2022

The Business of Fashion
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Fashion’s Most Anticipated M&A Hot Spots in 2025

As the year’s M&A wave starts with once-hot legacy labels finding new owners, while buzzy start-ups hold out for higher valuations, BoF breaks down the types of acquisition targets the [...]

TikTok’s Rivals Are Coming for Its E-Commerce Business

The platform turned viral content into a major revenue driver. With a ban on the horizon, platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and WhatNot are hoping to replicate TikTok’s blend of shopping [...]

So Long Quiet Luxury

At Milan men’s fashion week, the clothes were on the safe side, but the classics, when seen with free and inventive eyes, can rank amongst the most contemporary expressions of [...]

Bernard Arnault, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg and More Attend Trump’s Inauguration

A number of top business leaders in fashion and tech attended the smaller-scale inauguration inside the US Capitol. [...]

EU Plans Ban on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Consumer Products

‘What we know we are looking for is a ban in consumer products,’ EU Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall told Reuters in an interview. [...]

Will President Trump Redraw Fashion’s Global Sourcing Map?

Manufacturers in Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa are bracing for new tariffs which could radically shift trade flows as brands in the US move supply chains and deploy complex [...]

Announcing Swarovski to BoF Careers

Check out this week’s new partners and openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion and beauty talent. [...]

What Comes After TikTok’s Wild Weekend

Many US users had come to depend on the platform for their livelihoods, and brands found great success in partnering with them. Rebuilding that ecosystem in a suddenly fragmented social [...]

Industry Leaders Share Perspectives at Milan Fashion Week Men’s Celebration

BoF, together with Amazon Fashion, unite renowned designers, executives, entrepreneurs and creatives from brands and businesses including Prada, Bottega Veneta, Moncler, Bally, Versace, Marni, Stone Island, Zegna, Tod’s, Cabana Magazine, [...]

What’s Working in a Tough Menswear Market

Italian menswear has been comparatively resilient during luxury’s slowdown. At Pitti Uomo and Milan men’s week, executives hoped top-end, targeted propositions, technical brands and twisted classics would sustain the category. [...]

TikTok Is Restoring Service in the US

The ByteDance-owned platform allowed users back on its app on Sunday following President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to grant an extension on the ban. [...]

TikTok Goes Dark for US Users, App Stores Remove Platform

TikTok on Saturday suspended its services for US-based users while Apple Inc. and Google removed the platform from their mobile app stores to avoid penalties under a new law, as [...]

This Week: Ready or Not, Here Comes President Donald Trump

TikTok, tariffs and immigration are among the issues that could see major action taken in the opening days of Trump’s second term. [...]

Vogue France Names New Head of Editorial Content

Thomson-Jonville first joined Vogue’s global network in September 2024 as global contributing editor, overseeing Vogue France’s print edition. [...]

From Refik Anadol and Sougwen Chung to Misty Copeland and Tom Daley: what to see and listen to at Davos

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum features a glacier-themed opening concert, specially commissioned exhibitions from leading digital and craft-based artists and a cultural table featuring global figures from [...]

Donald Trump begins second term as US president following fundraising galas at Washington museums

Trump spoke to donors at the National Building Museum one day after JD Vance hosted supporters at the National Gallery of Art [...]

A newly discovered bath complex—thought to be the biggest in a Pompeiian home—is set to open to the public

The spa complex was thought to have been owned by a powerful politician [...]

Paintings depicting the infamous Maralinga nuclear bomb tests to feature at Melbourne Art Fair

The Indigenous artist Harriette Bryant Created delves into the human cost of the tests conducted by the UK in South Australia in the 1950s [...]

UK government flies flag for culture with new soft power advisory council

But art world commentators say focus should instead be on the “parlous state of the arts” [...]

How galleries can get to grips with Trump 2.0

A round up of practical solutions for those braced for turmoil [...]

Sara Raza to lead revamped Centre for Contemporary Art in Tashkent

The London-born curator, who has previously organised shows at events such as the Venice Biennale, has been appointed as the artistic director and chief curator of the museum in Uzbekistan’s [...]

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Emmeline Yong

The co-founder and director of Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film on her upcoming exhibitions and the best place to see the city's skyline [...]

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Ning Chong

Ning Chong is the co-founder of the private gallery The Culture Story with her father Chong Huai Seng [...]

Singapore Art Week: art off the beaten track

As well as the big museums and fairs, Singapore Art Week gives smaller projects a chance to shine [...]

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Robert Zhao Renhui

The artist on how the city’s art scene is becoming more focused on sustainability and ecological themes [...]

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Yeo Shih Yun

The founder of INSTINC art space on the DIY spirit of Singapore’s art scene [...]

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Tini Aliman

The sound artist describes creating ‘poetic cartography’ that retells the stories of the land [...]

From organisations nurturing young talent to a successful new art fair, Singapore's art scene is hitting its stride

As this year's Singapore Art Week kicks off, we take a look at the development of the city-state's museums, galleries and wider arts ecosystem over recent years [...]

Let there be light: Singapore Art Week brings art to every part of the city

Visitors to this year's Singapore Art Week are spoilt for choice, with more than 160 events and exhibitions to take in, from art fairs to shows of established and emerging [...]

Vancouver Art Gallery gifted collection of 122 Modern and contemporary works

The gifted works, collectively valued at C$10m ($7m), come from Vancouver collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe and include pieces by Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu and more [...]

Elizabeth Catlett bust of Martin Luther King Jr goes on view for first time in 40 years

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco recently acquired the work, which is being exhibited at the de Young Museum ahead of Martin Luther King Jr Day [...]

Frieze will proceed with Los Angeles fair following deadly wildfires in the city

A fair spokesperson said the decision came after “careful consideration and extensive conversations with galleries, partners and city-wide stakeholders” [...]

New art trail for pedestrians and cyclists to connect museums in the Berkshires

The 9.3-mile bike and pedestrian path will connect the Clark Art Institute, Williams College Museum of Art, Mass Moca and other cultural and historical sites in western Massachusetts [...]

Insurance companies fight $19.7m claim over Basquiat forgeries

The owners of works the FBI seized from the Orlando Museum of Art have filed an eight-figure claim, but the insurers say “coverage is unavailable because… the property was inauthentic” [...]

‘The market is still the domain of famous male artists’: Guerrilla Girls open their first commercial gallery show in New York

The feminist art collective’s commercial debut in their hometown, at Hannah Traore Gallery, is intended to introduce their activist work to a new generation [...]

Buyers can name their price at gallery that challenged artists to create hard-to-sell works

Haul Gallery in Brooklyn, which recently transitioned to a non-profit model, is offering conceptually or physically difficult works for as little as $1 apiece [...]

Framing Van Gogh: why the artist preferred not to surround his works with gold

The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition, ‘Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers’, provides an unusual opportunity to see how the artist’s works have been framed by their owners [...]

As part of a new campaign, David Hockney is encouraging the nation to get drawing

The artist's Draw! project is part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture [...]

Comment | Don’t try to keep working-class students in a narrow educational lane

This idea of exposing working-class school students only to the stories of working-class heroes, at the expense of “middle-class pursuits” such as museums, is misguided [...]

Los Angeles wildfires, World Monuments Fund’s watch list, a Hokusai drawing manual—podcast

How the most devastating fires in Southern Californian history are affecting artists and art workers, plus chats about the work the WMF is doing to protect world heritage and a [...]

‘Can you match the colour of your work to my couch?’: Inside the world of private art commissions

Artists are regularly asked to create pieces to suit the particular tastes of buyers—but taking direction suits some more than others [...]

Sougwen Chung: meet the boundary-pushing pioneer of robot art

The Chinese Canadian artist is presenting a new kinetic work as part of the arts and culture programme at the 2025 World Economic Forum [...]

How the World Economic Forum is offering a global stage for collaboration between art and technology

With a focus on melting ice caps, Joseph Fowler, the World Economic Forum’s head of arts and culture, completes an environmental trilogy of opening concerts at the forum's annual meeting [...]

Refik Anadol: the AI artist sounding the alarm on glacial destruction

For his third artwork presented at Davos 2025, the artist uses artificial intelligence to highlight the devastating impact of climate change [...]

Davos loses out on key Modern and contemporary collection after voters reject Kirchner Museum extension

The Ulmberg collection, comprising works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Lyonel Feininger, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, may go to the city of Chur [...]

Gary Tyler: the quilt artist who speaks up for the unjustly incarcerated

Released after being wrongly imprisoned for 41 years, the US artist spreads a message of hope and optimism [...]

Jann Haworth: a work in progress for recognition of women

The American Pop art pioneer’s mural project is closely tied to the concerns of the World Economic Forum’s annual gender gap report [...]

Cristina Mittermeier: ‘It is now or never’ to address climate change

This pioneer in conservation photography combines her passion and skill to capture our planet’s fragility [...]

Maria Balshaw: ‘Attitudes towards sustainability have shifted much faster in the last three to five years’

The director of the Tate discusses the measures that the global museum sector is taking to address the climate and environmental crisis [...]

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: the artist’s life in Davos

For 20 years, the troubled Expressionist found refuge, respite and inspiration in the Alpine town [...]

Comment | Why seeing art by train should be the next big thing

Flying to an exhibition is increasingly unjustifiable. But by choosing the train, visitors can enjoy endless, inspiring encounters with art and life [...]

David Lynch, artist and film-maker who portrayed America’s dark side with surreal humour and violence, has died, aged 78

Lynch trained as a painter before becoming a successful film-maker and ultimately returning to visual art in recent decades [...]

Ancient Roman statue of Athena goes on public view for first time in more than 200 years

The Halsted A&A Foundation is displaying its recent acquisition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago starting 25 January [...]

Five shows to see: we pick the highlights of Singapore Art Week

Taking place from 17-26 January, the week includes everything from museum shows to one-off pop-ups [...]

Eyeing growth, Art Dubai makes two senior appointments

Group behind the UAE's biggest fair has selected Alexie Glass-Kantor as executive director, curatorial, and Dunja Gottweis as fair director [...]

From sexed-up suburbia to sculptural alchemy: our pick of Condo London 2025

The gallery-sharing event, spread across different parts of the UK capital, features participants from Guatemala, Lebanon, Los Angeles and more [...]

Artists at London's ICA stage mass walkout in support of pro-Palestine protesters

The institution has described the protests at the opening of its New Contemporaries exhibition as "misguided" [...]

Nashville show looks at how the Impressionists and others depicted food production in 19th century France

The exhibition at the Frist Art Museum includes works by the likes of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Gauguin [...]

After a volcanic eruption, ancient Danes offered sun stones to the gods to bring back the light

The artefacts, found on the island of Bornholm, were "sown" into the ground in the hope of bringing back the sun and saving the crops, new research reveals [...]

Getty and other arts organisations launch $12m relief fund for victims of Los Angeles wildfires