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The Debrief — 132 episodes

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How Nike Built the Biggest World Cup Campaign Ever

2

Why Activewear Consumers Are Looking Beyond Lululemon

3

How Books Became Fashion’s Latest Status Symbol

4

Fashion's Ozempic Reckoning

5

A Message to Listeners

6

Inside The Swatch X Audemars Piguet Global Frenzy

7

Why Are So Many Brands Faking Scandals?

8

Why People Hate AI

9

Why Some Retailers are Ignoring the Internet

10

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

11

Nike’s Reality Check

12

Can H&M Prove Sustainability is a Growth Engine?

13

The Retailer That’s Obsessed With AI

14

What European Luxury Can Learn From American Fashion

15

Why Fragrance Is Fashion’s Newest Digital Frontier

16

How Oil Shock Fears Are Rippling Through Fashion

17

How Fashion Picks Its Hip Hop Style Icons

18

Tariffs Are Down, But Uncertainty Is Back

19

How Dior and Chanel Are Winning Back Aspirational Shoppers

20

How Fashion Brands Are Winning the Winter Olympics

21

The New Rules for Influencer Marketing

22

Making Sense of Fashion’s Brutal Job Market

23

Have Sneakers Lost Their Cool?

24

Saks’ Bankruptcy and the Future of Luxury Retail

25

Inside Beauty’s 2026 M&A Pipeline

26

The Themes That Will Define the 2026 Fashion Agenda

27

The Sneaker of the Year 2025

28

What Happens When Women Lead

29

5 Big Questions About Luxury

30

Is This the Year Discount Mania Finally Ends?

31

Can Fashion Still Meet Its Climate Promises?

32

Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Accessories?

33

The Human Cost of Trump's Tariffs

34

Would You Let AI Shop for You?

35

Does Fashion Still Know What Women Want?

36

Can a Shop Truly Be a “Third Place”?

37

Sports x Fashion: Who’s Really Winning?

38

Can Gen-Z Beauty Brands Grow Up?

39

Gen Z Isn’t Buying Luxury’s Story

40

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

41

The Great Fashion Reset: Can Designer Debuts Revive Luxury?

42

What Went Wrong at Ssense

43

How Basketball Sneakers Got Their Groove Back

44

The Jobs Fashion and Beauty Talent Want in 2025

45

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

46

How Fashion Learned to Love The Real Housewives

47

Fashion Tech Boom 2.0

48

The Jewellery Boom, Explained

49

When Fashion Lost Its Voice

50

Is Nike Finally Winning With Women?

51

Why Hailey Bieber Won the Celebrity Beauty Lottery

52

Beauty Is in Its Flop Era

53

How Fashion Brands Build Community in 2025

54

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

55

TikTok, Tariffs and Luxury's Fake News Problem

56

Celebrating Black Style Inside the 2025 Met Gala

57

Are Viral Microtrends Losing Their Cool?

58

The Power of a Luxury Handbag

59

Can Tariffs Really Revive 'Made in USA' Fashion?

60

Trump’s Tariffs Change Everything

61

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

62

What Happened to Pat McGrath Labs?

63

Is Forever 21 Shein's Biggest Victim Yet?

64

Can You Sell Sexual Wellness Without Sex?

65

Can Farfetch Be Fixed?

66

Why Can’t Fashion Fix Its Labour Exploitation Problem?

67

Can Kering Fix Gucci?

68

Can Estée Lauder Win Over the Modern Beauty Consumer?

69

Fashion’s M&A Market is Heating Up

70

How to Future-Proof Your Fashion Career in 2025

71

The Evolving Art of Brand Collaborations

72

How to Choose a PR Agency

73

BoF’s Top Stories of 2024

74

The Future of DEI and ESG in a Hostile Political Environment

75

The Future of Resale

76

Luxury’s Italian Sweatshops Problem

77

What Happened to Beauty’s Billion-Dollar Brands?

78

Inside Luxury's Slowdown

79

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

80

Can AI Make Shopping Online Less Annoying?

81

How Dupe Culture is Challenging Traditional Luxury

82

How Beauty Blunders Go Viral and What Brands Do Next

83

How Influencers Make Money

84

Can Department Stores Save Themselves?

85

Why Does Menswear All Look the Same?

86

Luxury Fashion’s Designer Diversity Problem

87

Fast Fashion Disruption With Shein and H&M

88

How Nike Ran Off Course

89

Kamala Harris and the Politics of Style

90

How Tweens Took Over the Beauty Aisle

91

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

92

Why Getting Dressed Up Is Here to Stay in 2023

93

How Harry Styles Built a Nail Polish Empire

94

Why Designer Shoes Are So Expensive

95

What Happened With Fashion and NFTs?

96

Fashion CEOs Explain Why This Downturn Is Different

97

Is ‘Vegan Leather’ Better?

98

How The Frankie Shop Became Instagram’s Favourite Fashion Brand

99

Luxury’s Battle With Counterfeiters

100

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

101

Fashion’s Gen-Z Obsession

102

The State of the Influencer Economy

103

Is Luxury’s Streetwear Obsession Over?

104

What Makes Jacquemus So Successful?

105

Giorgio Armani, Fashion’s Most Successful Designer

106

Inside the $7 Billion Dior Phenomenon

107

Can Patagonia’s Radical Move Change the Fashion Industry?

108

Inside the Luxury E-Commerce Race

109

Inside Banana Republic’s Bid to Regain Relevance

110

How Big Brands Choose their Creative Directors

111

Fashion’s Hottest Jobs

112

What TikTok’s Rise Means for Fashion

113

The Transformation of the Black Hair Care Market

114

Making Sense of the Direct-to-Consumer Reckoning

115

Inside the Gap and J.Crew Comeback Attempts

116

Can Gucci Become ‘Gucci’ Again?

117

How Skims Took on Victoria’s Secret and Spanx

118

Why So Many Athletes Are Launching Fashion Brands

119

Department Stores Make a Comeback

120

In Activewear, Where Are the White Spaces?

121

Eva Chen on Meta’s Virtual Fashion Experiment

122

Gen-Z’s Great Expectations

123

Why Chanel Is Opening Private Boutiques

124

Is This the Beginning of the End for Leather?

125

The Decline of the Skinny Jean

126

How Luxury Woos the World’s Biggest Spenders

127

Fashion’s Greenwashing Problem

128

How Vacation Clothes Became Big Business

129

Who Is Designing Fashion in the Metaverse?

130

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

131

Why Shein Is Valued at $100 Billion

132

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