Coach’s Show Featured Printed Puffers – Plus J.Lo and Megan Thee Stallion Cameos

The puffer jacket just got the retro treatment thanks to Coach. On Thursday, the American fashion house showed its winter collection, in Shanghai, featuring some covetable outerwear. While puffers were already one of fall’s biggest trends, with designers like Moschino and Prada adding fun elements to the utilitarian winter staple, Coach offered a fresh take on the trend: chevron-printed, colorblocked jackets and coats in bold and pastel hues, merged with the house’s signature shearling.

“Winter evolves Fall’s story of creature comforts, softness, and loveworn charm to create a new chapter in our story of subverted heritage,” Stuart Vevers, the brand’s creative director, said in the show’s notes. 

Adding to the show’s ‘90s theme, the runway showed an array of high-heeled sandals and chunky loafers styled with socks, retro skiwear, and vintage-inspired graphics. For the release, Coach again partnered with Disney, resulting in jewelry and sweaters showing characters like Snow White and Mickey Mouse. “Building on our legacy of playful nostalgia, it’s a love letter to our past, entwined with a promise to our future,” Vevers added in the show’s notes. 

The runway event also broadcast “Coach TV: Live From Shanghai,” a street style video segment á la MTV’s House of Style, hosted by TikTok star Rickey Thompson and model Xiao Wen Ju, and interspersed with channel jumps to cameos from Coach ambassadors Michael B. Jordan, Jennifer Lopez (who delightfully lip-synched to The Go-Go’s “We Got the Beat” in the video). Rapper Megan Thee Stallion also made an appearance after the credits. 

This hybrid-model show marks Coach’s return to the runway — and “each other,” as Vevers said — after more than a year of canceled IRL fashion shows as a result of the pandemic. While Coach may have been off the runway, its success has grown exponentially on TikTok, where the house’s bags, including the popular Coach Pillow Tabby Shoulder Bag, are now among the coveted items by Gen Z style fans. 

While we’re still starting the summer of skin, tarzan bikinis, and cut-outs, Coach warns us that winter is coming. See the entire collection and the  “Coach TV: Live From Shanghai” episode in the video, below.

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Dua Lipa Paired A Zebra Bikini With A Cowboy Hat In Her “Love Again” Music Video

UNSPECIFIED – APRIL 25: In this image released on April 25, Dua Lipa performs during the 29th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party on April 25, 2021. (Photo by David M. Benett/Getty Images for the Elton John AIDS Foundation)

The popularity of Western tropes in fashion isn’t new. Quite the opposite actually — Americana signatures like cowboy boots, double-denim, and more have been trending on and off for years and horse girls are having a fashion moment in 2021. And yet, Dua Lipa made the style feel surprisingly fresh in the music video for her sixth single from Future Nostalgia, titled, “Love Again,” which she released on Friday. 

In the video, which gives off serious Madonna “Don’t Tell Me” vibes, the 25-year-old singer sports a number of different in-the-saddle ‘fits, from a zebra-print bikini top paired with hot pants, a cowboy hat, and a bolo tie, to an off-the-runway pink bandana top from Blumarine that she wore with a lavender hat. Other style highlights include a red-and-black denim set from Levi’s recent collaboration with Miu Miu, as well as a cow-print bikini top worn with a clashing cow-print jacket and baggy cargo pants. Suffice to say, thanks to Lipa, we’re falling in “Love Again” with cowboy wares. 

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The singer took to Instagram following the video’s release to thank her team, tagging her longtime stylist Lorenzo Posocco, who has been crafting one hell of a wardrobe for Lipa throughout award season — see: her Cher-inspired butterfly Versace looks from the Grammys — as well as her press tour for Future Nostalgia. “Thank you to my gang for always pullin’ through,” she captioned a clip from the music video. “We shot this video in the midst of our Brits rehearsals and prep. Learnt the choreo in 45 mins, kept adding outfits mid shoot, but we did the damn thaaaang!! Thank you.” Posocco, too, posted the clip on Instagram, though his caption was more to the point, using only the cowboy emoji. ‘Nuff said. 

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Birkenstock x Rick Owens Collab Includes A Shiny Version Of Its “Ugly” Sandal

On Friday, German footwear brand Birkenstock released its third capsule collection designed in collaboration with American fashion designer Rick Owens. For his third go, Owens designed five new styles that are surprisingly understated. (His Season 1 collection included cowhide sandals and Season 2 ventured into vibrant colors and boot styles.) 

This season, the designer made slight tweaks to Birkenstock’s “ugly” shoe signatures, lengthening the straps on the Arizona sandals and Boston clogs — a stylistic move he introduced in Season 1 — and using shiny leather, rather than the soft, suede iterations you likely wore in middle school (with leg warmers and jean skirts, of course). “I’ve [also] added a sprinkling of riveting on sandals that could have come from one of my favorite Fritz Lang movies,” Owens said in a press release, referring to the Austrian-American filmmaker from the ‘30s and ‘40s.  

Finishing out the capsule, Owens made subtle tweaks to a pair of black Rotterdam sandals, a sportier sandal style that the designer also included in prior collections. This time around, he didn’t add mismatching colors or new textures, but instead, kept the pair sleek and black, with more rivets and leather details. 

“Rick Owens continues to play an important role in our partnerships, his voice being totally unique and more relevant than ever,” Birkenstock CEO Oliver Reichert said in the release. Owens’ last two ready-to-wear collections, both of which gave off post-apocalyptic vibes from a gloomy locale in Venice, have been heavily featured in trend roundups throughout the pandemic, with face masks and “stay-away shoulders” especially lauded. Given that Birkenstock’s clogs and sandals are, too, having a moment (once again!), we can’t think of a better designer reunion.

Shop the five-piece collection, which costs $457 to $525, on 1774.com, as well as at Owen’s online and IRL stores, on Friday. 

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