Audemars Piguet to Certify Its Pre-Owned Watches Following Rolex
Whereas Rolex is both a buyer and seller of its second-hand watches through official retail partners, Audemars is setting up a marketplace where sellers set prices.
The Creative Class
Media
How Vogue’s New Go-to Photographer Broke Into the Business
Ethan James Green, the man behind American Vogue’s most recent covers featuring Rihanna and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is charting a different type of career trajectory with agent Jordan Hancock. They tell BoF about the photographer’s rapid rise.
Media
Sharna Osborne’s Images Look Like Nothing Else in Fashion
There’s something girlish but gritty, nostalgic but not retro about Osborne’s work that sets it apart from anything being made in the fashion world today.
Creative Class
The Godly Garden of Alessandro Michele’s Gucci
An extra-dimensional spirituality that you can feel but not see animates the designer’s quest at the Italian megabrand.
News & Analysis
A Royal Photographer’s Modern Gaze
In a world that’s tiring of fashion photography that prizes artifice, shuns diversity and exploits sexuality, Alexi Lubomirski, who famously shot Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding pictures, is after something more authentic, ethical, thoughtful.
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News & Analysis
Cathy Horyn: 'I Support People Who Have Guts'
Fashion critic Cathy Horyn talks about navigating emerging designers, new media and nostalgia, courtesy of 1 Granary.
News & Analysis
Paolo Roversi: 'Photography Is the Revelation of Another Dimension'
The legendary Italian lensman speaks to BoF about the poetry of his work, the power of the primitive photographic process and the importance of slowness.
Fashion Week
Chris Moore on 60 Years of Photographing the Catwalk
‘The bishop’ of catwalk images speaks to BoF about Catwalking.com and his six decades in the photographers’ pit at the end of the runway.
News & Analysis
Rei Kawakubo's Hair Magician
Best known for his dramatic hair sculptures for Comme des Garçons, Julien d'Ys was the first to purposefully make hair look dirty, using potions of grease, vodka, clay or powder.
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Guido Palau, an Eye in the Fashion Week Hurricane
Fashion's most sought-after hairdresser opens up to BoF about his creative process and staying calm amidst the storm of New York Fashion Week.
Creative Class
Bruce Weber’s Fantasy Land
Above all, the photographer draws on his inner fantasy life to conjure the circus of marching bands, jugglers, elephants, cheerleaders, Labradors and all-American male demigods that populate his work.
Beauty
Sam McKnight’s Natural Touch
With a solo exhibition set to launch at London's Somerset House, the legendary hair stylist Sam McKnight opens up about Karl Lagerfeld, Princess Diana and the future of fashion.
News & Analysis
Anita Bitton on Casting Top Models For Alexander Wang and Marc Jacobs
BoF talks to Anita Bitton about the changing business of casting and how demand for content is driving demand for talent.
The News in Brief
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Says It’s Taken Control of Hugo Boss
The British retail group has pushed its stake in the German apparel brand above 50 percent in a move that will turn Hugo Boss into a subsidiary of Frasers.
Shein Agrees to Pay $100 Million to Settle US FTC Probe
The settlement, equivalent to 44 percent of the ultra fast-fashion company’s second-quarter profit, is the latest blow amid regulatory and tax crackdowns in Europe and the US that have hampered Shein’s growth.
Kering Drops 12% as Luxury Braces for Tough Winter
The recovery long promised by luxury brands seems nowhere in sight, as the expansion of war in the Middle East, along with China’s tax crackdown on the wealthy, piled further pressure on the world’s biggest luxury conglomerates in the third quarter, and executives buckled in for a tough winter.
UK Retail Sales Fall 0.4% in September, More Than Forecast
Sales fell in September as above-average temperatures hit demand for autumn clothing.
Elle Launches Moroccan Edition
Hitting newsstands in October, the magazine marks Elle’s 51st international edition, published under licence by the Geomedia group.
David’s Bridal Plans Spinoff and IPO of AI Wedding Planning Platform Pearl
Pearl, a subsidiary of David’s Bridal, will own David’s Bridal and license its intellectual property back to the bridalwear brand. David’s Bridal CEO Kelly Cook will serve as Pearl’s CEO.
L’Oréal Sales Beat Expectations as Premium Products Surge
The French giant handily beat expectations on strong demand for hair products at salons and premium skincare from its dermatological division.