If there’s a common thread among the emerging designers shaping fashion’s future today, it’s that their origins and perspectives reach far beyond the traditional fashion capitals of Paris, Milan, New York and London. These days they also come from cities such as New Delhi, Mexico City, Kingston, Shanghai, Warsaw and Nairobi. And they want to…
PARIS — Exactly four weeks ago, before his debut at Chanel on Monday night, Matthieu Blazy and I were perched on a narrow balcony outside his studio high above Rue Cambon. He was enjoying a cigarette, one of the pack-a-day habit he’s had since he was 20. He usually smokes alone because it gives him…
PARIS — On Saturday, a group of the world’s most influential figures in fashion and popular culture gathered at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris to celebrate The BoF 500, the definitive index of the people shaping the global fashion industry. Since 2013, BoF has gathered together a global community of fashion’s most influential people —…
Dear BoF Community, Today, The Business of Fashion is excited to reveal The BoF 500 Class of 2025, our newest additions to the definitive index of the people shaping the global fashion industry. What began in 2013 as a list of the 500 most influential people in the global fashion industry has now grown into…
On Friday, Oct. 3, The Business of Fashion will unveil 100 new additions to The BoF 500, our definitive index of people shaping the global fashion industry. To mark the occasion, we sat down with three members of The BoF 500 community to discuss how they are responding to the tumultuous state of fashion and…
Robin Givhan on Sunday announced that she took a buyout from The Washington Post, which has been offering packages to tenured staffers who have been at the newspaper for more than 10 years. Givhan, who joined the Post in 1995, served as its premier fashion critic before transitioning to senior critic-at-large in 2020 — where…