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.
The Japanese e-commerce firm Zozo will launch Zozovilla, a luxury and designer platform featuring 90 brands including Loewe, Dries van Noten and Thom Browne, on March 18.
The news marks a relaunch of Zozovilla: its previous iteration was introduced in 2010 and later integrated into Zozotown’s main platform. It also signals the company’s ambitions to move into Japan’s luxury space, which has long lacked a homegrown digital leader.
In addition to Zozotown, Zozo operates e-commerce platforms Zozoshoes and Zozoused, its second-hand arm.
The timeless appeal of the south Asian classic has gone global — and a new London exhibition shows how it has been reinvented.
The second edition of Oud Fashion Talks explored the forces transforming the Gulf’s fashion industry today, with key learnings from BoF Insights’ ‘Fashion in the Middle East’ report and from executives of local retailers, manufacturers, designers and entrepreneurs.
Accessible luxury and advanced contemporary brands in the US and Europe can expect greater competition from Australian labels expanding overseas like Camilla, Aje and Rebecca Vallance.
The Ugandan-born model how he is finding purpose in pursuing an unconventional career to support his family and the community he comes from.