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Joan Smalls

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The Puerto Rican Victoria’s Secret model has appeared in countless campaigns and magazines and was the first Latina face of Estée Lauder.

Joan Smalls
Fashion Week

Weaponised Glamour at Bottega Veneta

When Joan Smalls sashayed down the runway in a column of moonlight, you wondered if Tomas Maier isn’t just too damn grown-up for this crazy world of fashion.

Fashion Week

Weaponised Glamour at Bottega Veneta

When Joan Smalls sashayed down the runway in a column of moonlight, you wondered if Tomas Maier isn’t just too damn grown-up for this crazy world of fashion.


Fashion Week

Brandon Maxwell Wants to Break Free

The designer cuts a clean line, but several of his looks were still too close to costume.

Fashion Week

Brandon Maxwell Wants to Break Free

The designer cuts a clean line, but several of his looks were still too close to costume.


Fashion Week

#TommyNow Takes Venice Beach

The second installment of Tommy Hilfiger’s runway extravaganza boasted flame throwers, star-spangled fashion, and Gigi, too, catapulting the designer’s buy-now-wear-now show concept into a whole new stratosphere. But could he really top last year?

Fashion Week

#TommyNow Takes Venice Beach

The second installment of Tommy Hilfiger’s runway extravaganza boasted flame throwers, star-spangled fashion, and Gigi, too, catapulting the designer’s buy-now-wear-now show concept into a whole new stratosphere. But could he really top last year?


Fashion Week

Dsquared2 Goes Off-World

Having men and women share the DSquared2 catwalk for the first time meant that the Catens were able to exhibit the full cinematic scope of their skills. The results were often striking — elegance and utility bordering on surreal.

Fashion Week

Dsquared2 Goes Off-World

Having men and women share the DSquared2 catwalk for the first time meant that the Catens were able to exhibit the full cinematic scope of their skills. The results were often striking — elegance and utility bordering on surreal.


News & Analysis

The Best of BoF 2016 | Top 10 Videos

From rare in-depth interviews with industry icons Yohji Yamomto and John Galliano, to talks with pop-culture figures will.i.am and Joan Smalls, in 2016 BoF captured the people shaping the global fashion industry on film.

News & Analysis

The Best of BoF 2016 | Top 10 Videos

From rare in-depth interviews with industry icons Yohji Yamomto and John Galliano, to talks with pop-culture figures will.i.am and Joan Smalls, in 2016 BoF captured the people shaping the global fashion industry on film.


News & Analysis

Joan Smalls and Hari Nef on Discrimination in Fashion

Models Joan Smalls and Hari Nef shared their first-hand experience of the industry's issues with diversity and inclusivity.

News & Analysis

Joan Smalls and Hari Nef on Discrimination in Fashion

Models Joan Smalls and Hari Nef shared their first-hand experience of the industry's issues with diversity and inclusivity.


News & Analysis

Inside VOICES, BoF’s First Gathering for Big Thinkers

From terrorism to disruptive technology, fashion’s top business leaders, entrepreneurs and educators gathered to discuss the threats and opportunities facing the $2.4 trillion industry.

News & Analysis

Inside VOICES, BoF’s First Gathering for Big Thinkers

From terrorism to disruptive technology, fashion’s top business leaders, entrepreneurs and educators gathered to discuss the threats and opportunities facing the $2.4 trillion industry.


News & Analysis

The Fashion Awards Goes Global

The British Fashion Council revamped its annual awards show, aiming for a high-wattage, global-scale ‘mix of the Academy Awards and the Met Ball.’

News & Analysis

The Fashion Awards Goes Global

The British Fashion Council revamped its annual awards show, aiming for a high-wattage, global-scale ‘mix of the Academy Awards and the Met Ball.’


News & Analysis

James Scully on Fashion's Bullying, Cruelty and Discrimination of Models

Casting director James Scully was given a standing ovation at VOICES, BoF's new annual gathering for big thinkers, following his plea to end the fashion industry's "cruel and sadistic" abuse of models.

News & Analysis

James Scully on Fashion's Bullying, Cruelty and Discrimination of Models

Casting director James Scully was given a standing ovation at VOICES, BoF's new annual gathering for big thinkers, following his plea to end the fashion industry's "cruel and sadistic" abuse of models.


News & Analysis

Models Face Bullying, Cruelty and Racial Discrimination at Castings

Casting director James Scully and others lifted the lid on a system that hires girls when they are little more than children and then disposes of them when they hit puberty in a power game where models are pawns.

News & Analysis

Models Face Bullying, Cruelty and Racial Discrimination at Castings

Casting director James Scully and others lifted the lid on a system that hires girls when they are little more than children and then disposes of them when they hit puberty in a power game where models are pawns.


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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