As the 2010s come to a close, BoF reflects on how the past decade transformed the fashion industry — and the culture at large. Explore our insights here. A 2011 profile in American Vogue marked a turning point for Proenza Schouler designers Jack...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Monday, December 16, 2019
Capri Holdings Acquires First Factory #StartUps
NEW YORK, United States — Capri Holdings, the parent of Mickael Kors, Versace and Jimmy Choo, has agreed to acquire Italian footwear factory Alberto Gozzi S.r.L., located in Pistoia, Tuscany. The factory has been family-owned since its founding ...
Capri Holdings Acquires First Factory #StartUps
#BusinessGuide NEW YORK, United States — Capri Holdings, the parent of Mickael Kors, Versace and Jimmy Choo, has agreed to acquire Italian footwear factory Alberto Gozzi S.r.L., located in Pistoia, Tuscany. The factory has been family-owned sinc...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Why It’s So Hard to Adopt the Moncler Genius Model #Startups
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — Moncler’s Genius collaboration project has pushed the design boundaries of the brand’s signature puffer material, producing everything from floor-length turgid caftans designed by Pierpaolo Piccioli to fut...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Bustle Tries a New Strategy: Quality Over Clickbait #Startups
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — Bustle Digital Group (BDG), the digital media machine founded by Bryan Goldberg in 2013, is perhaps best known for two attributes: big ambitions and a penchant for controversy. This year, most of the drama...
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Vogue International Rebrands as Vogue Global Network #Startups
#businesstips LONDON, United Kingdom — Condé Nast is now one global company. But how does a publisher, divided historically so deeply by country boundaries, adapt to a new unified structure? It’s an ongoing and sometimes tense process, one that ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
How Publishers Are Supersizing the Holiday Gift Guide #Startups
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — For years, publications have used silly, strange, outlandish — and occasionally practical — holiday gifts guides as an opportunity to make some noise. And, in more recent years, some serious cash, collected...
Friday, November 15, 2019
Is This the End of Gendered Media? #Startups
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — GQ’s November edition is full of feelings, self-reflection and florid fashion, including a cover image of Pharrell Williams in a majestic, caftan-style puffer, embodying the issue’s “New Masculinity” theme....
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Farfetch Sees Path to Profitability — in 2021 #Startups
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — Farfetch reported a smaller-than-expected loss in the third quarter on Thursday, and for the first time put a date on when it might break even: 2021. Farfetch’s losses after tax totalled $85.5 million, dow...
Monday, November 11, 2019
How To Engineer a Media Moment #Startups
#businesstips PARIS, France — It was impossible to miss the hot pink catwalk that designer Simon Porte-Jacquemus dreamt up for his tenth-anniversary show this June. The designer had pulled off buzzy shows before, but the cinematic images of mode...
Friday, November 8, 2019
How Vogue’s New Go-to Photographer Broke Into the Business #Startups
#businesstips NEW YORK, United States — Actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the award-winning writer and creator of “Fleabag” and “Killing Eve,” is having the kind of congratulatory year that comes with one of the few remaining media validation moments...