Olaplex Names New CEO
Christoph Kaul will succeed Amanda Baldwin, who led the hair care label through its acquisition by Henkel earlier this year.
Workplace & Talent / The Future of Work
Workplace & Talent
How to Get Hired in the Age of AI
As AI makes it easier than ever to produce polished résumés, recruiters are relying on new methods to assess attributes like judgment, adaptability and potential.
How to Get Hired in the Age of AI
As AI makes it easier than ever to produce polished résumés, recruiters are relying on new methods to assess attributes like judgment, adaptability and potential.
Workplace & Talent
Executive Memo | How to Redesign Your Organisation for AI
Artificial intelligence is changing how businesses operate as employees become more self-sufficient and routine work is increasingly automated. To build companies that thrive in this new paradigm, fashion executives must rethink leadership structures, talent pipelines and decision-making processes.
Executive Memo | How to Redesign Your Organisation for AI
Artificial intelligence is changing how businesses operate as employees become more self-sufficient and routine work is increasingly automated. To build companies that thrive in this new paradigm, fashion executives must rethink leadership structures, talent pipelines and decision-making processes.
Workplace & Talent
The Debrief | Making Sense of Fashion’s Brutal Job Market
Fashion companies are tightening return-to-office mandates just as entry-level jobs become harder to land. The Debrief explains what that means for workers trying to build careers in a cooling industry.
The Debrief | Making Sense of Fashion’s Brutal Job Market
Fashion companies are tightening return-to-office mandates just as entry-level jobs become harder to land. The Debrief explains what that means for workers trying to build careers in a cooling industry.
Workplace & Talent
Fashion Is Done With Remote Work
Retailers, publishers and brands are tightening return-to-office mandates as fully remote roles fall out of favour — but execution, not attendance, will determine whether the shift pays off.
Fashion Is Done With Remote Work
Retailers, publishers and brands are tightening return-to-office mandates as fully remote roles fall out of favour — but execution, not attendance, will determine whether the shift pays off.
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Workplace & Talent
It’s Time for Fashion to Get Real About AI’s Impact on Jobs
Fashion brands are racing to deploy AI in marketing, design and employee workflows. But inside companies, a lack of clarity is breeding layoff anxiety — and quiet AI use that feels risky, if not like cheating.
It’s Time for Fashion to Get Real About AI’s Impact on Jobs
Fashion brands are racing to deploy AI in marketing, design and employee workflows. But inside companies, a lack of clarity is breeding layoff anxiety — and quiet AI use that feels risky, if not like cheating.
Workplace & Talent
Think Landing a Job Is Hard? Try Having ‘DEI’ on Your Resumé
Having DEI experience on a resumé can feel like a scarlet letter in an already difficult job market.
Think Landing a Job Is Hard? Try Having ‘DEI’ on Your Resumé
Having DEI experience on a resumé can feel like a scarlet letter in an already difficult job market.
Workplace & Talent
Marco Bizzarri Gives Address With Advice for Fashion’s Next Generation
The former Gucci CEO emphasised the importance of finding the right people and talent while accepting an honorary degree from the University for the Creative Arts.
Marco Bizzarri Gives Address With Advice for Fashion’s Next Generation
The former Gucci CEO emphasised the importance of finding the right people and talent while accepting an honorary degree from the University for the Creative Arts.
Workplace & Talent
The Best of BoF 2024: Finding Stability in a Hostile Workplace & Talent Environment
In a year defined by election-year upheaval, muted advocacy, the rapid dissolution of diversity programmes, and ongoing AI disruption, settling on hybrid work arrangements was one of the few areas where fashion firms found stability.
The Best of BoF 2024: Finding Stability in a Hostile Workplace & Talent Environment
In a year defined by election-year upheaval, muted advocacy, the rapid dissolution of diversity programmes, and ongoing AI disruption, settling on hybrid work arrangements was one of the few areas where fashion firms found stability.
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Is It Time for Retailers to Rethink the Part-Time Work Model?
Fashion companies rely heavily on part-time associates to respond to a volatile industry where demand is often seasonal and margins are thin — but many drop the ball when it comes to making the job rewarding.
Is It Time for Retailers to Rethink the Part-Time Work Model?
Fashion companies rely heavily on part-time associates to respond to a volatile industry where demand is often seasonal and margins are thin — but many drop the ball when it comes to making the job rewarding.
Workplace & Talent
White Paper | Incorporating Generative AI Into the Fashion Workplace
As artificial intelligence continues to shape the fashion industry and its output, BoF Careers explores what AI’s advanced capabilities mean for the fashion workplace — and how the workforce could adapt to gain competitive advantage.
White Paper | Incorporating Generative AI Into the Fashion Workplace
As artificial intelligence continues to shape the fashion industry and its output, BoF Careers explores what AI’s advanced capabilities mean for the fashion workplace — and how the workforce could adapt to gain competitive advantage.
Workplace & Talent
The Best of BoF 2023: Diversity’s Litmus Test
In 2020, like many companies, the $50 billion yoga apparel brand created a new department to improve internal diversity and inclusion, and to create a more equitable playing field for minorities. In interviews with BoF, 14 current and former employees said things only got worse.
The Best of BoF 2023: Diversity’s Litmus Test
In 2020, like many companies, the $50 billion yoga apparel brand created a new department to improve internal diversity and inclusion, and to create a more equitable playing field for minorities. In interviews with BoF, 14 current and former employees said things only got worse.
Workplace & Talent
Why Retailers Still Can’t Solve Their Hiring Problem
From wage hikes to tuition assistance, fashion firms say they’re pulling out all the stops to revamp the store associate role — but their efforts aren’t taking hold.
Why Retailers Still Can’t Solve Their Hiring Problem
From wage hikes to tuition assistance, fashion firms say they’re pulling out all the stops to revamp the store associate role — but their efforts aren’t taking hold.
The News in Brief
Perelel Expands C-Suite, Tapping Rare Beauty’s CMO
Known for its prenatal vitamins, the wellness label has hired Rare Beauty's Ashley Murphy as its chief marketing officer, while Anjelika Temple moves into the chief creative officer role.
Swiss Watch Exports Grow for Fourth Month, Overcoming US Slump
Exports in August were buoyed by China and Japan, despite a sharp decline in shipments to the US.
Alexandre Arnault Joins Nike’s Board of Directors
The LVMH executive joins Nike’s board as the sportswear giant prepares to be removed from the S&P 100 index after nearly two decades.
Matthieu Blazy, Sarah Burton, Haider Ackermann Among Nominees for BFC Designer of the Year
The Fashion Awards ceremony, set for Nov. 30, will also recognise the BFC’s second Vanguard award recipient, recognising emerging British design talent.
Supergoop Announces Chief Commercial Officer
The sunscreen label has appointed former Coty executive Jamie Parker to the newly created role as it gears up to become a “global skin health company.”
Mytheresa Owner’s Sales Rise as Ultra Wealthy Keep Shopping
LuxExperience posted a rise in sales as the luxury multibrand platform’s strategy of catering to the ultra wealthy helped it navigate a difficult environment for high-end fashion.
The Independents Acquires Production Studio Smuggler
The global collective has brought film studio Smuggler under its umbrella to bolster its entertainment capabilities.