Christian Louboutin of scarlet-stiletto fame on Wednesday named Jaden Smith, who has followed in his superstar father Will’s footsteps as an actor and rapper, as artistic director of the French shoemaker’s men’s collection.”Jaden Smith will unveil four collections per year, including shoes, leather goods, and accessories,” the brand said in a statement.Louboutin, the head of his eponymous brand since its founding in 1991, will be handing over the reins of his menswear line for the first time. “One morning, I was swimming and I asked myself: ‘Why not Jaden?’,” the 62-year-old told Le Figaro newspaper.He is banking on Smith, 35 years his junior at 27, to inject “visibility” into the line, which has grown to account for a quarter of Louboutin’s revenue since launching in 2008. “I am convinced by his creativity, but I am also happy to have an intelligent voice from a different generation at my side,” Louboutin added.Smith said his elevation represented “one of the biggest honours” of his life.”I feel a lot of pressure to be able to live up to everything that Christian has done for the house, and also stepping into such a serious role,” he told American media outlet WWD.Jaden Smith, son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, was in the spotlight from a young age, acting in “The Pursuit of Happyness” in 2006 and 2010’s “The Karate Kid” before turning towards music and fashion.While Smith the younger has already made a name for himself in with his brand MSFTSrep and a collaboration with sneaker-maker New Balance, he has never before headed a luxury fashion house’s entire line. “Today he lacks technique but he’s starting to learn,” Louboutin said, explaining that Smith had already made several visits to Italian factories.”What you cannot learn is enthusiasm and taste and passion. All that, he has,” the stylist added.Smith’s first collection will be unveiled at Paris Fashion Week for men in January 2026.

A dismembered corpse found rotting in an impounded Tesla registered to rising American rap star D4vd was that of a teenage girl, a US medical examiner has said.Los Angeles police discovered the body in the car’s trunk last week when they were called to a Hollywood tow yard by workers and neighbors who complained of a foul smell.When officers arrived, they found a badly decomposed body that multiple reports said was in pieces, wrapped in a plastic sheet in the electric vehicle’s front luggage compartment.The Los Angeles County medical examiner said the body was that of Celeste Rivas, who would be 15 years old if she were still alive.Entertainment outlet TMZ said Wednesday that its reporters had spoken to Celeste’s mother, who said her daughter had a boyfriend named David.The outlet carried a missing person poster published by Riverside County Sheriff seeking the whereabouts of Celeste, who was 13 when she went missing in Lake Elsinore, southeast of Los Angeles, in April last year.The medical examiner’s office had earlier described the dead person as a woman of unknown age with wavy black hair.”The decedent was found severely decomposed inside a vehicle,” the statement said.”She appears to have been deceased inside the vehicle for an extended period of time before being found.”Los Angeles Police Department investigators said the Tesla had been parked in the tony Hollywood Hills area for nearly a month before being towed.TMZ reported that the car, registered in Texas, to David Anthony Burke — D4vd’s real name — had never been reported stolen.A representative for the singer said he had been informed of the discovery and was fully cooperating with investigators.The 20-year-old has continued a world tour since the grisly discovery, and is due to play at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles at the weekend.The young star shot to internet fame in 2022 when his “Romantic Homicide” became a breakout hit on TikTok.The tow yard where the car with the body was found sits a stone’s throw from Elon Musk’s new Tesla Diner, which opened to great fanfare in Hollywood in July.

Children are “uniquely and disproportionately” harmed by climate change, a medical expert told a US federal court Wednesday in a landmark constitutional case brought by young Americans challenging President Donald Trump’s fossil-fuel agenda.On the second and final day of a hearing in Missoula, Montana, the plaintiffs’ attorneys called Lori Byron — a former pediatric hospitalist with more than four decades of experience — to explain how a warming planet is impacting young people.The case, Lighthiser v. Trump, is emblematic of a growing global trend of using the courts to push climate action amid political inertia or outright hostility. At issue are three executive orders from the president that together seek to “unleash” fossil fuel development at the expense of renewable energy.Twenty-two plaintiffs represented by the nonprofit Our Children’s Trust are also contesting actions they say undermine federal climate science in the United States — from firing experts to scrubbing reports and reversing the scientific foundation for regulating greenhouse gases.They are seeking a preliminary injunction that could pave the way for a full trial, while lawyers for the Trump administration and conservative-leaning states want the case thrown out, arguing it is undemocratic.Byron, who co-authored the state’s climate assessment and has served on an Environmental Protection Agency committee, testified that the state faces more extreme heat days by mid-century, longer and more severe wildfire smoke seasons, and an increase in “climate surprises” such as catastrophic floods.”They breathe more air, they drink more water, they eat more food per pound of body weight compared to adults,” Byron said, adding that children are especially vulnerable to illness and injury from heat and extreme weather because of their developing bodies and reliance on adults.The toll is not only physical but also psychological: “Their brains are still developing, and stability in their life is very important. When you get displaced or lose your home, those experiences can have mental health impacts that last for decades.”Byron’s testimony was followed by Isaiah H., a 17-year-old from Missoula, an aspiring athlete who spoke of his love for his home but said it was becoming harder to spend time outdoors and connect with nature as a result of worsening wildfires and declining snowfall.”When my brother was really little, we had to actually evacuate our house because the smoke was too bad… for his lungs,” he said.”As a 17-year-old, I shouldn’t be having to step in like this, and shouldn’t have to miss school and make up tests and assignments just to advocate for my health and safety.”Michael Gerrard, an environmental law professor, told AFP: “The plaintiffs are building a strong factual case about the causes and dangers of climate change.”He added: “It would be plowing new ground for a court to say that there is a substantive due process right under the US Constitution to a stable climate system.”