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Premiere livestream shopping platform NTWRK has joined forces with fast food giant Burger King on an exclusively designed take on the franchise's iconic crown. The one-of-a-kind crown, designed by celebrity jeweler Laurel DeWitt, saw its official debut on rapper Latto during her recent performance at the 2022 MTV VMAs.

Led Zeppelin and Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles band Wings.The new documentary “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” — which opened at NYC’s Film Forum on Wednesday and rolls out nationwide later this month — goes inside the studio that created the visuals for some of the biggest acts of the 1970s. “The importance of an album sleeve will never be the same as in the ’70s, and to make a documentary about the most prominent album covers of the era that are all done by one design team is really important for people who have missed that period,” said renowned rock photographer Anton Corbijn, who directed the film.

Drake and 21 Savage have settled Condé Nast’s lawsuit over their fake Vogue cover, Semafor reports and The FADER can confirm. The mass media corporation sued the two rappers in November for trademark infringement, brand dilution, and false advertising after they posted a bootleg Vogue cover on Instagram in promotion of their then-new joint LP, Her Loss.

Despite engaging in many high-profile promotional campaigns over the past year, Travis Scott bristles at the idea of that work being linked to the fields of branding and marketing. Named "Creator Visionary of the Year" by AdWeek, Scott said in an interview, “I don’t like words like ‘branding’ and ‘marketing'...

“My whole life has been based around pain. So I try not to ever use gloomy colors.

In a music economy where flimsy streaming algorithms increasingly define personal taste, and where boutique artist memorabilia is typically reserved for the Travis Scotts and Billie Eilishes of the world, 23-year-old Jacob Alvarez — who builds bootleg action figures as Marquee Marauders Club — is imagining something different. Scrolling through Alvarez’s catalog, it’s bittersweet to see such a rare, tactile encapsulation of the era we’re living through.

With her creative agency Saint Heron, Solange has shared that she will be collaborating with The School of Fashion, one of five innovative academic schools within The New School’s Parsons School of Design, for an immersive virtual festival titled Here and Now. According to a press release, the virtual experience's objective is to celebrate the thesis and capstone work from the Class of 2020.

For those that have followed Lute's come-up beyond his Dreamville co-sign, they would know that his love for old school whips runs deep. In the second episode of the Alexander Hall-directed series Gold Mouf Chronicles, he visits his friend's, Banks', Fatboy Tires shop in Charlotte, NC to check out a freshly painted '87 Buick Grand National.