Occasionally, we use affiliate links on our site. This in no way affects our editorial decision-making. For our Weekly Drop Watch column, Fashionista scours the market to curate the most noteworthy releases from our favorite fashion and beauty brands. Keep scrolling for this week’s highlights. Fashion Launches Betsey Johnson x Paris Hilton In honor of Betsey Johnson’s 84th birthday this week, the designer partnered with Paris Hilton for a party-ready collaboration. Celebrating “the enduring connection between two icons who have inspired generations through their unapologetic individuality, love of glamour and belief that fashion should always be fun,” the collection includes a tiered pink dress ($169, worn by Hilton in the above campaign image), a “That’s Hot!” book bag ($128), a pink-and-white slip dress ($99) and several other mini dresses, handbags and shoes. Shop all of the pieces now at betseyjohnson.com ....
At skin-care company 4AM, Co-Founders (and college best friends!) Jade Beguelin and Sabrina Sade work hard to play hard. Although the Georgetown University alumnae’s post-grad lives took them in very different directions — Beguelin worked in finance, while Sade went to medical school — they both struggled to keep up with elaborate, multi-step skin-care routines. The green juice-drinking, Alo-wearing, Pilates princess aesthetic often accompanying these aspirational skin-care regimens simply didn’t fit with their demanding schedules (or late nights out), so the duo built a beauty brand that celebrates, rather than constricts, busy lives. “If you want to go out, if you want to take a tequila shot at 4 a.m., who are we as a skin-care brand to shame you for that?” Sade, now a physician and post-doctoral dermatology researcher, tells Fashionista. “We are actually going to do that with you and celebrate that with you.” Sabrina Sad...