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Sarah Jessica Parker, Christopher John Rogers, and Vogue’s Hamish Bowles Discuss the Resiliency of New York

At Vogue’s Forces of Fashion summit, the New York-based entrepreneurs discuss how the city can survive a post-pandemic world….

Actor and shoe designer Sarah Jessica Parker and designer Christopher John Rogers are two of New York City’s leading lights, representing the immense pool of talent based here. Today, they joined Vogue’s Hamish Bowles for a 30-minute conversation discussing the resiliency of the city as part of the Forces of Fashion summit. They imagined how New York can thrive again in a post-pandemic climate, and how they remained creative—and financially afloat—during such a challenging year. 

As two New York transplants, Parker and Rogers began the conversation by looking back at what first drew them to the city. Rogers grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and said Manhattan served as a beacon of opportunity in terms of becoming a designer, though didn’t come without its challenges. “I’ve never worked harder in my life than while being here,” he said. Parker, who came to New York as a child, was instantly inspired by its “chaotic” energy, as she describes it. “When we arrived as a family in 1977, the city was in terrible economic shape,” says Parker. “It wasn’t at its most beautiful. But as someone who was drawn to color and art and beauty, I was seduced. I found excuses to go down streets that I had no business going down, just to look through the store windows.” 

During the discussion,  Parker and Rogers also spoke of how they navigated keeping their businesses alive during the pandemic. For Rogers, he took the lockdown as a moment to rejig his business model, and to reignite creativity for his designs. “One of the positive things was slowing down,” Rogers says. “There was nothing to do but relax and take stock of the situation. It made me think about who I am as a designer, what makes me happy, and what I want to put out in the world.” Parker, meanwhile, took a risk and opened a brick-and-mortar store for her footwear line, SJP, in July. The duo also discussed keeping their businesses small, the pros of working with a small, intimate team, and how they’ve focused and sharpened their design aesthetic.

Watch the full conversation—and many other speakers including Lizzo, Sarah Burton, Bella Hadid, Albers Elbaz, and more—at Vogue’s virtual Forces of Fashion summit.

Buy tickets to Forces of Fashion here.

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

A$AP Rocky at South by Southwest 2019
Photo: DannyB Photos / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

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

Quavo photographed in 2019
Photo: Finish Line / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

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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