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Chanel is a French luxury fashion house founded by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in Paris in 1910. The company is privately owned by the Wertheimer family and headquartered in Paris.

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Marketing

A Picture Is Worth a Million Likes

Are fashion ads now made entirely for the Web rather than print?

Marketing

A Picture Is Worth a Million Likes

Are fashion ads now made entirely for the Web rather than print?


News & Analysis

Natalia ‘Supernova’ Vodianova, The Survivor

Natalia Vodianova channelled the harsh realities of her childhood and a desperate instinct for survival to become one of the highest earning supermodels in the world. Through the Naked Heart Foundation, founded in 2004, she is channelling the same instinct to help Russian children.

News & Analysis

Natalia ‘Supernova’ Vodianova, The Survivor

Natalia Vodianova channelled the harsh realities of her childhood and a desperate instinct for survival to become one of the highest earning supermodels in the world. Through the Naked Heart Foundation, founded in 2004, she is channelling the same instinct to help Russian children.


Workplace & Talent

Sølve Sundsbø, Photographer

Sølve Sundsbø, who learned his craft as Nick Knight’s assistant in the 1990s, has made a name for himself with fantastical images that defy belief. The Creative Class is supported by CLIO Image, an awards show honouring creative excellence in fashion, beauty and retail.

Workplace & Talent

Sølve Sundsbø, Photographer

Sølve Sundsbø, who learned his craft as Nick Knight’s assistant in the 1990s, has made a name for himself with fantastical images that defy belief. The Creative Class is supported by CLIO Image, an awards show honouring creative excellence in fashion, beauty and retail.


News & Analysis

The Best of BoF 2014 | People

Next up in our retrospective of the stories that drove the conversation and defined the year in the business of fashion, we highlight some of 2014’s top articles from our People channel.

News & Analysis

The Best of BoF 2014 | People

Next up in our retrospective of the stories that drove the conversation and defined the year in the business of fashion, we highlight some of 2014’s top articles from our People channel.


News & Analysis

DFS to Open T Galleria Store near Angkor Wat

Today, BoF can exclusively reveal that luxury travel retail company DFS is set to open an 8,000-square-metre retail complex near the world heritage site of Angkor Wat in Cambodia in 2016.

News & Analysis

DFS to Open T Galleria Store near Angkor Wat

Today, BoF can exclusively reveal that luxury travel retail company DFS is set to open an 8,000-square-metre retail complex near the world heritage site of Angkor Wat in Cambodia in 2016.


Workplace & Talent

Power Moves | Lucia Pica to Chanel, Dov Charney Fired, Cagalj to Ports 1961

BoF compiles the most important professional moves of the week.

Workplace & Talent

Power Moves | Lucia Pica to Chanel, Dov Charney Fired, Cagalj to Ports 1961

BoF compiles the most important professional moves of the week.


Global Markets

Why Isn’t Germany a Bigger Fashion Player?

Germany is Europe’s biggest consumer of fashion. So why isn’t the country a bigger force in the international fashion world?

Global Markets

Why Isn’t Germany a Bigger Fashion Player?

Germany is Europe’s biggest consumer of fashion. So why isn’t the country a bigger force in the international fashion world?


Beauty

Big Perfume Makers Smell Threat From Niche Scents

Niche brands take up increasingly more shelf space at upmarket department stores such as Harrods in London, Printemps in Paris and Bergdorf Goodman in New York.

Beauty

Big Perfume Makers Smell Threat From Niche Scents

Niche brands take up increasingly more shelf space at upmarket department stores such as Harrods in London, Printemps in Paris and Bergdorf Goodman in New York.


Luxury

Gucci Parts Ways With Giannini in Bid to Regain Lost Exclusivity

Gucci’s longtime creative director Frida Giannini is leaving, a victim of her own success after her designs became too popular to retain the exclusive cachet their price tags demand.

Luxury

Gucci Parts Ways With Giannini in Bid to Regain Lost Exclusivity

Gucci’s longtime creative director Frida Giannini is leaving, a victim of her own success after her designs became too popular to retain the exclusive cachet their price tags demand.


Global Markets

In South Africa, More Evolution than Revolution

A year after the death of Nelson Mandela and two decades since the end of apartheid, South Africa’s fashion market holds up a skewed mirror to its vibrant and incredibly complex society.

Global Markets

In South Africa, More Evolution than Revolution

A year after the death of Nelson Mandela and two decades since the end of apartheid, South Africa’s fashion market holds up a skewed mirror to its vibrant and incredibly complex society.