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📰 Must Read: The Risks and Benefits of Selling to Saks, SoulCycle Aims to Open Standalone Stores ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Jeremy Moeller/GC Images These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Friday. The risks and benefits of selling to Saks Gary Wassner, CEO of Hilldun Corp, a factoring company that helps smooth out cash flow for brands, spoke with WWD about his insights on Saks Global's new payment terms, its plans to pay past-due bills and the integration of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. Hilldun factors "well over" 120 brands that sell to Saks Fifth Avenue, with another 15 to 20 brands that sell to Neiman's and many brands selling to both companies. Wassner is the one signing off on orders and paying brands up front and fielding queries from vendors. Wassner works closely with Saks to ship the merchandise the company needs the most while simultaneously accommodating Hilldun's clients. Other factors have walked away from...

📰 I Can Now Dress Like Polly Pocket, Thanks to Lisa Says Gah ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Editors' Picks are the Fashionista team's true (#notspon) fashion and beauty obsessions, handpicked by professionals who see it all. As it did for most early-2000s babies, Polly Pocket reigned supreme as my childhood toy of choice. Of course, my Barbie and Littlest Pet Shop collections were close contenders (and later my Monster High queens), but I cherished Polly Pocket's heart-shaped compact dollhouses with their teeny-tiny figures. Polly Pocket underwent a major makeover in the late '90s, transforming her from the cutest potential choking hazard to a slightly larger ponytailed doll with candy-colored rubber (read: chewable) clothing. It was this revamped Polly's Y2K-inspired style that influenced my own fashion sense, and now Lisa Says Gah is bringing the toy's nostalgic aesthetic to life as the California-based multi-brand retailer teamed up with Polly Pocke...

📰 Vacation: A Retro-Inspired Sun-Care Brand on a Mission to Make SPF Fun ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Courtesy of Vacation 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 . Vacation Headquarters: Miami, FL E-commerce: vacation.inc Social Media: Instagram / TikTok What: A sun-care brand emphasizing "leisure-enhancing" sunscreen through SPF formulas with skin-care-level ingredients, summertime scents and nostalgic packaging. Price Range: $16-$60 Founders: Marty Bell, Lach Hall and Dakota Green Origin Story: Vacation is an award-winning sun-care company from Miami that's on a mission to make sunscreen fun. Founded by Marty Bell, Lach Hall and Dakota Green in 2021, the team works alongside Dr. Elizabeth Hale, board-certified dermatologist and an SVP of The Skin Cancer...

📰 Fashionista's March Shopping List: 23 Items Our Editors Love ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: The first signs of spring are officially here: 7 p.m. sunsets, a renewed craving for ice cream cones and an urge to completely overhaul our closets. Before the spring cleaning bug fully sets in, we spent much of March prepping our warm weather 'fits and upgrading our accessories wardrobes. Some of our spring must-haves include trendy barrel-silhouette jeans, a sheer ivory dress sporting a bubble skirt, knee-length beige denim shorts and a breezy striped maxi dress. Our accessories reigned supreme, with a statement zebra print handbag, a custom-made signet ring, a gold hair cuff and eye-catching phone cases emerging as favorites. We haven't completely switched out our sneakers for sandals, but slip-on footwear had a moment this month as our editors embraced chocolate-brown jelly mules, vintage-inspired buckled clogs and pastel pink Mary Janes. Ahead, check out all of Fashioni...