If the Ton of Bridgerton has Lady Whistledown, the fashion industry has Lauren Sherman. Since her newsletter, Line Sheet, was launched last April (under the umbrella of the new-media company Puck), it has rapidly become a must-read for any fashion lover — a delivery of hot gossip, cold facts and dastardly business dealings up to three times a week, all delivered to their inboxes in arch, economical prose. “It’s my only bedtime reading,” claims one London-based addict (Sherman lives in LA and presses send at 2pm her time/10pm GMT).
One part Whistledown, one part Gossip Girl and one part industry hack, Sherman stops short of signing off her missives with “XOXO” but they’re still deliciously compelling. “More Tom Ford mayhem, Blake Lively’s look book &