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Happy Cyber Monday! Also known as the one day that you can spend unmentionable hours online shopping at work and not feel bad about it because you know that everyone around you is probably doing it too. It's a time when top brands and retailers reward their computer-bound consumers with deep discounts across the web, creating the most convenient shopping experience, ever. Since this is also a perfect time to tackle some last-minute holiday shopping, we've rounded up ten stellar sales that are guaranteed to satisfy just about every fashionably inclined friend on your gift list.

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As a manager and partner at 4AM DJs, I’m constantly arranging for performances, events, and photo shoots around the world. Every day, I get reports back from my DJs filled with the kinds of wild adventures I rarely get to be a part of as a desk jockey. The people who flock to their stellar international events get to experience the end results of months of prep, but do they really know what a day in the life of a DJ is like? In this monthly column, you'll hear first-hand accounts of DJ war stories, with photos and videos from the world’s best to show for it. In this 4AM DJ Tour Diary, you'll read about DJ Jus-Ske's trip through Shanghai, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for the Adidas All-In Tour. Yours truly, Adam Alpert.

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Germany-based athletic company Adidas has launched "All Adidas"—a dynamic multimedia campaign starring David Beckham, NBA star Derrick Rose, Katy Perry, and more. To kick of their most prominent marketing push since 2004, they enlisted director Romain Gavras (the man behind M.I.A.'s wild music videos) to shoot 30 and 60-second teasers to accompany the global advertisement. Now, a full two-minute commercial has emerged online that features a brand spankin' new track by French electro duo Justice, which you can watch after the jump.

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In preparation for the 2010 World cup, Adidas is manufacturing game balls that they're calling "Jabulani," which means ’to celebrate’ in isiZulu. According to Adidas, the ball is the roundest, most perfect ball in existence, surpassing in ideal spherical-ness the company's own 2006 Teamgeist and any other balls you can think of. The Teamgeist was so much better than all the balls that came before because it cut down on panels (the formerly black and white spots), reducing them from 32 to just 12, and then "by thermally bonding the panels to eliminate inaccurate stitching." The Jabulani "takes another step towards perfection with just eight panels that provide a 70% larger striking surface due to fewer seams." And then, also, the Jabulani has a stable flight pattern because its a ball with ‘aero grooves’, essentially long indentations along the panels. See video of balls being made after the jump.

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Expect a flood of new footwear options come spring. “Today’s news in WWD was all about shoes,” Fashionista notes. See by Chloe is stepping into shoe design, a new development sure to launch fashion lovers into a frenzy given the hysteria that typically revolves around the line’s namesake, Chloe -- a luxury brand synonymous with covetable footwear. Meanwhile, labels Proenza Schouler and Hussein Chayalan will likewise introduce original footwear into the mix in just a few months.

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The line for the standing section at the Y-3 Yohji Yamamoto for Adidas show last night was out of control ... as in, an entire city-block-and-a-half kind of out of control. Waiting in the thick of it (what one could term the fashion trenches) and having moved merely a few feet since the time I arrived, I watched as a few people jumped ship. This was, after all, 20 minutes after the show was scheduled to start. (My guess is they booked it to H&M on 5th Ave, or, better yet, the Container Store next door.) I was then forced to listen to fashion banter provided by two college kids just behind me.

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Adidas and Nike are facing off in a sneaker contest of Olympic proportions. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, both companies are racing to provide Beijing Olympic athletes with sneakers and shoes designed for their specific sport -- boxing, basketball, fencing, you name it. The prime time international exposure will then lead to a demand for the kicks available in a line geared towards regular folks. Adidas, the official sportswear sponsor of the Games, already has all its Olympic sneakers available online; Nike plans to offer a partial line.

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