America’s Flag is So Hot Right Now

Beyonce on the cover of Beat magazine, photographed by Ryan McGinley.

America’s flag is the new cerulean. It took less than a month for the red, white, and blue spotted on Marc Jacobs’ SS16 runway to start filtering down. Not that it’s gone mass just yet.

Earlier this week, Beyonce shared her latest cover, for the little known Beat magazine, in which she poses in a red and white striped swimsuit against the American flag. American photographer Ryan McGinley shot the dreamy cover in the Hamptons; it’s Beyonce’s first since the September issue of Vogue (in which she didn’t utter a word). The funny thing is, Beat is a British magazine focused on music. In the past, it’s been covered by musicians like MIA, Lily Allen, and Grimes, putting Queen B in some pretty indie company. Still no word on if she granted an actual interview, but her Instagram caption speaks for itself: “I sneezed on the BEAT and the BEAT got sicker??”

The patriotic finale look at Discovered’s Tokyo Fashion Week show. Photo: Indigitalimages

And then, on Thursday, unisex fashion brand Discovered showed sweaters covered in stars and stripes on their runway at Tokyo Fashion Week. To make their love of country (not theirs) super clear, they also threw flags over the shoulders of their models. Of the brand, Vogue wrote, “This brand is delivering all the contemporary masculine codes a Tokyo boy dreams of.”

So the American dream is universal—at least when it comes to red, white, and blue.