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From Alaïa’s Teckel to Lemaire’s Croissant and Prada’s Buckle bag, signature bag shapes can power growth and crystallise brand identity for luxury houses.
LVMH’s high-end cashmere firm cultivated unassailable luxury credentials with its commitment to quality and craft. According to Italian prosecutors, thousands of its cashmere jackets were made in illegal, Chinese-owned workshops on the outskirts of Milan.
The Italian cashmere firm has been placed under judicial administration for a year due to alleged worker exploitation and inadequate oversight within its supply chain.
Haley Crawford is Marketing Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers the marketing and public relations industries.
As brands release their first spring ads, those that make an emotional appeal with fresh talent are resonating – as long as they remember to put the product front and centre.
Sunday night’s Oscars concluded an awards season that fashion’s biggest labels used to show off their new creative game. BoF breaks down what we learned about brands’ celebrity strategies.
Ryan Murphy’s smash hit chronicling the ill-fated romance of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr. is reshaping the trend cycle.
This week on The Debrief, BoF correspondent Lei Takanashi explains why the industry remains tethered to a small circle of established rap stars and whether a new generation of talent can break through.
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
Fashion’s enfant terrible is trading exclusivity for the mass market. Is it the ultimate fashion coup, or the final surrender of prestige?
Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.
The designer and podcaster joins Imran Amed to reflect on the emotional power of clothes, what Vivienne Westwood taught her about rebellion and how Fashion Neurosis has unlocked a new chapter in her creative life.
