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Massimo Alba Fall 2021 Menswear

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Tie-dye never goes away, and nobody does it with as much sophisticated consistency as Massimo Alba. Even before he founded his brand in 2006 Alba was exploring the potential of garment dyeing techniques to add many-patinated dimensions to the surface of his garments. This collection included overdyed oxford shirting that had started blue but resurfaced as a strange and compelling green, robust cashmere pieces swirling with hand-scrunched patterns in dye, and a series of double-dye experiments on corduroy that gave this most textured of materials the depth of tone it merits and made each garment unique.

Soft-handled alpaca and almost felty yak knits further amplified a color story that reached full volume via a series of Alba’s habitual soft tailoring pieces crafted in a knowingly aggressive orange check and and a herringbone and windowpane whose green was just one step across from heathery to bilious.

New additions to the Alba conversation included a reversible tweed and quilted nylon jacket, and some fetching brushed and billows-pocketed shirting based on the attire of the Bergamo-born mountaineer-meets-philosopher Walter Bonatti. Returned was a fresh edition of Alba’s graphic handkerchiefs—sample exhortation: “Respond to every call that excites your spirit”—which this season were also transferred to a shirting capsule. Alba had teamed up with some of his neighbors in Milan’s laid-back Navigli district to produce a sweetly succinct short film. This displayed how finely these clothes fit this particular environment, while showing their potential to enhance the environment of any spirit who responds to the call for Alba’s brand of intensely flavorsome menswear.

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

A$AP Rocky at South by Southwest 2019
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A$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

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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