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News & Analysis

Small Items, Big Business

More than just stocking fillers, designer novelty items are becoming a significant category for luxury brands, from Burberry to Fendi, with high margins and long waiting lists.


News & Analysis

Taking Stock: Charlotte Stockdale's 20-Year Styling Career

The veteran stylist and fashion director tells BoF about the highs of being Karl’s right hand at Fendi, her need for autonomy, and pretending to work for Vogue Paris to get ahead.


News & Analysis

Fendi Opens New Headquarters, as Industry Mulls Simons' Exit from Dior

As the fashion world was still reacting to the news of Raf Simons’ Dior exit, Fendi was opening its new HQ in Rome. Imran Amed spoke to Karl Lagerfeld, Silvia Venturini Fendi and Pietro Beccari about the brand's monumental milestone.


News & Analysis

Fendi Puts Rome's 'Square Colosseum' to Work

A boxy monument to Italy's Fascist era is filling with workers for the first time in its 70-year history, as Fendi opens its new headquarters at the restored "Square Colosseum".


Fashion Week

What Was and What Will Be at Fendi

A rare stumble from Karl Lagerfeld at Fendi, where opposites — tradition and future, concrete and softness, toughness and femininity — distracted.


Luxury

Valentino, Dior and a Couture World in Flux

Couture is moving away from the dangers of glorified ready-to-wear and embracing experimentation and invention.


Fashion Week

Top 10 Shows of Autumn/Winter 2015

BoF brings you our Top 10 Shows of the Season.


Retail

Fendi Chief Seeks Market Share Growth as Luxury Demand Stalls

Fendi, the bagmaker owned by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, is well positioned to boost revenue in 2015 despite the difficulties facing the luxury-goods industry.


Workplace & Talent

Gwenaël Nicolas: ‘Interior Design Is a Choreography’

Gwenaël Nicolas has a problem with gravity, likes to present industry leaders with mysterious boxes and is on a mission to make people curious. He is also increasingly sought-after to design luxury retail spaces that shine with intelligence.


Technology

Burberry Remains Digital Luxury Leader, While Céline Trails Industry

LONDON, United Kingdom — While the impact of Burberry 's digital innovation story may be cooling as a public relations message, the British brand