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When ‘Mea Culpa’ Is the Best Marketing
On sustainability, some fashion brands are becoming more comfortable with growing transparency and finding that acknowledging their shortcomings can make for more effective communications than crowing about their achievements.
Coronavirus Is Rewiring the Symbiotic Relationship Between Brands and Media
Plunging marketing budgets are disrupting the traditional value exchange between fashion brands and the magazines that cover them — with both sides wondering if the fear of missing out on editorial coverage can still drive hefty ad investments in an increasingly digital world.
The Key Metrics Fashion CEOs Are Watching Now
What you measure is what you get. In a highly unpredictable post-Covid fashion market, business leaders need the right metrics to track the strength of their brands and make informed decisions quickly, mobilise teams and craft a narrative for investors.
How Impactful Were the Digital Fashion Week Shows, Really?
Despite efforts made to adapt real-life runway shows and collection presentations for the Men’s, Resort and Couture 2020-2021 season, many failed to have the same impact on brands’ marketing reach.
What Happened to Rethinking the Fashion System?
For brands big and small, there is real value in rethinking the industry’s traditional system of showing, delivering and discounting collections to better match today’s globalised, digital world. But meaningful change may take 12 to 24 months.
Digital Fashion Weeks Are Here: Have You RSVPed?
This week, everyone will be talking about the digital haute couture and men's shows in Paris, the growing advertiser boycott of Facebook and Instagram and a second wave of retail layoffs. Get your BoF Professional Cheat Sheet.
Why Luxury Brands Aren't Giving Up on Fashion Month
Major luxury houses are moving ahead with plans for live fashion shows in September despite coronavirus uncertainty.
Instagram Hustles to Become Global Hub for Digital Fashion Shows
The platform’s fashion team, led by Vice President of Fashion Partnerships Eva Chen, released a guide for presenting collections digitally as brands grapple with how to translate the runway online. Will it give Instagram a leg up against hungry competitors?
Why Luxury Came to the Rescue
To support the fight against Covid-19, European fashion companies have been doing everything from producing hand sanitiser to building new hospital wings. What’s driving these wartime-like efforts?
10 Ways to Win on Social
Advertising on social media is getting more expensive by the day. Here's how to drive growth without breaking the bank.