Fashion
Alexander McQueen Makes a New Home in New York City
Sarah Burton and architect Smiljan Radic discuss their new store at 71 Greene St. in Downtown New York….

Conventional wisdom would suggest that opening a luxury store amidst a national retail downturn is not a great idea. But luckily for us fashion lovers, the Alexander McQueen brand employs a more magical way of thinking. On Greene Street in New York’s Soho, beside plywood-covered windows and bolted shut doors, the new McQueen store shimmers, thanks to a display of hundreds of beetles and butterflies in the window.
On a sleepy post-election, pre-results weekday, it was the hottest address in the neighborhood by a landslide, despite not having officially opened. As security guards turned away several sets of interested shoppers, a McQueen employee in one of Sarah Burton’s bias-cut suits was giving a FaceTime tour to a friend of the brand abroad. Inside, past the beetled curtain, it’s easy to see why people are eager to get inside. Rendered in earthy materials and with slightly inward slanting walls, the store feels part living room, part womb.
Alexander McQueen’s Tall Story and Story Shoulder bags sit on a piece of alabaster beside gifting displays
Photo: Courtesy of Alexander McQueenThe exterior of the Greene Street building that houses the Alexander McQueen store
Photo: Courtesy of Alexander McQueenIts homey design is the handiwork of the Chile-based architect Smiljan Radic, who has crafted several other McQueen Stores, including the Bond Street flagship in London. “Alexander McQueen is a London-based house, and I wanted the store in New York to reflect all the elements of our London flagship,” Burton said of her partnership with Radic. “It has a similar feeling and shares the same spirit, uniting the cities which both have such a depth of culture and diversity.”
For Radic, working with Burton on the brand’s retail spaces is a natural fit—emphasis on natural. Both are ardent outdoors lovers, and finding ways to incorporate natural materials into modern designs is Radic’s signature. “I do not have too much to explain about it,” he said with a laugh, “because it was so natural and our friendship was so clear in the sense of we love how we work with each other.”
The pillars of that work are not only a fascination with nature, but a respect for it, not to mention a sort of innovative resourcefulness. The American walnut and Europeak oak wood that lines the floors and walls is sustainably sourced, and the honeycomb-like cladding on the upper walls is a new material the brand is calling “cotton-crete” made from turning leftover cotton into a sort of papier machê and stamping it against bubble wrap. It’s nature, fusing with ingenuity, to evoke nature.
Entertainment
A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout
A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.
The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.
There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.
The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.
Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.
Entertainment
Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack
Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.
The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.
None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.
Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.
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