ERL Puts A$AP Rocky in Angel Wings for Shroom Clouds

Angel wings, a trapper hat and a pair of shearling crutches are what A$AP Rocky wore in ERL for the "Shroom Clouds" music video, according to ERL's own account of the shoot. The label says all three pieces were designed by Eli Russell Linnetz in Venice Beach, California, with Henson credited as stylist and tommynowels as photographer. The video itself came out on October 19, 2026, three days after the song, and the coverage read for this piece describes the clip without itemizing the wardrobe, so the clothing details here come from ERL and nowhere else.

Shearling, Fur and a Pair of Wings

ERL lists three pieces and gives each a material or a shape: shearling crutches, a trapper hat and angel wings. Shearling is sheepskin with the wool left on, and a trapper hat is the fur lined, ear flapped cold weather cap, so two of the three items are built for winter while the third, a pair of wings, belongs to no season at all. Nothing in ERL's caption gives a weight, a pelt or a construction method for any of them, and no outlet reviewed names one either, so the useful fact is the pairing: heavy, soft, wearable materials set against a costume piece.

The video gives that pairing somewhere to sit. Rolling Stone describes a clip directed by Rocky, Aisultan Seitov and Pietro Biz Biasia that opens with the rapper discovering a hippie wonderland of a park and ends on a New York City stoop, where he turns out to have been sitting all along. A rapper moving between a dreamlike park and a city stoop is dressed for both, in wings and a fur lined hat.

Three Days From Song to Video

"Shroom Clouds" was released on October 16, 2026, with reggie singing the chorus and bridge and Jeremih handling the outro, per Rolling Stone. Sleeping Bear and Hector Delgado are credited as producers. Rocky had been teasing the record for roughly four years before it landed, and it carries the working title "Mushroom Clouds" from its earlier live outings.

It is the lead single for Disc 2 of "Don't Be Dumb," the deluxe edition of the album that debuted at No. 1 with 123,000 equivalent units, his first chart topper since 2015. Disc 2 has no confirmed release date. A crashed police car in the video is painted with "30 Oct 2026," a detail Hot New Hip Hop flagged, and it should be read as a visual detail until Rocky or his label says otherwise.

ERL Dressed Rocky in 2021 and 2022 Too

October 2026 is not the first time Linnetz has dressed Rocky. His 2021 Met Gala look was an upcycled quilt, a piece Highsnobiety points to as the start of the pairing in earnest. At Lollapalooza in 2022, Rocky wore an outfit Linnetz made exclusively for him, including a shirt printed with both names, and an ERL representative told Highsnobiety it was a one off and not a preview of a collection. The headline on that piece was "no Rocky x ERL collab (yet)."

What stands out now is the pace of the label's custom work. ERL's feed shows Charles Melton in an ERL Artisanal tailcoat evening jacket with silk satin peak lapels at the Academy Museum Gala on Saturday, October 17, and the character Ali G in custom ERL for the premiere and press of "Ali G: Who Iz I?" on October 23. ERL's post on Rocky's wings followed on October 26. That makes three custom looks for three very different people in ten days, each credited to Eli Russell Linnetz in Venice Beach.

Puma, Ray Ban, Now ERL

For Rocky, the fall has been a run of different houses putting clothes and products in front of him. Puma's Suede 94 came out on July 16, and the Straycat archive shoe followed on August 26 through HBX. The Manchester City kit that sold only in Manchester from September 4 was his third Puma product in six weeks. On September 30 he showed Ray Ban frames on the AWGE runway at Accor Arena in Paris, as Ray Ban's creative director.

Those were products with release dates. ERL's wings and crutches arrive with no retail date and no price in the caption, so for now they sit alongside the 2021 quilt and the 2022 Lollapalooza shirt as custom pieces for Rocky. Disc 2, the project the song leads into, still has no release date.