Welcome To The New BoF

| Intelligence

BoF Archive Screenshot | Source: BoF

LONDON, United Kingdom – Welcome to the new BoF. Almost a year in the making and based on helpful input and feedback from our global community of readers, we have given BoF a facelift to better showcase our best assets and help you find the content you are looking for. Our underlying mission has not changed. Amidst a fashion landscape that is being radically reshaped by the forces of digital revolution, rapid globalisation and an

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Miu Miu Musing on the Pace of Fashion

BoF Exclusive | Video

  • Imran Amed and Suzy Menkes of the International Herald Tribune | Source: Miu Miu
  • Shala Monroque | Source: Miu Miu
  • Miu Miu Musings | Source: Miu Miu
  • David Hellqvist and Natasha Ndlovu | Source: Miu Miu
  • Susanna Lau and Alex Fury | Source: Miu Miu
  • Suzy Menkes, Paula Reed and Lisa Armstrong | Source: Miu Miu

LONDON, United Kingdom — As the the fashion industry grapples with the radical change that’s reshaping our business, there have been precious few opportunities to step back and discuss what it all means for the fashion system at large. The third edition of Miu Miu’s “Musing” salons, themed The Pace of Fashion and hosted by Shala Monroque, enabled industry leaders from across the fashion spectrum to sit back and try to make sense of

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Proenza Schouler says Social Media has an Extraordinary Impact on the Business

| New York

  • Imran Amed interviews Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez | Photo: Dustin Fenstermacher
  • Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough at IFB Conference | Photo: Dustin Fenstermacher
  • Imran Amed, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez | Photo: Dustin Fenstermacher
  • The Crowd Looks on at IFB Conference | Photo: Dustin Fenstermacher

“Blogs posting things about us, going viral, spreading throughout the internet… it has an extraordinary impact on the business.” Proenza Schouler’s Jack McCollough, speaking to BoF Founder Imran Amed at the Independent Fashion Bloggers Conference at New York Fashion Week during a wide-ranging conversation about the power and influence of social media on their budding business

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Big changes at Gucci Group, Behind the Marc, Hermès to LVMH: Cut stake, Rent the Runway, Cast your vote for Calgary

| Daily Digest

Preparing for the Marc Jacobs show | Source: NY Times

PPR Chief to Run Gucci Himself (NY Times) “The French luxury magnate François-Henri Pinault said… he would personally take charge of Gucci Group as he reorganizes its parent company to focus on the most profitable businesses. Robert Polet, who has headed Gucci since 2004, will be stepping down in a few weeks… Mr. Pinault also said Paul Deneve would replace Valérie Hermann as chief executive of Yves Saint

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Fashion Pioneers | Nick Knight Says Heart and Mind are the Key to Fashion Imagemaking

Fashion Pioneers | London

Imran Amed and Nick Knight at Fashion Pioneers | Photo: Samir Hussein

LONDON, United Kingdom — Ten years ago at 19:27 GMT on 27 November 2000, at a time before streaming runway shows, before Facebook, before YouTube, before the rise of Web 2.0 itself, Nick Knight’s transformative fashion website SHOWstudio.com went live. Mr. Knight, a boundary-breaking fashion photographer, had considered the internet and saw something that others did not: where many in the industry saw only ugliness and risk, Mr.

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