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by The Business of Fashion · English
The Business of Fashion has gained a global following as an essential daily resource for fashion creatives, executives and entrepreneurs in over 200 countries. It is frequently described as “indispensable,” “required reading” and “an addiction.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nick Knight Is Building His Own AI
Nick Knight (fashion photographer) discusses how AI is reshaping fashion imagery and argues for new creative mediums, new power dynamics for digital likeness, and a future-focused mindset rather than…
21 Aug 2026 · 39m · 16 chapters
The Influencer Follower-Count Era Is Ending
The episode argues that influencer marketing is moving beyond follower count as the main measure of influence.
19 Aug 2026 · 23m · 8 chapters
Kelly Wearstler on What Waiting Tables Taught Her About Design
Kelly Wearstler discusses how her early life, waiting tables, and graphic design training shaped her interior/architecture practice, plus her AI use and her landmark H&M Home collaboration.
14 Aug 2026 · 57m · 24 chapters
What the Best Fashion Stores Get Right
The Business of Fashion’s “Best Fashion Stores in the World” retail package argues that independent fashion retailers are thriving by offering analog, in-store discovery rather than digital sameness.
12 Aug 2026 · 32m · 11 chapters
Chris Green on Why The Best Fashion Stores Don’t Chase Scale
Chris Green explains why top independent fashion stores shouldn’t chase scale, arguing that “feeling” and curation—not transaction volume—build lasting customer relationships. He contrasts U.S.
7 Aug 2026 · 49m · 17 chapters
The Fashion and Beauty Companies Everyone Wants to Work For
BOF Careers’ 2026 “most desirable” fashion and beauty employers ranking, and the tension between brand prestige and day-to-day employee experience, including AI and compensation.
5 Aug 2026 · 34m · 15 chapters
The Patient Work of Turning Around Dior
Jonathan Anderson (creative director) explains how he’s “turning around” Dior through a patient, craft-first approach to couture—reframing couture as an endangered skill, building a six-month “lab”…
31 Jul 2026 · 58m · 17 chapters
Why Everyone's Reading Clothing Labels Again
Shoppers are flipping clothing labels to check fabric composition, driving a shift toward natural fibers (cotton, wool, linen) over synthetics like polyester—framed as health and wellness, not just…
29 Jul 2026 · 31m · 6 chapters
Avery Trufelman: “Everything Has Fashion. Fashion is Just Taste Over Time. ”
Avery Trufelman (creator/host of Articles of Interest) discusses why “everything has fashion,” how clothes encode history, labor, identity, politics, and culture, and how she built a fashion podcast…
24 Jul 2026 · 42m · 22 chapters
Is Fashion School Still Worth It?
Whether fashion school still pays off amid saturated programs, tougher hiring, AI disruption, and shifting expectations about work-life balance and skills.
22 Jul 2026 · 32m · 13 chapters
Paloma Elsesser on Purpose, Representation and the New Rituals of Body Care
Paloma El-Sesser discusses purpose-driven representation in fashion and beauty, the pitfalls of tokenism and “aestheticized” DEI/body positivity, and her shift from modeling other brands to building…
17 Jul 2026 · 22m · 9 chapters
The Anti-Unicorn Playbook That Beat Fashion's DTC Boom
How 2016-era fashion DTC brands (Everlane, Glossier, Allbirds, Outdoor Voices) used venture capital, minimalist branding, and heavy Instagram/Meta ad spend—then why many stumbled—while quieter, often…
15 Jul 2026 · 27m · 12 chapters
Decoding Paris Haute Couture: Wonder, Restraint and the Call of the Void
Tim Blanks (Business of Fashion) and Imran Ahmed decode Paris haute couture week during a record heat wave, arguing couture’s job is to keep “wonder” alive through extravagance, restraint, and…
10 Jul 2026 · 57m · 19 chapters
Luxury’s New Reality
Luxury’s slowdown and what’s driving purchases now, based on BOF and McKinsey’s State of Fashion report (2,000+ shoppers in the U.S. and China plus luxury executives).
9 Jul 2026 · 32m · 10 chapters
Mona Kattan on Finding the Courage to Go It Alone
Mona Kattan discusses therapy-driven self-awareness about codependency, then how she gained the courage to build Kayali (K.A.L.E.) independently from Huda Beauty—culminating in a 2017 internal…
3 Jul 2026 · 25m · 10 chapters
How Nike Built the Biggest World Cup Campaign Ever
Nike’s strategy for the 2026 World Cup, framed as a “360” campaign built around joy, instinct, and global-but-local execution.
1 Jul 2026 · 49m · 22 chapters
Oura CEO on the Future of Health Intelligence
Oura CEO Tom Hale discusses Oura’s “health intelligence” vision, its IPO, and how wearable biometrics can power personalized predictions and behavior change.
26 Jun 2026 · 30m · 12 chapters
Why Activewear Consumers Are Looking Beyond Lululemon
Activewear market shift away from Lululemon as consumers chase novelty; TikTok-driven challenger brands and changing workout habits are eroding “status symbol” dominance.
24 Jun 2026 · 25m · 8 chapters
How Books Became Fashion’s Latest Status Symbol
Fashion’s “BookTok” moment—brands are turning books into status symbols via product charms, campaigns, bookstores, library installations, and literary salons, even as reading for pleasure declines…
17 Jun 2026 · 26m · 10 chapters
Anoushka Shankar: Creativity Is an Act of Hope
Anoushka Shankar discusses “creativity as an act of hope,” using her three-album trilogy to explain how she returned to music after pandemic-era creative numbness and personal hardship, and how…
12 Jun 2026 · 24m · 10 chapters
Fashion's Ozempic Reckoning
How GLP-1 drugs (Ozempic/wegovy and related peptides) are forcing fashion and beauty to rethink fit, sizing, and marketing as bodies change faster; includes bridal retail risk/waivers and brand…
10 Jun 2026 · 31m · 12 chapters
Conner Ives is Building a Business With Instinct
Connor Ives discusses turning creative instinct into a sustainable fashion business—balancing high/low aesthetics, recycled deadstock materials, and the realities of wholesale, merchandising, and…
5 Jun 2026 · 54m · 21 chapters
Carlos Nazario: The Kid From Queens Who Changed Fashion Imagery
Carlos Nazario’s path from Queens nightlife to redefining fashion imagery for luxury media, including the personal costs of breaking into an industry that didn’t reflect his background.
29 May 2026 · 1h 19m · 23 chapters
Leena Nair and Matthieu Blazy on Creativity and the Power of the Human Hand
Chanel’s 2025 momentum is framed as the result of CEO Leena Nair’s long-term investments in retail, manufacturing, and people, plus artistic director Matthieu Blazy’s creativity.
22 May 2026 · 51m · 24 chapters