designers

Designers from RaiseFashion’s third masterclass cohort are navigating shifting tariffs, supply chain challenges and pricing pressures. Here, BoF explores how four designers leverage their heritage to build their businesses — finding resilience through mentorship, storytelling and community.

Following a management buyout, creative director Georgiana Huddart and new CEO Krishna Nikhil lay out their plans to double the crinkly one-size-fits-all British swimwear label’s annual sales to £60 million over the next two years.

As the Italian footwear brand marks its 50th anniversary, Santoni is eyeing up expansion into new regions and categories while doubling down on its commitment to quality, craftsmanship and its sustainability goals. BoF sits down with Giuseppe Santoni, president and chairman, to discuss the brand’s strategic focus for 2025.

Kering has named the former Valentino designer known for his deft use of colour and sculptural couture to succeed Demna in an apparent reset at the Paris-based brand.

With sustainability falling down the priority list for fashion executives in 2025, emerging designers are looking to meet demands for conscious consumerism — but face substantial challenges in an oversaturated market facing macroeconomic limitations. BoF sits down with Felita Harris, co-founder of non-profit RaiseFashion that provides financial, educational and community support for underrepresented designers focused on sustainability goals, to learn more.

Creative entrepreneurs Shay Mitchell, Mike Amiri and Tina Craig joined cultural aficionados Becky G, Bella Poarch, Victoria Justice, Janaya ‘Future’ Khan, Elaine Welteroth and Nara Aziza Smith at the ‘Creatives Shaping Culture’ event in Los Angeles, hosted by BoF’s Imran Amed and Self-Portrait’s Han Chong.

Brands including La Veste, Gimaguas and Flabelus have become the hot alternative to Europe's usual French and Scandinavian labels. Customers in cities like New York can't get enough.

In the first Met Gala that centered Black style, there was a collision of modern culture and history from embellished capes to bedazzled canes and grillz.