Fashion
Veronica Beard Pre-Fall 2021
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Much has been written about “Zoom dressing,” i.e. wearing a stylish top, jacket, or statement earrings with comfy pants (and maybe slippers) safely out of frame. For Veronica Beard co-founders and sisters-in-law Veronica Swanson Beard and Veronica Miele Beard, the shift to above-the-waist dressing explains why their novelty jackets are continuing to sell, even as tailoring softens elsewhere. The VB customer who’s still working from home may not feel excited by the black blazer she wore in the Before Times, but a modish tweed with big tortoise buttons? It has video conferencing potential.
The Veronicas’ pre-fall collection included a few more of those statement toppers—a crimson leather double-breasted blazer, a raw-edged bouclé jean jacket—and showed a new emphasis on outerwear. Swanson Beard chalked it up to another 2020 trend: outdoor activities, from our long walks on the Hudson River to al fresco dining and backyard barbecues. For New Yorkers, a coat has always been a calling card, but investment outerwear is likely to become a trend throughout the country. The Beards’ lightly-quilted army jacket has year-round appeal; wear it alone in the spring, when this collection will ship, then layer it up with heavier knits and scarves as the temperatures dip.
It wasn’t all jackets. Frequent customers might notice a bit of a tomboyish spirit, with faded jeans and easy trousers replacing the ruched minidresses of seasons past. Many of those pants were styled with matching tops, like a set in a ruby-red block print. For women who’ve spent most of 2020 in loungewear, it will register as an elevated take on a sweatsuit; for tailoring types, it’s more of a low-key alternative to a suit. In either case, its mix of ease and interest will resonate with lots of women come next spring, whether they’re back at work or not.
Entertainment
A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout
A$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.
Entertainment
Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack
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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