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Adut Akech

Model

The South Sudanese refugee was the second black model in history to land the concluding bridal spot in a Chanel couture show and has scored five Vogue September issue covers.

Adut Akech
News & Analysis

The BoF Podcast: Tim Blanks on the Spring 2019 Season

This week on Inside Fashion, BoF’s editor-at-large discusses Hedi Slimane’s Celine debut, his favourite shows of the season and fashion week in the #MeToo moment.

News & Analysis

The BoF Podcast: Tim Blanks on the Spring 2019 Season

This week on Inside Fashion, BoF’s editor-at-large discusses Hedi Slimane’s Celine debut, his favourite shows of the season and fashion week in the #MeToo moment.


Fashion Week

Valentino's Bohemian Majesty

The glory of Pierpaolo Piccioli’s collection was its easiness: a clear and strong vision of contemporary beauty and elegance.

Fashion Week

Valentino's Bohemian Majesty

The glory of Pierpaolo Piccioli’s collection was its easiness: a clear and strong vision of contemporary beauty and elegance.


News & Analysis

The 2018 #BoF500 Revealed

The Business of Fashion is proud to unveil the sixth annual BoF 500: the people shaping the global fashion industry in 2018.

News & Analysis

The 2018 #BoF500 Revealed

The Business of Fashion is proud to unveil the sixth annual BoF 500: the people shaping the global fashion industry in 2018.


Fashion Week

New Myths at Valentino

Pierpaolo Piccioli’s stream of consciousness couture was supremely relaxed and confident in its grandeur, smashing proportion to smithereens.

Fashion Week

New Myths at Valentino

Pierpaolo Piccioli’s stream of consciousness couture was supremely relaxed and confident in its grandeur, smashing proportion to smithereens.


Fashion Week

Chanel's Silver Linings

The clothes came from a dreamland, but the show was rooted in real life — specifically the view over the Seine, lined with the stalls of “les bouquinistes," from Karl Lagerfeld’s apartment.

Fashion Week

Chanel's Silver Linings

The clothes came from a dreamland, but the show was rooted in real life — specifically the view over the Seine, lined with the stalls of “les bouquinistes," from Karl Lagerfeld’s apartment.


Fashion Week

Karl Lagerfeld Brings a Curious Decadence to Chanel Cruise

The designer evoked the effortless summer glamour of Coco Chanel’s holiday home, but revealed there might be some heavy irony at work underneath the spirited artifice.

Fashion Week

Karl Lagerfeld Brings a Curious Decadence to Chanel Cruise

The designer evoked the effortless summer glamour of Coco Chanel’s holiday home, but revealed there might be some heavy irony at work underneath the spirited artifice.


Fashion Week

Saint Laurent's Modernist Showman

Inspired by the 1976 'Russian peasant' collection, Anthony Vaccarello managed to condense the oeuvre of one of fashion’s incontrovertible geniuses into something so contemporary.

Fashion Week

Saint Laurent's Modernist Showman

Inspired by the 1976 'Russian peasant' collection, Anthony Vaccarello managed to condense the oeuvre of one of fashion’s incontrovertible geniuses into something so contemporary.


What is The BoF 500?

The people shaping the global fashion industry, curated by the editors of The Business of Fashion, based on nominations and on-the-ground intelligence from around the world.

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