Marc Jacobs
Founder & Designer, Marc Jacobs
The decorated American designer was the first to introduce '90s grunge to the catwalk and grew his namesake brand into a global fashion force.
Power Moves | Taylor Tomasi Hill Joins Forty Five Ten, Myntra Co-Founder Departs, Hunter CEO
BoF compiles the most important professional moves of the week.
Streamlining Collections, Paul Smith Reveals Own Fashion Calendar Fix
As the nature of his business changes, the British designer will merge his design teams and collapse his many diffusion lines into two collections comprising both men’s and womenswear, with four drops a year.
Power Moves | Cartier CEO, Public School's First President, Menswear Designer Shuffle
BoF compiles the most important professional moves of the week.
Demna Gvasalia Reveals Vetements' Plan to Disrupt the Fashion System
Demna Gvasalia, head of the Vetements collective and newly appointed artistic director of Balenciaga, talks to Imran Amed about a new operating model designed to fix the ‘broken’ fashion system.
Can China End the Illicit ‘Daigou’ Trade?
Lowering import tariffs and tightening customs controls are among the Chinese government’s strategies for curbing "selling agents” who trade in luxury goods at lower prices. Will it work?
Andrew Rosen Talks Trouble in the Contemporary Market
Contemporary brands are feeling the squeeze. Theory chief executive Andrew Rosen — the man who pioneered the category — reflects on the state of the market and what's next.
Public School
Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne staged a runway show on a city sidewalk. But did the clothes live up to the gesture?
How Final Fantasy Characters Infiltrated Fashion
As video games have infiltrated pop culture and become more mainstream, so too has Final Fantasy, inspiring an animated TV series, two feature films, three radio dramas, and many novels and manga comic books.
Oil Collapse Hits Fashion Markets
In emerging markets that rely on oil to keep their economies buoyant, the drastic drop in price is making fashion leaders nervous.
BoF Exclusive | Marc Jacobs Speaks on ‘My America’ Campaign
The designer talks casting, Instagram and working with chief executive Sebastian Suhl to take the company to the next level.
What is The BoF 500?
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.
