BoF VOICES 2024 Global Livestream
We look ahead to welcoming you to the BoF VOICES 2024 world livestream from November 12 to November 14.
The ninth version of our annual gathering for large thinkers takes place at a pivotal second for vogue and the broader world: Donald Trump’s return to The White Home may have critical implications for the worldwide financial system and geopolitics; the style business continues to grapple with sluggish development, and shifting buyer sentiment; and fast developments in synthetic intelligence and the looming local weather disaster proceed to weigh closely on the business.
We are going to discover all of those subjects — and extra — with prime enterprise and artistic leaders from vogue and luxurious, in addition to with main thinkers, consultants and entrepreneurs from the worlds of expertise, economics, media, science, music, philanthropy and up to date artwork and tradition.
Throughout 5 insight-packed content material classes, working over three days, we plan to cowl plenty of floor. You possibly can view the complete last agenda and speaker lineup under.
SESSION 1: THE WIDER WORLD
Tuesday, November 12
15:00 – 17:00 London | 10:00 – 12:00 New York
From politics to social points and humanitarian crises, each vogue, luxurious and sweetness enterprise is impacted by the broader world. Right here we take a step again to grasp the larger image.
WE ARE IN A NEW ERA!
Sven Smit
WHAT THE RETURN OF DONALD TRUMP MEANS FOR THE WORLD
Ravi Agrawal
CLIMATE CHANGE IS A CULTURAL CRISIS
Clover Hogan
SACRED GROUND: ONE WOMAN’S FIGHT TO SAVE THE AMAZON
Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson with Bandana Tewari
THE DAWN OF THE AFRICAN CENTURY
Fred Swaniker
SEEKING EMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING IN WAR AND SPEECH
Jameel Jaffer and Daniel Levy
WHERE WILL WE FIND OUR NEW HEROES?
Tina Brown with Imran Amed
SESSION 2: THE FASHION SYSTEM
Wednesday, November 13
10:30 – 12:30 London | 05:30 – 07:30 New York
The style, luxurious and sweetness industries are reworking earlier than our eyes. Right here we encounter the people who find themselves difficult the established order and imagining the thrilling alternatives that the longer term may convey.
THE STATE OF FASHION 2025
Gemma D’Auria and Imran Amed
FROM SLUMDOG TO MILLIONAIRE: DEMYSTIFYING INDIA’S GROWTH
Ravi Thakran
THE GREAT LUXURY E-COMMERCE RECKONING
Lauren Santo Domingo and Michael Kliger with Imran Amed
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT’S TOO HOT TO MAKE FASHION?
Beto Bina, Abiramy Sivalogananthan and Laurie Parsons with Sarah Kent
WHY H&M IS DOUBLING DOWN ON CREATIVITY
Daniel Ervér with Imran Amed
HOW INDEPENDENT BRANDS CAN THRIVE IN A FASHION WORLD RULED BY GIANTS
Bohan Qiu, Brandon Wen and Roksanda Ilincic with Olya Kuryshchuk
JACQUEMUS: A COMING OF AGE STORY
Simon Porte Jacquemus with Imran Amed
SESSION 3: TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
Wednesday, November 13
15:00 – 17:00 London | 10:00 – 12:00 New York
From provide chain innovation to AI transformation and different wellness therapies, we meet a daring group of scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs who’re utilizing expertise as a pressure for good.
THE SCIENCE OF LIKENESS: CREATING REALITY WITH AI
Tom Graham and Jefferson Hack
AN AI SOLUTION FOR FASHION’S BIG DISCOVERY PROBLEM
Julie Bornstein
WASTE IS THE BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY FASHION HAS EVER SEEN
Lawrence Lenihan
FROM DISPOSABILITY TO LONGEVITY: UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE OF REPAIR
Josephine Philips
HOW INNOVATION CAN BOLSTER AN INDEPENDENT FASHION BUSINESS
Stephanie Horton, Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini with Nick Blunden
SONIC APOTHECARY: MUSIC AS MEDICINE
Rosey Chan
SESSION 4: GLOBAL CULTURE AND CREATIVITY
Thursday, November 14
10:30 – 12:30 London | 05:30 – 07:30 New York
We live in an period of worldwide tradition and creativity, fueled by the rise of expertise platforms that join us all to movie, tv, music and artwork throughout the planet. Right here we meet among the industries’ inspiring artistic leaders.
HOME IS THE OTHER WE CARRY INSIDE US
Es Devlin and Ekow Eshun
COLOUR SCHEMES: A PAINTER BETWEEN WORLDS
Salman Toor
CREATING CULTURAL RELEVANCE IN THE ALGORITHMIC AGE
David Allemann and Jens Grede with Imran Amed
THE FUTURE OF COMMERCE- ENABLED CULTURE
Ruth Diaz with Robin Mellery-Pratt
DESIGN IS THE NEW LUXURY
Jesse Lee and Benjamin Paulin
THE NEW VALENTINO: THE EMOTIONAL CONNECTION BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND BUSINESS
Alessandro Michele and Jacopo Venturini with Tim Blanks
SESSION 5: LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE
Thursday, November 14
15:00 – 17:00 London | 10:00 – 12:00 New York
Let’s put issues into perspective. Hearken to passionate people with inspiring tales and uncover find out how to stay a life with objective and authenticity.
THE ART OF TRANSFORMATION
Nicky Doll
A NEW LENS ON PURPOSE
Giles Duley
MODEL, MOTHER, AGENT, ADVOCATE: THE MANY LIVES OF BETHANN HARDISON
Bethann Hardison and Bianca Saunders
QUEER LOVE AND DESI VIBES: NOTES FROM ADVOCACY IN THE FIELD
Utkarsh Saxena
LIVING AUTHENTICALLY IN VIRAL MOMENTS
Fortunate Blue Smith and Nara Aziza Smith with Imran Amed
EMBODYING YOUR HIGHER SELF
Mory Fontanez
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Es Devlin is a British up to date artist and stage designer. Devlin’s oeuvre ranges from public sculptures and installations at Tate Fashionable, V&A, Serpentine, Imperial Struggle Museum and the Lincoln Centre, to kinetic stage designs on the Royal Opera Home, the Nationwide Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera, in addition to Olympic Ceremonies, Tremendous-Bowl half-time exhibits, and monumental illuminated stage sculptures for big scale stadium concert events. She has been the topic of a significant new monographic ebook, An Atlas of Es Devlin, described by Thames & Hudson as their most intricate and sculptural publication thus far, and a retrospective exhibition presently displaying on the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. In 2020 she turned the primary feminine architect of the UK Pavilion at a World Expo, conceiving a constructing which used AI to co-author poetry with guests on its 20 metre diameter facade. Her observe was the topic of the 2015 Netflix documentary collection “Abstract: The Art Of Design.” She is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, College of the Arts London and the Royal Society of Arts. She has been awarded The London Design Medal, three Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, an Ivor Novello Award, doctorates from the Universities of Bristol and Kent and a CBE.
Es Devlin is a British up to date artist and stage designer.
Jefferson Hack is a curator and the co-founder of Dazed Media, the mother or father firm of titles comparable to AnOther Journal, One other Man, Dazed and Dazed Magnificence that includes print magazines, social and digital platforms and a world occasions division. Hack has curated exhibitions together with ‘An Invitation to Dream’, a significant public exhibition introduced by Moncler in 2024. Throughout Frieze 2019 Hack curated ‘Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder’ at 180 Strand. In 2016 Hack and Ferdinando Verderi launched Hack the System, a Rizzoli ebook to current a radical imaginative and prescient of the way forward for publishing.
Jefferson Hack is a curator and the co-founder of Dazed Media.
Tom Graham is CEO of Metaphysic, an organization growing generative AI applied sciences and machine studying analysis to create immersive photorealistic content material at web scale. Metaphysic Studios is aiming to be the gold-standard for creating production-quality content material for Hollywood movies, AI music concert events, promoting and past. Graham and Metaphysic have been exploring the world of moral AI, serving to people and types acquire, personal and monetise their likeness, voice. Graham is initially from Australia and is now primarily based in London.
Tom Graham is CEO of Metaphysic.
Bianca Saunders is the founder and artistic director of her namesake menswear label which launched in 2017. The model is understood for its silhouettes and craftsmanship, usually exploring the idea of physique mapping across the male type via bespoke prints. The designs are deeply rooted in Saunders’ private British Caribbean id and the social tapestry of Anglo-Caribbean relations. The Bianca Saunders model has proven at London Vogue Week. The model produces two collections a yr and engages in collaborations that run alongside the primary assortment. Saunders has received a lot of prestigious awards together with the BFC/GQ Designer Vogue Fund in 2024, the New Institution Menswear award in 2023 and the thirty second ANDAM Grand Prix Vogue Award in 2021.
Bianca Saunders is the founder and artistic director of her namesake menswear label which launched in 2017.
Giles Duley is the CEO of Legacy of Struggle Basis, a charity helping folks impacted by battle and conflict. Duley obtained his begin as a music photographer, capturing stars comparable to Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz. In 2004, he shifted focus to documentary images, working with charities comparable to Save the Kids and UNHCR. Duley paperwork battle zones, showcasing the resilience of these affected by adversity. His work spans international locations like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. In 2011, Duley was severely injured by an IED in Afghanistan, leading to triple amputation, however he returned to proceed his work. In 2015, he launched the Legacy of Struggle venture, collaborating with artists like Large Assault and PJ Harvey. He has introduced for Channel 4 and VICE TV, and in 2022 was appointed the UN’s Global Advocate for Individuals with Disabilities in Battle. In 2023, he was awarded an MBE and joined Angelina Jolie’s Atelier Jolie as a company influence advisor.
Giles Duley is the CEO of Legacy of Struggle Basis.
Ekow Eshun is a author, curator and the chairman of the Fourth Plinth, overseeing Britain’s foremost public artwork programme. Beforehand, Eshun was the director of the Institute of Modern Arts, London. He has staged exhibitions internationally, together with The Time is At all times Now, presently on present on the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork. Eshun was awarded the Affiliation for Artwork Historical past’s Curatorial Prize in 2023. Eshun was the primary Black editor of a significant journal within the UK when he led Enviornment journal. He’s an everyday contributor to publications together with Vogue, The New York Instances, Monetary Instances and The Guardian. He has created documentaries for BBC TV and radio and is the creator of books together with Black Gold of the Solar, which was shortlisted for the Orwell prize, and The Strangers: 5 Extraordinary Black Males and the Worlds That Made Them.
Ekow Eshun is a author, curator and the chairman of the Fourth Plinth.
Tina Brown is a author and the previous editor-in-chief of Vainness Honest, The New Yorker and Tatler. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen for her providers to journalism in 2000, and inducted into the Journal Editors’ Corridor of Fame in 2007. In 2008, Brown launched and edited the digital information website The Each day Beast, which received the information web site of the yr award in 2012 and 2013. For a decade she organised and hosted Girls within the World, with summits in New York, London and Delhi, and smaller salons all through North America. In 2017 The Vainness Honest Diaries, her account of her editorship of Vainness Honest, was chosen as probably the greatest books of the yr by a lot of publications, In October 2024, Brown Launched a weekly Substack publication, “Fresh Hell: Tina Brown’s Diary.”
Tina Brown is a author and the previous editor-in-chief of Vainness Honest, The New Yorker and Tatler.
Fred Swaniker is the founder and chief government of Sand Applied sciences, a world expertise firm that builds synthetic intelligence-powered functions for firms and governments. Swaniker started his profession at McKinsey & Firm in Johannesburg, South Africa as a enterprise analyst. After his tenure at McKinsey, Swanker co-founded Synexa Life Science, a bioanalytical providers supplier and analysis agency. In 2004, he based African Management Group, an umbrella organisation that homes ventures and academic establishments together with the African Management Academy in South Africa, designed to groom the subsequent technology of African entrepreneurs. Swaniker holds levels from Stanford College and Macalester School.
Fred Swaniker is the founder and CEO of Sand Applied sciences.
Julie Bornstein is the founder and chief government of Daydream, an AI powered vogue search engine. Previous to Daydream, she based THE YES, a venture-backed vogue advice app, which was acquired by Pinterest. Bornstein has additionally served because the chief working officer and board member of Sew Repair, Inc., a private type service and on-line retailer from. She additionally held the function of chief advertising and digital officer of Sephora US the place she led the creation of its loyalty programme, Magnificence Insider. Bornstein helped launch Nordstrom.com in 1999, the place she ran e-commerce for five years. She serves on the board of administrators of Redfin, Weight Watchers and Sweetgreen and holds a level from Harvard College.
Julie Bornstein is the founder and CEO of Daydream.
Ruth Diaz is the vice chairman of Amazon Vogue Europe. She joined the enterprise in 2011 and has held a number of advertising and retail management positions at Amazon Italy in addition to main the Residence Innovation Program for Europe. In her present function as vice chairman of Amazon Vogue Europe, a place she took in October 2020, Diaz leads all facets of the enterprise, together with the duty for rising Amazon Vogue choice and enhancing buyer expertise throughout Europe. Previous to becoming a member of Amazon, Diaz earned a level in Enterprise Administration on the Autonomous College of Madrid, Spain. Subsequently she gained appreciable expertise and experience in enterprise, vogue, leisure and e-commerce working at Common Footage and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Spain. She turned the chief government on the on-line leisure firm Entradas.com and was on the helm of BuyVip, the net vogue firm that Amazon acquired in 2010.
Ruth Diaz is the vice chairman of Amazon Vogue Europe.
Mory Fontanez is the founding father of Eight22 Group, a consultancy that helps organisations and public personalities elevate their consciousness. After a notable profession as a disaster supervisor for Fortune 500 firms, Fontanez realised many leaders fail as a result of they’re disconnected from their instinct and objective. As an intuitive management coach, Fontanez guides C-suite leaders, performers and different public personalities, to reconnect with their inside knowledge to efficiently navigate change, challenges and development. Her first ebook, “The All-Knowing You,” will likely be revealed by HarperCollins in February 2025.
Mory Fontanez is the founding father of Eight22 Group.
Daniel Ervér is the chief government of the H&M Group. He joined H&M in 2006 as a enterprise controller on the design and shopping for workplace in Stockholm. His in depth information of the H&M model was constructed via experiences in key markets like Germany and the USA, in addition to main H&M’s dwelling market in Sweden. Throughout the H&M head workplace, Daniel assumed a number of roles comparable to head of worldwide gross sales and world shopping for director. In 2020, he took on the management function of chief government of the H&M model, and since January 2024, he holds the place because the chief government for the whole H&M Group.
Daniel Ervér is the chief government of the H&M Group.
Laurie Parsons is reader in human geography at Royal Holloway, College of London. His work explores the nexus of local weather change and the worldwide financial system, specializing in how on a regular basis objects like clothes, bricks and different items join environmental impacts all over the world. He’s the creator of three books: Going Nowhere Quick (2020), Local weather Change within the Global Office (2021), and Carbon Colonialism (2023), in addition to quite a few papers and experiences highlighting how the worldwide manufacturing unit hides and exacerbates the influence of local weather change, particularly within the world South. His awards for this work embrace the 2020 Instances Increased Training award for Analysis Undertaking of the 12 months, and the 2024 Affiliation of American Publishers award for ebook of the yr in Economics.
Laurie Parsons is reader in human geography at Royal Holloway, College of London.
Abiramy Sivalogananthan is the South Asia regional coordinator for the Asia Flooring Wage Alliance (AFWA), the place she leads efforts to advance labour and gender rights throughout the area. As a PhD candidate in Transitional Justice, her tutorial pursuits complement her in depth fieldwork, which has transitioned from political actions to a deep give attention to labour rights in South Asia. With a number of years of expertise addressing systemic injustices within the garment business, Sivalogananthan is dedicated to effecting transformative change in world provide chains, guaranteeing fairness and justice for garment staff.
Abiramy Sivalogananthan is the South Asia regional coordinator for the Asia Flooring Wage Alliance (AFWA).
Beto Bina is the founder and chief government of FarFarm, a consultancy specialising in accountable provide chains. Bina beforehand led the sourcing workforce at VEJA, specializing in rubber within the Amazon and agroecological cotton. He’s a member of the advisory board of Fibershed Brazil, and a counsellor at Papel & Caneta. He holds a level in Enterprise Administration and a grasp’s in social influence and sustainability from IE New York School.
Beto Bina is the founder and chief government of FarFarm.
Bandana Tewari is a tradition journalist and sustainability advocate and previously, the editor-at-large of Vogue India for 13 years. She sat entrance row to a quickly evolving business and reported extensively on the worldwide vogue business. Along with her unrestrained and fiercely impartial voice, understanding of socio-political dynamics of vogue and trademark ahead considering, she is taken into account considered one of India’s foremost authorities on vogue. Tewari’s items have appeared in publications comparable to The New York Instances, US Vogue, British Vogue, ATMOS and several other main Indian journals — Mint Lounge, Platform and Take. In December 2017, she, together with documentary film-maker Andrew Morgan of The True Price and Vanessa Friedman, spoke on the United Nations on the brand new handworker financial system. She sits on the advisory boards of Nest and Redress Hong Kong and is particular advisor to Copenhagen Vogue Summit.
Bandana Tewari is a tradition journalist and sustainability advocate and previously, the editor-at-large of Vogue India.
Rosey Chan is a London-based multimedia artist and composer whose visionary work merges music, expertise, and wellness. As a classically skilled musician and entrepreneur, she based Sonic Apothecary, a well-tech firm that integrates sound and science to reinforce well-being. Sonic Apothecary collaborates with main consultants to create soundscapes that promote psychological and emotional wellness. At its core, it’s a collective of innovators exploring how sound can rework environments and uplift well-being, delivering options throughout enterprise, hospitality, and healthcare.
Rosey Chan is London-based multimedia artist, composer, and the founding father of Sonic Apothecary Institute and Sonic Apothecary.
Olya Kuryshchuk is the founder and editor-in-chief of 1 Granary, a number one world vogue schooling platform and artistic community. With a give attention to vogue design, 1 Granary makes use of its print, digital content material, occasions, recruitment, and model improvement program to drive constructive change within the vogue business and supply sensible assets for the subsequent technology of artistic minds. By the distinctive designer community constructed via 1 Granary, Kuryshchuk is a number one knowledgeable in expertise acquisition and improvement, scouting design expertise and constructing holistic model methods that embody design, manufacturing, communication, and advertising. She can be an affiliate lecturer at Central Saint Martins and an everyday jury member at worldwide design competitions.
Olya Kuryshchuk is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of 1 Granary.
Cleo Valentine is a methods designer and doctoral researcher on the College of Cambridge, whose work sits on the intersection of atmosphere, neurophysiology, and human well-being. Her analysis focuses on neuroimmunology, exploring how areas and sensory stimuli work together with the physique’s nervous and immune methods. Valentine additionally leads Sonic Apothecary’s analysis and improvement workforce, overseeing medical testing and validation of sound-based wellness interventions. Valentine is presently affiliated with the Spatial Cognition Lab at College School London and MIT’s Division of City Research and Planning. She is an alumna of the College of Cambridge, the College of Oxford, McGill College, and the College of Copenhagen.
Cleo Valentine is a methods designer and doctoral researcher on the College of Cambridge.
Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of Overseas Coverage. He’s additionally the host of FP Stay, the journal’s video channel and podcast, on which he repeatedly interviews world leaders and policymakers. Earlier than becoming a member of FP in2018, Agrawal labored at CNN for greater than a decade in full-time roles spanning three continents, together with because the community’s New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent. He has shared a Peabody Award and three Emmy nominations for his work as a TV producer, and his writing for FP was a part of a collection nominated for a 2020 Nationwide Journal Award for columns and commentary. Agrawal is the creator ofIndia Linked: How the Smartphone Is Remodeling the World’s Largest Democracy. He’s a graduate of Harvard College.
Ravi Agrawal is the editor-in-chief of Overseas Coverage.
David Allemann is the co-founder and co-chairman of Swiss sportswear firm On, which he based alongside Caspar Coppetti and Olivier Bernhard. Allemann leads On’s product, advertising and direct-to-consumer groups. Beforehand, he served as chief advertising officer for furnishings model Vitra, and suggested world purchasers in sports activities and media at McKinsey, the place he additionally supported entrepreneurs via the McKinsey startup accelerator programme. Allemann holds a grasp’s diploma in legislation from the College of Zurich.
David Allemann is the co-founder and co-chairman of Swiss sportswear firm On.
Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini are the founders of The Attico, a ready-wear label primarily based in Milan. Since its launch in 2016, The Attico has been properly acquired by type icons, prime editors, and celebrities, leading to quite a few public appearances, pink carpets, and particular tasks. In 2018, Archive acquired 49 p.c of the model to assist its artistic and enterprise development. In September 2023, The Attico hosted its first vogue present throughout Milan Vogue Week .The model is presently distributed in over 200 retailers, boutiques, and idea shops worldwide.
Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini are the founders of The Attico.
Mitch Anderson is co-founder and government director of Amazon Frontlines, a non-profit organisation primarily based within the Higher Amazon, which defends Indigenous peoples’ rights to land and cultural survival. In 2011, he moved to Ecuador’s northern Amazon to start out a grassroots clear water venture with Indigenous communities residing downriver from contaminating oil operations. By constructing greater than 1,000 clear water methods in over 70 villages, Anderson supported the formation of the Ceibo Alliance, an Indigenous-led non-profit that received the distinguished UN Equator Prize.
Mitch Anderson is co-founder and government director of Amazon Frontlines.
Gemma D’Auria is a senior accomplice at McKinsey & Firm and the worldwide chief of its attire, vogue and luxurious sector. Primarily based in Milan with over twenty years of consulting expertise throughout the US, Center East and Europe, D’Auria companions with firm executives to create lasting change via holistic development methods, digital transformations, and functionality constructing at scale. She repeatedly publishes insights related to the style, retail, and luxurious sectors together with McKinsey and BoF’s annual State of Vogue report, which she leads and co-authors.
Gemma D’Auria is a senior accomplice at McKinsey & Firm and the worldwide chief of its attire, vogue and luxurious sector.
Karl Sanchez is a French-born New-York primarily based make-up artist, performer and Drag Queen underneath the title Nicky Doll. Sanchez hosted the French model of the acclaimed RuPaul’s Drag Race. Sanchez can be a commentator of the EuroVision Track contest and took part within the Olympic Torch Relay in Marseille. He co-wrote and co-created a 4 episode documentary “Les Voyages de Nicky” which explores the artwork and historical past of drag.
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Lauren Santo Domingo is the co-founder and chief model officer of luxurious e-commerce platform Moda Operandi. Moda Operandi launched in 2010 with a runway pre-order mannequin and a give attention to rising designers and types. In 2023, Santo Domingo was named inventive director of Tiffany’s dwelling assortment. She presently sits on the Board of Administrators for Moda Operandi and Save Venice Inc., a non- revenue devoted to the conservation of the humanities in Venice, Italy. She beforehand served as an editor at American ce.
Lauren Santo Domingo is the co-founder and chief model officer of luxurious e-commerce platform Moda Operandi.
Jens Grede is the co-founder and chief government of viral lingerie and loungewear model SKIMS, presently valued at $4 billion. The model’s modern strategy to the intimates and lounge class has amassed tens of millions of consumers since its launch in 2019. He’s additionally the co-founder and Chairman of FRAME and a prolific investor in retail and media via his holding firm Standard Tradition. Previous to partnering along with his spouse Emma Grede and Kim Kardashian to launch the enterprise in 2018, Grede based Los Angeles-based FRAME with Erik Torstensson in 2012. Earlier than that, the duo spent years working in vogue and media, serving as editors-in-chief of journal Man About City and launching Industrie journal, earlier than co-founding the advertising company Saturday Group in 2003.
Jens Grede is the co-founder and chief government of viral lingerie and loungewear model Skims.
Bethann Hardison is a mannequin, documentary filmmaker and activist. Hardison turned one of many first high-profile Black fashions when she walked within the historic 1973 Battle of Versailles vogue present. She can be the founding father of her namesake modelling company, which has guided the careers of younger fashions with a give attention to diversifying the style business. In 1988, alongside mannequin Iman, she based Black Women Coalition to advocate for equal pay for Black and minority ethnic fashions and has garnered accolades together with the CFDA’s Founder Award for her advocacy. In 2018 Hardison based The Designers Hub to information and empower Black designers; the next yr she turned an inaugural member of Gucci’s Changemakers Council. Hardison made her directorial debut in 2023 with “Invisible Beauty,” a documentary that chronicles her profession and has received awards together with the NAACP Picture Award for Excellent Documentary Movie. She serves on the CFDA’s Board of Administrators and as Gucci’s Government Advisor for Global Fairness and Cultural Engagement.
Bethann Hardison is a mannequin, documentary filmmaker and activist.
Clover Hogan is a local weather activist and the founding father of Pressure of Nature, a non-profit organisation advocating for larger urgency across the local weather disaster.Hogan can be a public speaker; her TED Speak, “What to do when climate change feels unstoppable,” has been considered 2 million occasions. At 22 she was recognised on the Forbes 30 Beneath 30 listing for her work with Pressure ofNature. Hogan leads a 12-person workforce researching local weather nervousness, which has delivered programmes to younger folks in 50+ international locations to assist them take motion of their locales. Her organisation works with companies, policy-makers and educators to position younger folks on the coronary heart of choices affecting their future.
Clover Hogan is a local weather activist and the founding father of Pressure of Nature.
Stephanie Horton is the senior director of worldwide shopper advertising and technique for commerce at Google the place she leads the worldwide B2C advertising groups serving to to form and drive the imaginative and prescient and technique for Google Procuring and Funds. Previous to Google, Horton held positions as chief government at Hemp Tailor, chief government at Alexander Wang, chief advertising officer at Farfetch and senior degree positions at Shopbop, US Vogue and The New York Instances. Horton presently serves on The Advisory Boards of NYU Stern Vogue/Luxurious MBA, The Black in Vogue Council and McMullen Boutique. She serves as a senior advisor for personal fairness agency Three Hills Capital Companions and has a board seat on considered one of their core investments FaceGym. Horton can be the co-founder of Vogue Tech Connects, which connects feminine faculty college students of color with vogue and tech internships.
Stephanie Horton is the senior director of worldwide shopper advertising and technique for commerce at Google.
Simon Porte Jacquemus is a French designer and the founding father of Jacquemus, a ready-to-wear and equipment label. Jacquemus’ collections are impressed by wonderful artwork, images, sculpture, French tradition and the designer’s personal life. All through the trajectory of the label the model has challenged advertising norms in vogue, staging runway productions in sudden areas together with a Parisian swimming pool, a lavender discipline in Provence or a wheat discipline outdoors of Paris. Jacquemus’ profession milestones embrace self-publishing the espresso desk images books “Marseille Je T’aime”(2017), “Images” (2020), and “Le Chouchou” (2023), shot by Martin Parr.
Simon Porte Jacquemus is a French designer and the founding father of Jacquemus.
Jeremy Jauncey is the founder and chief government of Lovely Locations, a technique and artistic company servicing journey firms together with lodges and airways. In 2017, Lovely Locations was named as probably the most modern firms in journey by Quick Firm. Jauncey can be an envoy for World Wildlife Fund, Panerai and Technogym.
Jeremy Jauncey is the founder and chief government of Lovely Locations.
Michael Kliger is the chief government officer of Mytheresa, a place he has held since 2015. On this function, Kliger has assembled a management workforce devoted to driving development for the Munich-based luxurious e-tailer. Beneath his management, Mytheresa accomplished its itemizing on the New York Inventory Change. Kliger additionally sits on the corporate’s administration board. Previous to becoming a member of Mytheresa, Kliger was the worldwide vice chairman for eBay Enterprise. He has additionally held managing director roles and government positions at Accenture, First Capital Companions and Actual Holding, in addition to serving as the previous principal of McKinsey & Firm, the place he headed the consultancy’s German retail observe.
Michael Kliger is the chief government officer of Mytheresa.
Jesse Lee is the founder and chief government of Fundamental Area, an internet market specialising in males’s and girls’s attire. Lee can be chairman of Design Miami, a design firm that holds 4 annual collectible design gala’s in Miami, Florida in addition to Los Angeles, California, Basel, Switzerland, and Paris, France. In 2023, Fundamental Area acquired Design Miami. Previous to launching Fundamental. Area, Lee had based and operated dFm, a artistic company with purchasers in expertise, media, retail and vogue.
Jesse Lee is the founder and chief government of Fundamental Area.
Lawrence Lenihan is the chairman and co-founder of Resonance, an organization that goals to allow any model to make one garment on-demand, at scale, sustainably and profitably. Over the course of his 30-year profession, Lenihan has began 10 expertise firms and types, and invested in dozens of transformational firms. He has additionally taught vogue innovation and entrepreneurship for greater than a decade as an adjunct professor at NYU. Previous to Resonance, Lenihan was the founder and chief government of FirstMark Capital, the place he was an early investor in Shopify, Pinterest, Digital Forex Group, and Tommy John.
Lawrence Lenihan is the chairman and co-founder of Resonance.
Alessandro Michele is the artistic director of Maison Valentino, a task he has held since his appointment in Could 2024. Michele started his profession at knitwear label Les Copain and has labored underneath the artistic management of Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini at Fendi. At Fendi, Michele was chargeable for the expansion of the equipment assortment. In 2002, he was tapped by Tom Ford to design for Gucci. Over twenty years at Gucci, Michele held a lot of positions together with artistic director of the model, which he assumed in 2015. In that function, Michele formed Gucci’s artistic imaginative and prescient and constructed on its model id.
Alessandro Michele is the artistic director of Maison Valentino.
Nemonte Nenquimo is a Waorani chief and the co-founder of each the Indigenous-led non-profit Ceibo Alliance and its accomplice organisation, Amazon Frontlines. Nenquimo led her folks in an historic authorized victory towards the oil business, defending half 1,000,000 acres of rainforest and setting a precedent for Indigenous rights throughout the area. Her management has been extensively recognised; in 2020, she received the Goldman Environmental Prize for Central and South America and was named within the BBC’s 100 Girls listing and the TIME listing of the 100 Most Influential Individuals within the World.
Nemonte Nenquimo, is a Waorani chief and the co-founder of each the Indigenous-led non-profit Ceibo Alliance.
Benjamin Paulin is the co-founder of Paulin, Paulin, Paulin, a household enterprise that distributes, promotes and preserves the works of French designer Pierre Paulin (1927-2009). The corporate produces and sells uncommon items of the designer’s work, lots of which weren’t commercially obtainable on the time of design.
Benjamin Paulin is the co-founder of Paulin, Paulin, Paulin.
Josephine Philips is the founder and chief government of Sojo, the UK primarily based B-Corp licensed repairs and alterations platform. Philips based the style tech start-up in January 2021 with the mission of serving to to make the style business extra round by modernising the clothes restore sector. Sojo delivers door-to-door restore and alterations service to clients through their London-based tailoring studio. It gives an built-in and scalable answer for e-commerce retailers and vogue manufacturers to assist cut back returns and enhance circularity inside their companies. Sojo launched its first B2B partnership with Ganni in 2021 and immediately counts 25 manufacturers and retailers together with Marks andSpencer, Vestiaire Collective and Peachy Den as purchasers.
Josephine Philips is the founder and chief government of Sojo.
Bohan Qiu is the founder and director of BOH Undertaking, a communications and artistic manufacturing company situated inShanghai, China and Seoul, South Korea. The company hopes to bridge the creativity hole between Jap and Western cultures. BOH Undertaking has a consumer roster of worldwide manufacturers together with Amiri, Balenciaga, Calvin Klein and Gucci. It additionally companions with rising designers in China comparable to Louis Shengtao Chen, Mark Gong, and Rui, amongst others. The company just lately expanded into South Korea with the the objective tapping into the affect of Korean vogue and foster significant connections between the Chinese language and Korean markets.
Bohan Qiu is the founder and director of BOH Undertaking.
Utkarsh Saxena is the co-founder and chief government of Adalat AI, an AI platform aimed toward reworking justice methods in India and the Global South. Saxena has a decade of authorized expertise, together with clerking for a justice of the Indian Supreme Court docket. He performed a pivotal function within the combat for marriage equality in India, petitioning the Supreme Court docket and taking part within the historic oral arguments that sought to legalise same-sex marriage. Past litigation, Saxena labored with the Ministry of Legislation and Justice and the Ministry of Finance to establish systemic challenges inside India’s judicial system, comparable to court docket delays. His dedication to justice reform impressed him to pivot in direction of technological improvements, culminating within the founding of Adalat AI. Saxena holds twin bachelor’s levels in economics and legislation from the College of Delhi, an LL.M. from Harvard Legislation College.
Utkarsh Saxena is the co-founder and chief government of Adalat AI.
Sven Smit is a senior accomplice at McKinsey & Firm and the chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute, the agency’s enterprise and economics analysis arm. He’s a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council in addition to its government committee, referred to as the Acceleration Staff, overseeing insights and ecosystems. As chairman of MGI, Smit leads analysis and authors experiences on world financial tendencies and subjects comparable to productiveness and development, urbanisation, innovation and expertise and the way forward for work. He’s additionally the co-author of two books: “Beyond the Hockey Stick” and “The Granularity of Growth.” Smit beforehand led McKinsey’s western Europe area and its world technique and company finance observe. He holds a level from Delft College of Expertise and an MBA from INSEAD.
Sven Smit is a senior accomplice at McKinsey & Firm and the chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute.
Ravi Thakran is the founder and managing accomplice of Turmeric Capital Holdings, a Singapore-based non-public fairness agency focussed on investing in Asia’s shopper sectors. Thakran served as group chairman of LVMH Asia in addition to chairman of L Capital Asia (now L Catterton Asia), which he based in 2008 and grew into considered one of Asia’s largest consumer-focused development funding companies. In his twenty years at LVMH Asia, Thakran held prime roles throughout the likes of Sephora Asia and LVMHWatches & Jewelry Asia earlier than serving as group president in 2008 and group chairman in 2014. Alongside his involvement with museums, world tourism boards and animal conservation charities, he serves on Harrods’ board of administrators and is concerned within the Saudi Vogue Fee.
Ravi Thakran is the founder and managing accomplice of Turmeric Capital Holdings.
Salman Toor is a Pakistani visible artist primarily based in New York Metropolis. His work, which depicts the lives of imagined younger, brown and queer males, may be discovered within the everlasting collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and Whitney Museum of American Artwork, in addition to the Tate in London and the Pinault Assortment in Paris. At the moment, his work is on view within the sixtieth Worldwide Artwork Exhibition of La Biennaledi Venezia.
Salman Toor is a Pakistani visible artist.
Jacopo Venturini is Maison Valentino’s chief government officer, a task he has held since 2020. Venturini started his profession at La Rinascente, an Italian division retailer, as a purchaser in 1995. He has held positions throughout giant vogue homes together with merchandising coordinator at Prada Group in addition to government vice chairman and chief merchandising and licensing officer at Gucci. Previous to assuming the function of chief government at Valentino, Venturini served as womenswear and menswear model supervisor and because the home’s ready-to-wear assortment and retail picture director. Venturini holds a level in economics and enterprise from Bocconi College in Milan.
Jacopo Venturini is Maison Valentino’s chief government officer.
Brandon Wen is the artistic director of the style division of the Royal Academy of Superb Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. He teaches design and guides the division via a give attention to creativity and reference to the objective of growing Antwerp’s inventive group. Wen can be a dressmaker and efficiency artist engaged on tasks primarily based on private themes round id.
Brandon Wen is the artistic director of the style division of the Royal Academy of Superb Arts in Antwerp, Belgium.
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