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📰 How Sochima Mbadugha 'Bottles Up the Magic' as Topicals' President ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Sochima Mbadugha Photo: Courtesy of Topicals Watch the full conversation between Sochima Mbadugha and Fashionista Staff Writer Janelle Sessoms on The Fashionista Network . Though Sochima Mbadugha knew early on that strategy consulting wasn't her forever career, she spent her first steps in the corporate world learning how to grow and maintain a thriving business. Her entrance into the skin-care world was "serendipitous": Mbadugha met Olamide Olowe at an undergraduate summer conference, and a year after Olowe launched skin-care brand Topicals , she reached out to Mbadugha and tapped her strategic skillset to help scale the business in 2021. "My role has always been: how to bottle up the magic," Mbadugha told Janelle live on The Fashionista Network. ( Watch it here !) "[Olowe] has a very clear, instinctual drive around our marketing, our...

📰 Join Fashionista Editors For a Met Gala Debrief ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Join us Tuesday, May 6 at 3:00 p.m. ET / 12:00 p.m. PT Dhani here. Steph, Janelle, Brooke and I are so excited to invite you to our live discussion covering fashion's biggest night of the year, the 2025 Met Gala, on The Fashionista Network . It's your opportunity to interact live with us, ask questions and be a part of the show, one day after the big event. Join the Fashionista editors on the first Tuesday in May for a juicy debrief on all things Met Gala, from Brooke's experience reporting live on the red carpet, to how celebrities and designers interpreted the "Tailored for You" dress code. Plus, get Janelle's firsthand report on the actual Costume Institute exhibit, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," before it opens to the public. This conversation will be publicly accessible (no paywall!) on The Fashionista Network , powered by interactive media platform ...

📰 Meet Joyce Kim, Rare Beauty's Chief Product Officer, Live on the Fashionista Network ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Join us Monday, March 24 at 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET Brooke here. I'm so excited to share that I'll be joining Joyce Kim, Chief Product Officer of Rare Beauty, on The Fashionista Network . But here's the best part: I want you to join me! It's your opportunity to interact live with us, ask questions and be part of the show. We'll discuss Joyce's product development journey, how she joined the Rare Beauty team, the collaboration process with founder Selena Gomez, what it takes to create a viral product (and one that's also actually really good), Rare's latest launches and more. This conversation will be hosted on The Fashionista Network powered by interactive media platform Fireside, and you'll get the chance to participate and join the stage with video to ask questions directly. Learn more about The Fashionista Network here ...