Fashion

Kiton Fall 2021 Menswear

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Upstairs in the Kiton palazzo, past the beautiful vintage style chrome-finish bicycle that has sat for several seasons in the hallway apparently never ridden, awaited a vast array of impeccably made menswear waiting to be worn. It was were laid out under a sign the declared “day by day, step by step, door to door, we never stop” but CEO Antonio de Matteis ruefully conceded that the house’s usual rhythm of trunk shows has pretty much ground to a halt, for obvious reasons. “But we are optimistic because after a year-and-a-half of sitting on the sofa we think the world is coming back,” he added. “But maybe it is coming back in a different way, and this thinking is what has stimulated the collection.”

Kiton has long presented a broad spectrum of luxury casual wear and highly functional sportswear alongside the industrially perfected deconstructed Neapolitan tailoring for which it is famed. This season, however, the blending of and blurring between those categories felt less dutiful aside and more urgent recognition that the parameters of dressing are rapidly changing.

For Kiton, that’s not necessarily bad news: the soft-shouldered southern style of Italian tailoring of which it is a specialist is better suited to the flexible future than many other varieties of the form, and here the house’s merchandisers mixed its meltingly soft jackets in cashmere and vicuna with hooded floral shirts, fur-lined half-zips, camouflage hoodies—pretty much everything except a tie. The emphasis on deformalisation was underlined by an all-vicuna rail—spun by Kiton’s own Barbera mill—that presented this noblest (and softest) of yarns on forms once considered ignoble, including a puffer gilet and even a pair of slides. On another rail a beautiful cable-knit blanket in pearl gray was partnered with a matching three-quarter length cardigan to offer effortless co-ordination for those disinclined to leave the sofa quite yet. The formality of traditional leather shoe styles was undercut by house-branding red stitching at the welt, while sneaker uppers spun in cashmere and wool were given a sartorial significance via houndstooth patterning.

Downstairs Antonio’s twin sons Mariano and Walter were showing their KNT line, which has expanded dramatically in the last few years from sportswear-inflected suiting to a much broader line of Kiton contemporaneity. The camo cashmere overshirts were especially fine. Once those trunk shows start picking up again, Kiton will have plenty of promisingly progressive pieces with which to fill them.

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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.

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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