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📰 Must Read: Apparel Manufacturing Hubs Are Open to Negotiation With Trump on Tariffs, Fendi and Kenzo Appoint New CEOs ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Luka Storm/Getty Images These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Monday. Apparel manufacturing hubs are open to negotiation with Trump on tariffs Apparel manufacturing hubs — including Vietnam, Indonesia, India and Cambodia — will not strike back against President Donald Trump's extreme tariffs set to go into effect on April 9. Instead, these countries are open to negotiating with the administration in hopes of lowering or ceasing the tariff hikes altogether. Meanwhile, other manufacturing leaders like China are retaliating by enforcing equally high tariff increases against the U.S. { Business of Fashion } Fendi and Kenzo appoint new CEOs Fendi has appointed Ramon Ros as its new CEO, effective July 1, and Charlotte Coupé is Kenzo's new CEO, effective May 1. Both will repo...

📰 RevAir: A Tech-Driven Hair-Care Brand Known for Its Innovative Blow-Dryer ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Courtesy of RevAir 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 . RevAir Headquarters: Macedonia, Ohio E-commerce: myrevair.com Social Media: Instagram What:  A tech-driven hair-care brand known for its "reverse-air" hair dryer Price Range:  $9-$528 Founder:  Scott Thomason Origin Story:  Launched in 2018 after years of research and development, RevAir is a tech-driven beauty brand best known for its innovative "reverse-air" hair dryer tool. RevAir's aim is to "elevate everyday hair-care routines with easy and user-friendly products." In addition to its hero blow dryer, RevAir also makes paraben-free products focused on hair health and strengt...

📰 Leif: A Woman-Owned Brooklyn Boutique ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Courtesy of Leif Store Front is Fashionista's guide to the best independent and local fashion and beauty retailers — a resource for brands, job seekers, B2B companies and consumers alike. If you'd like your store to be featured, fill out this form . Leif Brick & mortar:  319 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211 E-commerce: leifshop.com Social media: Instagram What: A multi-brand lifestyle boutique (with e-commerce) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn offering a curated selection of women's clothing, accessories and jewelry as well as homewares. Owner:  Stacy Longenecker Origin Story:  Leif was ahead of the curve when it comes to the modern independent lifestyle boutique space — before Instagram, before curated retail became the norm. When Stacy Longenecker launched the store in 2011 online, there wasn't much else like it. She carefully curated a selection that felt refreshing, excit...

📰 How Sisters Lizzie and Sarah Means Launched Their Luxury Cowboy Boot Brand Miron Crosby ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Miron Crosby Co-Founders Lizzie (L) and Sarah (R) Means.  Photo: Courtesy of Miron Crosby Watch the full conversation between Sarah and Lizzie Means and Fashionista's Editor in Chief Dhani Mau on The Fashionista Network . Miron Crosby Co-Founders (and sisters!) Lizzie and Sarah Means didn't begin their professional paths thinking they'd one day go into the luxury cowboy boot business together. Lizzie started her career in finance, while Sarah spent some time working in sales for Loeffler Randall — both gigs brought them from their native Texas to New York City. But the duo never forgot their Texan roots — or uniquely Texan sense of style. "We were ranch kids and wore cowboy boots, it was very much our aesthetic growing up," Lizzie told Dhani live on The Fashionista Network. ( Watch it here! ) As adults in New York, she added, "...