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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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The fashion world is at a sudden inflection point. Big luxury players are struggling, e-commerce markets are floundering, and ultra-fast players like Shein are disrupting. The Business of Fashion’s Imran Amed takes us inside the tumult, providing a framework to understand the trends and their larger economic impact. Plus: how manufacturers are adapting to new sustainability scrutiny, and the first year of Pharrell Williams’ tenure at Louis Vuitton.
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0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now. |
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0:38.0 | The most interesting thing you can do |
0:40.0 | if you look at historical photos going back 50 or 100 years is to look at what people |
0:48.2 | are wearing. It gives you a sense of what's happening in the world at that time. |
0:54.8 | And so when we look back to 2024, Bob, and like the Hoka sneakers and the act leisure and |
1:01.2 | the street wear looks that people are |
1:02.8 | and things are a reflection of what's happening in the world right now. |
1:06.4 | And that's what makes fashion so powerful. |
1:12.4 | That's Imran Ahmed, founder and editor-in-chief of the business of fashion, the world's |
1:17.6 | preeminent authority on the fashion and luxury industry. Imran joins us in the wake of the latest Paris Fashion Week to explain a critical |
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