Fashion Startup Founder Pleads Guilty in $300 Million Fraud
Christine Hunsicker admitted she falsified financial statements to promote CaaStle Inc. as a valuable, growing business when in reality it was struggling.
Workplace & Talent / Career Development
Workplace & Talent
Making Sense of Fashion’s Brutal Job Market | The Debrief
Fashion companies are tightening return-to-office mandates just as entry-level jobs become harder to land. The Debrief explains what that means for workers trying to build careers in a cooling industry.
Making Sense of Fashion’s Brutal Job Market | The Debrief
Fashion companies are tightening return-to-office mandates just as entry-level jobs become harder to land. The Debrief explains what that means for workers trying to build careers in a cooling industry.
Workplace & Talent
Fashion Is Done With Remote Work
Retailers, publishers and brands are tightening return-to-office mandates as fully remote roles fall out of favour — but execution, not attendance, will determine whether the shift pays off.
Fashion Is Done With Remote Work
Retailers, publishers and brands are tightening return-to-office mandates as fully remote roles fall out of favour — but execution, not attendance, will determine whether the shift pays off.
Workplace & Talent
The CEO You Hire When Your Brand Is in Trouble
From Kering to Nike to Everlane, fashion and beauty companies are turning to fixers to get back on track — with mandates to steady finances, reset culture and reignite consumer desire.
The CEO You Hire When Your Brand Is in Trouble
From Kering to Nike to Everlane, fashion and beauty companies are turning to fixers to get back on track — with mandates to steady finances, reset culture and reignite consumer desire.
Workplace & Talent
Key Insights from BoF Careers Community Events
With macro forces transforming the fashion and beauty workplace in 2025, BoF Careers hosted a series of digital and in-person events for employers and employees — from best practices in employer branding to the evolving C-suite and hiring for these leadership roles. Plus, a NARS executive shared her advice for building a career in beauty.
Key Insights from BoF Careers Community Events
With macro forces transforming the fashion and beauty workplace in 2025, BoF Careers hosted a series of digital and in-person events for employers and employees — from best practices in employer branding to the evolving C-suite and hiring for these leadership roles. Plus, a NARS executive shared her advice for building a career in beauty.
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Workplace & Talent
How Female Founders Are Courting Investors in a Tough Climate
Sinking brand valuations, a shaky economy, and the rollback of DEI initiatives are pressuring women founders in fashion and beauty — but a new playbook is helping them navigate the storm.
How Female Founders Are Courting Investors in a Tough Climate
Sinking brand valuations, a shaky economy, and the rollback of DEI initiatives are pressuring women founders in fashion and beauty — but a new playbook is helping them navigate the storm.
Workplace & Talent
How I Became… ASICS SportStyle’s PR & Collaborations Lead
Anissa Jaffery began her career at fashion PR agencies, where she learnt the ‘ABCs of PR’ before moving in-house to work at a host of global brands, from Net-a-Porter and Topshop to Calvin Klein and G-Star Raw. Now ASICS Sportstyle’s PR and collaborations lead, she shares her advice on how to succeed in fashion PR.
How I Became… ASICS SportStyle’s PR & Collaborations Lead
Anissa Jaffery began her career at fashion PR agencies, where she learnt the ‘ABCs of PR’ before moving in-house to work at a host of global brands, from Net-a-Porter and Topshop to Calvin Klein and G-Star Raw. Now ASICS Sportstyle’s PR and collaborations lead, she shares her advice on how to succeed in fashion PR.
Workplace & Talent
How to Future-Proof Your Fashion Career in 2025 | The Debrief
As the fashion industry grapples with a new US president, leadership turnover, and a luxury sector slowdown, The Debrief explores how professionals can navigate the uncertainty of 2025.
How to Future-Proof Your Fashion Career in 2025 | The Debrief
As the fashion industry grapples with a new US president, leadership turnover, and a luxury sector slowdown, The Debrief explores how professionals can navigate the uncertainty of 2025.
Workplace & Talent
The Best of BoF 2024: Finding Stability in a Hostile Workplace & Talent Environment
In a year defined by election-year upheaval, muted advocacy, the rapid dissolution of diversity programmes, and ongoing AI disruption, settling on hybrid work arrangements was one of the few areas where fashion firms found stability.
The Best of BoF 2024: Finding Stability in a Hostile Workplace & Talent Environment
In a year defined by election-year upheaval, muted advocacy, the rapid dissolution of diversity programmes, and ongoing AI disruption, settling on hybrid work arrangements was one of the few areas where fashion firms found stability.
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Workplace & Talent
What Fashion Designers Need to Know Today
BoF Careers provides essential sector insights for fashion designers this month, to help you decode fashion’s creative and commercial landscape.
What Fashion Designers Need to Know Today
BoF Careers provides essential sector insights for fashion designers this month, to help you decode fashion’s creative and commercial landscape.
Workplace & Talent
What Fashion’s Creative Talent Needs to Know Today
BoF Careers provides essential sector insights for fashion creatives this month, to help you decode fashion’s creative landscape.
What Fashion’s Creative Talent Needs to Know Today
BoF Careers provides essential sector insights for fashion creatives this month, to help you decode fashion’s creative landscape.
Workplace & Talent
How I Became... Editor-in-Chief of Paper Magazine
Justin Moran began his editorial journey at his university newspaper, taking on freelance work on the side before landing his first internship at Paper Magazine one summer. Now, as Paper's editor-in-chief, he shares his career advice.
How I Became... Editor-in-Chief of Paper Magazine
Justin Moran began his editorial journey at his university newspaper, taking on freelance work on the side before landing his first internship at Paper Magazine one summer. Now, as Paper's editor-in-chief, he shares his career advice.
Workplace & Talent
How to Protect Your Mental Health While Working in Fashion
At Graduate Fashion Week 2024, BoF Careers sat down with mental health, wellbeing and HR professionals to dive into the unique pressures posed by the fashion industry and how to employees can seek to overcome them.
How to Protect Your Mental Health While Working in Fashion
At Graduate Fashion Week 2024, BoF Careers sat down with mental health, wellbeing and HR professionals to dive into the unique pressures posed by the fashion industry and how to employees can seek to overcome them.
The News in Brief
Victoria’s Secret Forecasts Its Best Year Since L Brands Split
The underwear company is anticipating net sales of at least $6.85 billion in the current fiscal year, exceeding analyst estimates and marking the highest revenue since its split from L Brands Inc in 2021.
Uniqlo Aims to Grow Tenfold in India With Summer-Centric Clothes
The Japanese brand is accelerating its expansion in India to capture a greater share of the rapidly growing apparel market and affluent consumer base.
Oasis Pressures Kao in Latest Japan Activist Investor Push
Activist fund Oasis Management Co. is calling on the Japanese personal care company to convene an extraordinary general meeting, seeking a probe into its supply-chain risk management and internal control.
American Eagle Forecasts Sales Growth Above Estimates on Demand From Wealthy Shoppers
The retailer surpassed annual sales forecasts but expects a $60 million drag from import tariffs in the first half of 2026.
Missoni Family Exits Namesake Brand
The transaction gives FSI, a Milan-based private equity fund, a controlling share in the Italian luxury house, as more founder-owned brands turn to investors to fund growth and weather a tough global market.
Ross Stores Forecasts Annual Sales Above Estimates on Resilient Demand for Discounted Apparel
Spend growth at off-price chains is among the strongest in retail, with gains across all income segments.
Abercrombie & Fitch Forecasts Muted Annual Sales Amid Tariff Uncertainty
The retailer said it was accounting for the 15 percent tariff announced by US president Donald Trump after the Supreme Court struck down most of his earlier tariffs.