Dippity Don’t Says – July 2023

Welcome to fashionreverie.com’s new online segment, “Dippity Don’t Says.” Fashion Reverie will monthly you some of the fashion talk of the town bandied through the fashion industry grapevine. For those longtime fashion industry veterans, you’ll know that this industry is worthy of its own daytime soap opera (cue the theme song for “Bold and The Beautiful”). Prepare your plate as we serve up the hot dish for July.

This top fashion magazine known for its viral celebrity covers and extremely toxic work environment is on the brink of filing for bankruptcy. While their editor-in-chief might be fine with his other fashion projects, who knows where that will leave their already underpaid staff.  While this publication is a cultural staple, given the state of media, will anyone want to take a risk and save it from insolvency? Hmm, maybe not!!

This menswear brand owned by an influencer is not paying its freelance designers. While delayed payments are not unheard of for freelancers in the fashion industry, this owner appears to be living a glamorous life distilled on Instagram. Perhaps he should take the money from his next Instagram partnership to fulfill his money owed.

A top influencer who comes from a celebrity family was passed up for a major fashion ad campaign and it seems racism was afoot. After being told she wasn’t a fit, the brand prepared to release an influencer campaign using no influencers of color. What a shock in 2023 after brands have allegedly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. But have they really? Hmm.

This celebrity-owned fashion brand might be popular among its target demographic, but they aren’t generating the revenue to try and sell. After years in business and garnering the respect of the fashion industry and Orange County housewives, the owners of this brand are trying to find someone to sell it to. It doesn’t look like anyone is biting. Poor little rich girls!!

—Dippity Don’t