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A few years ago, Neiman Marcus pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into renovating its stores, to make the experience more appealing to customers who had grown used to shopping from home.
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Black Americans have long been avid buyers of high-end goods. Now their expectations are shifting, with important implications for brands.
Top executives believe in-person work is necessary for culture building, employee loyalty and creativity — but they’ll need to sell that idea to their workers.
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.
A tight labour market, the pandemic and renewed emphasis on racial equity and climate change have recast the industry’s desirable jobs and companies.
Sheena Butler-Young is Senior Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers workplace, talent and issues surrounding diversity and inclusion.
Industry insiders share advice on how employees in notoriously competitive fields like fashion and beauty can protect their working hours and set professional boundaries while achieving career goals.
As insurgent brands gain ground in fashion and beauty, their leaders are developing distinct approaches to hiring talent, sustaining momentum and scaling beyond the underdog phase.
Check out this week’s new partner and job openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion and beauty talent.
Hefty tuition prices, unclear career pathways and new routes into the industry are reshaping how young people invest in education.
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.
