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📰 Must Read: The Museum at FIT to Open Fashion and Psychoanalysis Exhibit, Skims Releases Face Shapewear ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Courtesy of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology View the 41 images of this gallery on the original article These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Thursday. The Museum at FIT to open fashion and psychoanalysis exhibit The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (MFIT) is opening the first exhibition to explore the cultural history of fashion and psychoanalysis in September. "Dress, Dreams and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis" draws on key psychoanalytic concepts about the body, sexuality and the unconscious to interpret almost 100 items of dress by designers including Azzedine Alaïa, Willy Chavarria, Jean Paul Gaultier, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, Alexander McQueen, Thierry Mugler, Olivier Rousteing for Balmain and more. The exhibit will be on view at MFIT from Sept. 10, 2025 thr...

📰 See the Official Milan Fashion Week Spring 2026 Schedule ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: As we like to say at Fashionista, it's always Fashion Week somewhere. As we look toward the Spring 2026 shows kicking off in September, we're keeping an eye out for the official schedules as they roll out. On Thursday, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana unveiled the Milan Fashion Week Spring 2026, and it's set to be a season for the history books.  Taking place from Sept. 23 to 29, the tentative MFW Spring 2026 schedule features more than 55 designers. Diesel will open the week on Tuesday, while Giorgio Armani will present the week's final runway show. Returning labels include Ferragamo, Tod's, Moschino, Max Mara, Prada and Roberto Cavalli. Showgoers will likely be paying the most attention to the handful of designer debuts: Demna will debut for Gucci; Louise Trotter for Bottega Veneta and Simone Belloti for Jil Sander. Dario Vitale's debut for Versace is notably a...

📰 Fashionista's July Shopping List: 21 Items Our Editors Love ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: As we hit summer's halfway mark, we're focused on soaking up as many sunshine-filled days as possible. Before the fashion industry's August OOO emails start flooding in, we're reflecting on the cushioned sneakers, comfy sweatshirts and classic white V-necks that got us through July. Some of our top sartorial finds from the month included a puff-sleeve cotton top, Charli XCX-approved ballerina sneakers and subtle "The Summer I Turned Pretty" merch (#TeamConrad). Our editors also updated their sunglasses collections this month, with small face-friendly frames, pierced lenses, a black cat-eye silhouette and an icy gray colorway. To round out our mid-summer accessories, we embraced a dainty gold ring, a grommet-adorned head scarf and a rolling bag for schlepping in style. Ahead, see (and shop!) all of team Fashionista's favorite July fashion discoveries. ...

📰 Senself: A Skin-Care Brand Melding Ancient 'Healing Recipes' With Biotech ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Courtesy of Senself 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 . Senself Headquarters: New York, NY E-commerce: senself.com Social Media: Instagram What: A luxury skin-care brand offering botanical-powered serums, moisturizers and creams honoring the co-founders' Georgian heritage. Price Range: $58-$185 Founders: Gwen Salakaia and Ani de Sadeleer Origin Story: Founded in 2022, the skin-care brand is rooted in a 15th-century Georgian medical manuscript containing healing recipes that are still widely used. Senself revives two powerful, time-honored botanicals — nettle and plantago — that are rarely seen in modern skin care but offer soothing, restorative and a...

📰 ShopMy's New Consumer Shopping Platform Prioritizes Human Recommendations Over Algorithms ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Traditional retailers have long competed with one another to offer shoppers the best personalized customer experience. Now, affiliate-driven social shopping platforms have entered the race and raised the stakes.  Though programs like LTK have been around since the mid-2010s, social shopping has gained popularity in recent years, thanks to the emergence of an influencer-driven e-commerce economy . Content creators and peers are swaying how and what consumers buy. Instead of spending hours scrolling through websites to find clothes they like, customers can now shop the exact pieces their favorite influencers wear via commissionable links. In other words, affiliate platforms have transformed individuals' closets into shoppable digital storefronts.  Naturally, new tech solutions have emerged, such as ShopMy and Amazon Storefront, to cater to this p...

📰 How I Shop: Rain Spencer ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: We all buy clothes, but no two people shop the same. It can be a social experience, and a deeply personal one; at times, it can be impulsive and entertaining, at others, purpose-driven, a chore. Where do you shop? When do you shop? How do you decide what you need, how much to spend and what's "you"? These are some of the questions we're putting to prominent figures in our column " How I Shop ." In 2022,  "The Summer I Turned Pretty"  — Jenny Han's TV adaptation of her novel series — debuted on Prime Video, and I've been absolutely and completely consumed by it every summer since. And it isn't just my friends and me sitting around a television trying to guess what Taylor Swift song will score the next momentous scene. The entire world is seemingly mesmerized by the slightly weird but ultimately captivating love triangle between Belly Conklin and brothers Conrad and Jeremiah ...

📰 The Row's $690 Flip Flops Crowned Fashion's Hottest Item ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: The Row's Dune Sandals are fashion's latest must-have item; searches for the style surged by 162% this quarter according to The Lyst Index, which released its Q2 (April to June) 2025 report on Wednesday. The rubber-sole flip flops, which retail for $690, have garnered plenty of commotion among fans and critics alike for their minimalistic design and triple-digit price tag. Jonathan Bailey sported a black pair recently, which contributed to the spike in interest. Along with taking the top spot on the hottest-product list, the Olsen twin-owned label achieved its highest ranking to date on Lyst's hottest-brands list, coming in at number six. Elevated basics perfect for summer capsule wardrobes were clearly in high demand. Joining The Row on the podium for hottest products are a Skims tank top (#2) and Adidas' Classic Sprinter Shorts (#3). Lyst specifically saw a 230% ...

📰 Building a Charm Collection? These Are the Most Charming Brands to Shop ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: We don't need data to prove it: Charms are everywhere. Shoppers are customizing their accessories  with full force via playful phone straps , designer bag charms  and viral collectibles like Labubus. Of course, this isn't an entirely new practice. Charm bracelets have been serving as tiny totems of self-expression and sentiment for decades. Today, the charm revival spans styles, price points and moods. With seemingly endless market options to weigh, we've gathered the best jewelry brands embracing the charming trend with versatile, customizable shopping options.  Related: Shell Jewelry Is Having Moment, Thanks to Fashion's Embrace of Nostalgia and Natural Elements There are your mainstream brands like Pandora, Gorjana , Mejuri and Kendra Scott , as well as more niche labels like Catbird , Kara Yoo and  The Sage Vintage . For those looking to build a c...