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The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion has gained a global following as an essential daily resource for fashion creatives, executives and entrepreneurs in over 200 countries. It is frequently described as “indispensable,” “required reading” and “an addiction.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
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Who's Winning Beauty's H1 Reckoning
Beauty has long been one of the industry’s most reliable growth engines — fragrance boomed post-pandemic, prestige beauty held up better than other ca...
Inside James Whitner's Purpose-First Retail Playbook
Earlier this month, A Ma Maniére — one part of James Whitner's The Whitaker Group — was named one of BoF's Best Fashion Stores in the World, our defin...
Why Upcycling Is Suddenly Everywhere in Fashion
For a long time, upcycling sat on the fringes of the fashion industry, a tactic used primarily by small independent designers, niche sustainability la...
Nick Knight Is Building His Own AI
I've been interviewing Nick Knight for more than 15 years. This is our fourth in-depth, sit-down interview. At this stage, it's become something close...
The Influencer Follower-Count Era Is Ending
For years, follower count was the clearest shorthand for a creator's value — more followers meant more reach, more brand deals, more money. But social...
Kelly Wearstler on What Waiting Tables Taught Her About Design
When the designer Kelly Wearstler was five or six years old, she made little drawings and small sculptures out of cans and cartons, laid them out on t...
What the Best Fashion Stores Get Right
For much of the last decade, fashion brands and retailers were fixated on making shopping as seamless as possible — endless product online, algorithmi...
Chris Green on Why The Best Fashion Stores Don’t Chase Scale
Independent multi-brand retailers have long been among fashion's most influential tastemakers, introducing emerging designers, shaping customer discov...
The Fashion and Beauty Companies Everyone Wants to Work For
What makes a fashion or beauty company a truly desirable place to work? BoF’s second annual ranking of the industry’s most sought-after employers look...
The Patient Work of Turning Around Dior
When I sat down with Jonathan Anderson in his Dior atelier last December, he hadn’t shown a single couture look yet and nothing he'd designed for the...
Why Everyone's Reading Clothing Labels Again
Fabric content used to be a niche sustainability conversation. Now it's a mainstream health one, driven by the same scrutiny shoppers already apply to...
Avery Trufelman: “Everything Has Fashion. Fashion is Just Taste Over Time. ”
As fashion is increasingly consumed through a stream of images, products and fleeting trends, Avery Trufelman, host of the award-winning podcast “Arti...
Is Fashion School Still Worth It?
For decades, institutions like Central Saint Martins, Parsons and Institut Français de la Mode have launched some of fashion's most successful careers...
Paloma Elsesser on Purpose, Representation and the New Rituals of Body Care
Diversity and body positivity have been important themes shaping the fashion conversation over the past decade. Yet a gap remains between the industry...
The Anti-Unicorn Playbook That Beat Fashion's DTC Boom
In 2016, the global retail landscape was dominated by successful direct-to-consumer (DTC) disruptors like Everlane, Glossier, Allbirds and Outdoor Voi...
Decoding Paris Haute Couture: Wonder, Restraint and the Call of the Void
I missed couture season for the first time in years, but that made it even more valuable for me to catch up with Tim Blanks on everything that happene...
Luxury’s New Reality
As luxury shoppers push back against relentless price hikes and uninspiring boutique environments, BoF's Mimosa Spencer and Robert Williams break down...
Mona Kattan on Finding the Courage to Go It Alone
Mona Kattan has been collecting fragrances for most of her life. That obsession eventually became Kayali — a fragrance brand she built inside Huda Bea...
How Nike Built the Biggest World Cup Campaign Ever
The 2026 World Cup marked an unprecedented milestone for global football, expanding to 48 teams playing over 100 matches across the US, Canada and Mex...
Oura CEO on the Future of Health Intelligence
The boundaries between technology, wellness and luxury are blurring. Wearable technology is no longer just about tracking steps; it has become a sophi...
Why Activewear Consumers Are Looking Beyond Lululemon
For more than a decade, activewear shoppers largely looked to Lululemon and Nike. But as the post-pandemic boom cools and growth becomes harder to...
How Books Became Fashion’s Latest Status Symbol
Fashion’s book obsession is no longer subtle. What started as the occasional literary reference has become a broader wave of book clubs, salon-style e...
Anoushka Shankar: Creativity Is an Act of Hope
Anoushka Shankar has spent three decades building one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary music. She has taken the sitar — an instr...
Fashion's Ozempic Reckoning
The rise of GLP–1 drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, is forcing fashion and beauty companies to rethink everything from sizing and fit to product deve...
Conner Ives is Building a Business With Instinct
Born in the leafy enclave of Bedford, New York, designer Conner Ives, a self-professed “country mouse,” grew up in a household that taught him two thi...
Carlos Nazario: The Kid From Queens Who Changed Fashion Imagery
Carlos Nazario has helped redefine how fashion media expresses subculture in a luxury context, making history along the way as the first Black editor...
Leena Nair and Matthieu Blazy on Creativity and the Power of the Human Hand
This week, Chanel reported its annual results for 2025. Revenue rose 2 percent to $19.3 billion, defying a luxury downturn.
But the number that...
Inside The Swatch X Audemars Piguet Global Frenzy
In May, sleeping bags lined pavements and police barriers went up outside Swatch stores from Times Square to Dubai. The object of this global hysteria...
What's Really Happening in Luxury Right Now
For the global luxury industry, the last two years have been defined by a prolonged period of meagre growth, macro-uncertainty, and a slow recovery in...
Why Are So Many Brands Faking Scandals?
The beauty industry is currently contending with marketing saturation, compounded by an overcrowded content ecosystem in which traditional metrics lik...
Inside Saks Global's Four-Month Bankruptcy Sprint
Earlier today, BoF published an exclusive in-depth interview with Saks Global CEO Geoffroy Van Raemdonck, examining the company’s strategy as it expec...
A Tribute to the Enduring Legacy of Mrs. B
In fashion, the word "legend" is often used as a convenient shorthand for longevity. But Joan Burstein — affectionately known in the fashion world as...
Why People Hate AI
Since the earliest days of tools like ChatGPT and Claude, industry conversations have been marked by a tension between excitement around speed and eff...
Inside Dries Van Noten’s Venice Manifesto
For four decades, Dries Van Noten defined a singular path in global fashion with a universe rooted in intellectual rigour, exquisite craftsmanship and...
Why Some Retailers are Ignoring the Internet
For years, the fashion industry operated under the assumption that digital scale was the right path. However, the "growth-at-all-costs" model is curre...
Britt Moran on Why Atmosphere Is a Real Luxury Product
For the global luxury industry, Salone del Mobile in Milan has become a moment where brands look beyond the runway to expand into the broader "lifesty...
Why Luxury Still Can’t Find Its Way Out of the Slump
Luxury entered 2026 with hopes that new creative directors and signs of stabilisation would finally help the sector turn a corner. Instead, the latest...
What Luxury's Winners Are Getting Right
The global fashion industry is a $2.5 trillion economic engine, and yet in the corridors of Washington and high finance, it's often treated as a sides...
Nike’s Reality Check
When Elliot Hill returned to Nike as chief executive in October 2024, he was tasked with reversing one of the most significant slumps in the company’s...
Ask Imran Anything: On Boring Fashion, the Meaning of Luxury and Building Outside the System
In this second Ask Me Anything episode, Imran Amed responds to questions submitted by listeners around the world, offering a wide-ranging reflection o...