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Designer, Rick Owens

He has earned a cult following for his sharp, distressed leather jackets and an all-black, “grungy glamorous” aesthetic.

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News & Analysis

Constructing Rick Owens' Creative Bubble

Over the last two decades, Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy have managed to construct a fantastical creative world entirely of their own design and turn it into a commercially successful business, projected to generate $120 million in 2014.

News & Analysis

Constructing Rick Owens' Creative Bubble

Over the last two decades, Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy have managed to construct a fantastical creative world entirely of their own design and turn it into a commercially successful business, projected to generate $120 million in 2014.


News & Analysis

Week in Review | Companies and Culture Issue, End to $1 Billion Brands, Savage Beauty, Penny Martin

BoF editor-in-chief Imran Amed recaps the week in the business of fashion.


News & Analysis

Pop Quiz | Manolo Blahnik, Alexander Wang, Australia Fashion Week

How well have you read your BoF this week? Test your knowledge of all of the latest news and analysis from around the world of fashion in our Pop Quiz, which covers Manolo Blahnik, Alexander Wang, Australia Fashion Week, and more.

News & Analysis

Pop Quiz | Manolo Blahnik, Alexander Wang, Australia Fashion Week

How well have you read your BoF this week? Test your knowledge of all of the latest news and analysis from around the world of fashion in our Pop Quiz, which covers Manolo Blahnik, Alexander Wang, Australia Fashion Week, and more.


Technology

Top 10 Fashion Films of the Season

This season, a wide diversity of fashion films provided evidence that the genre has matured.

Technology

Top 10 Fashion Films of the Season

This season, a wide diversity of fashion films provided evidence that the genre has matured.


Fashion Week

Autumn/Winter 2014 | The Season That Was

BoF founder and editor-in-chief Imran Amed looks back at the Autumn/Winter 2014 season.

Fashion Week

Autumn/Winter 2014 | The Season That Was

BoF founder and editor-in-chief Imran Amed looks back at the Autumn/Winter 2014 season.


Fashion Week

Best in Show: New Attitude at Lanvin and an Asexual Rick Owens

Straight from Paris, BoF brings you the top shows from Thursday 27th February: Lanvin and Rick Owens

Fashion Week

Best in Show: New Attitude at Lanvin and an Asexual Rick Owens

Straight from Paris, BoF brings you the top shows from Thursday 27th February: Lanvin and Rick Owens


Fashion Week

Asexual Attire and a Sense of Déjà Vu at Rick Owens

PARIS, France — The subject of the mixing of masculine and feminine dress was developed all the way to its almost inevitable conclusion- asexual attire. Looking just as fierce on the female street-casted models as it did on the men last month, writes Jessica Michault for Nowfashion.com.

Fashion Week

Asexual Attire and a Sense of Déjà Vu at Rick Owens

PARIS, France — The subject of the mixing of masculine and feminine dress was developed all the way to its almost inevitable conclusion- asexual attire. Looking just as fierce on the female street-casted models as it did on the men last month, writes Jessica Michault for Nowfashion.com.


News & Analysis

Colin's Column | Diane Pernet, the Shaded Lady

Colin McDowell speaks to Diane Pernet, the perennially black-clad former designer and journalist, who was one of the world's first fashion bloggers and a pioneer of fashion film.

News & Analysis

Colin's Column | Diane Pernet, the Shaded Lady

Colin McDowell speaks to Diane Pernet, the perennially black-clad former designer and journalist, who was one of the world's first fashion bloggers and a pioneer of fashion film.


News & Analysis

Fashion Chatter | Wang’s Brooklyn Trek, Celebrity Credits Gone Mad, Public School

Fashion folk love to chatter. So what were the topics that dominated the conversation this weekend at New York Fashion Week?

News & Analysis

Fashion Chatter | Wang’s Brooklyn Trek, Celebrity Credits Gone Mad, Public School

Fashion folk love to chatter. So what were the topics that dominated the conversation this weekend at New York Fashion Week?


News & Analysis

Op-Ed | What is Fashion For?

Fashion is about aesthetics, theatre and meaning, not merely comfort, argues Eugene Rabkin, in response to Cathy Horyn’s recent piece for The New York Times, “Slave No More.”

News & Analysis

Op-Ed | What is Fashion For?

Fashion is about aesthetics, theatre and meaning, not merely comfort, argues Eugene Rabkin, in response to Cathy Horyn’s recent piece for The New York Times, “Slave No More.”


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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.

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