PARIS, France — With no clear end in sight to the quarantine measures now in place in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the industry’s summer fashion weeks in Paris, Milan and London have been cancelled or postponed. The Board of Directors of the Fédération de la haute couture et de la Mode announced Friday that […]
The BoF Podcast: A Fashion Month Unlike Any Other
LONDON, United Kingdom — By the last two weeks of fashion month, the world had changed, with the coronavirus Covid-19 spreading quickly across the globe. This week on the BoF Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Imran Amed and Editor-at-Large and renowned fashion critic Tim Blanks give their verdict on a fashion month unlike any other. In uncertain times, […]
Raf and Miuccia Steal the Spotlight from Paris
THE CHEAT SHEET The Talk of Paris Fashion Week: Prada and the Coronavirus Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons, the co-creative directors of Prada | Source: Courtesy Paris Fashion Week runs Feb. 24 through March 3 Sunday’s announcement that Raf Simons will be joining Prada is sure to spark conversation on the front rows this week With dozens […]
In Paris, The #BoF500 Symposium Sparks Conversation on Inclusivity
PARIS, France — “To be inclusive doesn’t mean to point at something and be like, ‘that’s different, let’s love it,’” said Chika on stage at the first BoF 500 Symposium on Sunday morning. Being inclusive “literally means existing, and if anyone wants to challenge that…then I have the language, the rhetoric, the vocabulary to challenge […]
At Hermès, Clean Seduction
PARIS, France — The Tennis Club de Paris, a brutalist gem of a place, is not a neutral venue for fashion shows. After all, in the ’90s, it hosted quite a few seminal Helmut Lang shows. More recently, it was home to Phoebe Philo‘s era-defining Céline. In other words, it is a sort of temple to […]