BoF Exclusive | Musing on the Pace of Fashion
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 an industry undergoing rapid disruption and transformation. “We wanted to gather people of like minds to have a conversation,” said Monroque. “We’ve done it twice already in New York and the one topic that kept coming up was the pace of fashion.”
Following “Musing” events in New York, moderated by Andre Leon Talley, it was The Business of Fashion’s very own Imran Amed — seated between Monroque and the International Herald Tribune’s Suzy Menkes — who opened and led the conversation this time. “We all know working in this business everyday, that things have been going faster and faster and faster,” he said, citing voracious demand for new products (from both retailers and consumers) and the intense pressure for fashion businesses to deliver revenue and profit growth as two underlying causes of this overall acceleration.
But it was the impact of a third key driver, the rise of digital media, which dominated much of the evening’s dialogue, sparking a collegial debate between some of fashion’s most influential figures including Grazia’s Paula Reed, Yoox CEO Federico Marchetti, The Times’ Lisa Armstrong, blogging star Susanna Lau, and Harvey Nichols buying director Averyl Oates.









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