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The BoF Podcast | The Best of VOICES
Subscribe to the BoF Podcast here. The first three sessions at BoF VOICES 2022 tackled issues inside the fashion industry and far beyond. Speakers explored …
The BoF Podcast Episode 1: How Fashion Became About Power, and Lost Its Ability to Dream
Casting Director, James Scully, makes a brave, bold and emotional plea for reform within the modelling industry at The Business of Fashion’s VOICES event held …
The BoF Podcast Episode 4: What Fashion Can Learn From Music and Silicon Valley
Taking the stage at VOICES, LVMH chief digital officer Ian Rogers discusses how the internet has changed the dissemination of culture and what fashion can …
The BoF Podcast Episode 7: How Do You Write a Fashion Business Plan?
In part two of four of The Business of Fashion’s series, ‘The Basics’, Imran Amed explains, the importance of a business plan and how to …
The BoF Podcast Episode 11: Terrorism and Trump: Is This the New Normal?
Reformed jihadist, Maajid Naaz, focused on the rise of terrorism, populism and a post-Trump, post-Brexit world — by detailing his own harrowing journey. Subscribe to …
The BoF Podcast Episode 13: Why Health and Wellness Is the Fashion Industry’s Biggest New Competitor
“Feeling good is the new looking good.” That was the mantra in the air at VOICES 2016, as entrepreneurs from the fields of health and …
The BoF Podcast Episode 17: Race, Inequality and Privilege: Why Is It a Problem Worth Solving?
DeRay Mckesson, an American civil rights activist and a leading voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, and British television personality June Sarpong took to …
The BoF Podcast Episode 19: The Importance of Meditation
Bob Roth, executive director of the David Lynch Foundation speaks at BoF VOICES explaining the importance of meditation. To subscribe to the BoF Podcast please …
The BoF Podcast Episode 23: Designing for Disability
It’s Time for Adaptive Fashion. Disabled people have long been ignored by the fashion industry, but it’s high time for reform, argued Sinéad Burke on …
The BoF Podcast Episode 25: The Models Charter
One year after James Scully issued a plea to end the ‘cruel and sadistic’ abuse of fashion models, LVMH’s Antoine Arnault joined the casting director …
The BoF Podcast Episode 26: State of the Global Economy
For the first time in years, all of the world’s major economies are growing again and yet geopolitical risk has never been higher. What to …
The BoF Podcast Episode 27: The Gender Revolution
What is gender identity? What is gender expression? Dr Shazhan Amed, model Hanne Gaby Odelie, Teen Vogue’s Phillip Picardi and activist Laith Ashley shared their …
The BoF Podcast Episode 28: Are the Technology Giants Too Powerful?
The destructive monopolisation of the internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon is undermining cultural production, argued Jonathan Taplin on the #BoFVOICES stage in a debate …
The BoF Podcast Episode 30: The Power of Circularity
On stage at #BoFVOICES Dame Ellen MacArthur challenges the fashion industry, where less than 1 percent of garments are recycled, to work together to implement …
The BoF Podcast Episode 34: Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur
Marcia Kilgore, creator of Bliss, FitFlop, Soap & Glory and Beauty Pie, shares her fearless approach to business on stage at #BoFVOICES. Read the full …
The BoF Podcast: Inside the Hearst Media Empire with David Carey
On this episode of “Inside Fashion”, Imran Amed sits down with David Carey, president of Hearst Magazines, one of the world’s largest publishers of monthly …
The BoF Podcast Episode 40: The Great Fur Debate
Representatives from both sides of the debate took to the stage at Voices, BoF’s annual gathering for big thinkers in partnership with QIC Global Real …
The BoF Podcast Episode 41: Tapping the Potential of Conversational Commerce
The consumer is already powerful, and the beauty industry’s mission is realising and unlocking that power, Glossier’s Emily Weiss told Alexandra Shulman on stage at …
The BoF Podcast Episode 42: Building The Champion’s Mindset
Akin Akman, former tennis player-turned-fitness influencer — whose wildly popular Soul Cycle classes sell out in minutes — says the key to getting to the …