The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
LONDON, United Kingdom — Flux is fashion's new normal. This week at Pitti Uomo, where where both Raf Simons and Gosha Rubchinskiy staged runway shows, Angelo Flaccavento observed one incarnation of fashion's new state of turmoil in the "exploding, dazzling, infuriating agglomeration of everything and nothing pointing in a zillion different directions, simultaneously" that is rippling through menswear at the moment.
Elsewhere, David Neville is exiting Rag & Bone after 14 years, while Grace Wales Bonner won the LVMH Prize, making her the third London-based designer (and Central Saint Martins graduate) to win the award.
As the wider luxury market continues to drift, the world's big three luxury conglomerates — LVMH, Kering and Richemont — are tapping different growth levers. Where will you place your bets? Luca Solca does the analysis.
Have you read BoF's latest print issue, 'A Connected World'? Driven by growing Internet access, travel and the rapid integration of global markets, the world is more interconnected that ever before. How does this impact the way we create, communicate and consume fashion? It's the key question we set out to explore with stories on JW Anderson, Ellen Degeneres, pricing transparency, global risk, inequality and new "glocal" retail strategies.
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1. Jonathan Anderson's Cultural Cut-and-Paste
Jonathan Anderson | Photo: Alasdair McLellan for BoF
One of the most promising design talents of his generation — and cover star of BoF's latest print issue — reflects on a peripatetic life juggling J.W. Anderson and Loewe, and the cultural cut-and-paste of his creative process.
2. LVMH, Kering, Richemont? Where to Place Your Bets.
Illustration: Costanza Milano for BoF
As the global luxury market drifts, Luca Solca identifies four investment strategies for the sector.
3. BoF Exclusive | David Neville to Exit Rag & Bone
David Neville (left) and Marcus Wainwright (right) | Source: BFA
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BoF has learned that co-chief executive officer David Neville will step down from his day-to-day role at Rag & Bone, while remaining a ‘significant’ shareholder and board member. Marcus Wainwright will become the company’s sole CEO.
4. Brand Ellen: Can Happiness Sell Clothes?
Ellen Degeneres | Photo: Doug Inglish for BoF
Inside Ellen Degeneres' new direct-to-consumer recipe for selling fashion and lifestyle products.
5. Decrypting the Manifesto of Aitor Throup
Aitor Throup Spring/Summer 2016 | Photo: Neil Bedford
In his 10 years in fashion, Aitor Throup has inspired, intrigued and irritated with a body of work full of foreplay. On Sunday night, he promised consummation.
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From analysis of the global fashion and beauty industries to career and personal advice, BoF’s founder and CEO, Imran Amed, will be answering your questions on Sunday, February 18, 2024 during London Fashion Week.
The State of Fashion 2024 breaks down the 10 themes that will define the industry in the year ahead.
Imran Amed reviews the most important fashion stories of the year and shares his predictions on what this means for the industry in 2024.
After three days of inspiring talks, guests closed out BoF’s gathering for big thinkers with a black tie gala followed by an intimate performance from Rita Ora — guest starring Billy Porter.