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After the Gloss: What’s Next for Emily Weiss

A candid conversation with Glossier chronicler Marisa Meltzer about the rise and reinvention of V.C. fashion-tech girlboss feminism.

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It’s hard to overstate how influential Emily Weiss’s Glossier has been in the marketing of consumer goods over the past decade, and how obsessed the fashion industry, in particular, was with Emily and her enterprise. Photo: John Phillips/Getty Images
Lauren Sherman
September 5, 2023

My first interaction with Emily Weiss was via email, around 2010 (maybe the beginning of 2011). I didn’t watch The Hills—I gave up on reality TV after The Real World: Las Vegas—but I knew of Emily through fashion. (At the time, she was assisting a stylist named Elissa Santisi, known for wearing good trousers.) I heard Emily was launching some sort of beauty news blog—independent, but more polished than the rest. I want to say that she already had an office at 611 Broadway—one of those shabby-if-serviceable buildings in Soho, on the corner of Houston & Broadway, where the grown children of billionaires would enter to meet with Basil Walter about redoing their five story townhouses—just a couple of floors down from Breaking Media and Fashionista.com, which I was editing at the time.