UK’s small and mid-sized fashion firms generated £479,943 (~$643,000) in sales in the second quarter (Q2) of fiscal 2025 (FY25), a 109.28 per cent jump on the same period last year but 18.89 per cent drop on the previous quarter, according to a latest report from inventory management specialist Unleashed. UK fashion manufacturers are responding...
Published September 28, 2025 Fever gripped Milan on Saturday, as Meryl Streep, in the midst of filming “The Devil Wears Prada 2”, was spotted in the front row at Dolce & Gabbana. In this effervescent atmosphere, the Milanese couturiers were particularly optimistic, banking on a rebound. For next summer, they are betting on a return...
Listen to and follow the ‘BoF Podcast’: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast Background: Growing up in Ohio, Edward Buchanan always knew he would have a creative career. That interest first led him to art school at CCAD in Cleveland and then to the Parsons School of Design in New York, where he juggled jobs...
Today, the devil wore Dolce & Gabbana. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana had the celebrity gets of the season: With movie-perfect timing, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, dressed in character as Miranda Priestly and Nigel Kipling of Runway magazine, swooped in just as everyone else had taken their seats. Newcomer Simone Ashley, whose role in...
As a general rule, sneaker collaborations tend to involve two brands, usually an athletic footwear company and a partner from the entertainment, fashion or retail spaces. In rare instances, projects have combined three labels for multi-brand meetings of the minds. There have even been a small handful of sneaker collaborations which called on four different...
Published September 26, 2025 With Hypecult emblazoned across his black T-shirt, French rapper Aupinard is delivering a set blending R&B rhythms with bossa nova sounds. It is Thursday evening in a former industrial workshop in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, now converted into an events venue. The perfect setting to bring together Parisian urban-culture influencers and personalities,...
MILAN — Fashion watching cinema watching fashion: Day five of Milan Fashion Week offered a very meta moment as Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci brought the crowd at Dolce & Gabbana to their feet, entering the room in character as Miranda Priestly and Nigel. They were seated directly across from real-life editor Anna Wintour. (Scenes...
“I’m in the candy box,” Louise Trotter told a group of reporters backstage. Her appointment to Bottega Veneta last December made Trotter the sole woman to score a creative director job in a sweeping round of designer musical chairs that consumed fashion for the better part of a year. Rachel Scott getting the keys to...
Julia Roberts gave tailoring a relaxed spin at the “After the Hunt” screening in uptown Manhattan on Friday, pairing slouched shirting with one of Jimmy Choo’s sharpest fall heels. The actress wore the British brand’s Scarlett 95 pump in black nappa leather, a $1,075 silhouette distinguished by corset-style lacing at the vamp. Its cut is...
Published September 27, 2025 Amazon has agreed to make a one-off $2.5 billion payment to settle the U.S. court case in which the online retail giant was accused of deceiving tens of millions of consumers into subscribing to its Prime service. Shutterstock Under the agreement reached between Amazon and the U.S. consumer protection authority (FTC),...