Workers are on strike at the largest maker of sneaker brands including Nike and Adidas. » 4/16/14 9:40am Wednesday 9:40am

The scene was unprecedented: seven runners walking off the track hand in hand, in quiet protest against their own governing body. The women had just run the 1,500-meter race at the U.S. indoor national championships on Feb. 23 in Albuquerque. The day before, the winner of the 3,000-meter race, Gabe Grunewald, had been… » 3/07/14 5:43pm 3/07/14 5:43pm

22-year-old Brittney Griner, the number one pick in the WNBA draft this year, new Phoenix Mercury player and someone you will instantly like after seeing this picture, has become the first out-and-proud athlete to be signed to an endorsement deal by Nike. » 4/27/13 12:30pm 4/27/13 12:30pm

In case you missed it: This Nike Free ad from Nike Japan stars gold-medal-winning Olympian Gabby Douglas in a situation we can all relate to: She arrives home and finds that she's forgotten her keys. She's locked out. But Gabby Douglas does not need your stinking keys. » 4/16/13 4:55pm 4/16/13 4:55pm

For the last few days, my inner monologue has basically been HurricaneHurricaneHurricaneHurricaneHurricane. But now, as the subway is starting to run and my thought tubes are becoming unclogged, I’ve found time to think about other things. The fact that even though I have running water, I haven’t actually showered for… » 11/01/12 7:00pm 11/01/12 7:00pm

We're divided on whether Nike's "Gold Digging" shirt, which the company says "uses a phrase in an ironic way that is relevant given it was released just as the world focused on the success of female athletes," is problematic — especially since it's only available in women's sizes. Have we really come far enough in terms… » 8/16/12 12:00pm 8/16/12 12:00pm

Nike is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Title IX with an ad called "Voices." Using the hashtag #maketherules, female athletes — Olympic boxer Marlen Esparza, women's basketball legend Lisa Leslie, WNBA star Diana Taurasi, and Joan Benoit Samuelson, who won the world's first gold medal for women's marathon at the… » 6/25/12 11:10am 6/25/12 11:10am

If you were a married woman who worked with children, you think you'd know better than to go to the prom with one of your students. But apparently Melissa Bowerman, 41, did not. She and her husband Jon Bowerman, 73, are the volunteer track coaches at a small high school in Eastern Oregon. In a strange twist, Bowerman… » 5/21/12 11:55pm 5/21/12 11:55pm

• Miranda Kerr was photographed nude at six and a half months pregnant by Patrick Demarchelier. She told W magazine she realized she was knocked up the day she shot her Jil Sander campaign. Full pic below. [Fashionologie]
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• Marion Cotillard was shot, and apparently not retouched, by Bruce Weber for the cover of Italian Vanity Fair. Certainly it's preferable to that hackjob of a Vogue cover she was subjected to, but isn't the pose a bit awkward? [HuffPo]
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There's some debate about the virtues of a Nike Women's ad with an "ethnically ambiguous" model alongside a poem praising big butts, and the story is picking up steam. But we're scratching our heads about it for a different reason: » 8/03/10 4:21pm 8/03/10 4:21pm

• WWD writes that Angelina Jolie needs to up her style game because Salt had boring clothes. Jolie is failing in her duty to all womankind because, "fashion needs aspirational icons; it always has. Michelle Obama can't do it alone." [WWD]
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• American Apparel — plagued by debt, sales declines, production delays, and that discrimination kerfuffle — warned that its stock may be delisted. "American Apparel is unique because they're on the cusp of a total collapse," says one analyst. [MSNBC]
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