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📰 Lang Opens New L.A. Flagship Spotlighting AAPI-Founded Fashion Brands {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Two years after opening in Los Angeles' Chinatown Central Plaza, Lang is entering its next chapter with a bigger, custom-designed flagship at Row DTLA. Hong Kong native Kayla Wong has built a following with Lang's fashion-forward mix of clothing, jewelry , home goods and art from AAPI-founded brands. Her new 2,000-square-foot space in Downtown Los Angeles expands her vision, while also bringing together design and community under one roof. "I felt like there was a gap in the market here in Los Angeles and I wanted to bring Hong Kong talent to the city and to North America," Wong tells Fashionista. "As I was starting this concept, I learned and found a lot of new AAPI designers as well... There can be so much more representation for Asian designers in the fashion industry. So I wan...

📰 This Beauty Founder Says the Industry Doesn't Need More Copycats {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Occasionally, we use affiliate links on our site. This in no way affects our editorial decision-making. Susan Yara has worn almost every hat in the beauty industry. After graduating from the University of New Mexico with a degree in journalism, she worked as a broadcast reporter and beauty editor (hey, girl!). From there, she successfully pivoted to content creation, building a loyal following through her educational YouTube channel Mixed Makeup. If you were deep into beauty YouTube between 2014 and 2019, you couldn't miss her. In 2019, Yara pivoted again — something the Seoul, Korea-born, New Mexico-raised entrepreneur is great at. She founded ingredient-focused skin-care brand Naturium alongside beauty incubator The Center. In 2023, Naturium sold to E.l.f. Beauty for a reported $355 million, makin...

📰 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...

📰 Jackie Asamoah's Shopping List Includes a New Schiaparelli Bag and Saint Laurent Heels {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Occasionally, we use affiliate links on our site. This in no way affects our editorial decision-making. What’s the opposite of gatekeeping? Welcome to “ Payment Processing ,” in which we ask stylish, generally cool people who’ve tried it all about their favorite fashion and beauty buys. Since uploading her first YouTube video in 2009, Jackie Asamoah (known online as Jackie Aina) has been a source of inspiration for an entire generation of beauty and fashion lovers. Seventeen years later, her career has continued to flourish, including the launch of her candle and fragrance brand, Forvr Mood, in 2020. But what remains the same? Her impeccable taste. "My personal style is a mix of elements," she tells Fashionista. It has to be "sexy" ("either the titties are ou...

📰 Weekly Drop Watch: Quince x Kate Young, Coachtopia x Depop, Rhode and More {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Occasionally, we use affiliate links on our site. This in no way affects our editorial decision-making. For our  Weekly Drop Watch  column, Fashionista scours the market to curate the most noteworthy releases from our favorite fashion and beauty brands. Keep scrolling for this week’s highlights. Fashion Launches Quince x Kate Young Quince partnered with celebrity stylist Kate Young for its latest capsule collection, a "travel wardrobe where every piece earns its place in your suitcase," per the brand. The collection, which was curated by Young with the intention of seamless mixing and matching, focuses on pre-washed European flax linen, and also includes a carryon bag ($169). Shop it at quince.com . Alo's Summer Atelier Collection ...

📰 Transdermal Wellness Patches Are the New Gummy Vitamins {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: "Longevity" is the latest buzzword on every wellness brand's lips (and marketing materials). As so-called biohackers use high-tech wearables to optimize their routines with and everyday consumers look for better ways feel healthier, the $6.8 trillion + global wellness industry is entering a new era of longevity-focused solutions. Transdermal vitamin patches are stepping into the spotlight as a result. Of course, transdermal patches — or stickers that gradually diffuse preloaded substances into the user’s bloodstream — are nothing new. You've likely heard of nicotine patches, which were first developed in the 1980s to help people quit smoking, or birth control patches, which have been an approved hormonal contraceptive since 2001. Transdermal drug delivery goes back millennia (think medicinal plants...

📰 Chloe Kim Wants a Jumbo Chanel Flap Bag—and More Books {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Occasionally, we use affiliate links on our site. This in no way affects our editorial decision-making. Chloe Kim has been busy . The Olympic gold medalist (she became the youngest woman ever to win Olympic snowboarding gold in 2018) is still competing, having recently become one of the biggest stars in action sports , with eight X Games gold medals and multiple world titles. She's also hit up red carpets, made headlines with her boyfriend, NFL star Myles Garrett, and became Batiste's global brand ambassador. (Yes, that good drugstore dry shampoo.) Somehow, the 26-year-old athlete also finds time to read — and the girl knows ball. "I love romantasy," Kim told Fashionista at the "Batiste Pit Stop" truck at The Grove in Los Angeles. "I know 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' is comin...

📰 Weekly Drop Watch: Mango x Eckhaus Latta, Reformation x Courtney Grow, Le Labo and More {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Occasionally, we use affiliate links on our site. This in no way affects our editorial decision-making. For our  Weekly Drop Watch  column, Fashionista scours the market to curate the most noteworthy releases from our favorite fashion and beauty brands. Keep scrolling for this week’s highlights. Fashion Launches Mango x Eckhaus Latta Mango tapped New York- and L.A.-based fashion label Eckhaus Latta to create a capsule collection for summer 2026. As part of the Mango Collective concept, the jointly designed lineup features lightweight, textured fabrics and bold prints. Shop it at mango.com and in Mango stores. Reformation x Courtney Grow Photo: Courtesy of Reformation ...