Best Reading of Fashion for 2022

Yes, it is a glorious year in fashion - we are certain of this fact based on all of the research that we have conducted. Reading the top stories from the leading fashion news resources is both inspirational as well as educational, and in 2022 we quickly learned that this would be a year to remember. This guide gathers the best places to read about fashion in 2022.

The list below holds twelve publications, and they do not all do the same job. Some cover the runway, some cover the business behind it, some cover celebrity style and shopping, and one is a newspaper of record whose fashion desk sits inside a much larger newsroom. Apparel Search's own news pages open the list, because they sort the same flood of stories from a fashion-industry point of view.

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Before the twelve, three starting points on this site. The top stories page gathers the leading fashion stories, the Top 5 fashion news page narrows the field to five, and the general fashion news section carries the ongoing coverage. Together they are the fastest route through a news day for a reader who cares about clothing first and everything else second. The cross-year best reading collection places this 2022 list alongside other years.

Find the latest fashion trend, expert tips about how to make the most of your wardrobe and more - fashion news you can use. That promise runs through the twelve sources below as well, each in its own register: a tip in a consumer magazine, a trend call in a trade daily, and a collection review in a newspaper are three different kinds of useful, and a good reading habit in 2022 used all three.

The Fashion Press: Vogue, Elle and Women's Wear Daily

Vogue is the fashion magazine of record for the consumer reader - the place where collections are photographed, designers are profiled and the season's direction is declared. Elle covers much of the same ground with a shopping reader's eye, mixing runway coverage with the pieces a reader can actually buy. Women's Wear Daily is the trade counterpart: WWD reports the business of fashion - executive moves, retail results and deal news - for the people who work in the industry, which makes its fashion desk essential reading for anyone who wants to know why a trend happened, not just that it did.

StyleCaster and WhoWhatWear represent the digital-native end of the fashion press: trend explainers, outfit formulas and celebrity-style breakdowns written for readers who shop from their phones. PinkVilla's fashion desk brings a South Asian entertainment and style audience to the same subjects. The full set of twelve, with links, is in References & Further Reading below - CNN Fashion, Vogue, Elle, CNBC Fashion, the New York Times, PopSugar, The Guardian, FashionUnited, Women's Wear Daily, StyleCaster, WhoWhatWear and PinkVilla.

News Desks and Business Desks

CNN Fashion treats style as news: runway moments, cultural controversies and industry stories reported on a general news cycle. CNBC Fashion reads the same industry as a market - brands as companies, collections as earnings drivers. The Guardian's fashion desk writes about clothing as culture and ethics as much as aesthetics, and FashionUnited is the industry's wire for jobs, trade news and company announcements across markets. The New York Times fashion section deserves its own note: the Times is an authority on many subjects, and its fashion critics review collections with the same seriousness the paper gives to books and theater.

PopSugar is the lightest read on the list - tasty bits of reading, in the guide's own phrase - celebrity outfits, shopping picks and trend roundups written to be enjoyed quickly. A balanced 2022 reading diet mixed one heavy source with one light one: the trade daily for what the industry did, the consumer title for what it means for a wardrobe, and PopSugar for what everyone will be wearing at the weekend because a celebrity wore it on Tuesday.

Reading Fashion Well in 2022

A practical habit ties the list together: read the same story in two registers. When a collection lands, the consumer magazines show the clothes, the trade press reports the reaction of buyers, and the business desks price the parent company's stock. When a trend breaks - a silhouette, a color, a bag shape - the social platforms usually show it first, but the publications on this list are where it gets named, dated and explained, which is what makes it usable rather than merely visible.

These pages are kept as a historical record of 2022 reading: lineups, desks and site layouts have changed since, and the links are the place to see what each publication covers today. For the year's shopping counterpart, keep the Amazon and eBay guides in view too - the Amazon clothing guide and the eBay fashion guide, where the product links are kept in one place. Thank you for using the Apparel Search website.