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Anna Weyant, Sara Moonves and more on their 2025 fashion highlights.
The article highlights key fashion moments and trends from influential figures in the industry, emphasizing the importance of nostalgia and personal connections to fashion pieces. For brand strategy, this underscores the value of storytelling and emotional resonance in marketing, as well as the potential for brands to leverage historical designs to create buzz and engagement among consumers.
Feed Me: Anna Weyant, Sara Moonves and more on their 2025 fashion highlights. "I felt like Cinderella—especially when I had to give it back the next day." Good morning everyone. I spent this morning in the piano room at The Chelsea Hotel (one of my favorites spaces in the city) with a gaggle of media people for a small event hosted by Puck’s Dylan Byers and Jon Kelly, and Orchestra’s Jonathan Rosen. Someone’s blueprint for a media Mount Rushmore. Today’s newsletter includes: Derek C.
Blasberg’s most stylish friends on their top sartorial moments of the year, partnership teams should be taking notes on Hunter Harris’s recent HBO Max deal, Casey Lewis and Clare de Boer join CBS, and Adam Friedland called President Trump. Feed Me is $80/year, or about $1.50/week. The good stuff usually happens below the paywall. If you have ever had the pleasure of being in Derek C. Blasberg’s orbit, you know how glamorous, opinionated, and FUNNY his coalition of friends is. Earlier this month, I asked him to text the most fashion-forward people in his rolodex to share their standout moments of the year.
Below, responses from Will Welch, Anna Weyant, Ethan James Green, and more. Happy holidays, fashion fans! Emily asked me to do a year-end best-dressed list for Feed Me, and since I do everything Emily tells me—including launching my own Substack—here we are. The brief was: identify some of the most stylish New Yorkers, and then ask them what their sartorial highlights of 2025 were. Behold, that list: Lauren Santo Domingo, founder of Moda Operandi: “My favorite fashion moment was at the Bal d’Été this summer in Paris, which was an aesthetic feat of organization by Sofia Coppola.
I wore a dress from Olivier Theyskens’s debut collection for Rochas in 2003. I remember the moment the look came out on the runway in Paris, worn by Stella Tennant. I was shook! And so was everyone else in the industry. I have thought about that dress for the last two decades, and I was over the moon when the label loaned it to me from its archives. I felt like Cinderella—especially when I had to give it back the next day. Fortunately, it didn’t disappear at midnight.
And I didn’t lose a shoe either.” Lauren Santo Domingo, founder of Moda Operandi: “My favorite fashion moment was at the Bal d’Été this summer in Paris, which was an aesthetic feat of organization by Sofia Coppola. I wore a dress from Olivier Theyskens’s debut collection for Rochas in 2003. I remember the moment the look came out on the runway in Paris, worn by Stella Tennant. I was shook! And so was everyone else in the industry. I have thought about that dress for the last two decades, and I was over the moon when the label loaned it to me from its archives. I felt like Cinderella—especially when I had to give it back the next day.
Fortunately, it didn’t disappear at midnight. And I didn’t lose a shoe either.” Hari Nef, actress: “While unpacking in the guest room of my friend’s house in the Fire Island Pines, I found a small leather strap behind a bedside table. It was about 5 inches long and 1/3 inch wide, with silver studs and a snap enclosure. It was too short to be a choker or a man’s bracelet, though it fit my woman’s wrist. I kept the trinket, wondering what it was. Later, I found out it was a cock ring, thanks to Dario Vitale’s debut collection for Versace, which was styled by Spencer Singer.
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The article discusses emerging trends and insights from influential figures, which is significant for brand strategy, but it covers familiar themes of nostalgia and storytelling that are already established in the industry.
