Fashion Meets Innovation: The WE Event You Can’t Miss — Plus Billion-Dollar Deals & The Women Redefining What’s Next

🎟️ Upcoming Event: Fashion Meets Innovation — Networking Night in NYC 👠✨

We’re excited to announce our next WE event — an exclusive Fashion × Tech Networking Night, hosted by WE – Women Entrepreneurship in collaboration with Fashion Forward.

Connect with founders, creatives, investors, and innovators for an evening of conversations, inspiration, and collaboration — all focused on the intersection of fashion, technology, and entrepreneurship.

📍 230 Fifth Bar, NYC
🗓 November 17, 2025
🕠 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

If you’re passionate about innovation in fashion or building the next generation of consumer brands — this is where ideas and opportunities meet.

✨ Reserve your spot — spaces are limited!

👩‍💼 Female Founders News

💄 Saie Founder Laney Crowell Turns Clean Beauty Into a $100M Powerhouse
Before Saie became one of Sephora’s top-selling clean beauty brands, founder Laney Crowell was simply listening — to her community. What started as a blog, The Moment, evolved into a movement built on co-creation, sustainability, and connection. Today, Saie has crossed $100 million in sales, ranked among Sephora’s top brands, and Crowell has been named to the TIME100 Next list.

Her secret? Radical focus and community-led innovation. “We say no to almost everything so we can focus on doing things really well,” she says. From pioneering clean formulas to launching The Saie Office on Substack, Crowell’s redefining what it means to build a modern beauty brand — one that’s sustainable, scalable, and soulful.
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🍕 Caulipower’s Founder Seals Full-Circle Deal in $6B Frozen Food Shake-Up
Nine years after disrupting frozen pizza with her cauliflower-crust empire, Gail Becker’s Caulipower has been acquired by Urban Farmer, creating a powerhouse in the better-for-you foods category. The merger combines Caulipower’s beloved brand and nationwide reach with Urban Farmer’s large-scale manufacturing — forming a vertically integrated leader in “healthy comfort food.” Becker will join Urban Farmer’s board and continue steering innovation.
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🍸 Martha Stewart Rebrands Herself for Gen Z
America’s original homemaking mogul is back — and she’s betting Gen Z will love her just as much as their moms did. Martha Stewart has re-released her 1982 debut Entertaining, the book that launched her empire. The move follows a surge of new fan interest after CNN and Netflix documentaries reignited her cult status — and sent vintage copies selling for up to $1,700 on eBay.

The reissue is nearly identical (same recipes, same dedication to her ex-husband), but Stewart says young fans will buy it “because I’m cool. I hang out with Snoop Dogg and I’ve gone to jail.” Honestly? She might be right.

🚀 What’s New in Business & Entrepreneurship

👑 Drama at Miss Universe: Contestants Walk Out in Solidarity
Several Miss Universe contestants walked out of a pre-competition event in Thailand after a national director publicly scolded Mexico’s titleholder. The moment quickly went viral — and served as a reminder that even in the world of glitter and gowns, respect is non-negotiable. Sounds like someone just got a one-way ticket to the Miss Uranus pageant.

🚀 Elon Musk Secures His $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Package
Tesla shareholders just approved one of the biggest CEO compensation plans in history — a potential $1 trillion payout for Elon Musk if the company hits key milestones over the next decade. The vote passed with 75% support, despite major investors urging a “no.” The deal also boosts Musk’s control over Tesla, a company whose stock has rebounded even as EV sales cool and tax credits fade.

France Blocks Shein the Day It Opens in Paris
Awkward timing — France suspended Shein’s online platform after finding illegal listings like a childlike sex doll, just as the brand opened its first store in Paris’s BHV. The launch sparked mass protests, brand exits, and 120K+ petition signatures over Shein’s labor and environmental record.

Starbucks Lays Off 900 Corporate Employees
A $1B restructuring plan signals a shift in the coffee giant’s strategy amid slowing growth and declining connection with its community base.

☁️ OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Deal with Amazon
OpenAI just inked a $38 billion, seven-year deal with Amazon Web Services, gaining access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs inside Amazon’s data centers. It’s the first-ever partnership between the two tech giants — and it comes just days after OpenAI loosened its exclusivity with Microsoft to source computing power elsewhere. While smaller than OpenAI’s $250B Microsoft and $300B Oracle agreements, this deal cements Amazon’s role in the next wave of AI infrastructure.

✨ Don’t Miss Out!

Our Fashion × Tech Networking Night is almost here 👠
If you haven’t reserved your spot yet — this is your reminder to join us for an unforgettable evening of fashion, innovation, and networking in NYC.

📅 November 17 | 5:30 PM | 230 Fifth Bar

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