The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
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A new fashion docuseries, “Kingdom of Dreams,” explores the luxury fashion industry’s formation in the 1990s to the 2000s, examining some of the industry’s most recognisable designers of that period — John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford — as well as executives like Kering’s François Pinault and LVMH’s Bernard Arnault.
Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui highlight the tension between commerce and creativity, as well as the rivalries between luxury groups and their designers.
“At the end of the day, we never said anything that hasn’t been said or which is not sort of present,” said Bonhôte. “So the truth is very important. And we are … definitely not scandalous.”
This week on The BoF Podcast, BoF’s editor-at-large Tim Blanks speaks with Bonhôte and Ettedgui about understanding pressures of consumerism and what makes a fashion house business tick.
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.