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Moodboard Diaries: Country 🐴

For those of you new here, our Sunday Moodboard Diaries series is a person, place or thing inspirational vibe for the upcoming week. It's one of our most popular series, and we'd love to hear from you on what you'd like to see next. 🫶🏽✨

⭐️ Drop your brand + IG handle below. ⭐️

The algorithm keeps pushing the same people. The same MSM fashion sources, and anything but what “WE” all want.

For the record, we’re more interested in the ones building something real. The underdogs with soul. The quirky, hardworking, gotta create something with every fiber in my being folks.

Models. Stylists. Designers. Artists. Small brands. Musicians. Writers. Photographers. MUAHs. Weird creative geniuses with 317 followers and great taste. You get the idea.

New Face and its following would love to see what you’re working on. Over the next several months, we will pick 3 a week to highlight to our awesome followers. And, we will collaborate with 1 each week.

Sincerely, The New Face Magazine Team 🫶🏽✨

Fashion spent too long pretending perfection was the goal.

We’ve always been more interested in resilience and authenticity. 🤍

Back in 2019, Aly Rae reminded us that strength can still be soft, feminine, stylish, vulnerable, and powerful all at once.

She’s still modeling. Still inspiring. Still standing.

That matters more to us than whatever the industry is pretending to care about this week.

Original feature: “Model Turned Champion: Aly’s Story”

Read more in our stories.

Photo by Jesse Santos

Last night's Met Gala was "surprisingly"... good. Anok Yai as the Black Madonna, referencing the Virgin of the Seven Sorrows by Francisco Romero Zafra. Grief turned into gold. Pain turned into presence. Fashion as something sacred again.

This is what happens when beauty stops performing and starts meaning something.

For a moment, the industry remembered what art feels like.

Anok's whole team, particularly her glam squad, took this to another level. The look was pure artistry.

Glam lead: Sheika Daley
Special effects: Worshipmina, Laurel Charleston, Kelly Harris Hair: Sasha Glasser

Moodboard Diaries: May 💐

“May! Queen of blossoms,
And fulfilling flowers.”
— Lord Edward Thurlow

“I’m not going home tonight…”

Black and white because some things are just clearer without the noise.

Demarchelier understood that his whole life.


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because the industry talks sustainability but sells petroleum. They talk ethics but burn inventory. They platform Gaga’s Runway but not the runways where workers faint from 50°C heat.
Today’s explosive thought: Selective outrage is still outrage. And your skin knows the difference between marketing and material.
No shame. We all start somewhere. Start by checking 1 label today — then check who made it, and if they’re on the hook for it.
What label are you checking first? 🌱

Sources: 2026 polyester shock → Hello Entrepreneurs, Apr 2026 | EU unsold goods ban → Lexology, 2026 | Worker heat conditions → Brut India, 2026

Life will pass in the blink of an eye. Live it at full volume.

Credits: .fluff