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A ‘Vogue’ Valentine to Sophia Loren, Star of ‘The Life Ahead,’ Her 98th Film

As her 98th film is released, we take a look at some of Sophia Loren’s appearances in ‘Vogue.’…

Out in limited release today and coming soon to Netflix is The Life Ahead, a new film starring Sophia Loren, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. At 86, the actress’s beauty—and smarts—remain undimmed. Loren suggested the project to her son after reading The Life Before Us, the novel by Romain Gary on which the script is based.

As Madame Rosa, a Holocaust survivor who cares for the children of the prostitutes in a coastal Italian town, and who forms a deep bond with Momo (Ibrahima Gueye), a 12-year-old Senegalese immigrant, Loren’s character is marked by heart and grit, not glamour. In this film she exhibits “the strength to love,” which was the title of a 1963 Vogue profile of Loren, “who is, for many people,” the magazine noted, “the most beautiful woman in the world.”

When the Italian actress made her Vogue debut in 1955 it was on the strength of her sex appeal. Three years later the editors’ view of Loren was more nuanced, separating the pose from the person: “Loren, famous as a torrent of movie sex, looks offstage like a dip of coffee ice cream, cool, beautiful, and soothing,” read one caption.

Over the years the “dark flame” of Loren’s beauty was captured in Vogue by the likes of Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. In 1971 the actress opened the doors of Villa Ponti to Lord Snowdon, and on the occasion of her 50th birthday, Anthony Burgess penned a tribute to the actress in the magazine, proclaiming Loren “one of the heroines of our time.”

Here, a Vogue valentine to the endlessly fascinating actress.

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“The force behind the smouldery amber eyes: Italy’s Sophia Loren, one of the greatest beauties. What goes into her kind of beauty: dark eyes that have a mocking tilt, changing yellow-green depths; brows with a quizzical, unexpected slant (the peaks, high and outside); and a deep, sweeping curve of mouth.” — VogueCover art, Vogue, May 1, 1961
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“Sophia Loren, famous as a torrent of movie sex, looks offstage like a dip of coffee ice cream, cool, beautiful, and soothing. Without completely abandoning her sex gambit, played so adroitly in some twenty Italian films, which she dismisses now as ‘all that kind of jazz,’ she has turned to American movies.” —Vogue  
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Photographed by Henry Clarke, Vogue, September 15, 1958
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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

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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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