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Saint Laurent is a Kering-owned luxury fashion brand, founded by the designer Yves Saint Laurent in 1961.

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Workplace & Talent

Role Call | Kathy Phillips, International Beauty Director

Kathy Phillips, international beauty director of Condé Nast Asia Pacific and founder of This Works, says "I’m more interested in inner beauty than face paint."

Workplace & Talent

Role Call | Kathy Phillips, International Beauty Director

Kathy Phillips, international beauty director of Condé Nast Asia Pacific and founder of This Works, says "I’m more interested in inner beauty than face paint."


Financial Markets

The Growth Conundrum

As key global markets continue to cool, business growth in the luxury sector will be hard won in 2016. But, here are three levers that fashion’s luxury megabrands can employ to drive growth.

Financial Markets

The Growth Conundrum

As key global markets continue to cool, business growth in the luxury sector will be hard won in 2016. But, here are three levers that fashion’s luxury megabrands can employ to drive growth.


Fashion Week

Remembered: The Game-Changing Martin Margiela Show of 1989

As talk turns towards a future of consumer-facing fashion shows, we look back on the 1989 Martin Margiela presentation, which set a new paradigm for the fashion show as a public spectacle, in an oral history with contributions from Margiela’s closest collaborators and biggest supporters of the time, courtesy of The Gentlewoman.

Fashion Week

Remembered: The Game-Changing Martin Margiela Show of 1989

As talk turns towards a future of consumer-facing fashion shows, we look back on the 1989 Martin Margiela presentation, which set a new paradigm for the fashion show as a public spectacle, in an oral history with contributions from Margiela’s closest collaborators and biggest supporters of the time, courtesy of The Gentlewoman.


Fashion Week

Early in New York, Talent Amidst the Filler

Though New York Fashion Week has a bad rap for championing commercial labels, some designers proved their talent while others stumbled.

Fashion Week

Early in New York, Talent Amidst the Filler

Though New York Fashion Week has a bad rap for championing commercial labels, some designers proved their talent while others stumbled.


Fashion Week

Kanye West Stops Time

For Yeezy Season 3, Kanye West made the statement of the season before it's even really underway.

Fashion Week

Kanye West Stops Time

For Yeezy Season 3, Kanye West made the statement of the season before it's even really underway.


Luxury

Super Shrink Me: The Rise of the Mini Handbag

In the last decade, luxury handbag prices have skyrocketed. Now, brands are making smaller versions of iconic styles to win back aspirational consumers.

Luxury

Super Shrink Me: The Rise of the Mini Handbag

In the last decade, luxury handbag prices have skyrocketed. Now, brands are making smaller versions of iconic styles to win back aspirational consumers.


Retail

Streamlining Collections, Paul Smith Reveals Own Fashion Calendar Fix

As the nature of his business changes, the British designer will merge his design teams and collapse his many diffusion lines into two collections comprising both men’s and womenswear, with four drops a year.

Retail

Streamlining Collections, Paul Smith Reveals Own Fashion Calendar Fix

As the nature of his business changes, the British designer will merge his design teams and collapse his many diffusion lines into two collections comprising both men’s and womenswear, with four drops a year.


News & Analysis

The Risks of Changing Creative Directors

Changing the guard at the creative helm of a major fashion house is capital-intensive but can reap great rewards. What’s at stake when fashion houses cycle through designers?

News & Analysis

The Risks of Changing Creative Directors

Changing the guard at the creative helm of a major fashion house is capital-intensive but can reap great rewards. What’s at stake when fashion houses cycle through designers?


Luxury

Welcome to The New World Order

The fashion system is 'broken' but young designer disruptors and bold megabrands are trying to fix it. BoF hails a new era for fashion in which the current system is turned on its head in a bid to find a new working model.

Luxury

Welcome to The New World Order

The fashion system is 'broken' but young designer disruptors and bold megabrands are trying to fix it. BoF hails a new era for fashion in which the current system is turned on its head in a bid to find a new working model.


News & Analysis

100 Years of British Vogue

Before Anna Wintour stepped into Vogue House, the leading fashion title had already seen a slew of formidable editors document the roaring twenties and the swinging sixties. As it enters its centenary year, Colin McDowell looks back at a heady 100 years of British Vogue.

News & Analysis

100 Years of British Vogue

Before Anna Wintour stepped into Vogue House, the leading fashion title had already seen a slew of formidable editors document the roaring twenties and the swinging sixties. As it enters its centenary year, Colin McDowell looks back at a heady 100 years of British Vogue.