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Inside the Business of Barneys New York

Days before Barneys New York’s much-anticipated return to downtown Manhattan, chief executive Mark Lee and chief operating officer Daniella Vitale talk to BoF about the company’s journey from the brink of bankruptcy to record sales — and what's next.


Fashion Week

Soft Modernism

Shane Gabier and Christopher Peters blur the edges of mid-century modernism.


News & Analysis

BoF Exclusive | Tommy Hilfiger Embraces Direct-to-Consumer Shows

BoF can exclusively reveal that starting in September 2016, Tommy Hilfiger will stage 'multimedia broadcast' fashion shows targeting consumers, with full collections instantly available for sale via retail, e-commerce and wholesale channels.


Retail

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.


News & Analysis

The Risks of Changing Creative Directors

Changing the guard at the creative helm of a major fashion house is capital-intensive but can reap great rewards. What’s at stake when fashion houses cycle through designers?


News & Analysis

How to Fix the Fashion System

With designers departing historic houses and the rise of digital creating a culture of more, more, more, BoF editor at large Tim Blanks joins designer Erdem Moralioglu, blogger Susanna Lau, publicist Daniel Marks and editor JJ Martin to discuss the problems facing the industry and how to fix them.



News & Analysis

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.


Fashion Week

Tom Ford Shifts Show to Match Retail Cycle

The designer will present his Autumn/Winter 2016 menswear and womenswear collections in September just as they hit stores.


Fashion Week

Burberry Aligns Runway and Retail Calendar in Game-Changing Shift

In a radical rethink of the fashion calendar, Burberry will combine its men’s and women’s shows together in two annual runway events, with ‘seasonless’ collections available to buy immediately after the shows. In an exclusive, in-depth conversation, Christopher Bailey explains the logic behind this game-changing move.


News & Analysis

Nasty Gal to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff

Fashion retailer Nasty Gal is slashing about 10 percent of its staff in what chief executive officer Sheree Waterson describes as a "strategic restructuring."


News & Analysis

100 Years of British Vogue

Before Anna Wintour stepped into Vogue House, the leading fashion title had already seen a slew of formidable editors document the roaring twenties and the swinging sixties. As it enters its centenary year, Colin McDowell looks back at a heady 100 years of British Vogue.