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The Business of Fashion
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The Business of Fashion (BoF) is a London-based media company covering the global fashion and luxury industries. It was founded in 2007 by Imran Amed, a former management consultant, initially as a personal blog analyzing the business side of fashion, and has grown into one of the industry's most influential professional publications.
BoF publishes daily news, analysis, and opinion on luxury conglomerates, fashion brands, retail, beauty, and the creative economy, with much of its in-depth content available through BoF Professional, a paid membership that includes case studies, market analyses, and briefings. Flagship products include The State of Fashion, an annual report produced with McKinsey & Company that is widely used for industry planning; the BoF 500, an index of the people shaping the global fashion industry; and the VOICES conference.
BoF Careers is the company's job platform, listing roles across luxury brands, fashion houses, retailers, and beauty companies worldwide, from design and merchandising to marketing and executive positions, and is one of the primary recruitment destinations for the luxury and fashion sector. The platform also publishes career advice and employer profiles.
The company is headquartered in London with team members across major fashion capitals. Its readership spans executives, founders, investors, and students across more than two hundred countries and territories.
BoF publishes daily news, analysis, and opinion on luxury conglomerates, fashion brands, retail, beauty, and the creative economy, with much of its in-depth content available through BoF Professional, a paid membership that includes case studies, market analyses, and briefings. Flagship products include The State of Fashion, an annual report produced with McKinsey & Company that is widely used for industry planning; the BoF 500, an index of the people shaping the global fashion industry; and the VOICES conference.
BoF Careers is the company's job platform, listing roles across luxury brands, fashion houses, retailers, and beauty companies worldwide, from design and merchandising to marketing and executive positions, and is one of the primary recruitment destinations for the luxury and fashion sector. The platform also publishes career advice and employer profiles.
The company is headquartered in London with team members across major fashion capitals. Its readership spans executives, founders, investors, and students across more than two hundred countries and territories.
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Founded by Imran Amed in 2007 as a blog, The Business of Fashion has become the leading digital publication analyzing the business of luxury and fashion, with daily editorial, the BoF Professional membership, the BoF 500 index, and the annual State of Fashion report produced with McKinsey.
Luxury Jobs
BoF Careers is The Business of Fashion's global job platform, listing positions at luxury houses, fashion brands, retailers, and beauty companies worldwide. Combined with BoF's career advice and employer profiles, it is one of the leading recruitment destinations for professionals in the luxury and fashion industries.
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2007
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London, UK
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The Business of Fashion has achieved something rare for a publication that started as a single founder's blog: it is now the industry's default reference point for serious analysis of luxury and fashion as businesses rather than just creative endeavors. Imran Amed's original insight, that the industry lacked rigorous business journalism to match its cultural coverage, has been executed consistently for nearly two decades, and The State of Fashion report produced with McKinsey has become genuinely load-bearing for corporate planning across the sector, cited by executives who would never quote a typical trade publication that way. BoF Professional's paywalled depth justifies its subscription cost for anyone working inside the industry, offering case studies and briefings with real analytical rigor rather than recycled press releases. BoF Careers is a smart, complementary extension, positioning the outlet as an end-to-end resource from industry news to actual employment, and the BoF 500 has real cultural cachet as an insider's who's-who. It is essential reading for luxury and fashion professionals, less relevant for casual consumers of the sector.
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