Author: Imran Amed
Imran Amed sits down with Zegna’s Ermenegildo Zegna, Ralph Lauren’s Patrice Louvet and Art Basel’s Noah Horowitz — live from Semafor World Economy in Washington to examine what’s working in luxury.
In the second instalment of the BoF Podcast’s Ask Me Anything series, Imran Amed takes on listener questions about creative energy returning to the industry, what luxury really feels like, why independent brands don’t need the old gatekeepers, and how to keep going when the world feels uncertain.
On his first visit to Shanghai since before the pandemic, Imran Amed finds a market that has fundamentally changed — from status spending to stealth wealth, from megabrands to homegrown labels, from fashion focus to lifestyle emphasis — and asks, can Western brands catch up?
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For more than a decade, I have been trying to draw attention to one of fashion’s most persistent and least discussed structural failures: the way big multi-brand retailers treat the small independent designers whose work they depend on to project taste, edge and cultural relevance. Please sign in to ensure you can read our agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice. Or get in touch at support@businessoffashion.com if you experience difficulties.
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