Handbag Designer 101: The Stories Behind Handbag Designers, Brands, and Industry Icons

From Street Interviews to Red Carpets: How @TheeFashionMix Became Fashion's Digital Insider 🎤👠| Emily Blumenthal & Michaela “Ms. Mix” Cacho-Negrete

• Emily Blumenthal • Season 1

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What does it really take to go from fashion fan to front-row reporter in today’s content-saturated world?

Michaela Mix Caccia Negrete—better known as Ms. Mix of The Fashion Mix—proves that bold moves and relentless hustle still open doors. After being rejected from nearly 70 NYFW shows, she didn’t turn around—she turned up. With a mic in hand and street-style savvy, she interviewed celebs like Addison Rae and carved out her space in fashion media one video at a time. 🎧 Listen now.

In this episode of Handbag Designer 101, Michaela gets candid about:
📱 Building a digital-first fashion media brand from the sidewalk up
🎥 How she covers mega-events like the Oscars with 30+ pieces of content in one night
👜 The biggest handbag trends right now—and what designers need to know
đź’ˇ Her hot take on whether celebrity or influencer endorsements matter more today
🗓️ Why an editorial calendar isn’t optional if you want to stay relevant

From TikTok virality to serious industry cred, Michaela offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at how content, community, and consistency build influence in fashion today.

Our Guest: Michaela “Ms Mix” Caccia Negrete is the creator of The Fashion Mix, a digital fashion platform known for its fast-paced, insider-style content on TikTok, Instagram, and beyond. With a background in journalism and a self-made reporting style, Ms. Mix brings sharp insight, real-time trend analysis, and high-energy commentary to fashion lovers worldwide.

Host Emily Blumenthal is a handbag industry expert, author of Handbag Designer 101, and founder of The Handbag Awards. Known as the “Handbag Fairy Godmother,” Emily also teaches entrepreneurship at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is dedicated to celebrating creativity, craftsmanship, and the art of building iconic handbag brands.

Find Handbag Designer 101 Merch, HBD101 Masterclass, one-on-one sessions, and opportunities to book Emily Blumenthal as a speaker at emilyblumenthal.com. 

Buy Emily’s Books: “Handbag Designer 101” & “Savvy Suzanna’s Amazing Adventures in Handbags”

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Speaker 1:

I do think the power of celebrity continues to be king. I think you know, when you look at even at my content right, like a lot of content is as well for me you know they may like what I'm saying and information, but it's also because X, y and Z celebrity wore that bag and so I mean I think influencers can be really powerful to their audience, but I do still find in like the pop culture space, you know, a Rihanna wearing something, a Tiana Taylor wearing something, a Taylor Swift wearing something is going, especially of a smaller designer, and I mean I think all three of those individuals do. That is going to be more powerful.

Speaker 2:

Hi and welcome to Handbag Designer 101, the podcast, with your host, emily Blumenthal, handbag industry expert and the handbag fairy godmother. Each week, we uncover the stories behind the handbags we love, from the iconic brands and top designers to the creativity, craftsmanship and culture that define the handbag world. Whether you're a designer, collector or simply passionate about handbags, this is your front row seat to it all. Welcome. Welcome to Handbag Designer 101, the podcast. Today we have Michaela Mix Caccia Negrete, aka Ms Mix of the Fashion Mix. Thank you for joining us today.

Speaker 1:

Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here.

Speaker 2:

Oh my God, I am too. So I discovered you on social, because it was kind of hard not to. I'm obsessed with your posts. I'm obsessed and I have to say I know you're big on TikTok, or bigger on TikTok. I found you on Instagram. How did you develop this affinity for fashion reporting and having the confidence to put?

Speaker 1:

your two cents out there, yeah, and I appreciate that, and it's so funny because I held off on creating an Instagram for so long and in like the six months since I've done it, posted consistently. I found so many amazing people like you, so it's great to learn that it's working. You know, I think I've always loved fashion. I've always been someone who wants to dress up and talk about it, and I really saw around two years ago that there was a gap in talking about fashion news in a way that felt approachable and positive and fun. I think there are so many people that want to learn about fashion and be involved in the space, but you know, I always say like there's a lot of fashion critics, but what's the opposite of that? You know fashion positivity, and so I really saw that gap and have posted every day since then.

Speaker 2:

Do you sometimes post more than once a day, or you try to stick to once a day because it's so much work, oh way more than once a day.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean and we can talk more about this but I got my start in fashion on Depop actually, because I wanted to sell fashion to people all over the world for sustainable, you know, and affordable prices. And then, when I decided to kind of switch my fashion lens to TikTok, I really went into their algorithm and I realized, oh, I have to be posting multiple times a day. So I would say my first year I posted at least five times a day. I mean Oscars night. I'm posting 30 to 40 videos in one night.

Speaker 2:

How much editing are you doing per video where you're just doing it and posting, doing it and posting?

Speaker 1:

It depends, I think you know, for my green screen commentary videos. I'm pretty good now at knowing kind of what I want to say and I'll think about it ahead of time. So it's not as much editing as much as it's making sure my message is really clear. You might see, in a lot of my videos I talk really really quickly and it's 15 seconds so I want to make sure the viewer or the listener is getting all the information I need.

Speaker 2:

So sometimes it's just rerecording, like what I want to say, to make sure my message is clear and then you're pulling the footage immediately and then you're saving it, and then that is so fascinating and I don't want to sound. It's so much work.

Speaker 1:

It's funny because I was saying to someone the other day in my so I'm about to hit like the end of year two and so my first year, like I'd always watched, you have Oscars or the Grammys, but I didn't understand award season. Like I didn't understand that, for you know, four months out of the year, almost every weekend, there's something right, and so I would just post and often I'd be behind on coverage in my first year because I just didn't know. And so going into the second round of awards season this year, you know I have a full plan. I have pre-coverage multiple days in advance. I have pre-coverage morning of, I have during coverage and I have post-coverage, and so those days it's like that is what I'm doing On Oscars. You know, sunday I'm all in.

Speaker 2:

So so you have a. You have an official editorial calendar that you're following. Now I think I need to get better at it.

Speaker 1:

I will say, like Met Gala just happened, and I you know, you find that during these events there's so much you can cover and it's overwhelming, and then you end up not always covering the things you want to. So something I've recently started to do is like make a list of my pre-coverage, make a list of my during coverage and then a list of my post coverage, and it might change throughout the night, but just so I kind of have one list and I can check things off, so I kind of don't get lost in. Oh my gosh, I could be posting 50 things right now and I post none of them. Right, right right right.

Speaker 1:

I think getting more organized. It's definitely in the next year, as we look into year three, something that I'm prioritizing.

Speaker 2:

How do you see yourself going up against people who are, in theory, doing the exact same thing? You are?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you know it's interesting because in my first year I only posted on TikTok no, I've been really on Instagram and then I started getting questions from media companies and I noticed with publications that I wasn't getting opportunities because I hadn't been seen interviewing people or writing. And so in the last year, you'll see, I've written for Slam's first ever League Fits magazine as one of the voices of women's basketball and fashion. I wrote for the Zoe Report on New York Fashion Week trends. Like I think I'm really trying to be a triple threat in the reporting space to show people I can write, I can interview and I can commentate and I think that's what sets me apart. You might have someone who is really amazing on camera but has never written, you know, for a fashion magazine and kind of knows how that world works. So really, just get as many experiences as I can with the different subject matter experts, like throughout the fashion industry. I think is, I'm hoping, what will set me apart long term. But we'll see it's hard.

Speaker 2:

How were you able to transition, though, from doing these commentating and then trying to make sure that you're able to get your way into showing up or even being at these events to ensure that you're the one who's doing the interviewing? And, whilst doing the interviewing, how are you able to then quickly edit them to make sure that you are the one who gets?

Speaker 1:

there first. Yeah, it's tough. So I think definitely a big before and after moment. So far my career was I've been doing TikTok for a little over a year.

Speaker 1:

Last August and I really wanted to go to New York Fashion Week but at that point, like I didn't have any association with any publications or anything, and so I was pitching out to you know, the 70 shows on the CFDA calendar or it's less shows than that, but all of the shows, and I was just rejection after rejection, like I mean, I had like 60 rejections but I had already booked my tickets and I said I'm just going to go. I stayed up with my best friend in New Jersey and where do you live? Los Angeles, okay, huge thing. And I went and I told my best friend and I'm so grateful to her. Like you know, we walked around New York until we found a show and I have my microphone and I started interviewing and I dressed up in like the aesthetic of the show and I think honestly, you know I was good with my one question. People know from my videos, you know, describe your look in one word, and if the conversation continues, it does. But were you outside or inside? I was outside.

Speaker 1:

No, no no I was rejected from all the shows and so we show up. It was Alice and Olivia was the first one we found. I just started interviewing and then I made friends with the street photographers and they told me the next address. So then I mean it was still less than a year ago, but last September it went from okay, it was rejected from 70 shows.

Speaker 1:

I flew to New York, I ended up covering outside of the show 10 to 12 shows and I spoke with so much A-list talent. You know Lola Tung, the star of the Summer I Turn Pretty. A big turning point was Addison Rae did like a full interview with me on the street and so I was able to use those interview examples in a portfolio to start pitching out to magazines. Listen, I can do this on the street with like one second with talent. Imagine if you can get me on a carpet and I actually get time to talk with them. And so really it was just saying YOLO and going out there. That kind of jumpstarted my career to the next part, which is how I'm getting these writing opportunities and these interviewing opportunities.

Speaker 2:

Now Was your friend, there with you the whole time to record you having these meetings Because you need a sidekick. It's not like you can hold your camera and being like, hey, hold on, wait, wait. Okay, now go.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean it's funny and I her name is Julie Kim. She's an incredible artist, so I would never call her a sidekick. Shout out, Julie. Shout out, Julie. She's the most incredible artist and everyone needs to go look at her stuff. But you know, she's someone who I think she is such a visionary in terms of honestly like creative direction as well, and so I think you know, being an artist, you kind of have to have that, and she's incredibly fashionable, and so she was such an asset to me. I mean, we've been, I took her to a show this last February and I you know I'll be like this is a creative consultant for me, you know, like I really trust her, and so she was there. And then I have another good family friend, Lola, who's like my little sister, who like braved coach with me, which was like crazy outside of coach. So I have a few. I'm so lucky I have people in my life who are willing to support me.

Speaker 2:

So you have it's kind of hard, though realistically, to get these ins. I mean, you could say you're doing everything alone, but realistically you need to have someone there with you. I mean it's almost impossible.

Speaker 1:

You know it's interesting because something I've discovered is because you know it was such a shift. So, like in September, fashion week of 2024, yeah, 2024, you know, I had zero shows. I stood outside 12 shows. Fast forward to February. A few months ago I went to like six or seven shows.

Speaker 1:

I mean it was such a different and it was because I was going to publications and the publications hire me because I mix and I, you know, I have people have eyes on my stuff, and so it's doing it alone. But it's also now I'm in the spaces instead of being outside and I have to be because, guess what, the fashion show is not giving you two tickets Right right, right Now, about, actually, when I'm in those spaces. I have one video that went viral where I interviewed Gavin Castellanio, who's a star of the summer. I turned pretty inside of a show with his wife and I was the only one interviewing him, and so I kind of did this video of like, let's go see if Gavin says yes, okay, then I did the interview. I'm not in it, but at the end it's getting creative about those POVs when I have to be alone, because it is so much harder.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I mean again, it's the art of a hustle and you have to be creative about it, it's so. I mean honestly, this is so. I mean I'm so excited to be talking to you and I know this is like silly to fangirl, but you know no.

Speaker 1:

I'm so, I'm such a fan of yours. Oh my God, revolutionize the handbag industry. And so, oh, thank you.

Speaker 2:

I've got so much cooking in the handbag space. It's kind of ridiculous.

Speaker 1:

I can't wait to share. I know we did talk about that another time.

Speaker 2:

Oh my God. So you said that you have an impending opportunity potentially to write specifically about handbags. So where do you feel and in terms of trends and so forth and I love talking about this Do you see celebrities embracing the circular trend or do you think they're actually getting those bags, the real bags themselves?

Speaker 1:

no-transcript, and I think it was just like Winnie Harlow did a partnership with eBay or it was some secondhand brand for I think Formula One, like I do think there's this really interesting intersection and, granted, like my background is in vintage, you know fashion and secondhand fashion. I think there's this interesting intersection in fashion of you want the vintage thing, you want the rare thing, but you also want the thing that's in really good condition and feel special. And I do think that there are many celebrities who have embraced, you know, circular fashion for a long time.

Speaker 2:

You look at Bella Hadid as one, I think about they do it more for apparel, not handbags, though.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I guess Okay, so specifically I don't know. See, that's interesting. I feel like there are a lot of young female fashionistas who love a vintage handbag. I feel like when I make videos on like every once in a while I'll do a video on my shopping hacks and it's almost always around how to find a Gucci bag for under 200 bucks on Poshmark or something. So I actually I don't know, I would push back a little bit there. I think that often in the secondhand space, people feel like handbags are the most attainable, like they're going to be less nervous about buying a secondhand handbag than a secondhand.

Speaker 2:

They're also the most sought after.

Speaker 1:

Right, right, that's true, there's an intersection there. But so many.

Speaker 2:

I have so many incredible bags that are secondhand, so, I think, continue to embrace it so that said, like even coming off the heels of the Met Gala even prior, and you know, like what coach did? And it's funny, I had a very, very, very quick phone call with Todd Kahn whilst he was on his phone, while he was on his way to the airport and and was talking to him and he said that his sweet spot right now is the 17-year-old girl. He is not abandoning that. How do you think all of, like, the oversized bags which are obviously statement making? How do you think, from Fashion Week to retail, to what you see on the streets, to the celebrities? How do you see this intersection of novelty versus function, of what you're actually seeing like use versus? I'm here for the pictures.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you know, it's so funny because immediately what comes to mind is coaches release of the kiss lock bag. A few months ago, right, I mean, they released the one kiss lock, which was a statement. It's massive but it was very functional. They made clear it was so brilliant, such a brilliant marketing from coach on the website. They had a picture of everything that fit in that bag so you could fit a laptop in it, you could fit a change of clothes in it, you could fit. But it was also a statement. And then they also released the dinosaur kiss lock bag, which I think could not fit very much, but it was all about the statement.

Speaker 1:

I do think brands are kind of continuing to figure out how they can provide a maximalist option for their customer while the bag is still functional. And it's interesting and it's exciting to me because I do think we are more so in an age of maximalism. I think for a long time it was quiet fashion and quiet luxury and things like that. But it is shifting back a little bit and I do credit companies like Coach for providing a bag that's under $1,000, which is still a lot of money, but comparatively to other fashion houses under $1,000, really fun colors, have the ability to do really fun key chains, but it also can fit a lot and I think other brands need to follow suit.

Speaker 2:

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Speaker 1:

Oh my gosh, that's hard. I'm trying to think what I've seen most recently. I mean, definitely the big bag is still in. I think that people are really like I think about, like maybe a Kylie Jenner or I don't know, like I feel like I'm seeing a lot of huge tote bags, but they're not always in black, like they might be in a green or brown or white, like I think people are gravitating towards colors. Celebrities are gravitating towards colors that are wearable. Yet a little bit more of a statement and definitely an oversized bag lens. I'm trying to think what else I mean I think about like the Louis Vuitton Murakami re-release.

Speaker 2:

I mean celebrities love that this is like the fourth time I've spoken about this today alone.

Speaker 1:

It's crazy, you know it continues but it's, and you know they're releasing the Cherry Collection now, which is going to have a huge surge this summer. But I also think that there's a trend right now I'm trying to think who it was, I can't remember, but you know like the concept for the celebrity right now of dressing high, low, and I feel like handbags are a way of where you can still have a great. I mean, any piece of fashion can be great, no matter the price. But handbags seem to be a space where you can kind of intersect with that. Ok, they can get a hundred, two hundred dollar bag that's still beautiful and really unique and kind of connect more with their fan base than maybe some other garments that they want to wear.

Speaker 2:

Do you think, though, that said, celebrity versus influencer or aka creator, in terms of being an unknown independent designer and getting your hands into you're, getting your bag into the hands of those people? Where do you see the value now, and what do you think? Who would be more likely to wear it? An influencer who would perhaps want to have some sort of monetary payment or some sort of barter value? Or a celeb who would not want anything?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's interesting. I mean it's so funny. I was on a call this morning where I talked about this. Like I do think the power of celebrity continues to be king. I think you know, you, when you look at even at my content, right, like a lot of content is as well for me, you know they may like what I'm saying and information, but it's also because X, y and Z celebrity wore that bag, and so I mean I think influencers can be really powerful to their audience, but I me about just getting your stuff seen. I feel like as a small designer, it can be really hard. There's so much out there and so getting, yeah, your bag in the right place at the right time, or getting the right stylist to see it is hard within itself.

Speaker 2:

So would you recommend and again, I've gone through this. I mean, I've been doing this for a long time. It really comes down to getting your product into the stylist's hands and then see what they can do with it. Is that who you deal with in terms of talking? Or sometimes you're able to go straight to the celebrity, or you just don't even care. You're like I'm going to cover this and if I get a response, I get a response.

Speaker 1:

It's the third. It's funny because in the last six months and actually you talk about Instagram you know more stylists are on Instagram than on TikTok. You know I posted a video yesterday about Joey King's Mechelle look and I saw and her stylist commented immediately with a hilarious gif of a pope. My God, interesting, because I do. I cover when I like something and I cover when I should be covered. The stylist recognition. Every once in a while, the celebrity recognition comes and I think if I see a celebrity at an event or something, I'll mention. Hey, I covered this because the other, you know, a few months ago I was email, I was dming with the stylist and I was like I really hope this celebrity sees this and she goes. Oh my gosh, the publicist loved it and she's seen it. So it's like I don't even know what ends up being in their inboxes from me, which is why, when I meet them in person, it's so important to connect.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think all of those things are so, so important, especially, you know, as you're trying to build your brand as well, in terms of what you think is going to happen. You know, again, speaking about handbags, are you keeping your eye? I mean, especially if you're in LA. I think what a lot of designers neglect to realize is that the varying customer base of one city versus another yes, and what you see in LA, even if it is a, is a celebrity chances are it's just going to go straight into a car, whereas if they're in new york, they're probably wearing it out. Right, how?

Speaker 1:

interesting. So I feel like inner shots are so common for celebrities here. You know, the thing that I think's on the radar, I have a, an acquaintance who's wonderful, kiara luna. She's a newer handbag brand and designer who I love her stuff it's really high quality leather and timeless designs. She just did like a pop-up event in New York with I don't remember the store and I think that's like a great way for upcoming designers.

Speaker 1:

You know I being in LA Venice is such a great area. You have all these markets and these pop-ups and to me, like you just don't the power of celebrity is important, but I also think it's underestimated the power of all of the people behind the scenes besides the stylist. Right, if a celebrity's best friend or mom or agent or whatever sees a bag and they love it, like that can influence, and so I think in cities like la new york, something I've learned is, like you just never know who you're talking to, and so these community spaces is really important, like these markets. I think markets are such a great. I've met so many incredible creatives through going to flea markets and art markets.

Speaker 2:

You know it's funny because I used to say that the most prevalent bag you would ever see at a flea market is a coach bag, Right when it came out with the baseball mint leather before they sold it to Sarah Lee and then they bought it back because then they went into mixed materials. I did my MBA thesis on coaches expansion. I know it very well.

Speaker 1:

Evening. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2:

I'm a coach super fan. Yeah, I mean even going back to with the husband and wife and where they out. It's just I could talk about all day long. But in terms of newness and innovation, which I still think, there's a huge deficit, and I think you know that. Budget wise, what a lot of independent designers always need to remember, and you spoke to that, is that the bags must be below a thousand, let alone below 500, if they really want someone to pick it up. Have you seen a specific brand that is on the rise now being in the hands of celebrities, influencers and so forth, that you were like, oh, this is interesting. Who?

Speaker 1:

made that. You know it's interesting and it's not something. I don't think his bags are under a 500. But Jared Elner is Emma Chamberlain's stylist, has is also has worked with Sabrina Carpenter's, her stylist often. What is the brand name? My is Jared Elner is the name of the stylist and I think that's what he's calling the brand and he makes these really fantastic like rectangle bags.

Speaker 1:

I've really never seen and you talk about functionality like you can fit a lot in that bag and they're all different colors and it's a rectangle and there's like, but it looks like it was made through ribbons, almost. So it's a really interesting material but it's actually fairly functional in terms of what you could put inside of it. The video I did on it went really viral and he also had Emma Chamberlain do the shoot, which of course, helps. But that's a bag. I think we're going gonna see a lot more celebrities in come summer. But it's not. You know it's not a sub 500. I think they're in the 700 range. I'm trying to think of like I mean, I always go back to coach, I really do. I think they're unparalleled right now in terms of price point and quality. I like what Madewell does for like an under 250 option. They're not a designer, but I think they're functional and they're beautiful. They use beautiful fabric, like a blue suede.

Speaker 2:

I have from that Made well as JCrew. So that's why.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, JCrew, you know they're combined, but like I see great evening bags from JCrew often, but I feel like for me, like I often am always just buying secondhand and so I look more for that.

Speaker 2:

But you know it's funny. I had a conversation with my students about do you think a brand could be launched on DeepHop specifically and as an independent new creative product? I and you've seen brands do that because their price points obviously can't be the same. They can't be upwards of three, four, five hundred dollars on depop.

Speaker 1:

No, so I'm not. I don't see that price point and, candidly, I'm not as involved in the depop world anymore, but it used to be my life. I see a lot of apparel launch on there, so a lot of like a graphic tee that's unique. I don't, you're right, I don't see as much as a handbag. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some like crochet handbag. I bought a like a homemade crochet handbag on there when I was still selling on there from like a great girl I mean I don't think she has a business, but it was like a heart handbag and it had all these different colors and it was all crochet novelty and yeah, very novelty, but it definitely happens.

Speaker 1:

I mean, I think depop and it's again. It's shifted since I was big, but it is a very unique like social selling platform and it has a lot of young people on it who are looking for unique pieces.

Speaker 2:

So I definitely think it's possible so just you know, to wrap up in terms of your final thoughts and I know this is going to run probably significantly after the Magdala, what I know what things do you think right now are impacting the trend, whether it's fashion apparel, like, what do you think is the wave? I mean, people can theoretically say tariffs, but I don't think that's the case so far as what that will do to how people are dressing and wearing and shopping, at least at the level of the people you're following.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's a good question. One word that comes to mind, I think, is wearability. I think that, you know, we finally have come more out of COVID and people are just doing more things, and so I think people are constantly trying. We talk about, yeah, like the function versus maximalism. I do think that continues to be a play and you see, you know this, the like I just saw a photo of I think it was Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner like walking after the Met Gala, you know, in New York, and they were like both in flats and baggy clothes, like it was very comfortable. So I do think we're seeing a lot of these like big fashion people wearing clothes that are maximalist, with patterns, but comfortable. I mean what else, I don't know.

Speaker 1:

I think also, I mean this is when it happens every year, but I think now more than ever, I am seeing just how like weather truly affects I mean, it's God, but it it, you know and it affects just how each city dresses and like the trend for that year, like if LA is warmer, there's going to be more sundresses and there's going to be more mini skirts. If New York is colder going into spring, then, you know, a cool, maximalist jacket is going to be around for longer, but I do think, you know, I look at someone like Dochi who I would argue right now is like the biggest fashion, one hundred percent, and she uses so many accessories and so many, you know, unique pieces and she's someone who has supported her and her stylist, sam, have supported multiple like small designers, growing designers, and so, yeah, I feel like it's just now more than ever. I do think in some ways, people are embracing like individuality and maximalism, at least that's my hope.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I listen. I am here for it 100%. Ms Nix, thank you so much. I'm so excited that we are here to have you and I absolutely want to have you back, so we can talk about trend updates, post the next wave of celebrity shows that obviously require an update. So how can we find you, follow you and see more of your amazing content?

Speaker 1:

yes, everything is at the fashion mix t-h-e-e fashion mix, instagram, tiktok or where you'll find me the most. But you'll also find me writing for your favorite publication, maybe reporting on your favorite red carpet and interviewing some of our favorite fashionistas. So, but I'm there. I'm on TikTok daily and Instagram is almost daily at this point.

Speaker 2:

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Emily Blumenthal

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