Kimberly-Clark to Buy Tylenol Owner Kenvue in $40 Billion Deal
Kimberly-Clark Corp. agreed to buy Kenvue Inc. in a cash and stock deal that values the consumer-health company that owns brands like Tylenol at about $40 billion.
Series
How to Prepare a Creative Pitch in Fashion
From tailoring your pitch to your audience to fine tuning a succinct narrative, BoF Careers sat down with experts working across creative functions in the fashion industry to learn how to prepare a compelling pitch.
How to Grow a $100 Million Brand: Reinforcing Your Foundation | BoF Insights
In the third and final part of this series, BoF Insights spoke with investors and brand leaders about how to secure future growth before pursuing costly expansion activities in today’s tough financing environment.
The Business of Beauty Haul of Fame: Don’t Eat That
Gourmand fragrances are a shortcut for Gen-Z emotional investment.
How to Grow a $100 Million Brand: Diversifying Your Offering | BoF Insights
Today’s brands are constrained by crises across direct-to-consumer and wholesale distribution and limited external funding pools. But it is still possible to scale a small label, even in today’s tough environment. In part two of this series, BoF Insights spoke with investors and brand leaders about how to translate cultural heat into commercial success via diversification.
Is This an Inflection Point for Luxury Fashion?
As the fashion industry takes a breather in August, luxury brands grapple with creative leadership gaps, plummeting profits, and evolving consumer priorities, raising questions about whether current struggles signal a permanent shift in the market landscape, writes Imran Amed.
The Business of Beauty Haul of Fame: Why Brands Are Roasting Their Customers
Tough love is making some shoppers hit “add to cart.”
How to Grow a $100 Million Brand: Building Buzz on a Budget | BoF Insights
The recent closure of some of fashion’s buzziest brands laid bare the many hurdles facing even the most promising designers. But it is still possible to scale a small label, even in today’s tough environment. In part one of this series, BoF Insights spoke with brands and investors and drew upon its own advisory experience to outline how to translate cultural heat into commercial success.
How I Became... Editor-in-Chief of Paper Magazine
Justin Moran began his editorial journey at his university newspaper, taking on freelance work on the side before landing his first internship at Paper Magazine one summer. Now, as Paper's editor-in-chief, he shares his career advice.
Dispatch from Tokyo: A Retail Roadmap
With the devaluation of the yen, Tokyo has become a focal point for fashion shoppers looking for good deals. Imran Amed shares his key takeaways and recommendations from a recent trip to the world’s retail capital.
The Business of Beauty Haul of Fame: Exclusive - Camila Mendes Is Really Good for Skincare
Fiscal proof that celebrity alliances work (if the product also works).
The Business of Beauty Haul of Fame: Your Boundaries Are Big Business
How “the skin barrier” became a stand-in for American female rage.
The Business of Beauty Haul of Fame: Off-Label Meds… Or Skincare?
A new kind of Ozempic effect.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
British Fashion Council CEO Caroline Rush to Step Down
On Thursday, the British Fashion Council (BFC) announced that CEO Caroline Rush will step down from her position from June 2025, ending a 16-year run.