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The Debrief — 126 episodes

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Why Are So Many Brands Faking Scandals?

2

Why People Hate AI

3

Why Some Retailers are Ignoring the Internet

4

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

5

Nike’s Reality Check

6

Can H&M Prove Sustainability is a Growth Engine?

7

The Retailer That’s Obsessed With AI

8

What European Luxury Can Learn From American Fashion

9

Why Fragrance Is Fashion’s Newest Digital Frontier

10

How Oil Shock Fears Are Rippling Through Fashion

11

How Fashion Picks Its Hip Hop Style Icons

12

Tariffs Are Down, But Uncertainty Is Back

13

How Dior and Chanel Are Winning Back Aspirational Shoppers

14

How Fashion Brands Are Winning the Winter Olympics

15

The New Rules for Influencer Marketing

16

Making Sense of Fashion’s Brutal Job Market

17

Have Sneakers Lost Their Cool?

18

Saks’ Bankruptcy and the Future of Luxury Retail

19

Inside Beauty’s 2026 M&A Pipeline

20

The Themes That Will Define the 2026 Fashion Agenda

21

The Sneaker of the Year 2025

22

What Happens When Women Lead

23

5 Big Questions About Luxury

24

Is This the Year Discount Mania Finally Ends?

25

Can Fashion Still Meet Its Climate Promises?

26

Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Accessories?

27

The Human Cost of Trump's Tariffs

28

Would You Let AI Shop for You?

29

Does Fashion Still Know What Women Want?

30

Can a Shop Truly Be a “Third Place”?

31

Sports x Fashion: Who’s Really Winning?

32

Can Gen-Z Beauty Brands Grow Up?

33

Gen Z Isn’t Buying Luxury’s Story

34

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

35

The Great Fashion Reset: Can Designer Debuts Revive Luxury?

36

What Went Wrong at Ssense

37

How Basketball Sneakers Got Their Groove Back

38

The Jobs Fashion and Beauty Talent Want in 2025

39

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

40

How Fashion Learned to Love The Real Housewives

41

Fashion Tech Boom 2.0

42

The Jewellery Boom, Explained

43

When Fashion Lost Its Voice

44

Is Nike Finally Winning With Women?

45

Why Hailey Bieber Won the Celebrity Beauty Lottery

46

Beauty Is in Its Flop Era

47

How Fashion Brands Build Community in 2025

48

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

49

TikTok, Tariffs and Luxury's Fake News Problem

50

Celebrating Black Style Inside the 2025 Met Gala

51

Are Viral Microtrends Losing Their Cool?

52

The Power of a Luxury Handbag

53

Can Tariffs Really Revive 'Made in USA' Fashion?

54

Trump’s Tariffs Change Everything

55

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

56

What Happened to Pat McGrath Labs?

57

Is Forever 21 Shein's Biggest Victim Yet?

58

Can You Sell Sexual Wellness Without Sex?

59

Can Farfetch Be Fixed?

60

Why Can’t Fashion Fix Its Labour Exploitation Problem?

61

Can Kering Fix Gucci?

62

Can Estée Lauder Win Over the Modern Beauty Consumer?

63

Fashion’s M&A Market is Heating Up

64

How to Future-Proof Your Fashion Career in 2025

65

The Evolving Art of Brand Collaborations

66

How to Choose a PR Agency

67

BoF’s Top Stories of 2024

68

The Future of DEI and ESG in a Hostile Political Environment

69

The Future of Resale

70

Luxury’s Italian Sweatshops Problem

71

What Happened to Beauty’s Billion-Dollar Brands?

72

Inside Luxury's Slowdown

73

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

74

Can AI Make Shopping Online Less Annoying?

75

How Dupe Culture is Challenging Traditional Luxury

76

How Beauty Blunders Go Viral and What Brands Do Next

77

How Influencers Make Money

78

Can Department Stores Save Themselves?

79

Why Does Menswear All Look the Same?

80

Luxury Fashion’s Designer Diversity Problem

81

Fast Fashion Disruption With Shein and H&M

82

How Nike Ran Off Course

83

Kamala Harris and the Politics of Style

84

How Tweens Took Over the Beauty Aisle

85

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

86

Why Getting Dressed Up Is Here to Stay in 2023

87

How Harry Styles Built a Nail Polish Empire

88

Why Designer Shoes Are So Expensive

89

What Happened With Fashion and NFTs?

90

Fashion CEOs Explain Why This Downturn Is Different

91

Is ‘Vegan Leather’ Better?

92

How The Frankie Shop Became Instagram’s Favourite Fashion Brand

93

Luxury’s Battle With Counterfeiters

94

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

95

Fashion’s Gen-Z Obsession

96

The State of the Influencer Economy

97

Is Luxury’s Streetwear Obsession Over?

98

What Makes Jacquemus So Successful?

99

Giorgio Armani, Fashion’s Most Successful Designer

100

Inside the $7 Billion Dior Phenomenon

101

Can Patagonia’s Radical Move Change the Fashion Industry?

102

Inside the Luxury E-Commerce Race

103

Inside Banana Republic’s Bid to Regain Relevance

104

How Big Brands Choose their Creative Directors

105

Fashion’s Hottest Jobs

106

What TikTok’s Rise Means for Fashion

107

The Transformation of the Black Hair Care Market

108

Making Sense of the Direct-to-Consumer Reckoning

109

Inside the Gap and J.Crew Comeback Attempts

110

Can Gucci Become ‘Gucci’ Again?

111

How Skims Took on Victoria’s Secret and Spanx

112

Why So Many Athletes Are Launching Fashion Brands

113

Department Stores Make a Comeback

114

In Activewear, Where Are the White Spaces?

115

Eva Chen on Meta’s Virtual Fashion Experiment

116

Gen-Z’s Great Expectations

117

Why Chanel Is Opening Private Boutiques

118

Is This the Beginning of the End for Leather?

119

The Decline of the Skinny Jean

120

How Luxury Woos the World’s Biggest Spenders

121

Fashion’s Greenwashing Problem

122

How Vacation Clothes Became Big Business

123

Who Is Designing Fashion in the Metaverse?

124

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

125

Why Shein Is Valued at $100 Billion

126

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