Diana Pearl

New York

Senior News and Features Editor at Business of Fashion (BOF)

senior news & features editor @bof who also likes tweeting about the royals.

Articles

Which Hollywood Stars Have Quit Acting? 17 Celebs Who Stepped Away from the Screen

1 week ago | people.com | Diana Pearl |Alexandra Schonfeld |Jordana Comiter

Many actors have come and gone through Hollywood over the years — some by chance, and others by choice. In April 2025, Oscar winner Cate Blanchett became the latest actor to eye a Hollywood exit, telling the Radio Times (per The Standard) that she could see herself stepping away from the big screen. "My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it: I am serious about giving up acting,” Blanchett said.
Influencer Brands Are Making a Comeback

2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

The influencer-to-founder pipeline is in the midst of a renaissance. The latest wave of creator-founded fashion and beauty brands gaining traction — among them TikToker Morgan Stewart’s basics line Renggli, Aimee Song’s Amiya, Cass DiMicco’s accessories brand Aureum Collective, Mary Orton’s baseball cap label Chord and Lindsay Silberman’s Hotel Lobby Candle — is reviving the category with some modifications to the business model.
How Fashion Learned to Love The Real Housewives

1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

This past New York Fashion Week played host to a different type of show. Edie Parker, the accessories label that expanded into cannabis products in 2021, gathered industry insiders including Vogue.com editor Chloe Malle, stylist Kate Young and Carolina Herrera designer Wes Gordon, at Brass in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighbourhood, to celebrate the launch of “Seedies,” its new line of THC gummies.
Behind the Rise of the ‘It’ Sweatshirt

1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

Chelsea Kramer found her hit product by accident. She launched her apparel brand, Parke (her middle name), in 2022, with the goal of selling sustainable, comfortable denim. While the jeans did well enough, on a whim, she made a prototype of a mockneck sweatshirt and shared a photo of it on Instagram. Her followers told her to sell it, so she figured why not. “We had a minuscule amount of inventory, but they sold out in an hour,” Kramer told BoF of the sweatshirt’s launch in July 2023.
20 of the Youngest Actors to Nab Oscar Nominations (Including One Record-Holder Who Was Nominated at Age 8!)

1 month ago | msn.com | Diana Pearl |Katie Labovitz
20 of the Youngest Actors to Nab Oscar Nominations (Including One Record-Holder Who Was Nominated at Age 8!)

1 month ago | people.com | Diana Pearl |Katie Labovitz

Leonardo DiCaprio arrives at the 66th annual Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on March 21, 1994; Quvenzhané Wallis arrives at the 85th annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 24, 2013; Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the 83rd annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 27, 2011.
LTK Is Taking Its App Beyond Shopping

1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

LTK on Thursday announced sweeping changes to its app, introducing a number of Instagram-style features designed to encourage users to do more than shop. Among the most notable is the introduction of a “Watch” tab, a hub for video content that allows users to filter videos by a specific region or city.
How Crown Affair Became the Queen of It-Girl Hair Care

2 months ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

Dianna Cohen is not your typical haircare founder. The most notable founders in the space almost always have a history as a hairstylist, going all the way back to Vidal Sassoon in the 1970s to Oribe Canales in the aughts to Jonathan Van Ness of “Queer Eye” fame, who launched their JVN brand in 2021. Most other recent standout successes, like hair repair label K18, are launched by scientists, the product of years of formulation in a lab.
Jenni Kayne Wants to Be the Californian Ralph Lauren

2 months ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

Ask fashion founders about their aspirations, and one phrase will come up over and over: lifestyle brand. The term has suffered from misuse in recent years, appearing in the marketing copy of too many conventional fashion brands that happen to slap their logo on a few throw pillows or tchotchkes. But when it works, “lifestyle” signals that a brand has a point of view strong enough to be applied across categories.
Inside Willa Bennett’s First Issue of ‘Cosmopolitan’

2 months ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

Willa Bennett wants readers to fall in love with her take on Cosmopolitan. This week, the nearly 140-year-old title drops its February issue, Bennett’s first as editor-in-chief.