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In a Beautiful New Book, the Complete History of Château Lafite Rothschild—the World’s Most Famous Wine

Saskia de Rothschild uses her training as a journalist to tell the story of her family’s estate….

FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS, Rothschild-family members have been the stalwart stewards of the Médoc-region vineyards at Château Lafite Rothschild. As the story goes, Baron James de Rothschild—son of German Rothschild scion Mayer Amschel—purchased the vineyard in 1868, after being dispatched by his father from Frankfurt to Paris decades earlier. (Mayer Amschel placed all of his five sons in European cities to buttress the family’s banking empire.) By then, Château Lafite had already earned its reputation—appreciated by stately oenophiles like Thomas Jefferson and anointed the King’s Wine, owing to the Ancien Régime’s predilection.

James would die months after acquiring Château Lafite (whether he ever visited was long debated), and it has since been looked after by his male successors—until 2018, when then-31-year-old Saskia de Rothschild took over. Around that time, Saskia also began her research on Château Lafite: The Almanac (out in December from Rizzoli), a century-spanning family scrapbook documenting the science, history, and lore of the vineyard.

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A photo of Chteau Lafite as featured in Les Vins du Mdoc in 1900. — A photo of Château Lafite as featured in *Les Vins du Médoc* in 1900.Photo: Philippe Jarrigeon from *Château Lafite: The Almanac*, Flammarion, 2020.

When we speak on the phone in early September, it’s the first day of harvest—before the annual blending process, this is the first major step in determining a vintage’s flavor. “I spent the morning with our team in the vineyard, tasting and deciding what plots we will harvest,” she says. “Each vintage is different depending on the climate—I have every type of weather app on my phone!”

Before the great-great-great-granddaughter of Baron James took over the historic estate, she worked as a journalist, filing stories for the New York Times and the French magazine Revue XXI, covering the experiences of inmates at a prison in Ivory Coast’s Abidjan or the first female U.S. Marines sent to Afghanistan’s front lines. She explains that while she had grown up helping at the vineyard, it was only after her father, Baron Éric, told her of his succession plan in 2016 that she received a more formal education in viticulture and oenology (the legal training required to run a vineyard). If Baron Éric ushered in the technology age with modernized production, and before him Saskia’s great-uncle Baron Elie oversaw Lafite’s reconstruction following World War II, her era is one of safekeeping—maintaining the cyclical ceremony of winemaking in the face of global warming and erratic weather patterns. “How do we protect a centuries-old balance that has enabled us to produce great wines?” she writes in the book.

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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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