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Demna

Creative Director, Gucci

The former longtime Balenciaga artistic director is now tasked with restoring the Gucci brand.

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Fashion Week

Op-Ed | The Rise of the Fashion Hipster

Catering to the fashion hipster — whose purchases are driven by irony, camp and insider humour — risks making promising brands the flavour of the day, argues Eugene Rabkin.

Fashion Week

Op-Ed | The Rise of the Fashion Hipster

Catering to the fashion hipster — whose purchases are driven by irony, camp and insider humour — risks making promising brands the flavour of the day, argues Eugene Rabkin.


Luxury

Beyond the ‘It’ Bag

As the market for handbags becomes more crowded and competitive, some luxury brands are taking a more balanced, diversified approach to product categories.

Luxury

Beyond the ‘It’ Bag

As the market for handbags becomes more crowded and competitive, some luxury brands are taking a more balanced, diversified approach to product categories.


Global Markets

A Populist Approach at Seoul Fashion Week

Featuring celebrity endorsements, accessible price points and a mega-watt K-pop soundtrack, South Korea’s designer showcase wrapped up this weekend in a heady mix of fanfare meets fan culture.

Global Markets

A Populist Approach at Seoul Fashion Week

Featuring celebrity endorsements, accessible price points and a mega-watt K-pop soundtrack, South Korea’s designer showcase wrapped up this weekend in a heady mix of fanfare meets fan culture.


Luxury

How Comme des Garçons Grew Gosha Rubchinskiy

BoF spoke exclusively with Gosha Rubchinskiy and Adrian Joffe, president of Comme des Garçons, to learn how the company catalysed the rapid growth of the skater-inflected fashion label.

Luxury

How Comme des Garçons Grew Gosha Rubchinskiy

BoF spoke exclusively with Gosha Rubchinskiy and Adrian Joffe, president of Comme des Garçons, to learn how the company catalysed the rapid growth of the skater-inflected fashion label.


Financial Markets

Stone Island Eyes America

With its third Supreme collaboration set to hit stores this week, the Italian brand that helped blur the boundaries between technical wear, streetwear and high-fashion is taking an ‘organic’ approach to North America expansion.

Financial Markets

Stone Island Eyes America

With its third Supreme collaboration set to hit stores this week, the Italian brand that helped blur the boundaries between technical wear, streetwear and high-fashion is taking an ‘organic’ approach to North America expansion.


News & Analysis

Slimane, Gvasalia and the Power of Emotional Experiences

BoF's Imran Amed asks, in an age of fashion immediacy, can genuinely emotional fashion experiences — like those staged by Demna Gvasalia at Balenciaga and Hedi Slimane at Yves Saint Laurent — really be communicated at scale to millions of end consumers?

News & Analysis

Slimane, Gvasalia and the Power of Emotional Experiences

BoF's Imran Amed asks, in an age of fashion immediacy, can genuinely emotional fashion experiences — like those staged by Demna Gvasalia at Balenciaga and Hedi Slimane at Yves Saint Laurent — really be communicated at scale to millions of end consumers?


News & Analysis

This Week’s 7 Top Reads

Don't miss the most important fashion news and analysis of the week.

News & Analysis

This Week’s 7 Top Reads

Don't miss the most important fashion news and analysis of the week.


Fashion Week

Top 10 Shows of Autumn/Winter 2016

At the end of a complex fashion month, BoF brings you the Top 10 Shows of the Season.

Fashion Week

Top 10 Shows of Autumn/Winter 2016

At the end of a complex fashion month, BoF brings you the Top 10 Shows of the Season.


Fashion Week

The Fashion Gyre and the Ghost of Martin Margiela 

Amidst a whirlwind of directions, the real protagonist of Paris Fashion Week was Martin Margiela, whose influence was felt from Vetements to Miu Miu.

Fashion Week

The Fashion Gyre and the Ghost of Martin Margiela 

Amidst a whirlwind of directions, the real protagonist of Paris Fashion Week was Martin Margiela, whose influence was felt from Vetements to Miu Miu.


Fashion Week

Op-Ed | Whites-Only Policy at Vetements and Balenciaga

For someone whose design work has been dubbed ‘revolutionary’ in fashion circles, Demna Gvasalia’s all-white casting is shockingly out of touch with today’s global reality, argues Jason Campbell.

Fashion Week

Op-Ed | Whites-Only Policy at Vetements and Balenciaga

For someone whose design work has been dubbed ‘revolutionary’ in fashion circles, Demna Gvasalia’s all-white casting is shockingly out of touch with today’s global reality, argues Jason Campbell.


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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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