High fashion’s class appropriation is not art

Balenciaga not too long ago released a collection of overtly distressed sneakers priced around $700. However, this tactless release is one more entry in an ongoing tale. The swift growth of the vogue environment and pervasive capitalist enterprise of our life has resulted in designers providing sneakers worse than the […]

Zalando Co-CEO on Bringing Data Science to Fashion Retail

This article first appeared in The State of Fashion: Technology, an in-depth report co-published by BoF and McKinsey & Company. Zalando is Europe’s largest online-only fashion retailer, but there’s another way it often describes itself: Europe’s most fashionable tech company. Technology has been central to how the company operates since […]