While luxury fashion sales faltered and beauty’s previously rapid growth softened, fragrance thrived as 2024’s fastest-growing beauty category. The year saw a fashion fragrance revival, …
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The Best of BoF 2024: Where Skincare Will Go Next
2024 was a year of reckoning for skincare brands. After years of pandemic-fuelled growth that saw consumers obsessed with finding affordable, results-backed products, drugstores that …
The Best of BoF 2024: Fashion’s Obsession Reaches Fever Pitch
This year marked a turbulent period of transition for the sneaker and sportswear categories. For category leader Nike, whose stalling sales and cooling brand heat …
The Best of BoF 2024: Fashion Adapts to a Tough Reality
For retail operators, it’s been a tough 12 months. Years of sticker shock have pushed shoppers to be discerning — some would say fickle. Freight …
The BoF Podcast | Alessandro Michele and Jacopo Venturini on the New Valentino
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The BoF Podcast | How Independent Brands Can Thrive in a Fashion World Ruled by Giants
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System Co-Founders Reacquire Magazine | BoF
System co-founders Elizabeth von Guttman, Jonathan Wingfield and Thomas Lenthal have reacquired the intellectual property rights and full ownership of the Anglo-French magazine after the …
Fashion’s Innovation Dilemma | BoF
Nike-owned RTFKT became web3′s latest casualty this week, when the virtual sneaker and fashion brand announced it would cease operations by the end of January. …
The BoF Podcast | How Skims and On Create Cultural Relevance
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The BoF Podcast | The Great Luxury E-Commerce Reckoning
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Meet Australia’s ‘Fashion Billionaires’ | BoF
Walk into almost any shopping centre or outdoor mall in Australia, and you’ll likely find a Cotton On store. These days you even come across …
Hodinkee Names New Editor-in-Chief | BoF
Hodinkee has named James Stacey its new editor-in-chief. Stacey, who joined the watch-enthusiast site as a contributor in 2017, will be tasked with returning Hodinkee’s …
Announcing Kosas and Jaded London to BoF Careers
This week, we are pleased to introduce two new partners on BoF Careers. Kosas is a makeup brand with a particular skincare focus, founded by …
At BoF VOICES 2024, The Future of Commerce-Enabled Culture
At BoF VOICES 2024, the annual event which sees BoF’s community come together to discuss the industry’s future and critical innovation, several leading cultural players …
The BoF Podcast | Tina Brown on the Role of Journalism in the Age of Donald Trump
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BoF VOICES 2024 Concludes With Gala Celebration
OXFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom — After three days of intimate gatherings, riveting talks and surprising industry revelations on stage, the ninth edition of BoF VOICES concluded …
BoF VOICES 2024: Global Culture and Creativity
OXFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom — When star designer Alessandro Michele was appointed creative director at Valentino earlier this year, he was reunited with Jacopo Venturini: the …
Beauty’s Slowdown Goes Global | BoF
The famous “Lipstick Index” theory of sales dictates that when consumers spend less on big-ticket handbags and jewellery, they’ll turn to beauty instead. By that …
BoF VOICES 2024: The Next Phase of Generative AI
Can artificial intelligence be a force for good? It’s complicated. But it’s this question that some of fashion’s most promising innovators and tech pioneers tackled …
Julie Bornstein Unveils the ‘ChatGPT of Shopping’ at BoF VOICES 2024
Just a decade ago, retailers saw the endless aisle of e-commerce as an untapped goldmine. While stores could only stock so much product, online the …