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Phillip Lim Redefines “Functional Fashion” With a New Sport-Inspired, Antibacterial Collection

Lim is calling is new collection “at-leisure,” clothes designed to move with you and adapt to your life. With sport-inspired details, sweat-wicking materials, and a game-changing antibacterial treatment, they’re the rare example of truly functional fashion….

By mid-April, Phillip Lim had been “hunkering down” in his New York apartment for one month and had that thought: I have nothing to wear. This is a designer who has run his own business, 3.1 Phillip Lim, for 15 years; it’s fair to assume his wardrobe is well-stocked. It isn’t that he was lacking great clothes; it’s just that they just didn’t feel relevant to his dramatically different life. What do you wear to comfortably work from home for weeks on end, other than sweats? What about for the two-hour walks we’ve been taking to preserve our sanity? Or the myriad activities that have moved outdoors, like dining, drinking, socializing, even catching a movie?

Lim felt compelled to design a collection for this moment, not the far-off future. Fashion’s standard cycle of predicting what we’ll be in the mood for six months from now felt newly archaic. “What am I going to wear just to get through the day and be ready to move?” he says. “I didn’t want to live in sweatpants or pajamas. I needed something adaptable.”

On his coffee table, he started sketching what is now Live Free, a new direct-to-consumer capsule of comfortable, durable, and highly considered essentials for men and women: boxy T-shirts, relaxed blazers, split-hem trousers, weightless parkas. Lim calls it “at-leisure,” a play on athleisure, the key difference being that you wouldn’t actually exercise in these clothes. There’s a pair of leggings, but they’re for “running around,” not marathon training; they’re comfier than your vintage jeans, but sturdier and more like “real pants” than your Spandex tights. “They’re wardrobe building blocks that are made for living,” he says. “This was created in the present to allow us to be in the present and feel a sense of freedom.”

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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.