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For Cynthia Erivo and Craig Green, the Show Remains the Thing

At Forces of Fashion, the actor and designer muse on the magic of live performance….

“You might be right, I don’t think that [a runway show] can be totally replaced because it is a very specific singular experience,” responded Erivo, who dialed in from Atlanta where she is playing Aretha Franklin in a series. The actor can still recall “correlating me singing to making people feel good” after her first solo performance, age five, in a Nativity play. “I think the thing that we keep coming back to,” she says to Green, “is the connectivity of it all… I think in this time we all have to figure out ways to get that back.”

Ervio is upbeat and looking for ways forward. One of them is dressing up. Having tried the athleisure look, the actor has moved on—way on. “Whenever I had a Zoom I would always feel really weird if I didn’t have shoes on. It would never feel right unless I did the head to toe dressing.”

Erivo’s Forces of Fashion look included a beaded black jacket and a red lip. Green, whose designs tend toward sculpture and utility, was more understated, but also intrigued by how our relationship to clothing has changed during this unusual period. “It feels like we’re dressing for ourselves, we’re making choices in clothing that make us feel good.” With little or no audience, he muses, we’re “having a more intimate relationship” with the clothes we wear.

Get up close and personal with Erivo and Green by tuning into their Forces of Fashion conversation here.

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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
Photo: DannyB Photos / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

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
Photo: Finish Line / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

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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