With Anok Yai wearing pieces from the legendary Japanese designer's archive, we tell the 50-year story behind one of fashion's most emblematic brands.

To mark his Fendi couture debut, Kim’s colleagues and friends discuss the illustrious history of his career as one of the world’s most influential designers.

The Belgian businesswoman behind the rise of Ann Demeulemeester and Haider Ackermann has taken on a new challenge: resurrecting Paul Poiret.

Driven by low rents and a renegade cultural scene, Berlin is a magnet for creatives, but the city’s most noteworthy fashion labels still show elsewhere.

An exodus of major fashion houses from the official calendar means the next month of menswear shows will provide an opportunity for lesser-known designers to shine. BoF spotlights the season’s can’t-ignore talents.

Fashion has long perpetuated a single creator myth, but behind every great designer is a team of designers, some of them powerhouses in their own right.

The fashion house has had its fair share of comings and goings. Now, Luke and Lucie Meier are reimagining the brand.

Together, Shaun Leane and Lee Alexander McQueen pushed boundaries and changed the perception of what jewellery or fashion could be. Now, Leane's archive is up for sale at Sotheby's.

La Double J has been a breakout star of the Milanese fashion world, but its formula for success is surprisingly simple.

Once an unofficial student publication, today 1 Granary has ambitious plans to become a global platform for emerging designers and creatives.

Hussein Chalayan is the last of the great talents of the 1990s to remain independent. Maybe that's why he's as fearless as ever.

Established by the partner of Yves Saint Laurent, the Institut Français de la Mode is closely knitted into the French fashion ecosystem like few others.

With a ‘streetwear meets erotica dominatrix’ aesthetic, the 25-year-old stylist aims to build his own brand at the intersection of fashion, music and philanthropy.

Millennial-friendly megabrands like Gucci are going fur-free, but the $40 billion global fur industry is working hard to reinvent itself for a new generation of consumers.

The American photographer helped forge the way for female photographers, who are often overlooked in favour of the distinctively male giants of photography like Irving Penn and Richard Avedon.

A growing number of labels are betting archival re-issues, along with more ephemeral collections, will help them deliver a winning mix of consistency and newness, with benefits to brand storytelling and the bottom line.

‘The bishop’ of catwalk images speaks to BoF about Catwalking.com and his six decades in the photographers’ pit at the end of the runway.

Whereas we were once required to make strong commitments to semiotic tribes, we now live in a ‘Supermarket of Style’ where young people cut-and-paste stylistic identity at will.

The independent style title - whose covers are more likely to feature authors than fashion models - is growing its club, which meets for sponsored events ranging from architectural tours to cards nights.

Without external investment, Erdem Moralioglu has steadily built a label with a turnover of $13 million and an aesthetic loved by some of the world’s most elegant women. Now, a collaboration with H&M could get his name in front of a whole legion of new fans.

Dazed & Confused may have been started by students, but 25 years later, it has become a training ground for multiple generations of fashion creatives.

Once the toast of fashion and now a nostalgic touchpoint for Millennials, the cult brand is relaunching today in London.

François-Henri Pinault of Kering and Antoine Arnault of LVMH speak to BoF about their new charter to protect models. Does it go far enough?

Once the preserve of luxury megabrands with long histories, archives are becoming de rigueur for a handful of fashion labels striding into their second decade.

As fashion titles face increasing pressure from brands to show clothes exactly as they appeared on the runway, the editorial shoot has become less about consumer inspiration and more of a controlled marketing play.

With a noticeable rise in international buyers, press and street style activity at Copenhagen Fashion Week, there's growing evidence that Danish fashion is attracting a global following.

What began as a niche cashmere line has blossomed into a brand with almost $60 million in annual revenue and plans to take the quintessential Copenhagen girl global.

Logos were once the symbolic and unwavering facet of a fashion house, but as branding becomes more nuanced in the digital age, logos are becoming more fluid than ever.

Colette, the Parisian boutique and longstanding temple of cool, is closing down after 20 years. Saint Laurent is currently in discussions to take over its Rue Saint-Honoré location.

The French contemporary wave that gave birth to brands like Sandro, Maje and The Kooples is evolving.

As Peter Dundas prepares to unveil his own namesake label in Paris on Sunday, he tells BoF about abandoning collections in favour of 'drops' and how that Beyoncé moment came to be.

Jonathan Anderson is kicking off a new era for his namesake label, centered on scale and new collaborations.

The London-based menswear designer is the first-ever creative director of one of Britain’s oldest heritage brands -- and its secret weapon.

Appropriation can be a force for good, creating a cultural exchange and enriching the available vocabulary for creatives of all types.

At the debut runway show of fashion's most prolific collaborator, BoF finds a collection packed with quintessentially 'Alexa' pieces, sure to be catnip for her many fans.

Melanie Ward ushered in a new mood of raw imagery in the 1990s, helping to build some of the era’s most iconic brands, including Helmut Lang and Calvin Klein.

The casting director for Sunday's Louis Vuitton Cruise show in Kyoto has answered claims by model Ulrikke Hoyer that she was ordered to 'drink only water' and ultimately sent home for being 'too big.'

On the surface Cristóbal Balenciaga and Demna Gvasalia couldn’t be more different. But the connections between the enigmatic couturier and his buzzy heir run deep.

Best known for his dramatic hair sculptures for Comme des Garçons, Julien d'Ys was the first to purposefully make hair look dirty, using potions of grease, vodka, clay or powder.