The Business of Fashion Podcast

Is Fashion Sleeping on Twitch and Discord?

Before Jarod John Leonard became a menswear label stocked at Harvey Nichols, its founders brought together fans of Japanese label Number (N)ine on messaging platform Disc

Simbarashe Cha on 10,000 Hours of Street Style Photography

Every season, as the fashion world travels from New York to London, Milan and Paris, Simbarashe Cha is outside the shows, photographing what people are actually wearing o

What Makes a Million-Dollar Luxury Salesperson?

Luxury’s best salespeople have always been in demand, but the stakes have changed. As AI automates more of the shopping experience and price hikes strain loyalty, retaile

Daniel Obasi on Why Lagos Is a ‘Creative Factory’

This week’s Lagos Fashion Week campaign is a series of portraits drawing on the tradition of African studio photography. They were shot by the creative director Daniel Ob

Why Nike Can’t Find Its Next Hit

For years, a coveted pair of Air Jordans could send sneaker fans into a frenzy. But when Nike brought back the black-and-blue Air Jordan 1 Royal this month, the response

Olivier Bron on Making Bloomingdale’s Desirable Again

For most of the last 30 years, the American department store has been a story of decline: store closures, bankruptcies, endless discounting and floors packed with racks t

The Generation Fashion Forgot

Fashion has long been obsessed with youth, treating young shoppers as both trendsetters and the engine of growth. Yet brands including Evereve, Ulla Johnson, Frances Vale

Ask Imran Anything: Vanity Metrics, Creativity and Commerce, Gucci’s Future

This week, by popular demand, we are back for the third installment of Ask Me Anything, where listeners from around the world send in their most pressing questions about

Who’s to Blame for Bad Customer Service?

A $15,000 mechanical bird named Molly has become an unlikely flashpoint for retail. After pop star Kelly Clarkson accused Brooklyn boutique Art of Play of treating her “l

How Independent Thinking Powered the Spring/Summer 2027 Shows

Tim Blanks, editor-at-large at The Business of Fashion, joins Imran Amed for their seasonal review of the Spring/Summer 2027 shows. In London, Simone Rocha and Erdem de

The Verdict on Luxury Fashion’s Designer Reset

Fashion's biggest wave of creative-director musical chairs is now a year or so in, and the early read is starting to emerge. Over a dozen major houses have brought in new

Marc Jacobs: 'I Don't Think That The Creative Is to Blame'

Today, we introduced The BoF 500 Class of 2026: 100 new members added to our ever-growing index of people shaping the global fashion industry. This year’s BoF 500 cover s

Luxury’s Italian Supply Chain Reckoning Isn’t Over

In 2024, Milan prosecutors uncovered sweatshop-like conditions within the Italian supply chains of major luxury brands, revealing that workers faced degrading living cond

Feed Me's Emily Sundberg on How Fashion Underestimates Its Customers

Every weekday morning, a certain slice of New York opens the same e-mail. Lawyers, bankers, editors, restaurateurs: some of the city's most plugged-in people read Feed Me

Fashion’s Latest Obsession: The Grocery Store

Fashion brands have long used cafes, restaurants and hospitality to sell a broader lifestyle. Increasingly, they’re looking to a less obvious partner: the gourmet grocery

Christopher Kane: Mulberry’s Heritage Is a Foundation, Not a Limitation

In 2023, Christopher Kane did what no independent designer ever wants to do. He closed the label he had spent 17 years building with his sister, Tammy Kane. This was the

Can Fashion Sell a New Generation on Trade Jobs?

Behind every luxury handbag, bespoke suit and couture gown lies an intricate value chain powered by skilled artisans. But as master craftspeople retire without successors

Why Colleen Allen Turns Away Retailers That Won't Pay Deposits

Colleen Allen learned to sew sitting on her grandmother's lap, holding the fabric while her grandmother worked the pedal. Growing up in the Midwest, far from the industry

Has Fashion Had Enough of AI?

For many shoppers, fashion is now experienced primarily through a screen — discovered on social media, watched on runway livestreams and purchased from a product photo. F

W. David Marx: Fashion Is Bigger Than Ever — but Worse at Rewarding Invention

In the summer of 2007, BoF founder Imran Amed landed in Tokyo for the first time. A young American writer named W. David Marx took him on a menswear tour of the city's ba