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BoF Insights and Quilt.AI co-created The BoF Brand Magic Index to quantitatively analyse the brand-customer relationship. Using AI-driven analysis of tens of thousands of social media posts, the Index ranks fashion and luxury’s 50 most powerful brands based on the clarity of their identity and their relevance in culture between October 2023 and March 2024.
The brands that generate the most engagement from their followings do so by leaning into cultural moments and subverting norms around typical fashion content, according to the latest reading from The BoF Brand Magic Index, powered by Quilt.AI.
Senior leaders from L’Oréal, LVMH, Sephora, Coty, Augustinus Bader, Clarins, Violette_Fr, Sunday Riley and more attended an intimate community breakfast in Paris on building brand resilience and relevance in a slowing economy.
Hours after the Supreme Court issued its decision, Trump began relying on alternative legislation to try to rebuild his tariff wall.
The new announcement stirred up more economic turbulence as president Trump lashed out at the US Supreme Court.
A majority of justices struck down the ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs that sent shockwaves through the fashion industry, setting the stage for a rush of brands trying to recoup duties they’ve already paid.
The Swedish fast-fashion retailer is one of a shrinking number of companies that’s still drawing attention to its emissions goals. Plus, a Shanghai Fashion Week preview.
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.
