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A Personal Look at How Helena Bonham Carter Got Into Character as Princess Margaret

British actress Helena Bonham Carter talks motherhood, mental health, and seeking advice from her astrologer to assume the role of Princess Margaret in the Netflix series “The Crown.”…

What does Princess Margaret represent to you, having played her now for two seasons of The Crown?

In many ways, Margaret is about loneliness. She’s divorced, I’ve gone through that myself, and I know you have to make huge adjustments to your own identity. You have to reconstruct yourself because you are no longer part of a married couple.

Margaret wasn’t someone to be pitied, though, and she probably was tired of being seen as tragic. She was formidably intelligent—according to her hairdresser Josef Braunschweig, she could do a crossword puzzle in around 11 minutes—and she had a huge capacity for fun. I spoke to her friend Derek Deane, a former principal dancer at the Royal Ballet—Margaret was the company’s first president. He recalled, at some point in the evening, she would turn to him and say, “Can I go up?” and this was a cue to put her on his shoulders like in a ballet move. One time she disappeared over the back!

Following encouragement from Princess Anne and Prince Charles, Margaret sees a therapist in season four. Do you hope increased visibility through series like The Crown can help open up a more consistent dialogue about mental health?

When you’re playing someone real, there’s a line of respect that you must observe. The Crown never professes to be a documentary but a drama inspired by real people. It’s safe to say that Margaret suffered from depression, which perhaps she inherited from her father. She was very much her father’s daughter, and she never really recovered from losing him.

Anyone who is alive can suffer some kind of mental illness. The brain is so complicated, it’s not surprising that it gets ill, just like any other organ. My mother worked as a psychotherapist, and I was brought up to talk about it, and that’s key. A lot of people turn away because it’s not visible. Perhaps they think if you don’t talk about it, it won’t exist or in admitting vulnerability you’re weak, when in fact the opposite is true. Sadly for Margaret, she lived in a time when depression was taboo. So much of her life would have been easier had she been born later.

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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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