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Fashion Week

At Paris Fashion Week, Less Was More

In an age of clickbait fashion, it was acts of reduction that, paradoxically, stood out most, reports Angelo Flaccavento.

Fashion Week

At Paris Fashion Week, Less Was More

In an age of clickbait fashion, it was acts of reduction that, paradoxically, stood out most, reports Angelo Flaccavento.


Fashion Week

Rip It Up And Start Again: Why We Love Comme des Garçons, Junya and Noir

Rei Kawakubo and her acolytes Junya Watanabe and Kei Ninomiya continue to offer the most idiosyncratic takes on fashion as we don’t know it, writes Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

Rip It Up And Start Again: Why We Love Comme des Garçons, Junya and Noir

Rei Kawakubo and her acolytes Junya Watanabe and Kei Ninomiya continue to offer the most idiosyncratic takes on fashion as we don’t know it, writes Tim Blanks.


Fashion Week

The BoF Podcast | Tim Blanks and Imran Amed Recap The Season That Was

BoF’s editor-in-chief and editor-at-large walk through the highlights and unforgettable moments of fashion weeks in Milan and Paris.

Fashion Week

The BoF Podcast | Tim Blanks and Imran Amed Recap The Season That Was

BoF’s editor-in-chief and editor-at-large walk through the highlights and unforgettable moments of fashion weeks in Milan and Paris.


Fashion Week

The Triumph of Fashion’s Avant-Garde Is Never-Ending

Without fail, Japan’s finest will leave you somewhere between inspired and bemused.

Fashion Week

The Triumph of Fashion’s Avant-Garde Is Never-Ending

Without fail, Japan’s finest will leave you somewhere between inspired and bemused.


Fashion Week

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Junya Watanabe Men's Autumn/Winter 2006

BoF’s Editor-at-Large connects the dots between the designer’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection and a mesmerising 2006 meditation on ‘Taxi Driver’ anti-hero Travis Bickle, which probed the heart of America’s darkness.

Fashion Week

Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Junya Watanabe Men's Autumn/Winter 2006

BoF’s Editor-at-Large connects the dots between the designer’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection and a mesmerising 2006 meditation on ‘Taxi Driver’ anti-hero Travis Bickle, which probed the heart of America’s darkness.


Fashion Week

The BoF Podcast: A Fashion Month Unlike Any Other

As wildfires swept across Australia and the coronavirus spread across the globe, Imran Amed and Tim Blanks reflect on how the world’s uncertainties have informed the Autumn/Winter 2020 season.

Fashion Week

The BoF Podcast: A Fashion Month Unlike Any Other

As wildfires swept across Australia and the coronavirus spread across the globe, Imran Amed and Tim Blanks reflect on how the world’s uncertainties have informed the Autumn/Winter 2020 season.


Fashion Week

Junya Watanabe’s Fever Dream

His woman clearly meant business. Dominance and submission demand an organised mind.

Fashion Week

Junya Watanabe’s Fever Dream

His woman clearly meant business. Dominance and submission demand an organised mind.


Fashion Week

Junya Watanabe's Transmogrified Trench Coats

The designer's scalpel-sharp dissections made for spectacular reworkings of achingly familiar components.

Fashion Week

Junya Watanabe's Transmogrified Trench Coats

The designer's scalpel-sharp dissections made for spectacular reworkings of achingly familiar components.


News & Analysis

Japanese Menswear Still Rules. Here's Why.

Yoshio Kubo, Bed J.W. Ford and Auralee were among a new crop of Japanese menswear designers who took Paris by storm, but the country’s enormous influence over the market runs deep.

News & Analysis

Japanese Menswear Still Rules. Here's Why.

Yoshio Kubo, Bed J.W. Ford and Auralee were among a new crop of Japanese menswear designers who took Paris by storm, but the country’s enormous influence over the market runs deep.


Fashion Week

Nowhere Men at Junya Watanabe

The clothes had an airiness, a freshness and an uncontrived nonchalance that he infused with a yearning for freedom.

Fashion Week

Nowhere Men at Junya Watanabe

The clothes had an airiness, a freshness and an uncontrived nonchalance that he infused with a yearning for freedom.