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The Ideal Advent Calendar for Everyone on Your List

Find an Advent Calendar suitable for everyone from the gourmande in your life to those with a discerning sweet tooth….

2020 was a year of counting. In the spring we counted the days of quarantine, in the summer we counted the number of feet between friends during socially distanced socializing, in the fall we counted ballots. Why not end the year on that theme with perhaps the most fun counting of all: an Advent Calendar. Yes, this is of Christian origin (after all, it counts down the days from December 1st to Christ’s birth on Christmas Eve) but it has morphed (as many Judeo-Christian holiday traditions do) into a delightful commercial enterprise that transcends its religious roots.

When I was growing up, Advent Calendars tended to be two layers of cardboard with perforated windows that revealed an illustration each day with the really fancy ones hiding foil-wrapped pieces of milk chocolate. Fast forward 25 years, and you can find an Advent Calendar that delivers you everything from a handful of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans or a jade or tiger’s eye bead! Thank goodness there are 24 days of Christmas and not just 12!

For the gourmande on your life:

McCrea’s Candies 2020 caramel Advent calendar

$42

AMAZON

For the hot tamale in your life:

Thoughtfully Gifts hot sauce flavors of the world Advent calendar

$50

AMAZON

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For the friend who doesn’t have room for a real tree:

Terrain Christmas tree Advent calendar

For every woodland creature on your list:

Meri Meri wooden woodland Advent calendar

$42

MERI MERI

For the peppermint hound on your list:

Williams Sonoma peppermint bark Advent calendar

$30
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WILLIAMS SONOMA

For the jewel of your life:

Carolina Bucci Forte Beads Advent calendar

$1,096

MATCHESFASHION.COM

For the gourmet in your life:

Food52 x Stone Hollow Farmstead Advent calendar

$180

FOOD52

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For the traditionalist:

Target Christmas wreath with festive houses Advent calendar, Germany

$40

TARGET

For the loved one who always has holes in their heels:

Happy Socks 24 days of holiday socks Advent calendar

$225

HAPPY SOCKS

For the skincare snob:

Dr. Barbara Sturm Advent calendar

$495
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COS BAR

For the naughty and nice elf on your list:

Santa face Advent calendar

$79$47

POTTERY BARN KIDS

For the discerning sweet tooth:

Lady M Confections Winter Dreams Advent calendar

$75

GOLDBELLY

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For the contour queen:

Charlotte Tilbury bejeweled chest of beauty treasures Advent calendar

$200

CHARLOTTE TILBURY

For the traveler who is desperate for the Italy travel ban to be lifted:

Acqua di Parma Advent calendar 2020

$550

WALMART

For someone scentsational:

Diptyque Advent calendar

$425
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A$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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