Fashion
Janaya Future Khan Opens Up About “Glow-Up” Skin Care and the Beauty of Being Nonbinary
Activist Janaya Future Khan shares their beauty secrets, from maintaining a fresh complexion to their top tips for taking care of natural hair….

“These are my beauty secrets, or handsome secrets, or beautiful boy secrets,” Janaya Future Khan tells Vogue on a recent fall afternoon. Today, the the Canadian-born, Los Angeles–based Black Lives Matter activist is pulling back the curtain on their self-care hacks, from how they maintain a fresh complexion to their top tips for taking care of their natural hair—all peppered with some very sage advice.
The most important step in their routine also happens to be the first: Upon waking, after doing 100 push-ups, Khan reaches for an oversized jug of water—or, as they call it, “God’s juice.” “Get that in; get that in as much as you can,” they advise before washing their face with Glossier’s gentle milky cleanser. “My skin is very sensitive,” they explain as they rub a slab of solid aloe vera over their cheeks. “The thick skin that it takes to do activist work is really a metaphor.”
Such a mindful approach to skin care, however, has not always been top of mind for Khan. “I really struggled with how to do it at first,” they recall. “But then I thought…Why? Why was skin care hard? And I realized I had sort of internalized this thing where it was really feminine to do, and somewhere along the line, as I got older, I had sort of de-prioritized it as something unnecessary, and how boring is that?” Khan continues. “Imagine that there are billions of people on the planet and that the story we’re told is that there are two genders and two sexes and one sexuality. How boring!” With this realization came a newfound appreciation for complexion-saving cosmetics, such as retinol cream, ultra-nourishing moisturizer, marula oil, and, importantly, a sunscreen found at Whole Foods.
“So I had bad hair growing up—that’s what people called my hair…and I really internalized that,” they share as they pick up a tub of Shea Moisture’s castor oil–based leave-in conditioner, a must (along with a protective do-rag) for keeping their lengths healthy and moisturized. When Alicia Keys, with her two face-framing braids, burst onto the scene, Khan, then a teenager, felt liberated. “It was really a game changer for me,” they add, running their fingers through their twists until their curls are loose and on full display. “We love frizz; we love body,” they say proudly. “No more limiting ourselves and making us small to fit into the limited colonial imagination. Nonbinary is beautiful. Black hair is beautiful.” Their hair journey is not quite done—“It will continue to rise throughout the day, like a beautiful loaf of bread,” they note—but Khan is ready to be on their way. “As we say in the movement, ‘Stay safe; stay dangerous.’”
Below, shop Janaya Future Khan’s Beauty Secrets.
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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