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With Needle and Thread, Artist Sophia Narrett Depicts Earthly Delights

Her first solo show, “Soul Kiss,” opens at Los Angeles’s Kohn Gallery this week….

Sophia Narrett’s are not your typical tapestries. First of all, they’re not tapestries; the textile artist does not weave, but embroider, layering thread upon stitch to create shapes and shades that coalesce into a dazzling narrative. Secondly, there’s the subject matter—highly erotic vignettes that would make artisans of the historic Parisian tapestry house Gobelins clutch their pearls.

A selection of her most recent works will be exhibited at Los Angeles’s Kohn Gallery in Narrett’s first solo show, on view from November 13 through December 15. The show is called “Soul Kiss,” and as Narrett explains, the title is as evocative as the works included. “It’s another phrase for French kissing or kissing with tongue. I hadn’t really been aware of it as a phrase, but I heard it and I loved the meaning. It also represents this idea of a deep connection, and how two human spirits might interact. My work has always been about love and love as an experience that can be transcendent,” says the artist. “The title also implies something more universal, a collective human experience through connection with another person.”

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Whisper Like a Magnet, 2020Photo: Courtesy of Sophia Narrett

Born in Concord, Massachusetts, she was first introduced to art by way of her grandmother, an artist with a penchant for recreating works by Marc Chagall. Narrett would go on to study painting, but an encounter just before graduate school (she earned her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design) solidified her future in textiles.

“The most intense experience that I’ve had with a tapestry was seeing The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries in Paris,” she says. (The beguiling Flemish series, six wall hangings now under the care of the Musée de Cluny, date to the 16th century. Each is understood as an allegory for the five senses, with the last, mysterious tapestry devoted to love and earthly pleasures.) “I remember standing in front of them, feeling like they were just imbued with the human spirit,” Narrett continues. “They were these incredible, magical objects, embodying and describing desire. When I saw them, I had been working in embroidery for a little over two years. They really helped me understand why textiles felt so right for me to explore my own ideas of desire.”

Basins filled with rainbows of thread and embroidery hoops inside Narrett's studio.
Basins filled with rainbows of thread and embroidery hoops inside Narrett’s studio.Photo: Courtesy of Sophia Narrett

Narrett describes her working habits as nocturnal. She sews into the smaller hours of the night at her studio, which has an antique charm; there are glass-knobbed doors and knotty hardwood floors below. All around are bins teeming with a colorful chaos of threads dyed every hue possible, along with embroidery hoops in various sizes; some could be mistaken for hula hoops. While she works, she fills the space with media—music, television, podcasts—and sometimes, that content directly informs her embroideries. In a previous series, she incorporated imagery pulled from The Bachelor.

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A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout

A$AP Rocky at South by Southwest 2019
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A$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

Quavo photographed in 2019
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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.

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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