From heightened expectations around delivery to a preference for local brands, people are adjusting their consumption habits in the wake of the pandemic. Here’s what retailers should know.
The fashion marketplace sold record levels of merchandise and cut down on its losses as luxury shoppers pivoted online.
What can business owners do to prepare for the impact? Communicate early and often internally and externally, cut costs, talk to your partners and more best practices to consider.
As direct-to-consumer product companies confront an unsustainable focus on top line growth, their backers too are shifting gears, opting to invest more cautiously and with tempered expectations.
The Business of Fashion is delighted to announce a partnership with the Financial Times, one of the world’s leading news organisations. The FT is leading BoF’s new Series B round and providing support to accelerate the growth of the business.
Farfetch’s chief strategy officer and BFC chair Stephanie Phair shares her insight on how fashion can better support gender diversity within the workplace.
Backed by the likes of President Macron and LVMH, the world’s fashion capital is rolling out the red carpet for tech start-ups as well as designer labels. BoF goes behind the hype.
The sportswear giant’s decision to feature polarising American football quarterback Colin Kaepernick in its advertising, inciting threats of a boycott and antagonising US president Trump, may be one of its smartest marketing moves yet.
The community-driven brand has secured $15 million in a Series A financing round and aims to double its business next year by 2020.
The direct-to-consumer jeweller has raised $5 million in funding in a bid to revolutionise the industry through a drop model.
A new breed of VC firms is backing next-generation digital lifestyle brands targeting millennials. BoF talks to five of the top players to decode their investment theses.
This week, Ralph Lauren appoints Angela Ahrendts and Michael George to its board of directors, while Frediano Sebastiani is named Mr & Mrs Italy's new CEO.