The Fashion Trust Arabia, a non-profit fund supporting emerging design talent from the Middle East and North Africa, returned to Doha, Qatar for its seventh edition on Saturday. Six of the region’s up-and-coming designers, and one guest country winner, were awarded cash prizes and mentorships at the annual awards ceremony. Moroccan designer Youssef Drisi took…
Please log in to ensure you can read our agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice. Or get in touch at support@businessoffashion.com if you experience difficulties. Africa’s fashion industry needs significant investment, a sentiment shared by stakeholders across the continent. Without urgent funding, some promising businesses will be unable to fulfil their potential, and others will simply…
French designer Antonin Tron is stepping in as the new creative director of Balmain following Olivier Rousteing’s departure last week. He’ll start work this month and is set to show his first collection in March as part of the fall 2026 presentations in Paris. “Balmain has a truly inspiring history,” Tron said in a statement….
769 Balmain Finds Its New Creative Director In Antonin Tron It’s official! Balmain has named Antonin Tron as its new creative director, announced today on Instagram. Tron arrives to the position with experience leading his own brand Atlein, as well as past design roles at Louis Vuitton and Givenchy. His first runway show, as shared…
And then there is Dante, their fifth show of the year and the first time they’ve put men’s and women’s on the runway together. The collection falls somewhere between inside joke and earnest experiment. Kostadinov, who grew up in Bulgaria before moving to London as a teenager, explains that he never really identified with British…
New York-based designer Ashlynn Park is the winner of the 2025 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. The designer, a veteran pattern-maker whose resume includes stints at Yohji Yamamoto, Calvin Klein and Alexander Wang, is on a winning streak, having picked up the CFDA’s emerging designer of the year award just last week. She founded her label Ashlyn,…
After 14 years, Balmain and creative director Olivier Rousteing have mutually agreed to part ways, the French fashion house announced on Wednesday. “The House of Balmain wishes to express its deep gratitude to Olivier Rousteing for his remarkable contribution to the history of the Maison,” the company said in a statement. “A new creative organisation…
102 The fashion industry may be filled with content creators—but few know their history and context like Jake Fleming. After studying design and working with influencers, Fleming’s distinctly romantic goth-meets-prep chic personal style propelled him to social media fame. Now, he’s become a darling of brands from Fendi to Moschino—and proves that knowledge, genuine enthusiasm,…
Listen to and follow the ‘BoF Podcast’: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast Background: Irish designer Sinéad O’Dwyer grew up in a household of creative entrepreneurs. Her father was a silversmith and a sculptor, her mother was a music educator and her grandmother knit and sewed uniforms. Until the age of fourteen, there were no…
Listen to and follow ‘The Debrief’: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast Background: This fashion month, models walked the tightrope between fantasy and function. On the runway, spectacle was dialled up to 100: Alaïa’s armless “straitjacket” dress, Margiela’s metal mouthpieces, and Jean Paul Gaultier’s naked male body prints were among the pieces to spark a…