Emerging Designers

How Designers Build Big Businesses Out of Old Fabric

26 June 2019 • By Zoe Suen and Brian Baskin

Once the domain of thrifty fashion students, some of the industry's hottest designers and biggest brands are incorporating leftover fabric, unsold clothes and vintage textiles into their clothes.

How Designers Build Big Businesses Out of Old Fabric

How Three Influencers Built Legitimate Fashion Brands

20 June 2019 • By Victoria Berezhna

The influencers behind Totême, Midnight 00 and The Attico have built respected multi-million-dollar businesses without resorting to blatant associations with their personal brands.

How Three Influencers Built Legitimate Fashion Brands

The Spotlight

How Nicomede Returned to Menswear

11 June 2019 • By Zoe Suen

The London-based designer put his label on ice just as it was gaining speed. Now he’s back for the long haul, with a new business model and penchant for wellness.

The Spotlight

How Nicomede Returned to Menswear

Tim's Take

Charles Jeffrey Gets Down to Business

7 June 2019 • By Tim Blanks

Ahead of his show this Saturday at London’s Fashion Week Men’s, the designer talks exclusively to Tim Blanks about the next chapter of his Loverboy label.

Ahead of his show this Saturday at London’s Fashion Week Men’s, the designer talks exclusively to Tim Blanks about the next chapter of his Loverboy label.

Tim's Take

Charles Jeffrey Gets Down to Business

Who’s Really Driving Georgian Fashion? Not Demna.

30 May 2019 • By Victoria Berezhna

Demna Gvasalia may be the very public face of Georgian fashion but behind the scenes it is a different story. BoF reveals the power brokers investing in the market.

Who’s Really Driving Georgian Fashion? Not Demna.

Chinese Designers Had a Breakthrough Season. Now What?

27 May 2019 • By Zoe Suen

China’s emerging design talent is in higher demand than ever, but can the country’s fashion industry overcome its next obstacles?

Chinese Designers Had a Breakthrough Season. Now What?

BoF Professional Exclusive

Why Luxury Fashion Can't Resist an Exclusive

22 April 2019 • By Victoria Berezhna

E-commerce players are leaning heavily on exclusive collections from buzzy brands in the fight for customers — but the cost for emerging labels to play the game can be high.

BoF Professional Exclusive

Why Luxury Fashion Can't Resist an Exclusive

BoF Professional Exclusive

Global Brands Have a Design Disconnect with China’s Youth

3 April 2019 • By Sam Gaskin and Zoe Suen

Shanghai Fashion Week exposed a subtle but unshakable aesthetic gap between local designers and global fashion brands, suggesting that the latter need to do better range planning to satiate demand in China. Read China Decoded to make sense of the market.

BoF Professional Exclusive

Global Brands Have a Design Disconnect with China’s Youth

People

An Emerging Designer's Quiet Culture Clash

14 March 2019 • By Zoe Suen

Asai's London-based designer A Sai Ta has gone from selling his brand via Instagram DMs to being stocked at the likes of Dover Street Market and Ssense without sacrificing his experimental touch.

People

An Emerging Designer's Quiet Culture Clash