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HBO’s “Industry”: Lena Dunham and Star Myha’la Herrold on Imposter Syndrome, 10-Year Plans, and Fantasy Fenty Campaigns

On a recent evening, Dunham and Herrold convened over Zoom to discuss the show, artistry, seeing themselves on billboards, and loving Rihanna….

This week marked the premiere of Industry, a stylish HBO drama set on the trading floor of an English investment bank. The series stars Myha’la Herrold—a Carnegie Mellon graduate in her first major television role—as Harper, a twenty-something American inductee with sharp instincts and a shadowy backstory.

Neither Herrold nor Lena Dunham, who directed and executive-produced the first episode, claim to know much about the machinations of finance; more to the point is how young people at the beginnings of their careers hold up in strange, new environments where the stakes feel dizzyingly high. (Dunham cannily describes the show as “Melrose Place meets The Wolf of Wall Street.”) As different as they are, Herrold harbors a deep fondness for Harper and her particular journey at Pierpoint & Co.; fake transcripts, drug-addled nights, questionable sexual decisions and all. “If my life had looked different, I may be exactly like Harper,” she says. “I deeply, personally, intrinsically understand her thought process because we have the same set of challenges: humble beginnings, being mixed[-race], American, in this new place, having to prove her worth without any extra shit—no privileges.”

On a recent evening, Dunham and Herrold convened over Zoom to discuss the show, artistry, seeing themselves on billboards, and loving Rihanna.

Lena Dunham: You’ve had other jobs, but this is the first time the world is seeing the totality of your range, talent, and full Myha’la-ness … What does it feel like to have Industry coming into the world?

Myha’la Herrold: I feel overwhelmed with enough feelings that I can’t exactly name them all. Anticipation, excitement, relief … I mean, relief is a big one, because it’s one of those things where you’ve finished this massive thing, and then you go into the normal world and then lockdown world, and you’re like, Did that shit even happen? But I think mostly I’m just really proud. I saw the billboard in Times Square the other day—I looked at it and I was not expecting this to happen, but I started crying. I was completely overcome with emotion, but I was just so happy. When I thought about what my life would look like, I never imagined Oh, someday I’m going to do something and then my face is going to be massive in Times Square. I just didn’t think about that.

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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

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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.

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Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack

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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.