The 35 year-old former racecar driver — son of designer Miuccia Prada and chairman Patrizio Bertelli — is restructuring the Milanese group from the inside out. ‘Everything’s changing so that everything can stay the same,’ said the BoF 500 cover star about readying Prada for its next chapter.
The 35 year-old former racecar driver — son of designer Miuccia Prada and chairman Patrizio Bertelli — is restructuring the Milanese group from the inside out. ‘Everything’s changing so that everything can stay the same,’ said the BoF 500 cover star about readying Prada for its next chapter.
On Friday 29 September, The BoF 500 Class of 2023 will be unveiled. To mark the occasion, The Business of Fashion sat down with four members of The BoF 500 to discuss how they are shaping the future of the industry.
On Friday 29 September, The BoF 500 Class of 2023 will be unveiled. To mark the occasion, The Business of Fashion sat down with four members of The BoF 500 to discuss how they are shaping the future of the industry.
A growing number of brands will be experimenting with nascent web3 technologies like NFTs, and learning that careful nurturing is needed to thrive, as The State of Fashion 2023 explains.
Last week, the governing bodies of Italian fashion held a series of thought leadership talks featuring executives from Fendi, Kering, Prada, OTB, YNAP and Canali, outlining the urgent need for the industry to accelerate its sustainability efforts. BoF shares key insights from the programming.
Last week, the governing bodies of Italian fashion held a series of thought leadership talks featuring executives from Fendi, Kering, Prada, OTB, YNAP and Canali, outlining the urgent need for the industry to accelerate its sustainability efforts. BoF shares key insights from the programming.
In an exclusive interview, Prada’s future CEO and joint marketing and sustainability chief spoke to BoF about making recycled nylon a reality, why the market isn’t ready for leather alternatives and Prada’s plans in resale.
The Prada and LVMH-backed Aura Blockchain Consortium is rolling out a shared solution for brands to distribute NFTs. But leveraging blockchain for issues like fighting counterfeits and tracing materials is still in its early stages.
As big brands get serious about transforming their businesses for the future, executives with experience driving climate and social impact strategies are in hot demand.
This week, everyone will be talking about a possible partnership between Richemont and Farfetch, Prada’s Capital Markets Day and the arrival of products from Balenciaga and Gucci’s ‘Hacker Project.’
This season, labels relied on a variety of tactics to activate the world’s largest luxury market.
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons' debut as co-creative directors was well received, but digital impressions were down from a year ago, according to one estimate.
One thing’s for sure, appointments and digital videos do not a fashion week make. But for now, let’s make the most of it and reconnect as a community, writes Imran Amed.
For brands big and small, there is real value in rethinking the industry’s traditional system of showing, delivering and discounting collections to better match today’s globalised, digital world. But meaningful change may take 12 to 24 months.
For brands big and small, there is real value in rethinking the industry’s traditional system of showing, delivering and discounting collections to better match today’s globalised, digital world. But meaningful change may take 12 to 24 months.
Scion of the Prada dynasty, he moved from race car driver to head of marketing and communications, and is tasked with improving Prada Group’s digital strategy and sustainability cred.
The merger arbitrage investor community turned increasingly bearish on the deal last week, as they interpreted some comments from FTC officials at a conference as negative for the deal.
The value of retail purchases, unadjusted for inflation, increased 0.7 percent from February, Commerce Department data showed Monday.
The merger, which would bring top luxury labels such as Tapestry’s Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman and Capri’s Jimmy Choo and Versace under one roof, still awaits approval from the United States.
E-commerce marketplace Verishop bought data analytics firm Trendalytics in a cash and equity deal that closed in March. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
French fashion house Balmain has appointed Matteo Sgarbossa as chief executive, effective May 6.
The world’s second-largest economy has struggled to mount a strong and sustainable a post-pandemic bounce, burdened by a protracted property downturn, mounting local government debts and weak private-sector spending.
The Birkin bag maker’s sales are set to hit the “symbolic” €20 billion ($21.3 billion) level by 2027 or before, according to an Apr. 12 note by Thomas Chauvet.
20-year-old Duke University guard McCain will be the nail care brand’s first-ever athlete ambassador.
