Why You Should Join Us for BoF VOICES 2022

The Business of Fashion Podcast

The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Janaya Future Khan and Halima Aden joined BoF’s editor-at-large Tim Blanks to share their learnings and reflections after a packed day at BoF VOICES 2021. Sign up to join us for this year’s edition, free of charge.

Background:

From innovations changing fashion to navigating turmoil in the wider world, BoF VOICES, our annual gathering for big thinkers, is a platform to discussing the forces shaping the wider world.

”It was stimulating, it was educational, it was absolutely inspiring,” said BoF editor-at-large Tim Blanks, reflecting on the highlights from day one of BoF VOICES 2021, along with Janaya Future Khan and Halima Aden who shared their own learnings and reflections from the days talks.

On this week’s episode of The BoF Podcast, we revisit Khan and Aden’s conversation with Blanks about the evolution of community in the metaverse and representation in the fashion industry.

Sign up to join the global livestream BoF VOICES 2022, free of charge here: https://businessoffashion.brandlive.com/VOICES-2022/en

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0:00.0	Tomorrow is too late.
0:07.0	S-O-S.
0:10.0	The system has to change, the fashion industry has to change.
0:14.0	If you're going to change the system,
0:16.0	you should probably just build a new one.
0:18.0	Perfection is not possible. So, are we all ready to accelerate?
0:23.6	Voices is one of the most stimulating gatherings of inspiring people on the planet.
0:31.6	Every time I leave so inspired, so refueled.
0:35.6	It's a learning space, it's an incubator. And I feel so invigorated by all the
0:40.9	different talks. Are we going to get anywhere without, you know, stirring some shit up? No. Don't go backwards,
0:47.2	always forward. Say, if we go forward, where do we go forward to? Reciprocity. We are bridging
0:53.7	cultures together. There is no such thing as a single issue cause because we do not leave single issue lives.
0:59.3	We're fighting for freedom here. We're not fighting to decorate another cage. You combine creativity and intellect, inspiration and craft, discipline and flair.
1:11.6	Your drive is your passion for what you do, your love of your creativity.
1:15.6	Connection is worth the risk.
1:24.6	Find out who you are.
1:26.6	Live an extraordinary and remarkable life.
1:33.9	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion.
1:41.8	Welcome to the BOF podcast.
1:43.7	It's Friday, November 11th. Those were just some of the Business of Fashion, welcome to the B.O.F. Podcast. It's Friday, November 11th.
1:45.4	Those were just some of the highlights from last year's B.O.F. Voices, our annual gathering
1:50.7	for big thinkers, which takes place again this year from November 29th to December 1st.
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