Diana Pearl

1 week ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

Mary Orton has been posting about fashion for over a decade, first on her own blog, Memorandum, and later on Instagram and TikTok. She has some advice for influencers hoping to hold onto their audience beyond the next viral microtrend: don’t try so hard. Or at least, make it look easy. “The audience is smart, they know if you are trying to maintain a facade and be something you’re not,” she said.

1 week ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

KFN, a new company that includes former executives from IMG and Spring Studios, said Thursday it will operate a network of New York Fashion Week venues available to designers free of charge starting this September.

2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

When Savette launched in 2021 with a small top handle bag it called the Symmetry 19, its cost — $1,750 — put it in the same realm as similarly sized offerings from the likes of Gucci and Celine. By that measure, the Symmetry 19 is practically a bargain these days. The average luxury bag’s price has risen 52 percent since 2019, according to HSBC. The cost of Savette’s bag has inched up, to $2,050. Over the same period, Gucci’s Jackie medium bag, for example, went from $2,600 to $3,800.

2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Diana Pearl

Harper’s Bazaar Italia has named Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak, the founders of design studio M/M, as its new creative directors. The Hearst publication’s appointments, in some ways, are a long time coming: Stefano Tonchi, the editorial director of Harper’s Bazaar Italia, said that he’s long wanted to work with Amzalag and Augustyniak.

4 weeks 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.