First Person | Viktor & Rolf say Flowerbomb was their modern day business weapon

First Person | Intelligence | New York

Viktor and Rolf | Photo: Philip Riches

NEW YORK, United States — “We had big ambitions,” says Viktor Horsting on creating fashion house Viktor & Rolf with Rolf Snoeren. “From the very beginning we wanted to start very high,” he says, indicating the absolute apogee of couture elegance: “Start at the top, and everything else would fall into place after that. It was a very emotional ambition, not just in terms of the size of the business or wanting to be like a certain

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First Person | Scott Sternberg says Fashion is Wonderful for an Entrepreneur who is Creative

First Person | Intelligence | Los Angeles

Scott Sternberg at the Lego installation | Source: Selectism

Today, BoF brings you First Person with Band of Outsiders’ Scott Sternberg, followed later this week by the exclusive global debut of a new Band of Outsiders film directed by Debra Scherer for The Little Squares. LOS ANGELES, United States — What made a 20-something junior agent at CAA, with no background in clothing design, think he could just up and create a fashion company and make it a viable business? “Good question,”

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First Person | Pamela Love

First Person | New York

Pamela Love | Courtesy of Pamela Love

First Person, a new series on BoF, brings you business stories and lessons from real fashion entrepreneurs. First up, cult jewellery designer, Pamela Love. NEW YORK, United States — For the past three years Brooklyn-born jewellery designer Pamela Love has set about crafting her business in the same way she shapes the hand-hewn gothic accessories she sells. “Just like I learn new techniques for making jewellery as I go along,” she

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