The global fashion industry is bracing for a pivotal year in 2025, as structural changes in consumer behavior and macroeconomic headwinds force a fundamental rethink of traditional growth strategies. According to the latest BoF - McKinsey State of Fashion 2025 report, the industry faces a sobering reality: just 20 percent of executives expect...
11 Nov 2024
The Business of Fashion (BoF) has unveiled the influential names added to this year’s The BoF 500, an index of individuals the media firm deems as those shaping the global fashion industry. New selections for the 10th anniversary year of the list were chosen based on their leadership, creativity, innovation and impact, BoF said, with nominations...
29 Sept 2023
Despite currently bleak economic prospects, the resale market is only on the rise, with a slew of recent reports finding that consumers are showing a tendency towards secondhand and pre-loved purchases in light of rising costs and tightened budgets. A similar attitude was adopted by that of The Business of Fashion (BoF), which partnered with...
17 Nov 2022
Business of Fashion (BoF) has released its annual Sustainability Index report, detailing performance assessments and key insights from 30 global fashion companies. Topping the list of the platform’s most sustainable brands were Puma and Kering, followed closely by Levi Strauss, H&M Group and Burberry. The 2022 assessment spans across six impact...
2 Jun 2022
As it comes to the year’s end, businesses have started to detect the subtle light at the end of the covid tunnel. The pandemic has forced the fashion industry to adapt to a ‘new normal’ and the development in technology has contributed a significant impact to the direction fashion is progressing. Looking ahead to the not-so-near future, The...
2 Dec 2021
Fashion giants are making slow progress in meeting promises to improve their environmental and social impact, according to a damning sustainability report released Monday. The inaugural Sustainability Index by the Business of Fashion magazine, the first to offer direct comparisons between the industry's top firms, found they were often falling...
23 Mar 2021
Business of Fashion's Founder and CEO sits down for a virtual conversation with Lebonese fashion players to discuss the recent deadly explosion's effect on the local fashion scene. Imran Amed is joined by Elie Saab Jr, CEO and board member at Elie Saab Group, along with Lebanese designers Roni Helou and Amine Jreissati. The four discuss how...
24 Aug 2020
Ten of the UK fashion industry’s innovative and sustainable small to medium enterprises, including Ananas Anam, the company that has created an innovative natural textile made from pineapple leaf fibre, and accessories brand Elvis and Kresse, have been awarded more than 1.2 million pounds by the Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology...
18 May 2020
Vogue's Italia Editor-In-Chief weighs in on questions that he, and the rest of the fashion world, are asking themselves while in isolation. Questions like: “Do we still need fashion? Do we still need to buy more clothes? Does it still make sense to fly 1,000 people to international fashion shows when they clearly can be done digitally?" Emanuele...
8 Apr 2020
The activist Hoda Katebi speaks passionately about the 'revolution' of fashion, while the Tehran design duo Shirin and Shiva Vaqar on the VOICES 2019 defy the restrictive conditions for emerging brands in Iran.
15 Jan 2020
Business of Fashion teamed with McKinsey & Company for its fourth annual State of Fashion Report, which determined pessimistic predictions. The fashion industry can expect a year of uncertainty and concern across all geographies and value segments for 2020, save for only a few bright spots. The McKinsey Global Fashion Index forecasts that...
22 Nov 2019
Stella McCartney has spent her professional career spearheading environmental issues and making sustainability practices a business priority. Now, with a new fashion industry charter for climate action, she is hoping other fashion companies, big and small, will follow in her footsteps. Source: Business of Fashion, YouTube.
7 Dec 2018
