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📰 Must Read: Estée Lauder's New CEO's Reset Strategy, Tory Burch Announces New Leadership Appointments ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images These are the stories making headlines in fashion on Wednesday. Estée Lauder's New CEO's reset strategy Just six months into the role, Estée Lauder Companies' new CEO, Stéphane de La Faverie, is looking to give the beauty giant a business makeover. The plan includes a "radical organizational restructuring" according to WWD , to "increase innovation, expand distribution and accelerate efficiencies." { WWD } Tory Burch announces new leadership appointments Tory Burch LLC has announced new appointments in its executive suite. Thibault Villet has been promoted to president and international director for Asia-Pacific, Japan, Europe and the Middle East and Paolo Zullo has been promoted to president of Europe and the Middle East. Joshua Chen will take over Zullo...

📰 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 ...

📰 A Black Fashion Expert's Take on the 2025 Met Gala: It Could Have Been Better ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: If Pratt Institute fashion professor Adrienne Jones had to rate the 2025 Met Gala red carpet, she'd give it a solid seven out of 10. "After watching, it was kind of where I expected it to be," she told Fashionista the morning after fashion's biggest night. Why didn't she give it a higher score? The carpet could've used more Black designers, she says. The academic, who herself co-curated a fashion exhibit entitled "Black Dress II: Homage" at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, elaborated: "I knew we were going to get the extreme tailored garments," she explains. "I expected to see a Thom Browne. I expected to see a Versace. But I was hoping that there would be a broader range of Black fashion designers, especially with the focus [of the Costume Institute exhibit] being on the Black male." Janelle Monáe in Thom Browne at ...

📰 Finally, a Met Gala Where Men Understood the Assignment ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Every time the First Monday in May rolls around, it's pretty much a given that the majority of the male attendees arriving in the same black tuxedo they've been wearing on repeat for awards season. No judgement here — after all, a well-fitted suit is timeless — but with this year's "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" exhibit's emphasis on suiting, all eyes were on menswear 'fits. To our delight, the men actually delivered this year. The 2025 Met Gala's "Tailored for You" dress code was a nod to the exhibit's menswear focus, resulting in a sea of three-piece suits, brooches, canes, top hats and one piano backpack (we're looking at you, André 3000). Leading the menswear charge were the night's four co-chairs Pharrell Williams, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton and A$AP Rocky. Williams donned a pearl-encrusted Louis Vuitton suit jacket, Hamilt...