Tim Blanks
Editor-at-Large
Tim Blanks has been Editor-at-Large of The Business of Fashion since 2016. He covers fashion's personalities, as well as the seasonal runway shows. During the prior decade, he fulfilled the same function at Condé Nast’s Style.com. From 1989 to 2005, Tim hosted the CBC’s globally syndicated show Fashion File. In 2013, he received the Media Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
How Independent Thinking Powered the Spring/Summer 2027 Shows
Tim Blanks joins Imran Amed on The BoF Podcast to discuss why the season’s strongest statements — from Erdem and Simone Rocha in London to Rick Owens, Miuccia Prada and Matthieu Blazy at Chanel — came from designers acting on conviction rather than consensus.
Tim Walker’s Fairyland: It’s His Story and History
Every photographer is telling their own tale, says Walker, but his new exhibition also offers an emotional document of the triumphs and challenges of queer culture.
Gimme More: Matthieu Blazy’s First Birthday at Chanel
In only 12 months, he’s changed the fashion world — and his new collection offers more of the spectacular same.
Miuccia Prada: Future-Proofing a Fashion Dynasty
As she prepares to hand power to the next generation, the doyenne of Italian fashion contemplates what makes Prada Prada and what she’ll leave behind, as well as more immediate matters like absorbing Versace.
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Valentino and Miu Miu: Italians Do It Better in Paris
Michele goes deep, Miuccia gets happy.
Issey Miyake and Givenchy: Art and Science
Satoshi Kondo and Sarah Burton show us why they’re BoF 500 cover stars.
Rick Owens: ‘I Want to Be the Kenneth Anger of Fashion’
The pentagrams in his spectacular new collection not only celebrate otherness, they’re also his 'fuck you' to judgy conservatives, writes Tim Blanks.
Paris Day Two: Turn and Face the Strange Changes
At Saint Laurent, Dior and Maison Margiela, three very different designers come up with three very different coping strategies.
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Has Demna Solved Gucci’s Identity Crisis?
For the last twelve months, the designer has played therapist to the brand’s ‘multiple personality disorder.’ This latest session for Spring/Summer 2027 was a breakthrough.
Birtwell Does Burberry
But Daniel Lee’s latest collection for the British stalwart ultimately felt youthful, maybe even a kissin’ cousin to Coach on the other side of the Atlantic, writes Tim Blanks.
Christopher Kane Opens New Era at Mulberry
The designer returned to the London Fashion Week runway with an audacious reformulation of the British heritage brand’s iconography, writes Tim Blanks.
Christopher Kane: Mulberry’s Heritage Is a Foundation, Not a Limitation
The subversive Scottish designer’s debut for the British heritage brand is London Fashion Week’s hottest ticket. He joins Tim Blanks on The BoF Podcast to discuss his plans to make Mulberry cool again.