Imran Amed
CEO and Editor-in-Chief
Imran Amed is the Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Business of Fashion. He is based in London and shapes BoF’s overall editorial strategy and is the host of The BoF Podcast. Imran holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a B.Com from McGill University and an honorary doctorate from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Previously, Imran was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co.
The BoF Podcast | Inside Dries Van Noten’s Venice Manifesto
After stepping back from his namesake brand, Dries Van Noten has opened a foundation in a Venetian palazzo dedicated to craft, beauty, and the things made by hand and soul. BoF's Tim Blanks speaks with the designer about why, in ugly times, making something beautiful is the only real form of protest.
The BoF Podcast | Inside Dries Van Noten’s Venice Manifesto
After stepping back from his namesake brand, Dries Van Noten has opened a foundation in a Venetian palazzo dedicated to craft, beauty, and the things made by hand and soul. BoF's Tim Blanks speaks with the designer about why, in ugly times, making something beautiful is the only real form of protest.
The Acts of Love Behind Milan Design Week
From a six-person ceramics studio to the chief design officer of one of the world’s biggest technology companies, Salone del Mobile remains the place where you feel the full spectrum of what design means today, writes Imran Amed.
The Acts of Love Behind Milan Design Week
From a six-person ceramics studio to the chief design officer of one of the world’s biggest technology companies, Salone del Mobile remains the place where you feel the full spectrum of what design means today, writes Imran Amed.
The BoF Podcast | Britt Moran on Why Atmosphere Is a Real Luxury Product
From a gap year in Italy that became a 31-year career, Dimorestudio’s Britt Moran joins Imran Amed during Milan Design Week to discuss what fashion brands get wrong about design, why physical spaces still win over screens and how a partnership that began after a romantic relationship ended became one of the most influential studios in the world.
The BoF Podcast | Britt Moran on Why Atmosphere Is a Real Luxury Product
From a gap year in Italy that became a 31-year career, Dimorestudio’s Britt Moran joins Imran Amed during Milan Design Week to discuss what fashion brands get wrong about design, why physical spaces still win over screens and how a partnership that began after a romantic relationship ended became one of the most influential studios in the world.
The Fashion Bubble, Seen From Washington, DC
From handbag spotting to hyperscalers, Imran Amed reports from Semafor World Economy on the two subjects consuming the world's most powerful CEOs and policy leaders — and what they mean for fashion.
The Fashion Bubble, Seen From Washington, DC
From handbag spotting to hyperscalers, Imran Amed reports from Semafor World Economy on the two subjects consuming the world's most powerful CEOs and policy leaders — and what they mean for fashion.
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The BoF Podcast | What Luxury’s Winners Are Getting Right
Imran Amed sits down with Zegna’s Ermenegildo Zegna, Ralph Lauren’s Patrice Louvet and Art Basel’s Noah Horowitz — live from Semafor World Economy in Washington to examine what’s working in luxury.
The BoF Podcast | What Luxury’s Winners Are Getting Right
Imran Amed sits down with Zegna’s Ermenegildo Zegna, Ralph Lauren’s Patrice Louvet and Art Basel’s Noah Horowitz — live from Semafor World Economy in Washington to examine what’s working in luxury.
The BoF Podcast | Ask Imran Anything: On Boring Fashion, the Meaning of Luxury and Building Outside the System
In the second instalment of the BoF Podcast’s Ask Me Anything series, Imran Amed takes on listener questions about creative energy returning to the industry, what luxury really feels like, why independent brands don’t need the old gatekeepers, and how to keep going when the world feels uncertain.
The BoF Podcast | Ask Imran Anything: On Boring Fashion, the Meaning of Luxury and Building Outside the System
In the second instalment of the BoF Podcast’s Ask Me Anything series, Imran Amed takes on listener questions about creative energy returning to the industry, what luxury really feels like, why independent brands don’t need the old gatekeepers, and how to keep going when the world feels uncertain.
Dispatches From Shanghai: Inside China’s New Luxury Landscape
On his first visit to Shanghai since before the pandemic, Imran Amed finds a market that has fundamentally changed — from status spending to stealth wealth, from megabrands to homegrown labels, from fashion focus to lifestyle emphasis — and asks, can Western brands catch up?
Dispatches From Shanghai: Inside China’s New Luxury Landscape
On his first visit to Shanghai since before the pandemic, Imran Amed finds a market that has fundamentally changed — from status spending to stealth wealth, from megabrands to homegrown labels, from fashion focus to lifestyle emphasis — and asks, can Western brands catch up?
The BoF Podcast | Faye McLeod on Luxury World-Building, One Window at a Time
From a childhood accident in the desert to 16 years conceptualising and creating Louis Vuitton’s windows, Faye McLeod joins Imran Amed to trace the emotional origins of her creative process and explain why she is striking out on her own.
The BoF Podcast | Faye McLeod on Luxury World-Building, One Window at a Time
From a childhood accident in the desert to 16 years conceptualising and creating Louis Vuitton’s windows, Faye McLeod joins Imran Amed to trace the emotional origins of her creative process and explain why she is striking out on her own.
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The BoF Podcast | Is Your $3,000 Handbag Worth It? Tanner Leatherstein Has the Answer
The leather expert and BoF 500 member joins Imran Amed to unpack the making of luxury handbags and why consumers are often paying for status over substance.
The BoF Podcast | Is Your $3,000 Handbag Worth It? Tanner Leatherstein Has the Answer
The leather expert and BoF 500 member joins Imran Amed to unpack the making of luxury handbags and why consumers are often paying for status over substance.
The Industry That Eats Its Young
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
The Industry That Eats Its Young
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
The BoF Podcast | Bella Freud on Fashion and the Art of Getting People to Open Up
The designer and podcaster joins Imran Amed to reflect on the emotional power of clothes, what Vivienne Westwood taught her about rebellion and how Fashion Neurosis has unlocked a new chapter in her creative life.
The BoF Podcast | Bella Freud on Fashion and the Art of Getting People to Open Up
The designer and podcaster joins Imran Amed to reflect on the emotional power of clothes, what Vivienne Westwood taught her about rebellion and how Fashion Neurosis has unlocked a new chapter in her creative life.
The Season That Was: Signals From Fashion’s Front Lines
From the impact of the war in the Middle East to the future of Saks to the Kering conundrum, Imran Amed shares his intel and insight from the trenches of the latest ‘fashion month.’
The Season That Was: Signals From Fashion’s Front Lines
From the impact of the war in the Middle East to the future of Saks to the Kering conundrum, Imran Amed shares his intel and insight from the trenches of the latest ‘fashion month.’