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Demna

Artistic Director, Balenciaga and Former Head Designer, Vetements

The head of Paris’ hippest design collective is now in charge of reconnecting consumers with Cristóbal Balenciaga's iconic legacy.

Demna
Luxury

Winners Take All: How LVMH and Kering Will Extend Their Supremacy Post-Pandemic

The family-controlled French giants are well positioned to further dominate the luxury fashion sector. But neither can afford to ignore the threat of disruption.

Luxury

Winners Take All: How LVMH and Kering Will Extend Their Supremacy Post-Pandemic

The family-controlled French giants are well positioned to further dominate the luxury fashion sector. But neither can afford to ignore the threat of disruption.


Luxury

What Makes a Luxury Turnaround Work?

From Bottega Veneta’s aesthetic reinvention to Burberry’s attempts to move upmarket, there are several different genres of brand turnaround strategies, with significantly different probabilities of success.

Luxury

What Makes a Luxury Turnaround Work?

From Bottega Veneta’s aesthetic reinvention to Burberry’s attempts to move upmarket, there are several different genres of brand turnaround strategies, with significantly different probabilities of success.


Luxury

The End of the (Fashion) World as We Know It

If nature is inexorable, a volatile pathogen like coronavirus is its consummate ambassador and the fashion industry must change or die, writes Tim Blanks.

Luxury

The End of the (Fashion) World as We Know It

If nature is inexorable, a volatile pathogen like coronavirus is its consummate ambassador and the fashion industry must change or die, writes Tim Blanks.


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

Top 10 Shows of the Season

After a fashion month where designers embraced contradictions, BoF's editors pick the top ten shows of the season.

Fashion Week

Top 10 Shows of the Season

After a fashion month where designers embraced contradictions, BoF's editors pick the top ten shows of the season.


Fashion Week

Fashion’s New Outlook on 2020

Six takeaways from Paris Fashion Week, where everything from the coronavirus to end-times fashion changed the conversation we'll be having for the rest of the year.

Fashion Week

Fashion’s New Outlook on 2020

Six takeaways from Paris Fashion Week, where everything from the coronavirus to end-times fashion changed the conversation we'll be having for the rest of the year.


Fashion Week

In Paris, the Pleasure of the Apocalypse

It was a strangely energetic season, full of both angst and elation, reports Angelo Flaccavento.

Fashion Week

In Paris, the Pleasure of the Apocalypse

It was a strangely energetic season, full of both angst and elation, reports Angelo Flaccavento.


Fashion Week

At Balenciaga, Branding the Apocalypse

The label’s signatures were paraded under a low-hung ceiling showing boiling heavens, rushing floods, a temporarily reassuring vision of Planet Earth and then… total eclipse.

Fashion Week

At Balenciaga, Branding the Apocalypse

The label’s signatures were paraded under a low-hung ceiling showing boiling heavens, rushing floods, a temporarily reassuring vision of Planet Earth and then… total eclipse.


Retail

What Happened to Hood By Air?

Shayne Oliver speaks to BoF about the rise and fall of Hood By Air, how the American fashion system thwarts creativity and his plans to relaunch his brand.

Retail

What Happened to Hood By Air?

Shayne Oliver speaks to BoF about the rise and fall of Hood By Air, how the American fashion system thwarts creativity and his plans to relaunch his brand.


Sustainability

As Climate Crisis Hits Tipping Point, Fashion Comes to Davos. Is It Enough?

Leaders from big fashion brands descended on the World Economic Forum for the first time with the climate crisis top of mind. But the elephant in the room was the fundamental tension between sustainability and growth.

Sustainability

As Climate Crisis Hits Tipping Point, Fashion Comes to Davos. Is It Enough?

Leaders from big fashion brands descended on the World Economic Forum for the first time with the climate crisis top of mind. But the elephant in the room was the fundamental tension between sustainability and growth.


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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