Cristiana Lombardo is an editor at HISTORY.com and documentary producer. Before joining HISTORY, she was a multimedia producer for American Masters, PBS' long-running biography series.

Teri Agins is an award-winning journalist and author, the former senior special writer at The Wall Street Journal, where she developed the Journal's fashion industry beat over three decades. She is the author of Hijacking the Runway, How Celebrities are Stealing the Spotlight From Fashion Designers and The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever.

Francisco Alvarado is an investigative journalist based in Miami, Florida.

Deborah Lynn Blumberg is a Maryland-based writer and editor and the president of the Washington D.C. chapter of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her work has appeared in publications including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and MarketWatch. She’s building a collection of artifacts from the former New York City department store her family owned, Gertz. Find her at deborahlynnblumberg.com

New York writer Brian Boucher has written for publications including The New York Times, Playboy, CNN, New York Magazine, Frieze, Cultured, Art in America and ARTnews. He has been interviewed on WNYC, the BBC and NPR.

Julia Carpenter is an award-winning journalist and podcast host based in Brooklyn, New York. Her writing on culture, gender and money has appeared in Esquire, Glamour and The Wall Street Journal.

Alan Clendenning is a freelance journalist who worked more than 25 years for The Associated Press as a reporter, bureau chief and editor based in South America, Europe and the United States. He was raised in New Hampshire and now splits his time between Phoenix and Madrid.

Stav Dimitropoulos is an international journalist and columnist who has written for A&E Real Crime, BBC, Discover, Playboy, Runner's World, Womankind, VICE, Science, Nieman Journalism Lab and others, and has reported for CBC, CBS Radio and Fox TV.