Key Points
- France beat Morocco 2-0 to reach a third straight World Cup semifinal behind Mbappé's 20th World Cup goal.
- The BAPE x Vans Knu Skool pack drops July 15 at $150, pairing ABC camo uppers with shark-tooth midsoles.
- Future released The Real Me, a 22-track album and his first solo studio LP in four years.
- SK Hynix opens on the Nasdaq (SKHY) in a ~$28 billion listing, the second-largest share sale ever.
Sneakers
BAPE and Vans are reuniting on the oversized Knu Skool, and the pack lands July 15 for $150 a pair. Both shoes carry BAPE's ABC camo — one in a blacked-out "Color Camo Black" makeup, the other in a louder green, pink, and purple "Color Camo" build — with the brand's star branding on one panel, the Vans sidestripe on the other, and shark-tooth detailing wrapping the vulcanized midsole. It releases at Vans.com and select Vans doors, per SneakerNews.
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Signature models filled out the rest of the day: Nike unveiled the Ja 4 "Nightmare," Ja Morant's fourth signature, for an August 13 launch, while Caitlin Clark surfaced a yellow Nike Caitlin 1 in Indiana Fever colors and No. 1 pick AJ Dybantsa broke out an unreleased Nike GT basketball model at Summer League.
Sports
France dispatched Morocco 2-0 to reach their third consecutive World Cup semifinal. Mbappé missed a first-half penalty but answered with a curling 60th-minute finish — his 20th career World Cup goal — before setting up Ousmane Dembélé to seal it. He now leads the Golden Boot race with eight goals, level with Lionel Messi but ahead on assists, though he exited late with an ankle knock, per ESPN. Les Bleus meet Spain or Belgium in the semis next Tuesday.
The tournament's U.S. footprint keeps growing: the USMNT's round-of-16 loss to Belgium drew a record 33.1 million U.S. viewers. Elsewhere, Karolína Muchová beat Coco Gauff to set up an all-Czech Wimbledon women's final, Jalen Brunson's Game 1 Finals jersey sold for a record $1.02 million at Sotheby's, and the Kawhi Leonard trade to Toronto is on hold pending an NBA investigation into the Clippers.
Culture
Future released The Real Me today, a 22-track project on Freebandz and Epic that stands as his first solo studio album in four years — 2024's Mixtape Pluto was billed as a mixtape. Lead single "Radio" set the table late last month, per Billboard.
In fine art, George Condo returned to Hauser & Wirth less than a year after leaving the mega-gallery, and the World Cup final is getting its own stage: Justin Bieber joins the tournament's first-ever final halftime show on July 19.
Technology
SK Hynix opens on the Nasdaq today under the ticker SKHY, marking the AI-memory maker's first U.S. listing. At roughly $28 billion, the offering — 17.79 million shares, more than seven times oversubscribed — ranks as the second-largest share sale in history behind SpaceX's ~$85.7 billion debut last month, with proceeds earmarked for capacity expansion and EUV lithography scanners, per Yahoo Finance.
There was a leadership shift at the top of AI, too: Fidji Simo stepped down from her full-time OpenAI role to become a part-time adviser.
Today on Uristocrat
The day's biggest read is Future's return — The Real Me is his first solo studio album in four years, a 22-track swing that reintroduces one of hip-hop's most prolific voices after a stretch of collaborative and mixtape output.
Sneakers: the BAPE x Vans Knu Skool pack ($150, July 15), Nike's Ja 4 "Nightmare" (August 13), Caitlin Clark's yellow Nike Caitlin 1, and AJ Dybantsa's unreleased Nike GT at Summer League.
Sports: France 2-0 Morocco into the semifinals, the USMNT's Belgium loss drawing 33.1 million U.S. viewers, Muchová over Gauff at Wimbledon, Brunson's $1.02 million Finals jersey, the Kawhi Leonard trade on hold, and our Games to Watch slate.
Culture: George Condo back at Hauser & Wirth and Justin Bieber's World Cup final halftime show.
Technology: SK Hynix's $28 billion Nasdaq debut and Fidji Simo's move to a part-time OpenAI role.
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