Fashion

Patou Resort 2021

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“At Patou, we deliver winter in winter, spring in spring, like vegetables or fruit in the market.” Guillaume Henry has a delectable way of combining the French vernacular of down to earth traditional work with flights of fashion fancy. His resort collection is beginning to drop now. Part of it was inspired by looking at vintage photographs of Les Forts des Halles, the porters at the old Les Halles market in the center of Paris, who used to wear felt hats to carry crates of farm produce. That’s where the oversized, turned-back brimmed hats in his collection originated; one of his charming side strategies for keeping French regional working class culture alive and relevant for a new generation.

It’s cold right now in the northern hemisphere. Just time, perhaps, for one of his oversized, cocooning duffle coats. Perfect for lockdown walks and hikes, they have huge hoods against the weather, and come fastened with a set of big wooden toggles, which are actually bird-whistles of the sort used in the French countryside. Purpose and playfulness, all nicely wrapped up in one cozy coat.

Henry’s talent for the current art of exaggeration in fashion—the kind of puffed-up, smocky, flippy silhouettes made to jump out on an Instagram page—is all over this collection. That, and his knack for taking a detail and making it a signature, such as the unmissable white lace Provencal-influenced collar which has grown even bigger since last season (an accessory pragmatically designed to be laundered, just begging to be gifted to someone).

Kudos, anyway, to the Patou people for pulling off this collection, which was managed during the most severe days of lockdown in Paris. “Everyone was at home, exchanging ideas on Zoom,” Henry says. “My magic team!” The lookbook models are the Belgian singer Tessa Dixon, and some of the Patou team. What they’ve come up with—despite it all—is a continuation of the optimism and joie de vivre of the house, grounded in that French-girl taste for useful classic tailoring. The gold brocade dress, the feather-trimmed trousers, and the multicolored stylized ’70s prints must have felt like a shot in the dark when they were designing them— for who among us could project forward into a party-time to come a few months ago? But love them, they raised their spirits, and voted for hope anyway.

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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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