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​It’s an open secret that fashion designers have long relied on encrypted messages to send confidential, creative work to their wider team via WhatsApp .

Globally located on a range of time zones, they rely almost entirely on the app to share large files full of ideas, designs and sketches in the most secure way possible.

The late creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton, Virgil Abloh, was famous for it – streaming thoughts and insights all day on the platform – and he may have started the trend, relying almost solely on the platform to connect with his larger team.

Now, designers at Prada, Gucci, Versace and Balenciaga all use the app to connect with their partners overseas.

On the final day of Milan fashion week this June one of this year’s most hotly-anticipated collabs was Harry Styles and Gucci’s new ‘HA HA HA’ collection.

Styles, and the famous fashion house’s creative director Alessandro Michele, joined the other menswear previews as they showcased a host of designs that seemed perfectly suited to the current heatwave in Europe.

Talking about their collaboration, Michele described WhatsApp as the dynamic pair’s ‘mood board.’

In fact, Michele’s such a fan that he invited all attendees to a recent Gucci fashion show via WhatsApp voice note.

Here’s why the fashion industry — along with over 2 billion other users — love WhatsApp:

End-to-end encryption, by default: Unlike SMS/texting, WhatsApp is always end-to-end encrypted.

IP, messages, and voice notes can never be accessed by a third party – not even WhatsApp.

Whether you’re planning a fashion show, sharing new designs or sending top secret info, you’ll never have to worry about unwanted snoopers.

Encrypted Backups: For an extra layer of security, WhatsApp also allows you to secure your backups with end-to-end encryption, which includes messages, media, voice messages, video calls, and chat backups.

Disappearing messages: Not every message needs to stick around forever.

With WhatsApp’s disappearing messages, group chat messages can disappear in 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days – the choice is yours.

View Once: For more privacy, you can send photos and videos that can only be viewed once.

Once the recipient opens the photo or video once, it disappears from the chat forever.

Reliable location sharing: Next time you find yourself in the same city as your friends or fashion industry colleagues, find them easily IRL with real time location sharing.

When patchy service is a concern, WhatsApp is the best, fastest, and most reliable option: it is structurally designed to operate quickly and reliably in low bandwidth areas.

International travel friendly: Especially when traveling abroad, many businesses (local hotels, fashion houses, airlines and more) – use WhatsApp to make it easy to communicate.

Plus, WhatsApp works across both iOS and Android devices, meaning no dreaded ‘green bubble’ when messaging abroad.

The police have photographed those arrested in Jahangirpuri communal violence case at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in the same pose and angle as they were captured in CCTV cameras, to confirm the evidence against the accused, officers said on Thursday.

The police said Facial Recognition System, which is used to solve sensitive cases, was engaged to match photos of the accused with the CCTV footage of the violence. The exercise was conducted after taking permission from the court, police officers added.

A senior police officer said two more accused who were recently arrested in connection with the incident — Saddam Khan and Sanwar Malik alias Kalia — will also be taken from the jail to the FSL unit to be photographed similarly for identification.

Earlier, 37 persons were arrested and two juveniles were apprehended in the April 16 communal violence that unfolded in Jahangirpuri in north Delhi following a “Shobha Yatra”.

The Delhi Police on July 14 filed a chargesheet against 45 people in the case related to Jahangirpuri violence before a court here under various charges including criminal conspiracy and Arms Act.

Rosie O’Donnell ‘s daughter allegedly received a “nude photo” from the man arrested in connection with her recent disappearance, according to a new report.

Steven Sheerer, who was arrested shortly after Chelsea O’Donnell was found safe in New Jersey last Tuesday after her mother revealed she had been missing for a week, is accused of knowingly distributing at least one “nude photo over the internet.”

Law enforcement sources allegedly told gossip website TMZ.com that they found the evidence of pornographic imagery on Chelsea’s phone, but it is currently unclear when she received it.

Sheerer, 25, faces charges of child endangerment and distribution of obscenity to a minor, and if convicted he could serve up to 10 years in prison.

He is currently being held on $40,000 bail.

Prosecutors reportedly said that they had found “inappropriate communications” between Sheerer and Chelsea over several weeks.

A source close to former ‘The View’ co-host Rosie, 53, previously admitted she was “extremely concerned” about Chelsea, who is battling mental illness and stopped taking her medication before she went missing, after she was found in the company of the alleged heroin addict, who initially denied she was with him.

The mother and daughter enjoyed a peaceful reunion last Wednesday after police located Chelsea approximately 130 miles from their home in New York by tracking a signal from her mobile phone just hours after Rosie issued a public appeal for any information on her whereabouts.

Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter allegedly met the man arrested in connection with her disappearance on Tinder.

Chelsea O’Donnell was found safe in New Jersey last Tuesday after being missing for a week and Steven Sheerer, who was arrested shortly after, is reportedly set to claim he thought she was of legal age because she was using the dating app.

According to TMZ, the convicted heroin dealer, in his 20s, says he started chatting to the blonde beauty, 17, after he swiped right on her profile, and is set to use it as a defence in court.

His lawyers say Sheerer relied on the app, which separates users into age groups, starting from 18.

Law enforcement sources allegedly told TMZ that they found the evidence of pornographic imagery on Chelsea’s phone, but it is currently unclear when she received it.

Sheerer faces charges of child endangerment and distribution of obscenity to a minor, and if convicted he could serve up to 10 years in prison.

He is currently being held on $40,000 bail.

Prosecutors reportedly said that they had found “inappropriate communications” between Sheerer and Chelsea over several weeks before she was discovered hiding in his attic.

A source close to former The View co-host Rosie , 53, previously admitted she was “extremely concerned” about Chelsea, who is battling mental illness and stopped taking her medication before she went missing.

The mother and daughter enjoyed a peaceful reunion last Wednesday after police located the teenager approximately 130 miles from their home in New York by tracking a signal from her mobile phone.

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