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When 29-year-old jewelry designer Gabriela Berlingeri logged on Zoom for our interview, it felt like I already knew her. We had never actually met, but I?

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Fashion

6 Top Fall Fashion Essentials, According To J. Crew’s Olymp...

Ever since going viral on TikTok last year, Olympia Gayot, J.Crew’s head of womenswear, has become a blueprint for high-low fashion that’s equal pa

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Fashion

10 NYFW Spring 2024 Trends To Shop Right Now

On Thursday, following a week of catwalk parades, the New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2024 season wrapped up. While fashion trends for the upcoming fal

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Best Wedding Dresses

The Biggest Bridal Fashion Trends For 2023 Include Party Dresses ...

This year, wedding fashion is taking a turn for the glamorous. As evidenced by the New York Bridal Fashion Week lineups — presented back in 2022 — casu

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Fall Trends

Fall Fashion Is All About Wearability — Here Are The Pieces Your ...

Since the pandemic, the fashion industry’s offerings have reflected a need for escapism and fun through trends like dopamine dressing, Y2K styles, and fa

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Editors' Picks

All The Fashion Items Our Team Tried & Loved This Month

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Fashion

RBD’s Comeback Tour Is A Y2K Fashion Celebration

Ever since RBD, the Mexican band born out of the Televisa telenovela Rebelde in the early 2000s, broke up, fan Migdalia Sanchez had been eagerly waiting fo

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Fashion

Would You Rent Your Clothes? These Apps Are Making It Happen

When Lucy Hall was considering returning to the fashion industry — after briefly making a career switch from a model agent to restauranteur — she told

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Designer Collaborations

The Puma x Lemlem Collab Offers A Vibrant Twist On Athleisure Sta...

Just in time to brighten your autumn athleisure wardrobe, Puma dropped a collaboration with Lemlem. On Friday, the sportswear giant and the clothing and sw

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Fashion

I Entered My Boring Outfits Era — Why You Should, Too

There was a time in my life when wearing a pair of athletic sneakers, a T-shirt, and jeans to even run errands was unimaginable to me. But these days it’

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Fashion

Sorry, Carrie Bradshaw, I’m Obsessed With The Fashion On

It’s difficult to upstage all the abs, genitalia, and underwear featured in Minx, the sultry-humorous series that tells the story of a fictional porn mag

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Fashion

I Have Outfit Boredom, So I Put This Styling Service To The Test

A few weeks ago, a coworker reached out via Google Chat to ask if I knew of Fashivly, the TikTok-approved virtual styling service that uses a questionnaire

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Fashion

I Vacation In The Desert Every Summer — Here’s What I Pack For Th...

In July 2020, when I arrived in Tucson, Arizona, for the first time, I instantly fell in love — the arid desert landscapes and mountain views, combined w

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Fashion

Forget Tenniscore, Pickleball Fashion Is The Next Athleisure Tren...

Whether you’ve heard the sounds of hollow balls bouncing in your neighborhood or scrolled through TikTok to see videos of people volleying with paddles,

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Fashion

3 Ways To Wear Shirt Dresses That Are Anything But Traditional

Summer fashion can be summarized with one statement: grab-and-go. And the ultimate item to achieve this is the shirt dress. From the beach and errands, to

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Fashion

Fashion Newsletters Are Curing Our Blog-Era Nostalgia

New York-based writer Laura Reilly didn’t set out to start her own fashion newsletter. She had been working at InStyle when the coronavirus pandemic hit,

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Best Watches

Ring Watches Are The Unexpected Timepiece You Need In 2023

The ring watch came into my life unexpectedly. I was perusing new collections at the House Of — a New York City-based fashion PR agency — pre-New York

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Fashion

I’m A Tennis Girl Now — Here Are The Skorts Getting Me Into The S...

You can imagine my shock when my boyfriend invited me — a lifelong volleyball player who had barely set foot in a tennis court — to go and swing racket

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Entertainment

Concert Fashion Is A Key Part Of Fandom & Everyone’s Invited

Earlier this year my inner child was rocked to the core when I found out that RBD — the Mexican band formed out of the telenovela Rebelde — was going b

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Fashion

The Barbie Movie Is The Fashion Event Of The Season

Marissa Smith was a lifelong Barbie fan. But nothing could quite match to the frenzy she felt when the first Barbie movie trailer dropped last year. “I s

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Fashion

The 2023 Guide To Wearing Headbands

Fashion feels like Blair Waldorf’s wildest dream right now. Headbands, the classic ladylike accessory mostly associated with childhood photos and country

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Fashion

Engagement Shoot Outfits Are Just As Important In 2023 — HereR...

Welcome to Aisle Style, a week-long series that features the most untraditional wedding fashion trends, bridal designers behind the coo

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Beyonce

The Best Outfits At Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour Are ...

Since Beyoncé dropped her highly-anticipated album Renaissance in July 2022, fans have eagerly awaited to celebrate along with the Grammy winner live at a

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Fashion

Inside The Anti-High Fashion Show Making Puerto Rico’s Style Scen...

The sun almost set in Caguas, a town in Central Puerto Rico, when the second annual Paseo Pasarela, a fashion show highlighting local designers, began. But

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Color Trends

3 Ways To Wear Red — 2023’s Top Color Trend— This Summer

Last Fashion Month, it was hard to attend a fashion show or presentation that didn’t include the color red. Day after day, it became clear that the shade

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Fashion

Why Headphones Are A Summer Fashion Essential

Last year, I got over-the-ear wireless headphones for the first time ever, wanting to prove that the headphones we wear are a vital styling choice. Althoug

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Fashion

Why This Cactus Leather Bag Went Viral On TikTok

Behind a small storefront on New York’s Ludlow Street, 29-year-old Puerto Rican designer Mónica Santos has built the shop of her dreams. It’s decorate

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