Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Sarah Burton presented her debut Givenchy collection at the house's historic Avenue George V salon in Paris, a Fall/Winter 2025 womenswear show built around rediscovered pattern pieces from founder Hubert de Givenchy's own archive.

Boohoo Group said it would go forward as Debenhams Group with immediate effect, pivoting to a marketplace model after concluding that its revived Debenhams brand, bought out of administration in 2021, had become the majority contributor to the group's profitability.

Kering and Gucci announce that Demna, Balenciaga's artistic director since 2015, will become Gucci's new Artistic Director starting early July 2025, succeeding Sabato De Sarno, whose collaboration with the house ended in February.

Versace and Capri Holdings named Dario Vitale, previously design and image director at Miu Miu, as Chief Creative Officer, effective April 1, 2025, making him the first person outside the Versace family to lead the house; Donatella Versace moved into a new Chief Brand Ambassador role.

The second Mononoke film, Chapter II: The Ashes of Rage, opens in Japanese theaters, continuing the Medicine Seller's story as he is drawn into a spirit-haunted Edo-era harem consumed by rivalry and hidden rage.

Studio Drive releases the KONOSUBA 3 -Bonus Stage- OVA, two extra episodes bundled with the third season sending Kazuma's party on an explosion-fueled fight against an oncoming typhoon and a comic case of mistaken identity.

The maker of Fortune cooking oil drops the Adani name and becomes AWL Agri Business Limited under a fresh certificate of incorporation, as agreed in the Adani exit deal.

Verizon became the first US carrier to let customers text any other phone by satellite when out of cellular range, starting with Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9 phones.

A Central Jakarta anti-corruption court panel led by Judge Djuyamto found Wilmar Group, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau had done what prosecutors charged but ruled it was not a crime, rejecting a Rp 11.88 trillion restitution demand against Wilmar.

A 5-1 vote closed Excel High School, Community Academy, Mary Lyon Pilot High School and the Dever Elementary at the end of 2025-26, moving about 1,300 students.

A hacker called rose87168 put 6 million records up for sale that they said came from Oracle Cloud's single sign-on login servers; Oracle denied any breach of Oracle Cloud.

SWAPO's Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah took the oath at State House in Windhoek on 21 March 2025, Namibia's 35th Independence Day, becoming the country's first woman president after winning 58% of the vote.

PLDT inaugurated its Digos, Davao del Sur landing station for the 12,000-kilometre Apricot cable, one of two Philippine landings that give PLDT routes facing the Pacific rather than the West Philippine Sea.

Loewe named Proenza Schouler founders Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez as its new co-creative directors, effective April 7, 2025, succeeding Jonathan Anderson, who had led the Spanish house for eleven years before departing the week before.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o to feel more intuitive and collaborative, with cleaner frontend code, better instruction following and clearer communication.

The Science Based Targets initiative approves Wilmar's goals to cut absolute Scope 1 and 2 emissions 50.4% and Scope 3 emissions 30% by 2032 from 2022, and 90% by 2050, plus land-use (FLAG) targets.

China Tourism Group Duty Free (CDFG), the Hainan-based operator behind most of the country's duty-free shopping, reported 2024 revenue of CNY56.47 billion, down 16.4%, as weak domestic demand and falling Hainan sales hit results.

Attackers copied patient data from old Cerner data-migration servers that Oracle Health had not yet moved to Oracle Cloud, and US hospitals were then extorted over it.

Felipe Oliveira and Hiro Tagai, of ramen bar Koyoté, open an itameshi restaurant - Japanese-Italian cooking - in Salt Lake City.

Hershey signed a merger agreement for LesserEvil, the maker of organic popcorn, puffs and curls cooked in coconut and avocado oil, to add a better-for-you brand beside SkinnyPop, Dot's Pretzels and Pirate's Booty. Hershey paid $769 million in cash at closing; The Wall Street Journal had put the deal at about $750 million.

US District Judge Dale Ho dismissed the five-count federal corruption indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams with prejudice, so it cannot be brought again, refusing the Justice Department's request to drop it without prejudice.

Verizon guaranteed new and existing myPlan and myHome customers that their base plan price would not change for three years, with the lock resetting on every plan change, until it quietly stopped offering it on mobile plans in June 2026.

Abu Dhabi's CYVN Holdings completed its acquisition of McLaren Automotive and a non-controlling stake in McLaren Racing, merging the carmaker with EV start-up Forseven under a new McLaren Group Holdings led by chief executive Nick Collins.

Koupen-chan begins broadcast, a one-minute-per-episode slice-of-life anime starring the plush, dumpling-shaped baby emperor penguin character of the same name.

Umamusume: Cinderella Gray begins broadcast, a CygamesPictures prequel to the Uma Musume: Pretty Derby franchise following the anthropomorphized racehorse Oguri Cap as she rises from a rural countryside stable to national stardom.

Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.

Vuori named Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning its newest Vuori Athlete, an NIL deal struck in its 10th-anniversary year as he prepared for his first season as the Longhorns' starter.

Prada entered a definitive agreement to buy 100% of Versace from Capri Holdings for a cash consideration based on an enterprise value of €1.25 billion, adding the Milan-founded fashion house to its Prada and Miu Miu brands.

A New York Helicopters Bell 206L-4 tour flight from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport broke apart and fell into the Hudson River off Jersey City, killing the pilot and a family of five from Spain.

Alo sued a Colorado shell company named "ALO YOGA ALO, LLC" and two men it says forged documents, posed as its CEO and tried to take over its trademarks in China and at WIPO to sell counterfeits.

Two shoppers filed a class action in Chicago federal court claiming Alo Yoga paid Instagram influencers who promoted its clothes and Alo Moves without disclosing the deals, seeking more than $150 million.

Prosecutors named the three judges who cleared Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau as bribery suspects, alleging Rp 60 billion was arranged through lawyers and a court clerk to buy the verdict.

Istanbul's 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia began restoring its dome to withstand a major earthquake, a phase of a 50-year plan to reinforce the building with no fixed finish date.

A magnitude 5.2 quake 5 km south of Julian on the Elsinore fault zone was felt from Los Angeles to Ensenada, closing San Diego City Hall for inspections and knocking boulders onto State Route 76.

AWL Agri Business takes 80% of G.D. Foods Manufacturing, owner of the Tops sauces and pickles brand, making it a subsidiary; the other 20% is due by fiscal 2028-29.

Hershey's first new factory in its hometown in more than 30 years, a 250,000-square-foot plant that makes the chocolate for Reese's, Kit Kat, Symphony and Special Dark, opened with Governor Josh Shapiro. It is Hershey's first fully integrated digital plant and brings more than 125 jobs.

Ralph Lauren presented its Fall 2025 collection, "The Modern Romantics," at an off-calendar runway show inside the newly opened Jack Shainman Gallery in Tribeca, drawing a front row that included Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and Anna Wintour.

LVMH shareholders approved raising the company's chairman-and-CEO age limit from 80 to 85 with 99.18% of the vote, clearing Bernard Arnault, then 76, to keep running the group without having named a successor.

Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won the women's race in 2:17:22, breaking the 2014 course record of 2:19:59, and John Korir won the men's race in 2:04:45 after falling in the opening meters. Marcel Hug took his eighth wheelchair title on the 250th anniversary of Patriots' Day.

Shareholders passed every resolution at Wilmar's Biopolis headquarters; in written answers before the meeting, the company told a shareholder urging Kuok Khoon Hong to quit as CEO that he would hand over to a good successor.

A bonus Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 episode, bundled with the season's fifth Blu-ray volume, adds a standalone story to spirit-sighted teenager Takashi Natsume's ongoing run-ins with the yokai around him.

President Marcos and PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan inaugurated VITRO Sta. Rosa, a 50-megawatt hyperscale data centre in Laguna with NVIDIA-powered GPU servers for AI workloads.