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Workplace & Talent

Is Now the Right Time to Ask for a Raise? It’s Complicated

It’s still an employee’s labour market, but recession fears are adding new challenges to pay negotiations for retail and fashion job candidates looking to increase their salaries.

Workplace & Talent

Is Now the Right Time to Ask for a Raise? It’s Complicated

It’s still an employee’s labour market, but recession fears are adding new challenges to pay negotiations for retail and fashion job candidates looking to increase their salaries.


Workplace & Talent

BFC Report Finds Half of European Brands Have a Diversity Strategy But Progress Still Lags

A new report by the British Fashion Council (BFC) and the MBS Group, a UK-based executive search firm, found that 51 percent of European fashion companies now have a diversity and inclusion strategy but that progress on most of the goals espoused in 2020 remain sluggish.

Workplace & Talent

BFC Report Finds Half of European Brands Have a Diversity Strategy But Progress Still Lags

A new report by the British Fashion Council (BFC) and the MBS Group, a UK-based executive search firm, found that 51 percent of European fashion companies now have a diversity and inclusion strategy but that progress on most of the goals espoused in 2020 remain sluggish.


Workplace & Talent

Why Do Fashion’s Chief Diversity Officers Keep Quitting?

Dozens of companies hired diversity leaders in the last two years, but executives who take these roles are often overworked and under-resourced.

Workplace & Talent

Why Do Fashion’s Chief Diversity Officers Keep Quitting?

Dozens of companies hired diversity leaders in the last two years, but executives who take these roles are often overworked and under-resourced.


Workplace & Talent

What Will It Take to Make Gen-Z Happy at Work?

A shift in workplace power dynamics has companies struggling to balance their youngest employees’ expectations against the needs of their businesses.

Workplace & Talent

What Will It Take to Make Gen-Z Happy at Work?

A shift in workplace power dynamics has companies struggling to balance their youngest employees’ expectations against the needs of their businesses.


Workplace & Talent

What Fashion’s Class of 2022 Expects from Employers

A tight labour market, the pandemic and renewed emphasis on racial equity and climate change have recast the industry’s desirable jobs and companies.

Workplace & Talent

What Fashion’s Class of 2022 Expects from Employers

A tight labour market, the pandemic and renewed emphasis on racial equity and climate change have recast the industry’s desirable jobs and companies.


Workplace & Talent

What André Leon Talley Means to Black People

The rare Black editor worked behind the scenes to promote Black talent, but ultimately it was the symbolism of his achievement that meant the most for Black people, writes Jason Campbell.

Workplace & Talent

What André Leon Talley Means to Black People

The rare Black editor worked behind the scenes to promote Black talent, but ultimately it was the symbolism of his achievement that meant the most for Black people, writes Jason Campbell.


Workplace & Talent

UK Companies Must Meet New Gender, Racial Diversity Targets

The Financial Conduct Authority finalised the rules meant to boost diversity among leaders of UK-listed organisations, including a requirement that companies’ boards comprise at least 40 percent women.

Workplace & Talent

UK Companies Must Meet New Gender, Racial Diversity Targets

The Financial Conduct Authority finalised the rules meant to boost diversity among leaders of UK-listed organisations, including a requirement that companies’ boards comprise at least 40 percent women.


Workplace & Talent

Where Are Fashion’s Black CEOs?

Vanishingly few big, established brands have appointed Black chief executives, even after two years of theoretically addressing racial injustice.

Workplace & Talent

Where Are Fashion’s Black CEOs?

Vanishingly few big, established brands have appointed Black chief executives, even after two years of theoretically addressing racial injustice.


Workplace & Talent

An Antidote to Cultural Appropriation

On this week’s episode of The BoF Podcast, indigenous rights activist Seno Tsuha and social entrepreneur Rebecca Hui discuss a blueprint for respectfully borrowing from other cultures.

Workplace & Talent

An Antidote to Cultural Appropriation

On this week’s episode of The BoF Podcast, indigenous rights activist Seno Tsuha and social entrepreneur Rebecca Hui discuss a blueprint for respectfully borrowing from other cultures.


Workplace & Talent

Mohsin Zaidi on The Four Pieces of a Life

The former barrister and author of “A Dutiful Boy” examines intersectionality and identity at BoF VOICES.

Workplace & Talent

Mohsin Zaidi on The Four Pieces of a Life

The former barrister and author of “A Dutiful Boy” examines intersectionality and identity at BoF VOICES.


Workplace & Talent

Ralph Lauren, Race and How Fashion Can Embrace Discomfort

The brand’s collaboration with historically-black Morehouse and Spelman colleges was both celebrated and pilloried online. The fate of an ambitious attempt by a mainstream brand to tackle the issues raised in summer 2020 could influence future Black-focused campaigns for years to come.

Workplace & Talent

Ralph Lauren, Race and How Fashion Can Embrace Discomfort

The brand’s collaboration with historically-black Morehouse and Spelman colleges was both celebrated and pilloried online. The fate of an ambitious attempt by a mainstream brand to tackle the issues raised in summer 2020 could influence future Black-focused campaigns for years to come.


Luxury

Ralph Lauren Unveils Collection for HBCUs Morehouse and Spelman

The brand aims to honour the contributions of Black students to American collegiate style — drawing inspiration from fashion worn at historically Black colleges from 1920 to 1950.

Luxury

Ralph Lauren Unveils Collection for HBCUs Morehouse and Spelman

The brand aims to honour the contributions of Black students to American collegiate style — drawing inspiration from fashion worn at historically Black colleges from 1920 to 1950.