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Is Big Tech a Threat to Fashion?

4 December 2020 • By Vikram Alexei Kansara

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Is Big Tech a Threat to Fashion?

Major technology platforms enable fashion brands to connect with vast audiences of consumers. But that access comes at a price.

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Retail Reborn Episode 5: The Earthshot: A New Sustainability Mindset for Fashion Retail

27 October 2020 • By BoF Studio

27 October 2020 • By BoF Studio

In the final episode of BoF’s new podcast series Retail Reborn, Doug Stephens explores how fashion retail must evolve so it can operate within planetary boundaries featuring guests including sustainable design authority William McDonough, founder and CEO of Jordan Alliance Group Inc, Ilka Jordan, and Sanjeev Bahl, founder of sustainable denim manufacturer Saitex.

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Retail Reborn Episode 5: The Earthshot: A New Sustainability Mindset for Fashion Retail

In the final episode of BoF’s new podcast series Retail Reborn, Doug Stephens explores how fashion retail must evolve so it can operate within planetary boundaries featuring guests including sustainable design authority William McDonough, founder and CEO of Jordan Alliance Group Inc, Ilka Jordan, and Sanjeev Bahl, founder of sustainable denim manufacturer Saitex.

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Retail Reborn Episode 4: Will Covid-19 Kill Experiential Retail? Not So Fast.

6 October 2020 • By BoF Studio

6 October 2020 • By BoF Studio

Doug Stephens, founder of Retail Prophet, examines how the concept of reimagining the store as media can be applied even during a pandemic, with guests including Neighborhood Goods’ Matt Alexander, Story founder Rachel Shechtman and Ben Kaufman, CEO and co-founder of CAMP.

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Retail Reborn Episode 4: Will Covid-19 Kill Experiential Retail? Not So Fast.

Doug Stephens, founder of Retail Prophet, examines how the concept of reimagining the store as media can be applied even during a pandemic, with guests including Neighborhood Goods’ Matt Alexander, Story founder Rachel Shechtman and Ben Kaufman, CEO and co-founder of CAMP.

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Retail Reborn Episode 3: The Future of Digital Commerce

29 September 2020 • By BoF Studio

29 September 2020 • By BoF Studio

Doug Stephens speaks with innovators about the technologies and business models driving a new era of online retail — with guests including Shopify President Harley Finkelstein, Christina Fontana, head of Tmall’s fashion and luxury division in Europe and Neha Singh, founder of Obsess.

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Retail Reborn Episode 3: The Future of Digital Commerce

Doug Stephens speaks with innovators about the technologies and business models driving a new era of online retail — with guests including Shopify President Harley Finkelstein, Christina Fontana, head of Tmall’s fashion and luxury division in Europe and Neha Singh, founder of Obsess.

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Retail Reborn Episode 2: Building Smarter, More Sustainable Supply Chains

22 September 2020 • By BoF Studio

22 September 2020 • By BoF Studio

In Episode 2 of BoF’s new podcast series, Doug Stephens investigates how supply chains must evolve to meet the novel challenges faced by both the fashion industry and the planet — with guests including John Thorbeck, chairman of Chainge Capital and Nina Marenzi, founder of The Sustainable Angle.

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Retail Reborn Episode 2: Building Smarter, More Sustainable Supply Chains

In Episode 2 of BoF’s new podcast series, Doug Stephens investigates how supply chains must evolve to meet the novel challenges faced by both the fashion industry and the planet — with guests including John Thorbeck, chairman of Chainge Capital and Nina Marenzi, founder of The Sustainable Angle.

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Retail Reborn Episode 1: How Trauma Transforms the Consumer Psyche

15 September 2020 • By BoF Studio

15 September 2020 • By BoF Studio

In Episode 1 of BoF’s new podcast series, Doug Stephens and social psychologist Sheldon Solomon PhD examine the impact of collective traumas like Covid-19 on consumer behaviour.

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Retail Reborn Episode 1: How Trauma Transforms the Consumer Psyche

In Episode 1 of BoF’s new podcast series, Doug Stephens and social psychologist Sheldon Solomon PhD examine the impact of collective traumas like Covid-19 on consumer behaviour.

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Retail Reborn: A New Podcast Series Investigating the Future of Retail

9 September 2020 • By BoF Studio

9 September 2020 • By BoF Studio

In an exclusive new series, Doug Stephens and BoF investigate the seismic shifts transforming the retail ecosystem. From the post-pandemic consumer psyche to increased risk and growing calls for responsibility, we identify the new fundamentals of a reborn retail industry.

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Retail Reborn: A New Podcast Series Investigating the Future of Retail

In an exclusive new series, Doug Stephens and BoF investigate the seismic shifts transforming the retail ecosystem. From the post-pandemic consumer psyche to increased risk and growing calls for responsibility, we identify the new fundamentals of a reborn retail industry.

The New Normal: The Innovation Imperative Is Here to Stay

17 April 2020 • By BoF Team and McKinsey & Company

The New Normal: The Innovation Imperative Is Here to Stay

Companies will need to embed crisis-born innovations into long-term strategies to future-proof their business models, resulting in radical and enduring changes to their organisations and the wider industry, says The Business of Fashion and McKinsey’s Coronavirus Update to The State of Fashion 2020.

The BoF Podcast: Retail Futurist Doug Stephens on How Coronavirus Will Shift Consumer Behaviour

13 March 2020 • By BoF Team

13 March 2020 • By BoF Team

As the pandemic jolts global markets and consumption habits, Imran Amed and Doug Stephens discuss the mindset fashion companies should adopt to stay above water.

The BoF Podcast: Retail Futurist Doug Stephens on How Coronavirus Will Shift Consumer Behaviour

As the pandemic jolts global markets and consumption habits, Imran Amed and Doug Stephens discuss the mindset fashion companies should adopt to stay above water.

In Brands We Trust: Why Companies Are the New Communities

3 December 2019 • By Doug Stephens

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In Brands We Trust: Why Companies Are the New Communities

Brands have a powerful opportunity to fill the void in belonging and meaning left by the decline of religion and eroded faith in government.

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