As Snap’s IPO mints a mountain of new millionaires in Los Angeles, what will their spending reveal about changing luxury consumption patterns and the state of status in 2017?

Bloomingdales’ outgoing fashion director has spent 20 years watching modern menswear boom. Now, he plans to use his experience across editorial and retail to launch a concept store in the fashion hotspot of LA.

Watch the BoF Breakfast Club, a discussion of the week’s most important fashion news with fashion’s most opinionated experts. On the menu this week: the start of the menswear season and the upcoming debut of New York Fashion Week: Mens.

From triple seam sealed Gore-tex and ballistic nylon to shearling vests and stylish axes, why are men buying fashion fit for surviving the apocalypse?

BoF speaks to industry insiders about the menswear season that just wrapped.