The Business of Fashion
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Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
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The delicate dance between artistic integrity and commercial viability is a challenge Dan Levy and Jonathan Anderson know well. Levy’s Emmy Award-winning Netflix show Schitt’s Creek harmonises creative brilliance with mainstream appeal, while at the luxury label Loewe, Anderson’s refreshingly original designs have earned him both critical acclaim and commercial success. What unites their work is a real commitment to personal vision.
“I can’t think of something more heartbreaking than starting with an idea that I loved, allowing people to change it to the point where it loses its DNA, then it goes out into the world and either succeeds or fails, and I have to look at that and say, ‘Well, that’s not me,’” says Levy. “You can never get that back. The fight to protect that [idea] is so important.”
This week on The BoF Podcast, Levy and Anderson speak with BoF editor-at-large Tim Blanks about how they balance creativity and commerce in a conversation from BoF VOICES 2023.
Willy Vanderperre speaks to Tim Blanks on more than 30 years of fashion photography and his life-long fixation with youth culture.
Next week, MoMu, Antwerp’s fashion museum, will unveil a major exhibition celebrating the work of Belgian photographer Willy Vanderperre.
In an exclusive extract from her new memoir ‘How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone’ the model and activist examines the dark side of the industry — and her complicity in it.
Brand architect and art director joins BoF founder and editor-in-chief Imran Amed to discuss the philosophy that underpins his groundbreaking retail and hospitality concepts.