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📰 Soul-A: A Sun-Protective Clothing Brand Designed for Everyday Wear {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: HQ:  Brooklyn, NY Founder:  Dr. Angelo Landriscina Social: Instagram , TikTok Category: Apparel E-comm: soul-a.co Price Range:  $50-$300 Hero Product: Scarf-001 ($50), Shirt-001 ($125) PR Representation: BLND PR How to get in touch: info@soul-a.co. Origin Story Soul-A was founded by board-certified dermatologist Dr. Angelo Landriscina after years of seeing the consequences of sun damage firsthand in his practice. While public awareness around sunscreen has grown, Dr. Landriscina recognized that another critical form of protection – sun-protective clothing — was often overlooked because the available options were limited to beachwear, athletic apparel or styles that did not fit seamlessly into everyday life. Determined to bridge the gap between dermatology and fashion, h...

📰 Meet the Meta Alums (and Sisters) Rewriting Brands' Community Management Playbooks {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Listen to the full conversation between Nectar Social’s Co-Founders Misbah and Farah Uraizee and Fashionista Associate Editor Catie Pusateri on The Fashionista Network on Spotify. https://ift.tt/IarDHsn After collectively spending years in the tech space across major players like Meta, Microsoft, Google and X, sisters Misbah and Farah Uraizee had a front-row seat to the growing influence of brands’ online communities. The duo saw an opportunity to supply brands with AI-powered community management tools, so they quit their respective jobs in 2023 and dove headfirst into building Nectar Social . Today, the AI platform streamlines many top brands’ strategies, including E.l.f. Cosmetics, Rhode, Tower 28 and Steve Madden. As an “all-up operating system for social,”...

📰 Old Navy Is Getting Into Beauty {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Old Navy — purveyor of the American flag T-shirts and flip-flops of your youth — is getting into beauty. On the heels of Gap Beauty’s recent revival of its fragrances for a new generation , the lower-priced Gap Inc. brand is also betting on the category to help grow its business. On Wednesday, Old Navy launched Old Navy Beauty Co. — a body-care and fragrance collection — nationwide and online following “a successful in-store pilot.” With seven scents spanning three categories (body lotion, hair and body mist and body wash), the ONBC debut offering aims to cater to a variety of olfactory tastes. And despite being sold at very Old Navy prices ($7.99 for 3 oz. products and $14.99 for 8 oz products), the fragrances were developed by perfumer Jérôme Epinette, the nose behind popular ...

📰 Happy Isles Is Hiring A Part-Time Stylist & Sales Associate In Dallas, TX {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: Sponsored Story What: Part-Time Stylist & Sales Associate Who: Happy Isles , a luxury, by-appointment vintage salon specializing in bridal Where: Dallas, TX How much: hourly commensurate with experience + commission Happy Isles is looking for a responsible, fashionable, vintage and/or bridal-loving new part-time stylist and team member for our new location in Texas. We are looking for an in-store stylist and sales associate with a passion for vintage, who considers themselves a people-person! The role requires availability on Saturdays as well as 1-2 other days a week to take in-store appointments. Two years as a working stylist and/or bridal experience is required. Please send a cover letter explaining why you think you are right for the job, relevant social media handles and 2-3...

📰 Parker Zinn: A Contemporary Knitwear Brand Founded by a Parsons Graduate {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: HQ:  New York, NY Founder:  Parker Zinn Social: Instagram Category: Knitwear E-comm: parkerzinn.com Price Range:  $375-$8,800 Hero Products: Vaughn Pointelle Dress ($850); Bootsie Cable Knit Gown ($8,800) Stockist: Bloomingdale’s PR Representation: In-house How to get in touch: paige@parkerzinn.com Origin Story While many young designers chase trends, Parker Zinn chases mastery. Founded by a 24-year-old Parsons School of Design graduate, the eponymous label draws inspiration from Zinn’s Southern upbringing and New York’s design community. Dedicated to the art and engineering of knitwear, she combines handcraft, machine knitting and textile experimentation to create thoughtfully made pieces. Through her emerging knitwear label, Zinn is part of a new generatio...

📰 This Emerging K-Beauty Brand's Body Toner Is Magic for My Eczema-Prone Skin {% 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. Editors’ Picks are the Fashionista team’s true (#notspon) fashion and beauty obsessions, handpicked by professionals who see it all. Any beauty product you see here has been vetted and tested by the editor recommending it. As a proud card-carrying member of the Sensitive Skin Club (a thing I made up), I’m well acquainted with the humbling experience of passing up sensorial body-care products for clinical-looking bottles of unscented ointment. Even though I love perusing the pleasantly perfumed body-care aisle to see the latest and greatest launches, my reactive skin doesn’t play well with the fragrance-heavy formulas dominating the space. To keep my eczema flare-ups under cont...

📰 Emerging Designers Are Gaining Momentum on the Luxury Resale Market {% if EntryImageUrl and EntryImageUrl != "" %} {% endif %} ✨ Fashion Insights & Trends: The RealReal may have risen to popularity for its big-name designer finds, but emerging designers are quickly rising through its ranks, according to the luxury resale platform’s 2026 Resale Report released on Tuesday. “Resale is a really interesting discovery engine for emerging designers,” Noelle Sciacca, The RealReal’s associate director of fashion merchandising and content strategy, tells Fashionista over email. “Because we can look at search volume, our ‘obsessions’ and supply together, we can see when interest in a brand is beginning to accelerate.” Zankov — New York-based designer Henry Zankov’s namesake knitwear label — is one of the buzziest emerging brands on The RealReal, as the resale platform logged more than 11,000 “...