Substacks recommended by Abby Gardner

Recommended by Abby Gardner

Movies, tv, the celebrity industrial complex, and personal pop culture obsessions. Delivered twice a week to your inbox, written by Hunter Harris.

Clotheshorse

By Maura Brannigan

For the folks for whom fashion is both business and pleasure, created by journalist Maura Brannigan.

Godfrey's Guide

By jean godfrey june

A weekly column on beauty and adjacent topics (many of them) by Jean Godfrey-June

Another Jane Pratt Thing

By Jane Pratt

From the creator of Sassy, Jane and XO Jane, a place for stories by folks of all genders, races, sexualities, creeds, sizes, cultures, ages, classes, kinks, quirks, and ports of call. Welcome!

Daytimers

By Elizabeth

What I'm liking, what I'm watching, what I'm wearing...Let's get into it, Daytimers

Office of the Surface

By Jamie Rosen

A weekly newsletter inspired by beauty text messages. Focused on what actually works, from serums to surgery.

Drinks With Broads

By Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

A Pop Culture Cocktail Served by the Fug Girls

Hi Everyone with Hillary Kerr

Shopping suggestions + recommendations + occasional advice

After School by Casey Lewis

an examination of youth culture

Whatever Nevermind

By Fawnia

The definitive Gen X perspective on pop culture, fashion, and beauty — right now.

CrimsonCast

By Bison Media Group

CrimsonCast is your home for in-depth analysis of Indiana University football, men's basketball, and other IU varsity sports. Proud member of the Back Home Network, your sports and culture home for all things Indiana Hoosiers.

Soft Power by Marisa Meltzer

Soft Power is a newsletter by Marisa Meltzer about beauty.

Things I Buy As A Civilian

By Amber Katz

I've tested thousands of products in nearly two decades of beauty writing and blogging. Eighty percent are aggressively medium, 10% are actively bad — and 10% are AMAZING. This newsletter is about that last 10%.

Hart in the Right Place

By MJ Hart

Satiating my post-grad spinout by traveling and writing in an attempt to find some joy and use my journalism and French degrees

PEOPLE BRANDS AND THINGS

Where consumerism, culture, and creativity meet.

✿ shit you should care about ✿

By ✿shit you should care about✿

𖦹 ꩜ ✦ giving you the news without giving you the blues 𖦹 ꩜ ✦

Girls of a Certain Age

By Kim France

I write about shopping, and whatever else seems interesting. For over-40 women and the over-40-curious, from me, Kim France, former Sassy staffer, Lucky Magazine founding editor in chief, and style columnist at The Strategist

Curious Minds

By Beth Collier

Curious stories from pop culture, business, and history

Modern Loss

Candid conversation and community on the long arc of loss and resilience, by Rebecca Soffer. Beginners welcome. Subscribe now for exclusive content.

Brain Matter

By Gabriella Karefa-Johnson

Front-row access. Backstage chaos. Slow-burn cultural critiques and brutally honest hot takes. Penned by stylist and former Vogue editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. This is your brain on fashion.

The New Garde with Alyssa Vingan

The New Garde is a podcast and newsletter about the future of the fashion and beauty industries — and the culture surrounding them — by two-time former editor-in-chief, Alyssa Vingan.