Best Fashion News 2019
Where fashion news actually lived in 2019 — organized the way a reader actually uses it, desk by desk
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Here are some of the leading resources for fashion news in 2019. Rather than one undifferentiated list, the roster below is organized the way a reader actually uses it across a day: the newspaper desks for the facts, the glossies for the agenda, the digital natives for the conversation, and the trade press for the industry itself.
First Read: The Newspaper Desks
Start with the newspapers, because they report fashion the way they report everything else. The New York Times fashion section and its Runway blog cover collections, retail and the business of style with a newsroom's standards, and The Guardian's fashion coverage does the same from London. The Wall Street Journal's fashion and style industry page takes the industry's money seriously, and HuffPost Style rounds up the day's talking points at aggregator speed.
What the desks add is verification. Store closures, executive changes, trade and labor stories — the parts of fashion that are news before they are style — appear here first and checked. A reader who begins the day with one newspaper desk knows what actually happened before deciding what to think about how it looked.
The Glossies: Agenda-Setters With Websites
The magazine group still sets the season's agenda. Elle and Vogue lead it, with Harper's Bazaar, Glamour and InStyle completing the bench. Each title is really two publications sharing a name: a monthly print magazine planned months ahead, and a website publishing fashion news, celebrity style and shopping coverage every day.
That is why these titles belong on a news list and not only on a magazine list. In 2019 the print edition was the flagship — the cover, the big shoot, the September issue — while the website did the daily work. A reader who only met these brands at the newsstand was seeing the smaller half of what they published.
The Conversation: Digital Natives and Community
The third group never had a print schedule at all. The Cut, New York magazine's fashion and culture site, mixes fashion news with cultural argument. Refinery29 writes fashion as service journalism for its readers' actual lives. Fashionista covers the industry — careers and business included — for readers who want to work in it. Lookbook is the community entry, street style uploaded by its members, and The Blonde Salad carries the influencer line from personal blog to publication. Our own fashion blog belongs on any honest version of this list we write.
What unites the group is speed and voice: these sites publish in hours, argue in public, and treat the audience as participants. By 2019 that was no longer the alternative model of fashion news — for a generation of readers it was simply what the phrase meant, and the glossies' websites had adopted the same rhythm to compete for the same morning.
The Trade Press: For the Industry Itself
The last group writes for the people who make and sell the clothes. WWD — Women's Wear Daily — is the industry's paper of record, where executive news, retail results and collection reviews land first for the trade. The Business of Fashion analyzes the same industry for a global professional readership, and The Fashion Spot adds community commentary and forums on top of both.
Hopefully you are looking for an overview of the best fashion websites, with trends, news, information, photos and more — which is what this roster, desks to trade press, adds up to. For fashion books gathered in one place, see the fashion books guide in More to Explore below; for magazine and book buying gathered into a single marketplace guide, the Apparel Search Amazon clothing and fashion guide is where those links are kept. Do you know of other resources we should be reviewing for the best of fashion news list? Thank you for using the Apparel Search website.
Common Questions
Why are monthly magazines on a list of news resources?
Because by 2019 each glossy was two publications: a monthly print magazine and a website publishing fashion news daily. Elle, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour and InStyle all did daily news work online; the print edition had become the flagship.
Which newspaper fashion desks does the 2019 list include?
The New York Times fashion section and its Runway blog, The Guardian's fashion pages, the Wall Street Journal's fashion and style industry page, and HuffPost Style.
What separates the trade press from the rest of the list?
Audience and subject. WWD and the Business of Fashion write for people who work in fashion — executive moves, retail results, industry analysis — while the magazines and digital natives write for people who wear it. The Fashion Spot adds community commentary on both.
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