The NFL has named Abercrombie & Fitch as the league’s first official fashion partner.
The NFL has named Abercrombie & Fitch its first official fashion partner, expanding a relationship that began in 2022. Under the multiyear agreement, the retailer will collaborate with players to codesign lifestyle apparel, feature athletes in campaigns, and maintain a presence at marquee NFL events. The partnership aims to broaden the league’s reach, particularly among women, by offering team gear with a stronger fashion emphasis. To launch the initiative, A&F rolled out a fall campaign with players including Christian McCaffrey, Amon-Ra St. Brown, CeeDee Lamb, and Tee Higgins.
Almost 50,000 people have opposed the Bayeux Tapestry’s loan to the British Museum.
Nearly 50,000 people have signed a petition opposing the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum, citing fears that the 1,000-year-old embroidery is too fragile to withstand transport. The campaign, led by French art historian Didier Rykner, argues that moving the work poses risks that could irreparably damage it, a concern echoed by conservation experts and former museum officials. The tapestry is slated to travel to London in 2026 while its home museum in Normandy undergoes renovation, an agreement announced by President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Rykner, who previously rallied opposition to cultural policies in France, has called for both French and British voices to unite against the plan, framing the loan as a threat to national heritage.
Leaks have plunged Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater home into a $7M renovation saga.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is undergoing a $7 million renovation after years of chronic leaks threatened the integrity of the landmark. Crews are replacing roofs, sealing stone masonry with grout, and repairing steel window and door frames while adhering to strict preservation standards. The project, which began in 2023, must balance construction challenges with the demands of 140,000 annual visitors who continue touring the UNESCO World Heritage site during the work. Scheduled for completion in 2026, the effort aims to protect Wright’s iconic design while ensuring the house’s long-term survival.
A new campaign reveals Givenchy’s direction under recently appointed creative director Sarah Burton.
Sarah Burton’s first campaign for Givenchy sets the tone for her creative direction, casting a multigenerational group that includes Kaia Gerber, Adut Akech, Vittoria Ceretti, and Eva Herzigova. Shot by Collier Schorr, the images foreground both the models and Burton’s longtime collaborators—stylist Camilla Nickerson and makeup artist Lucia Pieroni—underscoring an emphasis on community. The campaign highlights Givenchy’s latest collection while celebrating the women who shape it, framing empowerment and joy as central to Burton’s vision for the house.
Amy Sherald has written an op-ed speaking out about government censorship.
Amy Sherald has published an op-ed expanding on her decision to cancel her upcoming Smithsonian exhibition after officials questioned her portrait of Arewà Basit as a Black transgender Statue of Liberty. She links the episode to broader political pressure on the institution, pointing to recent White House reviews of its programming and a string of curatorial compromises stretching from Jim Crow–era restrictions to the redressing of exhibitions on LGBTQ+ life and the atomic bomb. In the essay, Sherald warns that government intervention in museum programming threatens not just exhibitions but imagination itself, reducing civic spaces to instruments of loyalty rather than sites of inquiry. She closes by arguing that without independence, museums risk forfeiting their role as places where the public can wrestle with contradictions and envision alternative futures.
Today’s attractive distractions:
It’s still high summer in Bad Bunny’s new “WELTiTA” music video.
Kanye West’s gutted Tadao Ando house in Malibu is back on the market—again.
A new generation of chefs is leading a Vietnamese food renaissance in New York.
An explosive New Yorker feature details the “Shakespearean” chaos within Sotheby’s.
