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“I Wanted to Make Fashion More Than Just Clothes”—Alessandro Michele and Gus Van Sant on Making Their Gucci Miniseries

Alessandro Michele and Gus Van Sant discuss their miniseries Ouverture Of Something That Never Ended at Vogue’s Forces of Fashion summit….

November is usually a quiet month for fashion shows, but not this year. In place of the brand’s typical runway show, Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele and the American filmmaker Gus Van Sant joined forces to create the seven-part miniseries Ouverture Of Something That Never Ended. Last week at Vogue’s Forces of Fashion summit, Michele and Van Sant sat down with Global Vogue Runway’s Nicole Phelps to discuss how they  brought Gucci’s latest collection to life.

“I wanted to make fashion more than just clothes,” Michele said when prompted to explain what sparked his cinematic vision this season. He also enlisted 15 independent designers from around the world to join the multi-day digital festival with their own films. From Collina Strada’s climate change-themed video game to Bianca Saunders’s meditation on the female gaze, every film by the guest designers on the GucciFest lineup is viewable here.

Translating Michele’s famously emotional runway show experience for the small screen was a month-long process, and casting talented friends of the brand like Billie Ellish, Florence Welch, Jeremy O. Harris, and Vogue’s December cover star Harry Styles alongside the series star Silvia Calderoni, helped make each episode a must-watch. So far Ouverture has reached over 4.8 million combined views.

pGus Van Sant and Alessandro Michele on set in Rome. Photographed by Paige Powell. p

Gus Van Sant and Alessandro Michele on set in Rome. Photographed by Paige Powell. 

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pThe dynamic duo looking over the run of show. Photographed by Paige Powell. p

The dynamic duo looking over the run of show. Photographed by Paige Powell. 

Calderoni and Van Sant clicked on set. “The power of the piece is held together by Silvia walking through the other collection of Alessandro’s friends, acquaintances, obsessions, and people that he admires, as thinkers as well and other friends who are models,” Van Sant said. While the short films lack the unique IRL energy of an Alessandro Michele runway show, the series allowed people inside and outside the fashion industry the opportunity to experience a Gucci event from a virtual front row seat.

pGus Van Sant shooting a scene from episode one with Silvia Calderoni. Photographed by Paige Powell. p

Gus Van Sant shooting a scene from episode one with Silvia Calderoni. Photographed by Paige Powell. 

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Silvia Calderoni and Jeremy O. Harris pause mid-scene with Gus Van Sant. Photographed by Paige Powell. 

Michele described the project as the “soul of humanity” pegging each short film to a routine of daily life. As the conversation drew to a close, Phelps asked Michele what he hoped his fans would take away from this miniseries, he poetically replied, ”I think people will get the beauty and the power of this crazy time.”

Watch the full conversation below, catch the complete miniseries here, and make sure to check out Gucci’s latest collection on Vogue Runway.

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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
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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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