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'Thanks for watching my video. If you like my videos, please subscribe to the channel to receive the latest videos Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use (https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/). A dozen or so babushkas ago, the headscarf was just something A$AP Rocky threw on as a cover-up. He had a cut on his face last September, as he told GQ, so he wore a yellow one to go on Trevor Noah’s show. It was an advanced move to be sure, but it caught on. Frank Ocean, Kendall Jenner, Marc Jacobs, and Chloë Sevigny have all worn them since. A few weeks ago, Rocky codified the movement in a new song, “Babushka Boi.” Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton stepped up to a press conference podium in one last Thursday, after an eighth straight loss for him. He’s been playing injured in one way or another for a few seasons now, and taken plenty of flack for trying the impossible task of continuing to carry the franchise. Right now, it’s unclear when he’ll be able to play at all, and some have speculated that he could understandably go the Andrew Luck route and retire young. In other words, this particular babushka was somewhat more charged than the one Jacobs wore when he pulled up to therapy (“a signature Manhattan power move,” as Vogue put it). Newton’s play would be dissected, but so would his style and his bearing. The press conference would be an opportunity to weigh in on his entire self-presentation, and what he wore would presumably reflect how much he cared. The headlines pretty much sum up the reaction: “Who wore it best? Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is mocked for sporting an eccentric ‘Thelma and Louise–style’ $415 Hermès headscarf to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game,” asked the Daily Mail. “Cam Newton dresses like 80-year-old grandmother, plays like one too,” went Golf Digest’s. HuffPost’s: “Cam Newton Wears A Babushka And The Internet Sacks Him For It.” Newton has been doing this for too long—and is too smart and too stylish—not to know that this is how his look would be treated. Which leads to a satisfying conclusion: He just didn’t care. The babushka can be protection, from wind chill or from Trevor Noah audiences or from nuclear disaster, but it’s not camouflage. Newton wasn’t trying to distract from his play or draw attention to it. He wasn’t drawing any connections between his headwear and his game, but he knew everyone else would. It wasn’t so much a chest-out, “I’ll take the heat” gesture as it was a “I’ll keep wearing what I want to wear.” All eyes were on him, and on his babushka, and he was okay with that. Besides, despite the fresh outcry, it wasn’t even Newton’s first babushka. He was wearing one in preseason too. — Our cover story: Lupita Nyong’o on Us, Black Panther, and much more— The 2019 Vanity Fair Best-Dressed List is here— The nine-figure bill for Trump’s “very inexpensive” golf habit— Lori Loughlin finally gets a win— The Hamptons chose its presidential candidate Looking for more? S'
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