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📰 Must Read: Stockholm Fashion Week Returns, Hoka Accused of Cultural Appropriation ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Michael Campanella/Getty Images These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Monday. Stockholm Fashion Week returns Stockholm Fashion Week, which was abruptly canceled six years ago due to lack of funding, will officially return on June 2-5. The Swedish government will financially back its relaunch. The list of participating brands has yet to be announced, but the event is focused on celebrating local talent while also attracting international visitors, including press and buyers. { Vogue Business /paywalled} Hoka accused of cultural appropriation Indigenous intellectual property experts in New Zealand accused running shoe brand Hoka of misappropriating Maori culture with its brand name. The company — whose name is from the Maori word "hoka," meaning "to fly" — has allegedly failed to acknowledge its cultural origins. Exper...

📰 Credo Beauty: A Leading Retailer For 'Clean' Beauty Brands ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Courtesy of Credo Store Front is Fashionista's guide to the best independent and local fashion and beauty retailers — a resource for brands, job seekers, B2B companies and consumers alike. If you'd like your store to be featured, fill out this form . Credo Beauty Brick & mortar: 15 locations across the United States in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Chicago and more. See them all here . E-commerce: credobeauty.com Social media: Instagram What: A leader in "clean" beauty retail with the largest assortment of cosmetics, hair care, body care, skin care and more, serving customers online and across several U.S. brick-and-mortar locations. Owner/Founder: Annie Jackson Origin Story: Founded in 2014, Credo Beauty offers today's largest "clean" and "sustainably minded" beauty assortment in North America, across color, sk...

📰 Lancer Skincare: A Dermatologist-Developed Skin-Care Brand That Mimics Professional Treatments ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Courtesy of Lancer Brand Bio is Fashionista's guide to the best independent fashion and beauty brands — a resource for retailers, job seekers, B2B companies and consumers alike. If you'd like your brand to be featured, fill out this form . Lancer Skincare Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA E-commerce: lancerskincare.com Social Media: Instagram What:  A skin-care brand created by Beverly Hills dermatologist Dr. Harold Lancer Price Range: $30-$350 Founder:  Dr. Harold Lancer Origin Story:  Dr. Harold Lancer founded Lancer Skincare in 1985 because he "believed skin care could do more." That year, he introduced The Lancer Method, a three-step regimen of Polish, Cleanse and Nourish designed to stimulate the skin's natural renewal process. Rooted in his philosophy of "from practice to product," Dr. Lancer's a...

📰 Black-Owned Makeup Brand LYS Beauty Secures 8-Figure Series A Funding ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Tisha Thompson launched LYS Beauty — which stands for "Love Yourself" — in 2021, with the aim of "dispelling the myth that 'clean' ingredients, expansive shade ranges and luxury-quality products can't coexist." She also serves as the company's CEO, and brings more than 25 years of experience in the beauty industry (as a makeup artist and product developer) to the table. Since its debut, LYS has hit a number of significant business milestones: It became the first Black-owned "clean" makeup brand at Sephora, and then expanded into all Sephora U.S. locations, and Canada and Australia. It's now sold in Credo and more than 800 brick-and-mortar Kohl's locations as well. LYS has also been a smash hit on TikTok: The brand's No Limits Cream Bronzer Sticks have racked up more than 1 billion views, with big-name influencers includi...

📰 ICYMI: Mugler's New Creative Director, Proenza Schouler Founders Head to Loewe & How Chanel Iman Shops ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: In case you missed them, we've rounded up our most popular stories of the week to help you stay in the loop. No need to thank us — just toast a mimosa in our honor when you're discussing who did what over your banana bread. Related: Miguel Castro Freitas Is Mugler's New Creative Director Related: Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez Are Headed to Loewe Related: How I Shop: Chanel Iman Related: How Rare Beauty's Joyce Kim Develops the Brand's Viral Products Related: Fashionista's March Shopping List: 23 Items Our Editors Love Related: Affiliate Platforms See Substackers and Micro-Influencers As Their Biggest Opportunity Related: How Mara Roszak Went From Doing Her Friends' Bat Mitzvah Hair to Styling Emma Stone and Zoe Saldaña for the Oscars Related: Great Outfits in Fashion History: '90s Halle Berry ...

📰 Must Read: The Risks and Benefits of Selling to Saks, SoulCycle Aims to Open Standalone Stores ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Jeremy Moeller/GC Images These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Friday. The risks and benefits of selling to Saks Gary Wassner, CEO of Hilldun Corp, a factoring company that helps smooth out cash flow for brands, spoke with WWD about his insights on Saks Global's new payment terms, its plans to pay past-due bills and the integration of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. Hilldun factors "well over" 120 brands that sell to Saks Fifth Avenue, with another 15 to 20 brands that sell to Neiman's and many brands selling to both companies. Wassner is the one signing off on orders and paying brands up front and fielding queries from vendors. Wassner works closely with Saks to ship the merchandise the company needs the most while simultaneously accommodating Hilldun's clients. Other factors have walked away from...

📰 I Can Now Dress Like Polly Pocket, Thanks to Lisa Says Gah ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Editors' Picks are the Fashionista team's true (#notspon) fashion and beauty obsessions, handpicked by professionals who see it all. As it did for most early-2000s babies, Polly Pocket reigned supreme as my childhood toy of choice. Of course, my Barbie and Littlest Pet Shop collections were close contenders (and later my Monster High queens), but I cherished Polly Pocket's heart-shaped compact dollhouses with their teeny-tiny figures. Polly Pocket underwent a major makeover in the late '90s, transforming her from the cutest potential choking hazard to a slightly larger ponytailed doll with candy-colored rubber (read: chewable) clothing. It was this revamped Polly's Y2K-inspired style that influenced my own fashion sense, and now Lisa Says Gah is bringing the toy's nostalgic aesthetic to life as the California-based multi-brand retailer teamed up with Polly Pocke...

📰 Vacation: A Retro-Inspired Sun-Care Brand on a Mission to Make SPF Fun ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Courtesy of Vacation Brand Bio is Fashionista's guide to the best independent fashion and beauty brands — a resource for retailers, job seekers, B2B companies and consumers alike. If you'd like your brand to be featured, fill out this form . Vacation Headquarters: Miami, FL E-commerce: vacation.inc Social Media: Instagram / TikTok What: A sun-care brand emphasizing "leisure-enhancing" sunscreen through SPF formulas with skin-care-level ingredients, summertime scents and nostalgic packaging. Price Range: $16-$60 Founders: Marty Bell, Lach Hall and Dakota Green Origin Story: Vacation is an award-winning sun-care company from Miami that's on a mission to make sunscreen fun. Founded by Marty Bell, Lach Hall and Dakota Green in 2021, the team works alongside Dr. Elizabeth Hale, board-certified dermatologist and an SVP of The Skin Cancer...

📰 Fashionista's March Shopping List: 23 Items Our Editors Love ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: The first signs of spring are officially here: 7 p.m. sunsets, a renewed craving for ice cream cones and an urge to completely overhaul our closets. Before the spring cleaning bug fully sets in, we spent much of March prepping our warm weather 'fits and upgrading our accessories wardrobes. Some of our spring must-haves include trendy barrel-silhouette jeans, a sheer ivory dress sporting a bubble skirt, knee-length beige denim shorts and a breezy striped maxi dress. Our accessories reigned supreme, with a statement zebra print handbag, a custom-made signet ring, a gold hair cuff and eye-catching phone cases emerging as favorites. We haven't completely switched out our sneakers for sandals, but slip-on footwear had a moment this month as our editors embraced chocolate-brown jelly mules, vintage-inspired buckled clogs and pastel pink Mary Janes. Ahead, check out all of Fashioni...