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The Top 20 Movers, Shakers and Decision-Makers in China Fashion
Liu Wen for Estée Lauder | Source: Estée Lauder BEIJING, China — For the past few years, all eyes have been on China. Captivated by the country’s rapidly expanding economy, large population and...
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Three Women Behind the Scenes of Brazil’s Fashion Industry
São Paulo | Source: Skyscrapercity.com SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For many, Brazil’s body culture, eternal summer, and supermodels — not to mention its successful bids to host both the 2014 World Cup and the...
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Global Briefing | Could Africa be the Next Frontier for Fashion Retail?
Westgate Mall, Nairobi | Photo: kamalkaur.net NAIROBI, Kenya — In recent weeks, the media hype around Africa has been remarkable, with several articles in major publications proclaiming the continent...
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Are Fashion Brands Underestimating the Importance of China E-Commerce?
Gap Store on Tmall | Source: Tmall BEIJING, China — With its burgeoning middle class and status-conscious consumer culture, China remains the primary engine driving luxury market growth, even in a...
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Global Briefing | Forget the Beach, Mall Culture Rises in Brazil
JK Iguatemi | Photo: Daniela Tovianski SÃO PAULO, Brazil — In emerging markets like India and China, luxury shopping malls have often struggled to successfully take root. Quality and execution issues...
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Global Briefing | Brazil’s Changing Fashion Calendar
The scene at Alexandre Herchcovitch’s Spring/Summer 2012 show at São Paulo Fashion Week | Source: Nowfashion SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Effective this month, Luminosidade, the company that organizes São Paulo...
View ArticleGlobal Briefing | Chinese Fashion Brands Look West
LONDON, United Kingdom — It’s nearly impossible to go a week without reading about international fashion brands expanding their operations in China. But what about Chinese brands targeting the West? A...
View ArticleBrazilian Fashion’s Identity Crisis
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Despite rising inflation and slowing growth, Brazil is still the world’s sixth largest economy. And when it comes to fashion, international retailers and consumers remain excited...
View ArticleChina’s Anti-Corruption Campaign is Masking the Real Causes of the Luxury...
BEIJING, China — For the first time in six years, the Chinese luxury market has been set back after several consecutive years of double-digit growth. Indeed, behind the news that, last year, the...
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The Fashion Trail | Vancouver’s Digital Olympics
Vancouver Olympics Red Mittens | Source: Hudson's Bay Company VANCOUVER, Canada — Every two years that global extravaganza called the Olympic Games alternates between summer and winter sports. Next in...
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The Fashion Trail | Indonesia, Land of Batik, Bandung and BlackBerries
Indonesian street style in Bandung, West Java | Source: BoF JAKARTA, Indonesia — Amongst the facts about Indonesia that one finds repeated in tourist guidebooks, country profiles and international news...
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The Fashion Trail | Made in Fair Isle
Fair Isle jumpers | Source: FairIsle.org.uk FAIR ISLE, United Kingdom — On the most remote inhabited island in Britain, 24 miles south of the Shetland mainland, 27 miles north of the Orkney Islands and...
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The Fashion Trail | Vancouver’s Fashion Community Comes Together
Searching for Style in Vancouver | Photos: Bronte Robertson VANCOUVER, Canada — It’s always nice to come home. Longtime BoF readers will have noticed that each summer, BoF tends to publish a few...
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The Fashion Trail | BoF Breakfast Club
BoF Breakfast Club at Norwood Club | Photo: Drew Innis NEW YORK, United States — When I first met Rachel Shechtman at a Harvard Business School luxury goods conference back in 2007, we quickly learned...
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The Fashion Trail | Madrid Rising
Rising Office Towers in Madrid's Financial District | Source: urbemadrid.es MADRID, Spain — Stately and full of world-class art at any time of the year, Madrid is particularly appealing in the fall,...
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The Fashion Trail | In Italy, Digital Strategies are only Screen Deep
Hogan A/W 2011 Presentation | Source: The Business of Fashion MILAN, Italy — In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, luxury fashion brands found themselves scrambling to develop strategies for the...
View ArticleThe Fashion Trail | Fashion Rio Reaffirms Its Raison-d’Etre
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — While Sao Paulo Fashion Week kicked off on Friday, the industry’s eyes have been on Brazil and its booming fashion sector for a few weeks already, specifically on Rio de...
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The Fashion Trail | Modern Mumbai and Lakmé Fashion Week
Front Row at Lakmé Fashion Week | Photo: BoF MUMBAI, India – From the minute I landed in Bombay—as everyone here still calls it—the rapidly shifting nature of contemporary India was apparent. Instead...
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The Fashion Trail | Australia, Against All Odds
Dion Lee S/S 2012 at Sydney Opera House | Photo: BoF SYDNEY, Australia — Australian fashion has an image problem. When I mentioned to friends that I was thinking of attending Rosemount Australian...
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Global Briefing | How to Seize the China Opportunity, Beyond Store Openings
Miu Miu Event in Shanghai, China | Source: Miu Miu BEIJING, China — According to Bain & Company, a consulting firm, China is currently the world’s second largest consumer of luxury goods, ahead of...
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Global Briefing | How Can Emerging Fashion Brands Get a Leg Up in Chinese...
Sparkle Roll Luxury World | Photo: Timothy Coghlan BEIJING, China — With Chinese luxury consumption projected to account for 20 percent, or US$27 billion, of global luxury sales by 2015, it’s no secret...
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Arc’teryx: An Urban Journey from Outdoor Apparel to Menswear Fashion
Pieces from Arc’teryx Veilance Fall 2011 collection | Source: Arc’teryx VANCOUVER, Canada — An unassuming building, in an unassuming industrial complex. It’s hard to believe that this is the...
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The Fashion Trail | Holon Fashion Week
Design Museum Holon | Photo: Meir Bar Asher TEL AVIV, Israel — For people who live smack dab in the middle of the world’s most politically charged region, Israelis are a very warm and welcoming bunch,...
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Global Briefing | Cracking E-Commerce in China
Xiu.com screenshot | Source: Xiu.com We continue this week’s focus on e-commerce by turning our attention on how to succeed in the rapidly expanding e-commerce market in China. BEIJING, China —...
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Global Briefing | Is FDI Reform the Answer to the India Problem?
Hermès Flagship, Mumbai | Source: skyscrapercity.com In our second article this week focused on India, we investigate the barriers impeding the growth of India’s international luxury goods market,...
View ArticleThe Fashion Trail | Unravelling Brazil’s Luxury Market
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Arriving in Rio de Janeiro in the middle of the Brazilian summer, in a country experiencing an ongoing economic boom, certainly puts the bleak, uncertain economic outlook of...
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Global Briefing | Behind the Flurry of Store Openings in Australia
Louis Vuitton Maison in Sydney | Source: moluxury.com.au SYDNEY, Australia — 2011 was an extremely busy year for luxury retail expansion in Australia. In April, Burberry opened a new flagship on...
View ArticleThe Fashion Trail | 36 Hours in Qatar
DOHA, Qatar — Just before the madness of fashion week season began, I couldn’t resist accepting an invitation from Lama El Moatessem to visit Doha, the capital city of the tiny nation of Qatar, to...
View ArticleVlisco, the African Fashion Titan from Holland
LONDON, United Kingdom — Near sellers of dried salt fish, start-up restaurants staffed by earthy yuppies and an eatery called Fish, Wings and Tings, at the heart of Granville Arcade in Brixton, a...
View ArticleStorytelling Key to Burberry’s China Strategy, Says Christopher Bailey
SHANGHAI, China — “I think [storytelling] is important globally, but in China it stops things from being [mere] product and starts to give it life. Everything has a story — your clothes, buildings,...
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