Fashion
Zerina Akers and Keeyahri Just Created the Season’s Must-Have Boots
The buzzy footwear label and the stylist behind the outré fashions of Beyoncé joined forces for a unique collaboration….
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Martin’s two-year-old label currently ranks amongst the buzziest names in footwear. Her sculpted metal heels and decadently embellished mules regularly pop up on social media and on celebrities like Cardi B. While brainstorming ideas for her next season during the lockdown, she realized that collaboration with Akers would be ideal, only one problem: the two had never met. “I decided just to try and shoot my shot, so I reached out,” says Martin. “I’d been following Zerina for a while, and I knew that she’s fashion-forward, well-respected, and for the people.” The idea of working alongside a woman of color appealed to Akers, as did Martin’s chic designs. “I loved the quality of the products that she made, but I hadn’t had an opportunity to work with Keya closely,” she says. “I thought it would be cool to enter into the product space in a way that felt natural and with one of our brands. Typically collaborations are between a stylist and a large corporation, but this was two minds coming together organically.”
Akers and Martin set out to combine their aesthetic sensibilities and optimize wearability. “I’d wanted to do a thigh-high for the longest,” says Martin. “In the past, there have been a lot that looked great but weren’t comfortable, so we wanted to focus on that aspect and make sure the boots felt good. We were finally able to create a new padded sole.” Keeyahri’s striking resin detailing also received a tweak. “Zerina suggested going for a more modern silver heel,” says Martin. “I’d done gold previously, so we wanted to go in a different direction.”
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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