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 — Since she launched the initiative with the Old Truman Brewery in the year 2000, Lulu Kennedy's Fashion East has been the lab that's produced many of London's best and brightest. Its latest iteration was a smart illustration of how and why it works so well. The three voices couldn't have been more distinctively different, but each of them had something more to say than mere fashion. "Voice of a community" might sound like a hoary old cliché, but when you see it at work with someone like Mowalola Ogunlesi, the notion packs a punch. London-Lagos is the latest fashion axis, and Mowalola's hyper-sexualised leathers turned her crowd out! She added her own personal wrinkle — she's fallen in love and she's finding the feeling of being emotionally out of control horrific. There will be blood. In fact, there was blood, trickling from piercings, dripping from bullet holes. Eros&Thanatos, Love&Death. Startling!
From where aspirational customers are spending to Kering’s challenges and Richemont’s fashion revival, BoF’s editor-in-chief shares key takeaways from conversations with industry insiders in London, Milan and Paris.
BoF editor-at-large Tim Blanks and Imran Amed, BoF founder and editor-in-chief, look back at the key moments of fashion month, from Seán McGirr’s debut at Alexander McQueen to Chemena Kamali’s first collection for Chloé.
Anthony Vaccarello staged a surprise show to launch a collection of gorgeously languid men’s tailoring, writes Tim Blanks.
BoF’s editors pick the best shows of the Autumn/Winter 2024 season.