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Felipe Oliveira Baptista Talks Kenzo Challenge

16 January 2020 • By Tim Blanks

In an exclusive interview with BoF Editor-at-Large Tim Blanks, Kenzo's newly appointed creative director sets his intentions for the LVMH-owned house and where he'll show his first collection in February.

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Felipe Oliveira Baptista Talks Kenzo Challenge

In an exclusive interview with BoF Editor-at-Large Tim Blanks, Kenzo's newly appointed creative director sets his intentions for the LVMH-owned house and where he'll show his first collection in February.

A-Cold-Wall Plots Next Chapter in Milan

13 January 2020 • By Tim Blanks

13 January 2020 • By Tim Blanks

As designer Samuel Ross prepares his luxury streetwear brand for its next stage of growth, he’s sharpening and humanizing his approach.

A-Cold-Wall Plots Next Chapter in Milan

As designer Samuel Ross prepares his luxury streetwear brand for its next stage of growth, he’s sharpening and humanizing his approach.

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Fendi Enters the Post-Lagerfeld Era

19 September 2019 • By Tim Blanks

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Fendi Enters the Post-Lagerfeld Era

After the death of Karl Lagerfeld, Silvia Venturini Fendi added the women’s fashion collection that Lagerfeld oversaw for 54 years to her set of design responsibilities at the house that carries her family name. Today, as she prepares to stage her first women’s ready-to-wear show, Mrs Fendi tells Tim Blanks about what she learned from Lagerfeld and the future of the brand.

Fabien Baron Is Not Nostalgic

16 September 2019 • By Tim Blanks

Fabien Baron Is Not Nostalgic

A new book by fashion's most illustrious art director is a compilation of his four-decade career. But more than that, this retrospective of ad campaigns, magazine editorials and private photography reveals a primal faceoff between chaos and control — a hint to what's to come, writes Tim Blanks.

Remembering Peter Lindbergh

4 September 2019 • By Tim Blanks

Remembering Peter Lindbergh

Lindbergh, who died on Tuesday, was the most cinematic photographer of fashion's Golden Age, writes Tim Blanks.

'Brexit' Britain Doesn't Need an Election. It Needs An Exorcism.

23 July 2019 • By Tim Blanks

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'Brexit' Britain Doesn't Need an Election. It Needs An Exorcism.

It's hotter than hell in the United Kingdom, where a deeply divided nation, and its fashion industry, will soon find out what new Prime Minister Boris Johnson means by a 'do or die' exit from the European Union, writes Tim Blanks.

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A Variety Show for the Ages Pays Tribute to Karl Lagerfeld

21 June 2019 • By Tim Blanks

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A Variety Show for the Ages Pays Tribute to Karl Lagerfeld

Memorials are usually deadeningly solemn occasions, but Canadian opera director Robert Carsen made us celebrate the good times at Lagerfeld's Grand Palais memorial show.

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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.

Charles Jeffrey Gets Down to Business

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.

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Rihanna's First Fenty Drop Exhibits Complete Control, Buffed by Ambition

23 May 2019 • By Tim Blanks

Dubbed 'Weapon,' the collection manages a tricky balance between functional and chic with hyper-female silhouettes, shaped for the artist herself.

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Rihanna's First Fenty Drop Exhibits Complete Control, Buffed by Ambition

Dubbed 'Weapon,' the collection manages a tricky balance between functional and chic with hyper-female silhouettes, shaped for the artist herself.

In Memory of Karl Lagerfeld

19 February 2019 • By Tim Blanks

In Memory of Karl Lagerfeld

Tim Blanks remembers the celebrated designer.