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8. Jenna Lyons comes under fire:
The J. Crew creative director, one of our personal fashion heros, made headlines multiple times this year, thanks to Fox News and gossip rags. The first was when Fox News freaked out about a photo in a J. Crew catalog of Lyons painting her son Beckett’s toenails neon pink. They claimed that Lyons was doing harm to her son and to society as a whole by encouraging Beckett to “abandon all trappings of gender identity.” Right. Moving on. In a second, completely unrelated story (although the folks at Fox News might disagree on that), news broke in October that Lyons was in the midst of a messy divorce, and that she had taken up with another woman—Philip Crangi’s sister and biz partner Courtney. Jenna and J.Crew also made headlines when they showed at New York Fashion Week for the first time–much to our, Beyonce’s, and every critic’s delight.