Adidas has sparked calls for a boycott after launching a new range of women's swimwear using what appears to be a man as the model. The company was accused of 'erasing women' and is the latest target of conservative anger over 'woke' marketing, after Bud Light saw sales drop last month following outrage over its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The swimsuit range is part of Adidas's 'Pride 2023' collection, and is for sale on the website in the women's section. However, the model showing off the swimwear has a hairy chest and a bulge in the crotch area....

Adidas has decided what it's going to do with its unsold Yeezy merchandise. At an investors' conference Thursday, Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said that the apparel company is going to "sell parts of this inventory and donate money to the organizations that are helping us and that was also hurt by Kanye's statements." Adidas had previously said it expects to lose $1.3 billion in revenue this year because it's unable to sell the designer's Yeezy clothing and shoes. It had been under pressure from investors to determine what to do with merchandise after Adidas terminated its partnership with Ye, formerly...

Adidas has said the ending of its collaboration with Kanye West is "hurting" the business, with sales in North America hard hit. The sportswear giant cut its ties with the designer and rapper, known as Ye, late last year after he posted anti-Semitic comments on social media. West designed trainers under the Yeezy brand and Adidas said the loss of the business cut sales by €400m (£350m) in the first quarter of the year. Overall, total revenue fell by 1%. Despite the dip, the figures were better than analysts had been expecting and Adidas said that sales were up 9%...

Adidas says it is withdrawing a request to the US Trademark Office to reject a Black Lives Matter (BLM) application for a trademark featuring three parallel stripes. The sportwear giant did not give a reason for the reversal. On Monday, Adidas said the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation design would create confusion with its own famous three-stripe mark. It added that it has been using its logo for more than 70 years. "Adidas will withdraw its opposition to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation's trademark application as soon as possible," a spokesperson for the German company said in...

Adidas’ divorce from Kanye West could cost the company more than $1.3 billion in revenue after it cut ties with the rapper in the wake of his anti-Semitic remarks, the Germany-based sports apparel maker said. Shares of Adidas fell 11% on Friday after the firm warned it could end the year at a loss for the first time in three decades as it struggles to sell unsold stock of Yeezy products. The company said its financial guidance for 2023 “accounts for the significant adverse impact from not selling the existing stock” of Yeezy brand shoes and clothing.

When Adidas ended its lucrative partnership with Kanye West in October after a global outcry over his anti-Semitic remarks, former managers felt they had finally been vindicated. Top staff had warned internally for years that the German sportswear group was over-reliant on the Yeezy trainers franchise it ran with the US rapper and fashion designer also known as Ye. “Behind the scenes, things with Ye were bad already for a long time,” one former manager told the Financial Times. “He was constantly misbehaving — changing his mind, postponing projects, not respecting Adidas timelines.” Founded in 1949 by Adolf “Adi” Dassler,...

Following years of increasingly controversial scandals, Kanye West finally appears to be facing the consequences of his actions to a level like never before as Adidas officially cut ties on their $1.5 billion partnership with the rapper - ending a lengthy list of big name brands to have severed all links to the scandal-ridden rapper. After shocking the world with a series of outbursts on social media in which he made anti-Semitic comments as well as derisive remarks against other celebrities, the 45-year-old musician - who first revealed his bipolar disorder diagnosis in 2018 - has also seen his lucrative...

by Becca London | RNNKanye West made quite the statement at Paris Fashion Week by wearing a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt.According to Page Six, during his Monday showcasing for his Season 9 Yeezy collection, West gave a speech while wearing the shirt.This was West’s first time taking his collection to Paris Fashion Week.According to High Snobiety, West’s fashion show was thrown together in the eleventh hour with his clothes barely arriving in Paris on Sunday.The fashion show comes weeks after the rapper severed ties with the clothing brands Gap and Adidas, in pursuit of going solo with his Yeezy brand.West...

Adidas AG said it is increasing the number of black employees and investing $20 million in black communities after some U.S. employees complained the company was profiting off black culture without doing enough to help them. The sportswear giant said a minimum of 30% of all new positions in the U.S. at Adidas and Reebok will be filled with black and Latino people and that it would finance 50 university scholarships for black students each year over five years.

That's why she ended up signing a deal with Adidas Before Beyoncé became the new Queen of Athletic Wear over at Adidas, as was announced yesterday, she was courted by a number of brands. Jordan, Under Armour, and Reebok all had meetings with the pop star before she eventually partnered with the three stripes. Now, it’s been reported that the reason Reebok lost out on the disposable income of Hive members is because of a humiliating lack of a diversity in their pitch meeting. According to ESPN’s Nick DePaula, Beyoncé went into a meeting with Reebok in good faith. She...

A petition calling on the sports apparel brand Adidas to drop rap superstar Kanye West over comments he made about slavery has reached more than 4,500 signatures. “When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice. Like, you were there for 400 years and it’s all of you all? Like, we’re mentally in prison,” West said in an interview with TMZ on Tuesday. The comments sparked outrage from the likes of CNN’s Don Lemon and Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson, with infuriated activists even starting a petition urging Adidas to cut all...

ick Pitino found the scandal he couldn’t survive. The Louisville coach, as well as athletic director Tom Jurich, was canned on Wednesday, according to multiple reports, one day after the corruption scandal that rocked the NCAA focused intently on Louisville. Pitino and Jurich met with Louisville officials Wednesday. According to WAVE-TV, Jurich was asked to fire Pitino and when he refused was fired himself. A news conference is scheduled for later Wednesday. The FBI investigated corruption and bribery in college sports, arresting assistants from four programs. Louisville was spotlighted by the investigation, which found a Cardinals recruit was funneled $100,000...

Ten people involved with the highest echelon of college basketball, including four assistant coaches and a senior executive at Adidas, are facing federal bribery, fraud and other corruption charges, prosecutors in Manhattan announced on Tuesday. The United States attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a statement that since 2015 the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors have been investigating “the criminal influence of money on coaches and student-athletes who participate in intercollegiate basketball governed by the N.C.A.A.” The investigation has revealed “numerous instances” of bribes paid by athlete advisers, among others, to assistant coaches and sometimes directly to...

President Trump created a stir amid his political opposition when he was reported to have told French first-lady Brigitte Macron: “you’re in such great shape“.   Apparently, according to the ever-pliable rules of the virtue signaling political left, it is “sexist” to compliment a woman on her physical appearance. Of course it didn’t take more than a news cycle for yet another corporate entity to jump head-first into the opportunity to attach their own brand-image to anti-Trumpism.  [Adidas is the parent company of Reebok]  The hypocrisy behind this opportunistic marketing endeavor/virtue-signaling is stunning.  Here’s the tweet from Reebok: As you...

Adidas is a massive and extremely popular corporation that creates all manner of sports footwear, accessories and attire. It’s a well-known brand all throughout the planet and is based in Herzogenaurach, Germany, where it was founded. It looks like Adidas is in the middle of doing some great things for the LGBT world! Here’s to more and more positive developments and advancements for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender persons everywhere. If more companies would adopt the same accepting and welcoming attitude Adidas has, the world would quickly become a better and more beautiful place. People who believe in equality and...

Space isn't just the next frontier for human exploration—apparently clothing brands are also looking towards the heavens. Today, Adidas revealed that its Y-3 brand will be working with Virgin Galactic to design not only the astronaut pilot’s flight-suits, but the outfits for everyone at Spaceport America. (For those not familiar with the brand, Y-3 is a fashion collaboration between Adidas and designer Yohji Yamamoto.) ... The flight-suit is made from Nomex Meta Aramid, which is a material very similar to kevlar. It retains some of the bullet-proof fabric’s rigidity, but is considerably more flexible. So while it will help support...