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Dance, it’s the summer of love! Fashion Reverie would like to wish you a happy start to your summer and a happy Pride Month. As we prepare for summer, the European menswear shows, and Couture Week, much is afoot in the fashion industry. The round of designer musical chairs has continued, and there is also behind the scenes drama and several fashion companies. We know it’s time to switch to iced tea, but this tea is piping hot.
Dior has named Jonathan Anderson creative director of their womenswear and couture collections, after announcing him as their creative director of men’s earlier this year. This leaves Maria Grazia Chiuri out. Currently, all eyes are on who will fill the last coveted creative director spot at Dior’s parent company LVMH’s Fendi. It is the one vacancy the brand has, and the rumored shortlist includes John Galliano, Chiuri after her recent Dior exit, and dark horse Marco de Vicenzo, the head of design of Fendi leather goods. Who will take the crown?
This New York-based American brand has found itself slowly embroiled in scandal as it is revealed to be a bastion of racism. Former employees have been leaving reviews on Glassdoor about the racism they have experienced there, and an article several months ago by a major publication featured several interviews with past employees discussing the company’s lack of inclusivity. It makes sense the only employees they have been able to hold onto are millennial and Gen Z white women. This might be Trump’s America, but good luck selling a high-end fashion brand for too long when people of color don’t want your clothes.
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All press isn’t always good press. Blake Lively’s once $100 million haircare line has seen its valuation shrink to $15 million amid her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni over his alleged inappropriate behavior toward her on set. When she tried to drag her friend Taylor Swift into it, it didn’t go over well. Swift is now no longer involved in the case, but her diehard fanbase didn’t take kindly to Lively dragging her into it. It’s now cost the actress big time.
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The search for Vanity Fair’s next editor-in-chief is on and parent company Condé Nast has its work cut out for them with trying to figure out who will claim one of the most coveted jobs in media. The apparent shortlist includes Will Welch of GQ, Vanity Fair’s current digital director Mike Hogan, Vogue creative director Mark Guiducci, and W editor-in-chief Sara Moonves. It will be an entirely new era for Vanity Fair.
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