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Must Read: Phillip Lim Launches New Brand, Sephora Announces 2026 Accelerate Cohort – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips July 21, 2026 at 10:37PM

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📰 Must Read: Phillip Lim Launches New Brand, Sephora Announces 2026 Accelerate Cohort {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Tuesday. Phillip Lim Launches New Brand Phillip Lim is preparing a comeback with a new ready-to-wear line, PlayLoveWin, set to debut for spring 2027 with a preview planned for late August. The designer departed his namesake label 3.1 Phillip Lim in late 2024 following its 20th-anniversary collection, leaving cofounder and CEO Wen Zhou to continue running the company, who later brought on Michelle Rhee as head of design. { WWD /paywalled} Sephora Announces 2026 Accelerate Cohort Sephora has named 12 beauty brands to the 10th class of its Sephora Accelerate program, an incubator supporting emerging founders in skin care , makeup , hair care and fragrance . This year's group includes Forta Cosmetics (Sarah Guller and Lexie Hull), Deal...

The 5 Biggest Beauty Trends We Saw at Cosmoprof 2026 – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips July 21, 2026 at 06:00PM

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📰 The 5 Biggest Beauty Trends We Saw at Cosmoprof 2026 {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Every July for the past 23 years, the beauty industry has descended on Las Vegas for Cosmoprof North America, the largest beauty trade show in the Americas. There are more than 1,000 brands and exhibitors from more than 100 countries, spanning skin care , nails, hair care , makeup , wellness, packaging and more. The event offers an early look at new brands, new products and some of the biggest innovations in the world. Needless to say, it's where many beauty trends are born. While it's hard to meet every brand and founder in the massive Mandalay Bay Convention Center, we did our best and clocked 20,000+ steps a day going up and down the aisles, swiping on serum, spritzing perfume and getting to the bottom of all the industry chatter. These five trends stood out from the crowd and seem poised to make a big impa...

Must Read: World Cup Halftime Style, Reformation Aims For $1B IPO Valuation – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips July 20, 2026 at 09:30PM

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📰 Must Read: World Cup Halftime Style, Reformation Aims For $1B IPO Valuation {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Monday. World Cup Halftime Style The FIFA World Cup's inaugural halftime show brought together more than 350 performers, spanning multiple genres and styles alike. Madonna opened in a Saint Laurent corset and crystal-covered Teddy jacket. BTS performed in red, white and black soccer-style sets, while Justin Bieber wore a custom Skylrk look paired with $19,795 diamond earrings. Shakira closed the performance in a Roberto Cavalli by Fausto Puglisi bodysuit hand-embroidered with more than 200,000 crystals, and to match, Gold Swarovski Hyperbola sunglasses. { WWD /paywalled} Reformation Aims For $1B IPO Valuation Reformation is eyeing a valuation of up to $1 billion as it moves toward a U.S. stock market debut. The brand plans to pull in as mu...

Sandrine Charles Consulting Is Hiring An Assistant (Founder & Team Support) In New York, NY – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips July 18, 2026 at 02:58AM

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📰 Sandrine Charles Consulting Is Hiring An Assistant (Founder & Team Support) In New York, NY {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Sponsored Story About Us: Sandrine Charles Consulting is a boutique communications and consulting agency focused on Fashion, Lifestyle and Beauty clients. Led by veteran Communications Strategist Sandrine Charles, the company was formed to create one-on-one consulting and agency offerings specializing in fashion and lifestyle communications, events, celebrity and influencer engagement. The agency’s work centers around brands we have a great affinity for and championing emerging brands which are rooted in fashion, lifestyle, accessories but most importantly, culture. The company’s output focus surrounds communications outreach, event planning, management, brand pa...

Flonatix: A Washington, D.C.-Based Skin-Care Brand Inspired by Tropical Asia-Pacific Beauty – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips July 17, 2026 at 07:30PM

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📰 Flonatix: A Washington, D.C.-Based Skin-Care Brand Inspired by Tropical Asia-Pacific Beauty {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: HQ:  Washington, D.C. Founder:  Jay Hanggawan Social: Instagram Category: Skin Care E-comm: flonatix.com Price Range:  $34 Hero Product: Island Renaissance Glow Up Genius™ Moisturizer ($34) How to get in touch: hello@flonatix.com Origin Story Flonatix is the first skin-care brand rooted in Tropical Asia-Pacific beauty that is built specifically for oily, combination and melanin-rich skin. Indonesian-born and Washington, D.C.-based Founder Jay Hanggawan spent 2.5 years building Flonatix after moving to the U.S. and realizing nothing on shelves was made for skin like his, a.k.a. skin shaped by humid climates, rich in melanin and chronically underserved by the mainstream beauty industry. Flonatix's hero product, the Island Renaissance Glow Up Genius Moisturizer, is a cooling ge...

Influxious, a New Nigerian-Inspired Fragrance Brand, Is Launching at Sephora – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips July 17, 2026 at 06:47PM

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📰 Influxious, a New Nigerian-Inspired Fragrance Brand, Is Launching at Sephora {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Occasionally, we use affiliate links on our site. This in no way affects our editorial decision-making. Funmi Monet, then a Nigerian-American grad student studying to become a licensed therapist, cultivated her love of fragrance while working at the perfume counter at Dillard's. Content creation soon became her creative outlet, with her growing following (now more than 500,000 strong on TikTok ) seeking out her fragrance advice. Then the opportunities began rolling in: Monet collaborated on her own limited-edition scent called Exalté and joined the Sephora Squad in 2022 as its "go-to fragrance girl" before Sephora approached her with the idea of creating her own brand. "I have always dreamed of launching my own fragrance brand, but truthfully speaking, I'm not a business ...

'The Odyssey' Press Tour Puts a High Fashion Spin on Greek Mythology – Latest Fashion Trends & Style Tips July 17, 2026 at 05:30PM

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📰 'The Odyssey' Press Tour Puts a High Fashion Spin on Greek Mythology {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Athena, Queen Penelope, Helen of Troy and Calypso all walk into a room. While they all couldn't be more different from each other, there's one thing they clearly have in common: They know how to serve a gag-worthy look. At least, that's the case if we're basing the scenario on Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey"'s press tour fashion. Over the past few weeks, leading women Zendaya (Athena), Anne Hathaway (Queen Penelope), Lupita Nyong'o (Helen of Troy) and Charlize Theron (Calypso) have turned out multiple Mount Olympus-worthy looks. (Can someone please make statues of them?) Styled by Law Roach , Zendaya has delivered the most appearances and, unsurprisingly, has fully leaned into method dressing. For her first premiere appearance, she kicked things off in an i...