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Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
The editor succeeds Michelle Lee, who announced in June she was leaving the beauty magazine to join Netflix. Cruel has worked at Allure since 2019 and previously held roles at Refinery29, New York Magazine and other titles. She founded The Melanin Edit, an Allure subsection dedicated to Black beauty, that launched in April. Cruel begins her new role on Sept. 8.
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Fast Company has named The Business of Fashion one of the ‘world’s most innovative companies’ for a second time for demonstrating ‘how a media brand can leverage AI to add reader value rather than erode trust with AI-written news articles.’