The Glossy 50 honors the year’s biggest changemakers across fashion and beauty. More from the series →
They moved first or wrote a new playbook for their respective industries.
Luxury resale has been a growing force in the fashion industry for years, but in 2025, the category really went mainstream. Likewise, while Fashionphile has been in the resale game for over 20 years, 2025 was also the year things blew up for the handbag and watch reseller. Led by co-founder and president Sarah Davis, Fashionphile completed its latest acquisition and opened new flagship stores in Los Angeles and Scottsdale.
Beauty is perhaps more accessible than ever in 2025, with social media-fueled shopping on the rise and premium products available to be delivered to your door at a moment’s notice. But if ever there was a reason to get out and discover beauty in person, it’s Printemps New York’s beauty floor, overseen by head of beauty Ariel Fantasia.
Making a towering Financial District office space into a stylish meeting ground in the post-work-from-home boom is far from an easy task. But then, most office spaces don’t have Gabriella Khalil at the helm. Khalil, as the founder of the Palm Heights hotel and creative director of the WSA, has applied her Midas touch to some of fashion and design’s buzziest hubs.
Meridith Rojas is on a mission to democratize the beauty industry through dupes. As North America CMO of Australia’s No. 1 color cosmetic brand, MCo Beauty, she’s parlayed polarizing public opinion about dupes into gangbuster campaigns that drove a sell-out at Target stores and a social campaign with more than a billion impressions.
Since she launched Feed Me in 2022, Emily Sundberg’s daily newsletter has come to exemplify much of the appeal of the Substack format — that is, writing driven by an individual voice and curation that is often absent in large-scale media. And her approach has drawn in tens of thousands of readers and high-profile brand partners to the fray.
