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One of the ‘Antwerp Six,’ the third-generation designer has built a profitable fashion business, known for its intelligent prints, on his own terms.

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News & Analysis

Photo Diary | PFW: Raf Simons, Givenchy, Valentino, Dior, Rick Owens, Dries Van Noten

Sonny Vandevelde brings us behind-the-scenes shots from Paris menswear week.

News & Analysis

Photo Diary | PFW: Raf Simons, Givenchy, Valentino, Dior, Rick Owens, Dries Van Noten

Sonny Vandevelde brings us behind-the-scenes shots from Paris menswear week.


News & Analysis

Behind Public School’s Second Coming

The ascent of New York menswear label Public School hasn’t been the bump-free upward glide that their much-buzzed-about status would suggest. BoF sat down with designers Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, and stylist Eugene Tong, whose expert touch has helped put the young label’s fresh mix of sportswear and tailoring on the fashion radar, to discuss the brand’s rebirth.

News & Analysis

Behind Public School’s Second Coming

The ascent of New York menswear label Public School hasn’t been the bump-free upward glide that their much-buzzed-about status would suggest. BoF sat down with designers Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, and stylist Eugene Tong, whose expert touch has helped put the young label’s fresh mix of sportswear and tailoring on the fashion radar, to discuss the brand’s rebirth.


News & Analysis

Fashion’s Art Fair Love Affair

Today, to coincide with the start of Art Basel Miami Beach, Hettie Judah considers the increasingly intertwined markets for fashion and art. Tomorrow, we examine the anatomy of fashion’s most spectacular artist collaboration to date: Yayoi Kusama for Louis Vuitton.

News & Analysis

Fashion’s Art Fair Love Affair

Today, to coincide with the start of Art Basel Miami Beach, Hettie Judah considers the increasingly intertwined markets for fashion and art. Tomorrow, we examine the anatomy of fashion’s most spectacular artist collaboration to date: Yayoi Kusama for Louis Vuitton.


Global Markets

In North Africa, a Story of Morocco and the Rest

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya may be North African neighbours, but their fashion markets are running at distinctly different speeds.

Global Markets

In North Africa, a Story of Morocco and the Rest

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya may be North African neighbours, but their fashion markets are running at distinctly different speeds.


Workplace & Talent

The Creative Class | Pamela Golbin, Curator

BoF sat down with Pamela Golbin, chief curator of the Musée de la Mode et du Textile, located in the Palais du Louvre in Paris, and learnt about her puzzling love of planes, nerdy obsession with problem-solving and how serendipity, vision and a MacGyver-like gift for improvising are essential to working under the same roof as the Mona Lisa.

Workplace & Talent

The Creative Class | Pamela Golbin, Curator

BoF sat down with Pamela Golbin, chief curator of the Musée de la Mode et du Textile, located in the Palais du Louvre in Paris, and learnt about her puzzling love of planes, nerdy obsession with problem-solving and how serendipity, vision and a MacGyver-like gift for improvising are essential to working under the same roof as the Mona Lisa.


News & Analysis

Under the Radar in Antwerp

In town for the Flanders Fashion Institute’s “Fashion Talks” conference, Imran Amed reflects on the fashion ecosystem that has taken root in Antwerp.

News & Analysis

Under the Radar in Antwerp

In town for the Flanders Fashion Institute’s “Fashion Talks” conference, Imran Amed reflects on the fashion ecosystem that has taken root in Antwerp.


Fashion Week

Photo Diary | Paris Fashion Week, Days 1-6: Dries van Noten, Rick Owens, Lanvin, Dior, Stella McCartney

PARIS, France — Today, contributing photographer Sonny Vandevelde brings us backstage imagery from the Anthony Vaccarello, Dries van Noten, Damir

Fashion Week

Photo Diary | Paris Fashion Week, Days 1-6: Dries van Noten, Rick Owens, Lanvin, Dior, Stella McCartney

PARIS, France — Today, contributing photographer Sonny Vandevelde brings us backstage imagery from the Anthony Vaccarello, Dries van Noten, Damir


Global Markets

The Fashion Trail | Alma Mater of the Antwerp Six Celebrates Anniversary

Eugene Rabkin reports from the celebrations held to mark the 350th anniversary of Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the 50th anniversary of its storied fashion department.

Global Markets

The Fashion Trail | Alma Mater of the Antwerp Six Celebrates Anniversary

Eugene Rabkin reports from the celebrations held to mark the 350th anniversary of Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the 50th anniversary of its storied fashion department.


News & Analysis

Photo Diary | Paris Men’s Fashion Week, Day 2: Rick Owens, Louis Vuitton, Dries van Noten, 3.1 Phillip Lim

PARIS, France — Today, our contributing photographer Sonny Vandevelde files backstage imagery from Rick Owens, Louis Vuitton, Dries van Noten, 3.1

News & Analysis

Photo Diary | Paris Men’s Fashion Week, Day 2: Rick Owens, Louis Vuitton, Dries van Noten, 3.1 Phillip Lim

PARIS, France — Today, our contributing photographer Sonny Vandevelde files backstage imagery from Rick Owens, Louis Vuitton, Dries van Noten, 3.1


Fashion Week

Photo Diary | PFW, Days 1-2: Damir Doma, Dries van Noten, Balmain, Rick Owens, Lanvin

PARIS, France — Straight from Paris, BoF's contributing photographer Sonny Vandevelde brings us backstage imagery from the Anthony Vaccarello, Damir

Fashion Week

Photo Diary | PFW, Days 1-2: Damir Doma, Dries van Noten, Balmain, Rick Owens, Lanvin

PARIS, France — Straight from Paris, BoF's contributing photographer Sonny Vandevelde brings us backstage imagery from the Anthony Vaccarello, Damir


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