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Stephen Jones

Milliner, Stephen Jones

The in-demand milliner has crafted fanciful and radical hats for designers like Raf Simons, Jean Paul Gaultier and Vivienne Westwood.

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News & Analysis

Rei Kawakubo's Hair Magician

Best known for his dramatic hair sculptures for Comme des Garçons, Julien d'Ys was the first to purposefully make hair look dirty, using potions of grease, vodka, clay or powder.

News & Analysis

Rei Kawakubo's Hair Magician

Best known for his dramatic hair sculptures for Comme des Garçons, Julien d'Ys was the first to purposefully make hair look dirty, using potions of grease, vodka, clay or powder.


News & Analysis

How Very Hamish

Colin McDowell talks to Hamish Bowles about his love of fashion, Anna Wintour, American Vogue and the exhibition he has curated at England’s historic Chatsworth House.

News & Analysis

How Very Hamish

Colin McDowell talks to Hamish Bowles about his love of fashion, Anna Wintour, American Vogue and the exhibition he has curated at England’s historic Chatsworth House.


Fashion Week

Maria Grazia Chiuri, A Lightning Rod at Dior

An erratic nature established the rhythm of the show and may have stood in the way of a full appreciation of the collection.

Fashion Week

Maria Grazia Chiuri, A Lightning Rod at Dior

An erratic nature established the rhythm of the show and may have stood in the way of a full appreciation of the collection.


News & Analysis

Meet London’s Next Generation of Polymath Creatives

In London, a new generation of craft-focused creatives is pushing fashion forward — just don't call them designers.

News & Analysis

Meet London’s Next Generation of Polymath Creatives

In London, a new generation of craft-focused creatives is pushing fashion forward — just don't call them designers.


Fashion Week

At Marc Jacobs, Respect on the Streets

It was a genuine fashion moment, part celebration, part elegy. Marc Jacobs stands alone in New York in providing that depth of frisson.

Fashion Week

At Marc Jacobs, Respect on the Streets

It was a genuine fashion moment, part celebration, part elegy. Marc Jacobs stands alone in New York in providing that depth of frisson.


Fashion Week

A Dior Fairytale

In her first couture collection at her new gig, Maria Grazia Chiuri drew a line from Valentino’s pale princesses to Dior’s winsome Titianas. Some of it worked, some not so. But if you were looking for green shoots, they were in the most reassuring places.

Fashion Week

A Dior Fairytale

In her first couture collection at her new gig, Maria Grazia Chiuri drew a line from Valentino’s pale princesses to Dior’s winsome Titianas. Some of it worked, some not so. But if you were looking for green shoots, they were in the most reassuring places.


Fashion Week

Spiritual Heroes

A year of global political and social upheaval has given Grace Wales Bonner’s work a different kind of edge.

Fashion Week

Spiritual Heroes

A year of global political and social upheaval has given Grace Wales Bonner’s work a different kind of edge.


News & Analysis

Paris Celebrates the #BoF500

Last night, Paris fêted the BoF 500, the definitive list of the people shaping the global fashion industry, supported by principal partner QIC Global Real Estate with additional support from The Woolmark Company.

News & Analysis

Paris Celebrates the #BoF500

Last night, Paris fêted the BoF 500, the definitive list of the people shaping the global fashion industry, supported by principal partner QIC Global Real Estate with additional support from The Woolmark Company.


Fashion Week

Thom Browne: All Power to Hector

The show that Thom Browne staged on Monday night may have been one of the most extraordinary from a designer who has made a career of plumbing the heights — and depths — of fashion spectacle.

Fashion Week

Thom Browne: All Power to Hector

The show that Thom Browne staged on Monday night may have been one of the most extraordinary from a designer who has made a career of plumbing the heights — and depths — of fashion spectacle.


Fashion Week

At CSM MA Show, the Spirit of Margiela

Menswear designers featured prominently — and snapped up the evening's L’Oreal awards — as sixteen of Central Saint Martins' top graduates presented their work.

Fashion Week

At CSM MA Show, the Spirit of Margiela

Menswear designers featured prominently — and snapped up the evening's L’Oreal awards — as sixteen of Central Saint Martins' top graduates presented their work.


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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