Raf Simons
Creative Director, Raf Simons; Co-Creative Director of Prada
The Belgian designer, formerly creative lead at Jil Sander, Dior and most recently Calvin Klein, runs his long-established namesake label.
The Risks and Rewards of Live Shows at Paris Fashion Week
This week, everyone will be talking about the start of Paris Fashion Week, Savage X Fenty: The Sequel and rising pressure to rid fashion's supply chain of forced labour. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.
The Risks and Rewards of Live Shows at Paris Fashion Week
This week, everyone will be talking about the start of Paris Fashion Week, Savage X Fenty: The Sequel and rising pressure to rid fashion's supply chain of forced labour. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.
The Unprecedented Coming Together of Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons
BoF's editor at large Tim Blanks offers his take on the duo's debut as co-creative directors of the house that bears her name.
The Unprecedented Coming Together of Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons
BoF's editor at large Tim Blanks offers his take on the duo's debut as co-creative directors of the house that bears her name.
All Eyes on Prada at Milan Fashion Week
This week, everyone will be talking about the first collection from co-designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, Trump's TikTok ban and a new push to commit brands to improving conditions for garment workers. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.
All Eyes on Prada at Milan Fashion Week
This week, everyone will be talking about the first collection from co-designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, Trump's TikTok ban and a new push to commit brands to improving conditions for garment workers. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.
Can Amazon Crack the Luxury Market This Time?
The American e-commerce giant has been trying to lure luxury fashion brands to its platform for years. Now, it’s new, mobile-only ‘Luxury Stores’ launch aims to adapt the successful template set out by Alibaba’s Tmall for its customers.
Can Amazon Crack the Luxury Market This Time?
The American e-commerce giant has been trying to lure luxury fashion brands to its platform for years. Now, it’s new, mobile-only ‘Luxury Stores’ launch aims to adapt the successful template set out by Alibaba’s Tmall for its customers.
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2005, July 3, 2004
BoF’s Editor-at-Large time-travels back to the Belgian designer’s tenth anniversary collection for his namesake label, entitled ‘History of the World,’ which delivered a poignant spirituality: Angel Youth!
Tim Blanks’ Top Fashion Shows of All-Time: Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2005, July 3, 2004
BoF’s Editor-at-Large time-travels back to the Belgian designer’s tenth anniversary collection for his namesake label, entitled ‘History of the World,’ which delivered a poignant spirituality: Angel Youth!
Fashion Week Can’t Be Just Another Online Video Festival
One thing’s for sure, appointments and digital videos do not a fashion week make. But for now, let’s make the most of it and reconnect as a community, writes Imran Amed.
Fashion Week Can’t Be Just Another Online Video Festival
One thing’s for sure, appointments and digital videos do not a fashion week make. But for now, let’s make the most of it and reconnect as a community, writes Imran Amed.
Will Covid-19 Change Fashion Shows Forever?
After the cancellation of this season’s traditional men’s fashion week in Paris, Virgil Abloh’s recent Louis Vuitton outing in Shanghai offered a savvy template for how to stage a fashion show in a world reshaped by globalisation, the internet and coronavirus. What does it mean for fashion week?
Will Covid-19 Change Fashion Shows Forever?
After the cancellation of this season’s traditional men’s fashion week in Paris, Virgil Abloh’s recent Louis Vuitton outing in Shanghai offered a savvy template for how to stage a fashion show in a world reshaped by globalisation, the internet and coronavirus. What does it mean for fashion week?
Luxury Brands Are Neglecting Some of Their Most Important Customers. Why?
Chinese men account for almost a third of all mainland luxury sales yet brands continue to invest disproportionately in marketing to Chinese women. And when brands do target male consumers the focus is often wrong.
Luxury Brands Are Neglecting Some of Their Most Important Customers. Why?
Chinese men account for almost a third of all mainland luxury sales yet brands continue to invest disproportionately in marketing to Chinese women. And when brands do target male consumers the focus is often wrong.
How Impactful Were the Digital Fashion Week Shows, Really?
Despite efforts made to adapt real-life runway shows and collection presentations for the Men’s, Resort and Couture 2020-2021 season, many failed to have the same impact on brands’ marketing reach.
How Impactful Were the Digital Fashion Week Shows, Really?
Despite efforts made to adapt real-life runway shows and collection presentations for the Men’s, Resort and Couture 2020-2021 season, many failed to have the same impact on brands’ marketing reach.
Is Dior Catching Up With Chanel?
Today, as Dior stages a destination runway show in Italy, a new report shows the LVMH-owned brand's finances inching closer to those of its oldest rival, fashion-and-beauty juggernaut Chanel.
Is Dior Catching Up With Chanel?
Today, as Dior stages a destination runway show in Italy, a new report shows the LVMH-owned brand's finances inching closer to those of its oldest rival, fashion-and-beauty juggernaut Chanel.
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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.
