While other labels like Burberry and Tom Ford are diving feet first into the future by switching up the fashion week calendar, others are taking baby steps into the great beyond. One of those baby steps is being made by Tommy Hilfiger, which has announced plans to integrate Apple Watch technology into its fashion show.

Tommy Hilfiger has made it possible for Apple Watch-enabled guests to enter his fashion show with the simple swipe of the wrist.

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On the surface, The Basement is your standard streetwear-focused Facebook group. It started as a haven for people who wanted to sell, buy and trade rare items from streetwear brands like A Bathing Ape, Stussy, Supreme, Supreme and more Supreme. Even more rare than the pieces members are trading, though, is a space on the Internet where users can go for help even when dealing with the most sensitive and personal topics.

The group is still categorized under Facebook’s Buy and Sell category but now trades much more in the emotional well-being of its members by supporting lively (and loving) discussions. Hate-free discourse is an occurrence as rare as a unicorn these days; comment sections on other streetwear sites like Hypebeast devolve into in-fighting, with responses like, “man get the fuck off this website you old fool,” and “Slap yoself and yo mama.” In contrast, The Basement boards read like a group of friends keeping in close contact, rather than several thousand unconnected — and uncaring — streetwear fans.

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“Hi, is this Justin Bieber?” is how I started each of several dozen phone calls. I collected the numbers, which promise to be a direct line to the singer, from the comment section on one of Bieber’s shirtless Instagram posts. I wanted to know where they all lead and what the people on the other end of the line hope to achieve.

Similar promises are littered all over almost any pop star’s Instagram comment sections and come in a variety of forms, whether they assure that “rest were fake, this # is real” or offer bonus content, like nudes that never materialize. Were some of the numbers shady hotlines charging dollars per minute? Or Bieber fans who wanted to talk shop? Neither, it turns out. Every single number was a prank — usually on the person who picked up the phone as well as myself, but occasionally just on me, by a fake Bieber who answered all my questions with some variation of “these nuts on your chin.” More on that later.

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“Look at what you’re wearing right now,” VFiles founder Julie Ann Quay instructs Racked, before telling us to imagine “that every single piece of fabric that you have is a usable tech service.” This, she says, is the future of wearables.

The current crop of wearables has mostly been constrained to your wrist in the form of clunky Apple Watches and Moto 360s. Attempts to vary the where in wearables, like Google Glass — the no-longer-in-production spectacles so nerdy only cast members from “The Big Bang Theory” dared to wear them out in public — have already been cast to the junk heap of history. When a gadget seemingly straight from the future couldn’t cut it, it speaks to the fact that we need our wearables to be stylish and practical.

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