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The Debrief — 139 episodes

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The Influencer Follower-Count Era Is Ending

2

What the Best Fashion Stores Get Right

3

The Fashion and Beauty Companies Everyone Wants to Work For

4

Why Everyone's Reading Clothing Labels Again

5

Is Fashion School Still Worth It?

6

The Anti-Unicorn Playbook That Beat Fashion's DTC Boom

7

Luxury’s New Reality

8

How Nike Built the Biggest World Cup Campaign Ever

9

Why Activewear Consumers Are Looking Beyond Lululemon

10

How Books Became Fashion’s Latest Status Symbol

11

Fashion's Ozempic Reckoning

12

A Message to Listeners

13

Inside The Swatch X Audemars Piguet Global Frenzy

14

Why Are So Many Brands Faking Scandals?

15

Why People Hate AI

16

Why Some Retailers are Ignoring the Internet

17

Why Luxury Still Can’t Find Its Way Out of the Slump

18

Nike’s Reality Check

19

Can H&M Prove Sustainability is a Growth Engine?

20

The Retailer That’s Obsessed With AI

21

What European Luxury Can Learn From American Fashion

22

Why Fragrance Is Fashion’s Newest Digital Frontier

23

How Oil Shock Fears Are Rippling Through Fashion

24

How Fashion Picks Its Hip Hop Style Icons

25

Tariffs Are Down, But Uncertainty Is Back

26

How Dior and Chanel Are Winning Back Aspirational Shoppers

27

How Fashion Brands Are Winning the Winter Olympics

28

The New Rules for Influencer Marketing

29

Making Sense of Fashion’s Brutal Job Market

30

Have Sneakers Lost Their Cool?

31

Saks’ Bankruptcy and the Future of Luxury Retail

32

Inside Beauty’s 2026 M&A Pipeline

33

The Themes That Will Define the 2026 Fashion Agenda

34

The Sneaker of the Year 2025

35

What Happens When Women Lead

36

5 Big Questions About Luxury

37

Is This the Year Discount Mania Finally Ends?

38

Can Fashion Still Meet Its Climate Promises?

39

Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Accessories?

40

The Human Cost of Trump's Tariffs

41

Would You Let AI Shop for You?

42

Does Fashion Still Know What Women Want?

43

Can a Shop Truly Be a “Third Place”?

44

Sports x Fashion: Who’s Really Winning?

45

Can Gen-Z Beauty Brands Grow Up?

46

Gen Z Isn’t Buying Luxury’s Story

47

The Great Fashion Reset: Can New Designers Still Build a Business?

48

The Great Fashion Reset: Can Designer Debuts Revive Luxury?

49

What Went Wrong at Ssense

50

How Basketball Sneakers Got Their Groove Back

51

The Jobs Fashion and Beauty Talent Want in 2025

52

High Luxury, Cheap Labour: Inside Loro Piana's Sweatshop Links

53

How Fashion Learned to Love The Real Housewives

54

Fashion Tech Boom 2.0

55

The Jewellery Boom, Explained

56

When Fashion Lost Its Voice

57

Is Nike Finally Winning With Women?

58

Why Hailey Bieber Won the Celebrity Beauty Lottery

59

Beauty Is in Its Flop Era

60

How Fashion Brands Build Community in 2025

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Bonus: The Trade War’s Off, For Now. What's Next for Fashion?

62

TikTok, Tariffs and Luxury's Fake News Problem

63

Celebrating Black Style Inside the 2025 Met Gala

64

Are Viral Microtrends Losing Their Cool?

65

The Power of a Luxury Handbag

66

Can Tariffs Really Revive 'Made in USA' Fashion?

67

Trump’s Tariffs Change Everything

68

H&M's AI Models and the Future of Fashion Marketing

69

What Happened to Pat McGrath Labs?

70

Is Forever 21 Shein's Biggest Victim Yet?

71

Can You Sell Sexual Wellness Without Sex?

72

Can Farfetch Be Fixed?

73

Why Can’t Fashion Fix Its Labour Exploitation Problem?

74

Can Kering Fix Gucci?

75

Can Estée Lauder Win Over the Modern Beauty Consumer?

76

Fashion’s M&A Market is Heating Up

77

How to Future-Proof Your Fashion Career in 2025

78

The Evolving Art of Brand Collaborations

79

How to Choose a PR Agency

80

BoF’s Top Stories of 2024

81

The Future of DEI and ESG in a Hostile Political Environment

82

The Future of Resale

83

Luxury’s Italian Sweatshops Problem

84

What Happened to Beauty’s Billion-Dollar Brands?

85

Inside Luxury's Slowdown

86

Why Some Sports Win Big in Fashion — and Others Don't

87

Can AI Make Shopping Online Less Annoying?

88

How Dupe Culture is Challenging Traditional Luxury

89

How Beauty Blunders Go Viral and What Brands Do Next

90

How Influencers Make Money

91

Can Department Stores Save Themselves?

92

Why Does Menswear All Look the Same?

93

Luxury Fashion’s Designer Diversity Problem

94

Fast Fashion Disruption With Shein and H&M

95

How Nike Ran Off Course

96

Kamala Harris and the Politics of Style

97

How Tweens Took Over the Beauty Aisle

98

What Happens When It’s Too Hot to Make Fashion?

99

Why Getting Dressed Up Is Here to Stay in 2023

100

How Harry Styles Built a Nail Polish Empire

101

Why Designer Shoes Are So Expensive

102

What Happened With Fashion and NFTs?

103

Fashion CEOs Explain Why This Downturn Is Different

104

Is ‘Vegan Leather’ Better?

105

How The Frankie Shop Became Instagram’s Favourite Fashion Brand

106

Luxury’s Battle With Counterfeiters

107

Why So Many Direct-to-Consumer Brands Are for Sale Right Now

108

Fashion’s Gen-Z Obsession

109

The State of the Influencer Economy

110

Is Luxury’s Streetwear Obsession Over?

111

What Makes Jacquemus So Successful?

112

Giorgio Armani, Fashion’s Most Successful Designer

113

Inside the $7 Billion Dior Phenomenon

114

Can Patagonia’s Radical Move Change the Fashion Industry?

115

Inside the Luxury E-Commerce Race

116

Inside Banana Republic’s Bid to Regain Relevance

117

How Big Brands Choose their Creative Directors

118

Fashion’s Hottest Jobs

119

What TikTok’s Rise Means for Fashion

120

The Transformation of the Black Hair Care Market

121

Making Sense of the Direct-to-Consumer Reckoning

122

Inside the Gap and J.Crew Comeback Attempts

123

Can Gucci Become ‘Gucci’ Again?

124

How Skims Took on Victoria’s Secret and Spanx

125

Why So Many Athletes Are Launching Fashion Brands

126

Department Stores Make a Comeback

127

In Activewear, Where Are the White Spaces?

128

Eva Chen on Meta’s Virtual Fashion Experiment

129

Gen-Z’s Great Expectations

130

Why Chanel Is Opening Private Boutiques

131

Is This the Beginning of the End for Leather?

132

The Decline of the Skinny Jean

133

How Luxury Woos the World’s Biggest Spenders

134

Fashion’s Greenwashing Problem

135

How Vacation Clothes Became Big Business

136

Who Is Designing Fashion in the Metaverse?

137

Unpacking Alexander Wang’s Rise, Fall and Attempted Return to Fashion

138

Why Shein Is Valued at $100 Billion

139

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