Fashion
What to Expect From Barneys at Saks, A First of Its Kind Luxury Retail Collab
After Barneys New York declared bankruptcy, Saks Fifth Avenue decided to license the name for Barneys at Saks shop-in-shops. Does it make sense? One Vogue editor test runs the experience….
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If Raf Simons can go to Prada, Chitose Abe can take the reins at Jean Paul Gaultier for a season, and Moncler can import a revolving cast of Geniuses, then surely the new rules of collaboration apply to titans of luxury retail too? When the beloved Barneys New York shuttered in 2019 after declaring bankruptcy, leaving many vendors and collaborators unpaid, part of its liquidation plan was to open shop-in-shops at Saks Fifth Avenue stores. Today, that experiment debuts in Saks’s New York flagship. Don your mask, get a temperature check, and take the elevator to Saks’s fifth floor and you’ll be transported to the first-ever Barneys @ Saks, a 54,000 square foot space that emulates the fresh quirkiness of Barneys New York within the reliable and trusted halls of Saks Fifth Avenue.
Is the conversation between Barneys and Saks as stimulating as the one between Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons after their debut spring 2021 collection? The short answer is: sort of. Saks has used the opportunity to onboard a slate of more experimental and younger-skewing brands. The floor’s landing features six key brands that are new to Saks: A-Cold-Wall, Anna Mason, BruceGlen, Fear of God, Loulou Studio, Ree Projects, and Reese Cooper. Each has a dedicated area with several rails that are complemented with a placard and brand bio. Nearly 30 more new brands were added to the Saks roster as a part of the project, including Off-White, Brother Vellies, Plan C, Simon Miller, Stella Jean, and Comme des Garçons Play, and in addition to those Saks newcomers there are millennial favorites like Paco Rabanne, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Cecile Bahnsen, and Noir Kei Ninomiya.
BruceGlen and LouLou Studio collection at Barneys at Saks
Photo: Luis Guillén for Saks Fifth AvenueEntertainment
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.
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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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