Fashion

Mar 29
10 min

Fashion, Politics, and Pandemic - 'Staying in-SANE' with @bynikitavora

@bynikitavora, an eponymous brand created by Nikita Vora creates garments that are bold, yet conscious of their socio-political context....

Modest Fashion - Inclusion or Token Statement?

Zahrah Kadiri

Mar 18
6 min

Modest Fashion - Inclusion or Token Statement?

It seems as though the fashion industry has finally reached a space where current trends can coexist with modesty – where one need not be...

Nicole Chim

Jan 25
6 min

BoF VOICES - Reinventing Retail

By the end of 2020, COVID-19 had made it clear that our current ways of life are vulnerable to rapid changes and shocks. Suddenly, shops...

BoF VOICES - Innovation and the Reconstruction of the Fashion Industry

Amy Shah

Jan 25
5 min

BoF VOICES - Innovation and the Reconstruction of the Fashion Industry

For the first year in its history, the Business of Fashion held its iconic three-day annual event VOICES, online via a global livestream....

Instagram’s made-to-order brands: the beginning of the end of fast fashion

Bo Nguyen

Nov 18, 2020
5 min

Instagram’s made-to-order brands: the beginning of the end of fast fashion

I wasn't putting my money where my mouth was, so I had no choice but to find alternatives. I started looking for solutions where I initi

Copyright and creativity in fashion—where to draw the line?

Sara Forgaciu

Aug 3, 2020
5 min

Copyright and creativity in fashion—where to draw the line?

While knockoffs are illegal in the eyes of the Guatemalan government, they are fully accepted by the locals. They are inferior in quality an

Luxury In Lockdown: The Role of Fashion in a Pandemic

Emma Short

Jul 17, 2020
4 min

Luxury In Lockdown: The Role of Fashion in a Pandemic

Image: Flaunter During lockdown, our lives were stripped back to the basics. We left the house only when necessary. We stockpiled food...

Hill & Friends 'Happy Factory From Home' Digital Presentation at London Fashion Week AW2

Olivia Kim

Jul 8, 2020
2 min

Hill & Friends 'Happy Factory From Home' Digital Presentation at London Fashion Week AW2

The British Fashion Council has transformed the iconic London Fashion Week into a digital platform. Hill & Friends – a British luxury ac

XU ZHI AW20 ‘Prelude’ collection at London Fashion Week

Olivia Kim

Jul 4, 2020
3 min

XU ZHI AW20 ‘Prelude’ collection at London Fashion Week

XU ZHI revealed its latest Autumn/Winter 2020 collection called ‘Prelude’ in a video presentation that captured a series of modern and glamo

Liza Mikhaleva

Jun 3, 2020
9 min

Russian-Kurdish designer Lorin Mai talks about her brand Vertigo, childhood spent in Syria and comin

A self-proclaimed 'Syrian spice'—fashion designer Lorin Mai—doesn't only have good taste in metaphors but also has an understand

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