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Thursday May 9th, 2013

Beauty Tips We Learned from Our Moms
Fashion Insiders Tell All

Beauty Tips We Learned from Our Moms

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To celebrate Mother’s Day (which is this Sunday, so don’t forget to call your mom!), we’ve asked tons of people in the fashion and beauty industries for the most memorable beauty tip their moms ever gave them. Our moms are our first teachers after all. While we got some traditional mom-isms like, “Always wash your face!” we got plenty of unique bits of wisdom, too. (There are also a disproportionate amount of women who learned to worship at the altar of Clinique’s Three-Step System thanks to their moms.)

Click through to see what Jerry Hall, Georgia May Jagger, Pat Cleveland, Doutzen Kroes, Aerin Lauder and tons more learned from their moms.

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Tuesday February 12th, 2013

How to Avoid a Fashion Week Meltdown
Fashion Insiders Tell Us

How to Avoid a Fashion Week Meltdown

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We’re approaching the home stretch of New York Fashion Week, which means many of our attitudes have shifted from excited and energetic to when-will-this-be-over? So, we asked some of fashion’s busiest bees to tell us what they do to stay sane (and no we don’t mean pharmaceuticals–though those certainly aren’t off-limits). From Jenna Lyons’ many coats, to BryanBoy’s cathartic Instagramming, click through for their (and our) tips and tricks!

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Sunday January 6th, 2013

Fashion Name-Dropping in Rap, Why Lauren Sherman Left Her Condé Nast Job, and Fashion Industry Hangover Cures
Week In Review

Fashion Name-Dropping in Rap, Why Lauren Sherman Left Her Condé Nast Job, and Fashion Industry Hangover Cures

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Name Dropping is Cool Again: We put together a list of rap’s most well known fashion shout outs from over the years.

Lauren Sherman Tells Us Why She Left Lucky: Fancy magazine job or not, Sherman provides some serious life advice on building your career and following your instincts.

You Wanna Be On Top?: Karlie Kloss was Vogue‘s top model of 2012, but we put together a list of our favorite catwalkers from 2012, too.

The Morning After: In honor of what many consider National Hangover Day, here are the best post-NYE hangover tips from the fashion set. (Useful for any time of the year!)

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Thursday January 3rd, 2013

Wednesday December 19th, 2012

Monday October 29th, 2012

How the Fashion Industry Prepped for Hurricane Sandy

How the Fashion Industry Prepped for Hurricane Sandy

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Hurricane Sandy is upon us–but the fashion industry isn’t letting this Frankenstorm bring them down.

We checked in with some of our favorite people in the industry–from The Man Repeller’s Leandra Medine to Kelly Cutrone to DKNY PR Girl Aliza Licht–to find out how they prepped for tonight’s storm. For an industry that’s supposed to shun carbs we are collectively loaded up on them–as well as candy, nail polish, and fashion mags to read by scented candle light.

Click through to see how everyone is getting ready.

And above all, everybody stay safe!!

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Published at 6:04 PM

Wednesday September 5th, 2012

My Fashion Week Nightmare…with Lucky Mag’s Lauren Sherman
Fashion Is Fun

My Fashion Week Nightmare…with Lucky Mag’s Lauren Sherman

by Leah Chernikoff & Mara Sprafkin

Anyone who works in the industry has had ‘em: A fashion week related nightmare. We asked designers, editors and stylists to share theirs with us, and then we asked our friend (and super talented artist) Mara Sprafkin illustrate them. Don’t be scared… Yesterday the Vena Cava girls told us about their Western-meets-S+M fashion show for Read more →

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Tuesday July 17th, 2012

Thursday March 29th, 2012

Fashionista Turns Five! Fashionista Sixth Editor (That’s Me, Leah Chernikoff) Takes a Look Back With Laughs and Cats
Fashion Is Fun

Fashionista Turns Five! Fashionista Sixth Editor (That’s Me, Leah Chernikoff) Takes a Look Back With Laughs and Cats

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Believe it or not, Fashionista turns five years old this year. Which is, you know, pretty old in blog years. To celebrate our big bday, we’ve asked all of Fashionista’s former editors (in chronological order that’s Faran Krentcil, Natalie Hormilla, Abby Gardner, Britt Aboutaleb, and Lauren Sherman) to reflect back on their time at Fashionista from the highs (seeing a Chanel show) to the lows (being chewed out by Arianne Phillips for leaking her fashion week plans and costing her a client).

You’ve already heard from Faran, Natalie, Abby, Britt and Lauren, So to wrap up our five year birthday nostalgia series, I figured as Fashionista’s current editor, I ought to weigh in.

I’ve been here almost two years and I won’t even attempt to fit the things I’ve learned and all the stuff I love about this job into a post. It will be TL;DR and no one wants that.

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Sunday March 25th, 2012

Fashionista Week in Review: The Kraziest Karl Lagerfeld Kwotes, Caviar Manicures and Cats Takeover the Spring Ad Campaigns
Week In Review

Fashionista Week in Review: The Kraziest Karl Lagerfeld Kwotes, Caviar Manicures and Cats Takeover the Spring Ad Campaigns

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Did You Know We Love Cats?: We aren’t messing around. Here at Fashionista really love cats. So we found 12 spring ad campaigns that, frankly, needed more cats and then we added said cats. You’re welcome.

Karl Lagerfeld is Krazy: The man is unquestionably a little bananas-sandwich, but we love him all the same. It’s hard to separate the man from the myth, however, when he lays out his (bonkers) daily routine for Harper’s Bazaar. Equally enjoyable: the kraziest Karl kwotes of all time.

Fake Abercrombie & Fitch Sells Racist Pants: Before you can even ask yourself who would bother counterfeiting A&F, they slap you in the face with an “N-bomb.” We can’t be sure if this was some sort of bad translation program, but we can definitely be sure it’s offensive.

Blair Mercer is Back: Our “Diary of an Anon Fashion Assistant” feature seems to split you guys between utter disbelief and strong sympathy, but this week’s is too good NOT to be true. Seriously people, can you make this stuff up?

Top 10 Designers from Arise Fashion Week: Arise Fashion Week just took place in Lagos, Nigeria and our contributor picked 10 designers you’ll want to keep an eye on. From the avant-garde to the historically inspired, we’re really loving all of it.

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Thursday March 22nd, 2012

Fashionista Turns Five! Fashionista’s Fifth Editor, Lauren Sherman, Takes a Look Back
Fashion Is Fun

Fashionista Turns Five! Fashionista’s Fifth Editor, Lauren Sherman, Takes a Look Back

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Believe it or not, Fashionista turns five years old this year. Which is, you know, pretty old in blog years. To celebrate our big bday, we’ve asked all of Fashionista’s former editors (in chronological order that’s Faran Krentcil, Natalie Hormilla, Abby Gardner, Britt Aboutaleb, and Lauren Sherman) to reflect back on their time at Fashionista from the highs (seeing a Chanel show) to the lows (being chewed out by Arianne Phillips for leaking her fashion week plans and costing her a client).

Last week Britt made us all tear up by sharing her fondest memories spent with each of Fashionista’s former (and current!) editors. And before Britt: Abby enumerated her favorite moments at the helm, Letterman-style, with a top 10 list; Natalie waxed nostalgic about afternoon Soho news-gathering strolls; and kicking off the series, Faran, the site’s founding editor, held us captive with stories of Fashionista’s early days. Next up, my former editor (whom I still miss A LOT) Lauren Sherman, who is now the executive editor at LuckyMag.com.

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Tuesday February 14th, 2012