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📰 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 ...

📰 Classic Six: An Elevated Basics Brand Aiming to Revolutionize How Women Get Dressed ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Courtesy of Classic Six 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 . Classic Six Headquarters: New York, NY E-Commerce: classicsixny.com Social Media: Instagram What: An accessible luxury clothing brand offering elevated basics Price Range: $80 - $500 Founder: Diana LoMonaco Origin Story: Classic Six is a fashion brand on a mission to "revolutionize the way women get dressed in a world of excess options." Launched in 2020 with just six designs styled to create 40 different looks, its goal is to cut through the clutter and ultimately ease the overwhelm consumers may feel by "the endless choices in stores and in their own closets." Hero Prod...

📰 How Tech Veteran Kara Brothers Ended Up President of Beauty Brand Starface ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Courtesy of Starface Watch the full conversation between Kara Brothers and Fashionista's Beauty + Style Director Steph Saltzman on The Fashionista Network . When Kara Brothers first met with Starface co-founders Julie Schott and Brian Bordainick , she admittedly knew very little about beauty, and nothing about the then-one-year-old pimple-patch brand. "I'm kind of one of those that just follows what feels right at the time," she told Steph live on The Fashionista Network. ( Watch it here! ) Brothers, who has an MBA from NYU Stern, had spent her career in the tech industry, starting in ad sales. She spent several years at Google after it acquired her previous employer, where she ended up in a corporate strategy role. But ultimately, she decided that type of "big, corporate environment" just wasn't for her. "It was so cool ...

📰 For Your Consideration: A Long List of Talented Designers Who Aren't Men ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: The fashion industry has been going hard on its high-stakes game of designer musical chairs lately, with creative directors moving among labels at a breakneck rate. Though it's always an interesting news day when a designer leaves a high-profile post, it's often even more intriguing to find out which skilled artist is next in line to take over. What makes these moments less exciting, though, is when the new hire is — you guessed it! — another white guy. Maria Grazia Chiuri — the creative director at Dior — is one of the very few women currently leading a major luxury brand. With news of  Jonathan Anderson's departure from Loewe , it's all but confirmed that he's set to replace Chiuri, potentially making that list of female creative directors even shorter. Meanwhile, Versace recently announced that  Dario Vitale will assume the brand's lead design ...