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

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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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!)

Predictions for 2013: Vogue Covers Edition: After careful calculation, we've compiled our predictions for who will grace this year's Vogue covers. Read on to see our reasons.

2012's Biggest Beauty Trends: We wrapped up the year with some of our favorite --and not so favorite-- beauty trends of 2012.

Fitness in 2013: Thanks to these 10 awesome workout apparel brands, you have no excuse to give up on your New Year's resolution to exercise more.

Kimye in the New Year: Newly pregnant Kim Kardashian arrived at a New Year's Eve party with Kanye West dressed in a racy Julien Macdonald gown. And now that the couple are expecting, we explain why we also anticipate a line of baby clothing from them.

The Best Editorials of 2012: From Transformers to tuna, here are our favorite picks from the glossies this past year.

The Biggest Fashion Stories of 2012: Game on. These 15 events really changed things in the fashion industry last year.

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