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Workplace & Talent

The Perfect Package: What It Takes to Be a Fashion Leader in 2026

After years of swinging between digital-first zeal and old-school operating models, fashion is landing on a more balanced executive profile.

Workplace & Talent

The Perfect Package: What It Takes to Be a Fashion Leader in 2026

After years of swinging between digital-first zeal and old-school operating models, fashion is landing on a more balanced executive profile.


Workplace & Talent

What Are the Skills Fashion Executives Need to Get Hired Today?

This week, talent expert Suki Sandhu OBE and advisor and executive search consultant Karen Harvey shared insights on the core skill sets expected of leaders and managers in the fashion industry today. BoF Careers shares key learnings from the event.

Workplace & Talent

What Are the Skills Fashion Executives Need to Get Hired Today?

This week, talent expert Suki Sandhu OBE and advisor and executive search consultant Karen Harvey shared insights on the core skill sets expected of leaders and managers in the fashion industry today. BoF Careers shares key learnings from the event.


Workplace & Talent

What to Do When You’ve Been Laid Off

BoF talked to experts to find out what fashion workers who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic should do next.

Workplace & Talent

What to Do When You’ve Been Laid Off

BoF talked to experts to find out what fashion workers who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic should do next.


Marketing

When Pandemic Marketing Goes Too Far: How to Avoid #COVIDwashing

Sentimental commercials about how we’re all in this together are beginning to fall flat. There are other ways to reach consumers.

Marketing

When Pandemic Marketing Goes Too Far: How to Avoid #COVIDwashing

Sentimental commercials about how we’re all in this together are beginning to fall flat. There are other ways to reach consumers.


News & Analysis

Mr Ralph Lauren and the Ultimate Changing of the Guard

In our next instalment of Cover Stories, we explore the legacy of Mr Ralph Lauren — head of America’s first fashion family and the cover star of Port magazine’s Summer 2014 issue — and the inevitable question that every founder-led company faces: how to plan for succession, that ultimate changing of the guard?

News & Analysis

Mr Ralph Lauren and the Ultimate Changing of the Guard

In our next instalment of Cover Stories, we explore the legacy of Mr Ralph Lauren — head of America’s first fashion family and the cover star of Port magazine’s Summer 2014 issue — and the inevitable question that every founder-led company faces: how to plan for succession, that ultimate changing of the guard?



News & Analysis

5 of Fashion's Top Global Talent Spotters and Matchmakers

Today, BoF highlights five of the world's top talent spotters and matchmakers, behind-the-scenes influencers who are each experts in identifying and developing the best design and business talent in the global fashion industry.

News & Analysis

5 of Fashion's Top Global Talent Spotters and Matchmakers

Today, BoF highlights five of the world's top talent spotters and matchmakers, behind-the-scenes influencers who are each experts in identifying and developing the best design and business talent in the global fashion industry.