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📰 Must Read: Versace CEO Exits, Balenciaga Partners With Substack's Sponsorship Program {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Thursday. Versace CEO Exits Emmanuel Gintzburger exited his post as Versace's CEO effective June 23, Prada confirmed. Gintzburger joined the Italian brand as CEO in 2022, and previously served as Alexander McQueen 's CEO. Gintzburger's successor "will be announced in due course," Prada told WWD . { WWD /paywalled} Balenciaga Partners With Substack's Sponsorship Program Balenciaga is the first fashion house to partner with Substack's native sponsorship program. The new program's structure allows for creator-led editorial to be backed by multiple revenue streams, including potential collaborations with partnering brands like Balenciaga. "Balenciaga has a century-long history of innovation, and...

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📰 How Abbode's Abby Price Is Steering the Personalization Trend {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Listen to the full conversation between Abby Price and Fashionista Staff Writer Catie Pusateri on The Fashionista Network on Spotify. View the original article to see embedded media. Everything changed for Abbode — then a small vintage and dry floral arrangement shop in New York City's Nolita neighborhood — after founder Abby Price dusted off an embroidery machine from the brand's basement for a pop-up event. In one day, Abbode surpassed $5,000 in sales by offering free embroidery with a purchase. (Its previous best-day number was $2,000.) Since then, Abbode has fully shifted gears to focus on personalized embroidery, specializing in waffle pouches, canvas bags, tea towels, cocktail napkins and more. "There's definitely been a trend in personalization and embr...