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For Tory Burch, a 20-year fashion career is a sport driven by endurance, discipline and grit

For Tory Burch, a 20-year fashion career is a sport driven by endurance, discipline and grit

Published by Sam Flores

Clarke wears Tory Burch multi screw heeled sandals and Gemini Link pendant necklaces. This story is part of Image’s May Momentum issue, which looks at art as a sport and sport as an art. It’s 2 p.m. on a quintessentially balmy Los Angeles afternoon when I spot fashion designer Tory Burch in the lobby of the iconic Beverly Hills Hotel. She’s wearing oversize sunglasses, a crisp collared shirt, an even crisper pleated navy skirt and leopard-print pumps. I start walking over to introduce myself, but a fan gets there first. This would happen several times during our meeting at the hotel — wherever Burch goes, a small flock of admirers form. Burch is in town for the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards, where she was recognized with the designer of the year award. Ever since she took back creative control of her brand about six years ago, Tory Burch is back at the center of the American fashion zeitgeist. Compared to the resort-ready tunics and preppy Reva flats that embodied Tory 1.0 in the 2000s, Tory …

Boys are more driven while girls lead in compassion and empathy, study finds

Boys are more driven while girls lead in compassion and empathy, study finds

Published by Jenni Sidey

A Norwegian eighth-grader can feel like they’re doing fine at school, safe enough in the hallways, and still carry a quiet story about themselves that shifts depending on whether they are a boy or a girl. It’s not just about grades. It’s about the inner stuff: confidence, persistence, kindness toward yourself, and how much support you think you’re getting from the people around you. In a large survey of Year 8 pupils, boys tended to rate themselves higher on most measures tied to motivation and school experience. Girls stood out in a different way, scoring much higher on compassion for others and slightly higher on the compassion they felt they received. That mix matters because the same traits that help students keep going, like self-efficacy and grit, are also connected to how resilient they feel. A snapshot of 7,260 pupils The study, led by PhD student Vegard Renolen Litlabø at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Department of Psychology, drew on survey responses from 7,260 students ages 12 to 14 from 183 Norwegian …