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Some might say early aughts style is back, but real ones know it never left. In a collab that feels straight out of a Y2K fever dream, Crown Royal and Juicy Couture just dropped a limited-edition collection inspired by Crown Royal’s flavored whiskies: Apple, Peach, and Blackberry.

What do Tom Brady, Rico Nasty, and Sophia Lamar have in common? Before today, the answer was probably nothing. But now, alongside a superstar cast including Shawn Mendes, Jin of BTS, Ningning of aespa, Kate Moss, and Alex Consani, they are all Gucci campaign stars. Demna’s Gucci has been slick, sexy, fast, furious, larger than life, and as Demna is wont to do, strikingly honest about the current moment’s beauty and fashion standards.

Whether or not you agree that summer is on its way out — I, for one, am excited for it to end — it’s never too early to start looking towards the last four months of the year and decide how you want to dress. The Fall/Winter 2026 runways feel like light years ago in fashion terms, but the shows we’ve been pouring over for fashion-world years are finally manifesting in-store with product that will be in our carts and our hearts.

NYLON Field Notes is our recurring series decoding the trends, aesthetics, and conversations shaping the zeitgeist. For the latest installment, we explore the return of IRL fandom and the artists pushing to bring their fans offline. Since the dawn of the dot com, being part of a fandom has meant finding your people online. Hashtags create communities, comment sections become gathering places, and stan accounts turn obscure references into a shared language.

Introducing The Membership Files, a recurring series where NYLON spotlights its favorite tastemakers across beauty, culture, entertainment and more. “Something hit me recently, where I was like, Eva, you’ve accomplished your biggest dreams.” The multi-hyphenate DJ and I are sitting in a cozy booth at Ludlow House, catching up over skinny fries and Aperol Spritzes.

Introducing The Membership Files, a recurring series where NYLON spotlights its favorite tastemakers across beauty, culture, entertainment and more. “Something hit me recently, where I was like, Eva, you’ve accomplished your biggest dreams.” The 32-year-old creator and I are sitting in a cozy booth at Ludlow House, catching up over skinny fries and Aperol Spritzes.

Maya Dehlin/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images; Matt Jelonek/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Music When we talk about muses, we tend to focus on the most famous examples — Yoko Ono, Audrey Hepburn, Edie Sedgwick, Lee Radziwill, Jane Birkin, even Julia Fox — but there’s one name that deserves to be added to the conversation: Nicole Kidman.

If you’ve been wondering where in the world Emma Chamberlain is, you’re not alone. Earlier this year, she placed her ever-popular podcast on hold and went dark across her platforms. She just posted for the first time this summer on Instagram, and while she very well could have spent the long days of June, July, and August on a beach, she also stepped in front of the camera at some point for her first J.Crew campaign, proving her fashion prowess hasn’t gone anywhere in her hiatus.

Randy Holmes/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images Soundcheck The pitfalls of unconditional love. Every week, we bring you SOUNDCHECK — your destination for the best new music that just hit the web. Because you should always be prepared when someone passes you that AUX cord. This week's roundup features 10 of our favorite emerging and established artists.

Beauty Because it still is summer, after all. We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. The last few weeks of August always bring about the same discourse: Is it actually the end of summer, or really just the end of the blazing-hot months we’ve endured since Memorial Day? Summer technically isn’t over until Sep. 21, so until then, we’re riding the high of our favorite olfactory season.