Kelly Wearstler on What Waiting Tables Taught Her About Design
When the designer Kelly Wearstler was five or six years old, she made little drawings and small sculptures out of cans and cartons, laid them out on t...
What the Best Fashion Stores Get Right
For much of the last decade, fashion brands and retailers were fixated on making shopping as seamless as possible — endless product online, algorithmi...
Chris Green on Why The Best Fashion Stores Don’t Chase Scale
Independent multi-brand retailers have long been among fashion's most influential tastemakers, introducing emerging designers, shaping customer discov...
The Fashion and Beauty Companies Everyone Wants to Work For
What makes a fashion or beauty company a truly desirable place to work? BoF’s second annual ranking of the industry’s most sought-after employers look...
The Patient Work of Turning Around Dior
When I sat down with Jonathan Anderson in his Dior atelier last December, he hadn’t shown a single couture look yet and nothing he'd designed for the...
Why Everyone's Reading Clothing Labels Again
Fabric content used to be a niche sustainability conversation. Now it's a mainstream health one, driven by the same scrutiny shoppers already apply to...
Avery Trufelman: “Everything Has Fashion. Fashion is Just Taste Over Time. ”
As fashion is increasingly consumed through a stream of images, products and fleeting trends, Avery Trufelman, host of the award-winning podcast “Arti...
Is Fashion School Still Worth It?
For decades, institutions like Central Saint Martins, Parsons and Institut Français de la Mode have launched some of fashion's most successful careers...
Paloma Elsesser on Purpose, Representation and the New Rituals of Body Care
Diversity and body positivity have been important themes shaping the fashion conversation over the past decade. Yet a gap remains between the industry...
The Anti-Unicorn Playbook That Beat Fashion's DTC Boom
In 2016, the global retail landscape was dominated by successful direct-to-consumer (DTC) disruptors like Everlane, Glossier, Allbirds and Outdoor Voi...