Fashion
Sébastien Meunier on His 2005 “Homme-Sandwich” Collection and How Menswear Is Changing
The designer tells the story of his fall 2005 collection and reflects on 20 years of designing menswear….


What makes a fashion show memorable—in any format? That’s sure to be a question on many designers’ minds as they ready for the fall 2021 collections, most of which will be virtual. (Hint: It takes more than great garments.) As the men’s season kicks off, we paused to look back at a show that delivered clothes and concept: Sébastien Meunier’s fall 2005 collection, “Homme-Sandwich,” the last he designed before shuttering his namesake label.
That season Meunier brought together a finely tuned sense of French irony and the garment-focused conceptual approach he had gleaned in his first five years working for Maison Margiela. The designer, who says his work is always autobiographical, decided to go out with his most personal statement yet. Not only did the models represent different characters that represented Meunier’s world—policeman, rocker, cowboy—but each wore a paper bag over his head printed with the face of the designer in different guises. The backs of the bags were printed with a word or expression that commented on the models’ roles. Meunier walked the show in a Superman get-up; the back of his bag read megalomaniac.
This was a selfie show before selfies, says Meunier today. The designer’s narcissism was largely about optics however; he put at least as much effort into the garments, which were reworked and reimagined so obsessively that he describes them as being akin to one-offs.
Meunier, who spent a decade at Margiela and another at Ann Demeulemeester, shares the story of his fall 2005 collection, and of his life in menswear here.
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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