Fashionista (website)

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Fashionista
Type of site
Fashion news
Available inEnglish
EditorBreaking Media
URL fashionista.com
Launched2007

Fashionista is a fashion website owned by Breaking Media.

Contents

History

Fashionista was launched in 2007. It was originally written as a fashion blog by Faran Krentcil. [1] In April 2009, editor Natalie Hormilla stepped down. [2]

By 2010, Fashionista had gained worldwide popularity in the fashion niche and revamped its website and logo (also moving it from Joomla to WordPress). [3] In 2010, Breaking Media raised a $1.3 million round of investment. [4]

In November 2013, Stephanie Trong and Lauren Indvik were named co-editors-in-chief of Fashionista, succeeding to Leah Chernikoff. In March 2014, Stephanie Trong stepped down, leaving Lauren Indvik the sole editor-in-chief of the website. [5] In April 2014, the website was moved from WordPress to SAY Media's content management and monetization platform Tempest. [6]

In April 2015, Breaking Media raised another $1.5 million round of investment. [4] In November 2015, Lauren Indvik was named editor at large of Fashionista, succeeding to Lauren Sherman. [7] In December 2015, Fashionista introduced its own advertising studio (Fashionista CoLab) to offer custom advertising experiences to advertisers. [8]

Description

Fashionista is the most-visited website edited by Breaking Media. [9] Compared to other fashion news websites, Fashionista's editorial is more pop culture and geared to a younger audience. [10]

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