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📰 Get Ready for Long Jorts Summer ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Depending on where you live (and perhaps your stage in life), jean shorts can be a polarizing subject. Luckily, brands are taking the guesswork out of "jorts" (like, "are these cheek-bearing jorts appropriate for my age?") as a slew of elongated silhouettes are proving to be most popular this season for their comfort and practicality.  Bermuda jorts remain a classic warm-weather staple, ideal for summer activities like touristing or hitting a theme park. (I'm partial to a pair from TT Studios  with open side hems for breathability without sacrificing coverage.) If rigorous adventures are on your agenda, consider a stretchy, mid-thigh option with a mid- or high-rise waistline — we're calling them "summer camp shorts." For those seeking something a touch more fashion-forward, baggy knee- or calf-length culottes  are also trending amongst the style set. Style them with a kitten...

📰 Native Fashion Week's Standout Designers Bring Indigenous Tradition to Contemporary Fashion ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Over the weekend, more than 30 Indigenous designers convened in New Mexico for the second (and biggest) edition of Native Fashion Fashion Week Santa Fe (NFWSF). It's the brainchild of Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, an Indigenous fashion expert and local celebrity who previously produced the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) fashion weeks since 2014, before leaving that organization to start NFWSF in 2024. (The two Indigenous fashion events now take place simultaneously.) With the 2025 edition of NFWSF, Bear Robe sought to solidify its place on the global fashion calendar, bringing together an impressive roster of both established and emerging Indigenous fashion talent from throughout North America, and placing them on a global stage: Attendees included a mix of fashion press, industry figures (like CFDA President Steven Kolb) and celebrities...

📰 An Era of 'Deconsumption' Is Upon Us; Here's What That Could Mean for Fashion ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Are we done over-consuming? Could we finally be nearing the end of disposable fashion and wear-once culture? According to a new report by leading trend forecasting agency WGSN, consumers are beginning to embrace a concept called "deconsumption." And today's economic uncertainty is accelerating this impending shift in shopping behavior. “The data suggests we're seeing a shift away from high-frequency, low-attachment purchases toward items that offer lasting value — financial, cultural or emotional," Natacia Lim, WGSN Researcher and author of the report "The Future of Deconsumption," tells Fashionista via email. "Yes, wear-once culture is fading, but not because people don't want novelty. It's because novelty alone no longer justifies the cost." Deconsumption goes beyond the "recession indicators" an...

📰 How I Shop: Coco Gauff ✨ 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 ." This is how you know Coco Gauff has spent much of her life thinking about style: Like many young GenZ-ers, she, too, was enamored with the "Shake It Up"-era Disney Channel fashion. Instead of scoffing at throwback memories of the excessive layering, sequined tank tops, neon-colored accessories and knee-high Converse, she remembers it all fondly. "I was very much one of those Disney Channel kids putting on the crazy layers and stuff," she tells Fashionista. "I was obsessed with wha...

📰 Here's Where You Can Get a Fashion Journalism Degree Right Now ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: When it comes to charting your career path in fashion, Fashionista is here to help. Find more fashion school resources here and our full Fashion School Directory here . If you were inspired by magazines filled with vibrant storytelling while growing up (or all the early-2000s movies glamorizing big-city editors), fashion journalism may be the career route for you. Whether you're interested in becoming a magazine editor, fashion writer, social media manager or fashion PR specialist, there's programs across the U.S. and the world for your desired path. Below, we've compiled a list of schools in the U.S. and beyond currently offering degrees in fashion journalism and media. United States Academy of Art University Location: San Francisco, CA Degrees offered: AA, MA in Fashion Communication Examples of courses: Foundations of Fashion Journalism, Fashion Researc...

📰 Everything You Need To Know About the 2025 Met Gala ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Buy your friends who work in the fashion-sphere a coffee or two and let them sleep in for the next week or so — the 2025 Met Gala has officially come and gone, and it was a major one. (They don't call it "fashion's biggest night" for nothing.) Following  months of anticipation for how celebrities and designers would interpret the Costume Institute exhibit's theme of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," the over-200 guests on the carpet showed up in their dandiest looks. From classic three-piece suiting to feminine plays on cummerbunds and plenty of tophats, attendees gave us spectators much to discuss. Keep scrolling to see who made our "best dressed" list, the night's most noteworthy moments and interviews with the creatives who helped bring the looks to life through design, tailoring hair, makeup and much more. Related: A Look Back at 10 Years of ...

📰 'Multi-shoring' and Price Hikes: How Indie Fashion Brands Are Dealing With Tariffs ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: In Donald Trump's first 100 days (back) in the Oval Office, he's hired Elon Musk, carried out deportations and proclaimed himself a candidate for the next pope. He's eliminated diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts , defended his Defense secretary for leaking classified military attack plans and renamed the Gulf of Mexico. And of course, there are the tariffs — taxes on imported goods believed to, and I'm paraphrasing, bring back American manufacturing and create jobs. On April 2, 73 days into this second term, the administration celebrated its "Liberation Day," when 25% import tariffs on Canada and Mexico took effect, and announced reciprocal tariffs on a range of U.S. trading partners. So, how's it going? Well, here's the latest: The U.S. economy shrank 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025, the first negative reading sinc...

📰 What's Behind the Return of Matte Lips? ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Back in 2015, matte lips had a major moment: Kylie Cosmetics Lip Kits were a coveted status symbol, Kat Von D's Everlasting Liquid Lipstick had beauty YouTubers in a chokehold and nearly every major makeup brand was riding the liquid matte lipstick wave. Then, post-pandemic, the beauty pendulum swung so far into the dewy category that we invented brand new moisture-forward trends: glass skin, glossy lids and glazed donut looks, to name a few. Now, we're seeing a new era of the matte lip, and it's getting a modern upgrade. A decade ago, matte lip formulas were known for being chalky and stiff and leaving lips absolutely begging  for moisture. This time around, things are different: In keeping with the industry's prevailing "skinification" trend — non-skin-care products enhanced with skin-care ingredients — the 2025 matte lip formulas of today balance hydration with soft-focus vel...