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The ninth version of our annual gathering for large thinkers takes place at a pivotal second for trend and the broader world: Donald Trump’s return to The White Home can have severe implications for the worldwide financial system and geopolitics; the style business continues to grapple with sluggish development, and shifting buyer sentiment; and fast developments in synthetic intelligence and the looming local weather disaster proceed to weigh closely on the business.
We are going to discover all of those matters — and extra — with prime enterprise and inventive leaders from trend and luxurious, in addition to with main thinkers, consultants and entrepreneurs from the worlds of know-how, economics, media, science, music, philanthropy and modern artwork and tradition.
Throughout 5 insight-packed content material classes, working over three days, we plan to cowl a whole lot of floor. Please discover the total agenda and speaker lineup under.
Register now to expertise a transformative programme of provocative talks, interactive discussions and unforgettable studying moments analyzing the groundbreaking improvements and cultural forces shaping the worldwide trend, luxurious and wonder industries.
Tuesday, November 12
15:00 – 17:00 London | 10:00 – 12:00 New York
From politics to social points and humanitarian crises, each trend, luxurious and wonder enterprise is impacted by the broader world. Right here we take a step again to grasp the larger image.
WE ARE IN A NEW ERA!
Sven Smit
WHAT THE RETURN OF DONALD TRUMP MEANS FOR THE WORLD
Ravi Agrawal
CLIMATE CHANGE IS A CULTURAL CRISIS
Clover Hogan
SACRED GROUND: ONE WOMAN’S MISSION TO PROTECT THE AMAZON
Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson with Bandana Tewari
THE DAWN OF THE AFRICAN CENTURY
Fred Swaniker
SEEKING EMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING IN WAR AND SPEECH
Jameel Jaffer and Daniel Levy
WHERE WILL WE FIND OUR NEW HEROES?
Tina Brown with Imran Amed
Wednesday, November 13
10:30 – 12:30 London | 05:30 – 07:30 New York
The style, luxurious and wonder industries are reworking earlier than our eyes. Right here we encounter the people who find themselves difficult the established order and imagining the thrilling alternatives that the longer term might carry.
THE STATE OF FASHION 2025
Gemma D’Auria and Imran Amed
FROM SLUMDOG TO MILLIONAIRE: DEMYSTIFYING INDIA’S GROWTH
Ravi Thakran
THE GREAT LUXURY E-COMMERCE RECKONING
Lauren Santo Domingo and Michael Kliger with Imran Amed
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN IT’S TOO HOT TO MAKE FASHION?
Beto Bina, Abiramy Sivalogananthan and Laurie Parsons with Sarah Kent
WHY H&M IS DOUBLING DOWN ON CREATIVITY
Daniel Ervér with Imran Amed
HOW INDEPENDENT BRANDS CAN THRIVE IN A FASHION WORLD RULED BY GIANTS
Bohan Qiu, Brandon Wen and Roksanda Ilincic with Olya Kuryshchuk
JACQUEMUS: A COMING OF AGE STORY
Simon Porte Jacquemus with Imran Amed
Wednesday, November 13
15:00 – 17:00 London | 10:00 – 12:00 New York
From provide chain innovation to AI transformation and various wellness therapies, we meet a daring group of scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs who’re utilizing know-how as a power for good.
THE SCIENCE OF LIKENESS: CREATING REALITY WITH AI
Tom Graham and Jefferson Hack
AN AI SOLUTION FOR FASHION’S BIG DISCOVERY PROBLEM
Julie Bornstein
WASTE IS THE BIGGEST OPPORTUNITY FASHION HAS EVER SEEN
Lawrence Lenihan
FROM DISPOSABILITY TO LONGEVITY: UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE OF REPAIR
Josephine Philips
HOW INNOVATION CAN BOLSTER AN INDEPENDENT FASHION BUSINESS
Stephanie Horton, Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini with Nick Blunden
SONIC APOTHECARY: MUSIC AS MEDICINE
Rosey Chan
Thursday, November 14
10:30 – 12:30 London | 05:30 – 07:30 New York
We live in an period of world tradition and creativity, fueled by the rise of know-how platforms that join us all to movie, tv, music and artwork throughout the planet. Right here we meet a few of the industries’ inspiring inventive leaders.
HOME IS THE OTHER WE CARRY INSIDE US
Es Devlin and Ekow Eshun
COLOUR SCHEMES: A PAINTER BETWEEN WORLDS
Salman Toor
CREATING CULTURAL RELEVANCE IN THE ALGORITHMIC AGE
David Allemann and Jens Grede with Imran Amed
THE FUTURE OF COMMERCE- ENABLED CULTURE
Ruth Diaz with Robin Mellery-Pratt
DESIGN IS THE NEW LUXURY
Jesse Lee and Benjamin Paulin
THE NEW VALENTINO: THE EMOTIONAL CONNECTION BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND BUSINESS
Alessandro Michele and Jacopo Venturini with Tim Blanks
Thursday, November 14
15:00 – 17:00 London | 10:00 – 12:00 New York
Let’s put issues into perspective. Hearken to passionate people with inspiring tales and uncover how one can dwell a life with function and authenticity.
THE ART OF TRANSFORMATION
Nicky Doll
A NEW LENS ON PURPOSE
Giles Duley
MODEL, MOTHER, AGENT, ADVOCATE: THE MANY LIVES OF BETHANN HARDISON
Bethann Hardison and Bianca Saunders
QUEER LOVE AND DESI VIBES: NOTES FROM ADVOCACY IN THE FIELD
Utkarsh Saxena
LIVING AUTHENTICALLY IN VIRAL MOMENTS
Fortunate Blue Smith and Nara Aziza Smith with Imran Amed
EMBODYING YOUR HIGHER SELF
Mory Fontanez
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Nara Aziza Smith is a digital creator and mannequin with over 14M followers throughout TikTok and Instagram. Smith usually generates viral content material and excessive engagement throughout her platforms with fantastically shot content material showcasing her culinary skills and vlogs sharing her love of trend, magnificence, wellness, and motherhood. Born and raised in Frankfurt, Germany, Smith now resides within the US together with her husband mannequin Fortunate Blue Smith, and their three youngsters.
Fortunate Blue Smith is an American mannequin born in Spanish Fork, Utah. Smith’s modelling profession started when he was scouted by an agent at 10 years previous. He was rapidly labelled an “it” boy because of his hanging seems, signature platinum blonde hair, and youthful allure. He turned one of many first faces to go viral on Tumblr the place he gained a world following. He rose to worldwide fame as a mannequin in his teenage years, strolling the runways for prime trend homes resembling Versace, Dolce and Gabbana and Marc Jacobs. He has fronted promoting campaigns for luxurious manufacturers together with Tom Ford, Calvin Klein, and Tommy Hilfiger. Past trend, Smith works as an actor.
Roksanda Ilinčić is the founder and inventive director of womenswear label Roksanda which launched in 2002. The label is thought for its daring use of color, unabashed femininity, sculptural shapes and distinctive cuts, a design aesthetic Ilinčić says is emblematic of a lady designing for different girls. Roksanda usually collaborates with like-minded feminine artists and humanities establishments internationally. Ilinčić has obtained a number of awards and nominations for her work together with Pink Carpet Designer of the Yr on the Vogue Awards and he or she is a member of the BoF 500 since 2014. Ilinčić is of Serbian heritage and holds levels from the College of Belgrade and Central Saint Martins.
Daniel Levy is the president of the US/Center East Mission, a task he has held since 2016. The organisation advances Israeli-Palestinian peace processes and upholds the rights of all peoples. Beforehand, Levy was a senior advisor within the Israeli Prime Minister’s workplace and to Justice Minister Yossi Beilin throughout the federal government of Ehud Barak between 1999 and 2001. Levy was additionally a member of the official Israeli delegation to the Israel-Palestine peace talks at Tabaunder Barak and at Oslo B underneath Yitzhak Rabin (1994-95) throughout his Israel Protection Forces service. He spent 5 years in Washington D.C. as director of the New America Basis’s Center East Process Drive after which moved again to London, the place he’s based mostly, the place he turned Director for the Center East and North Africa For the European Council on International Relations from 2012 to 2016. Levy holds masters and bachelors levels from Cambridge College’s King’s School.
Jameel Jaffer is the manager director of the Knight First Modification Institute at Columbia College. The institute promotes the freedoms of speech and the press within the digital age by means of litigation, analysis, coverage advocacy, and public schooling. He beforehand served in varied management positions on the American Civil Liberties Union, in the end overseeing the organisation’s work on free speech, privateness, know-how, nationwide safety, and worldwide human rights. Over the course of his profession as a litigator, Jaffer has argued human rights and civil liberties instances in a number of appeals courts in addition to the US Supreme Court docket; he has additionally testified many instances earlier than federal companies and the US Congress.
Es Devlin is a British modern artist and stage designer. Devlin’s oeuvre ranges from public sculptures and installations at Tate Trendy, V&A, Serpentine, Imperial Battle Museum and the Lincoln Centre, to kinetic stage designs on the Royal Opera Home, the Nationwide Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera, in addition to Olympic Ceremonies, Tremendous-Bowl half-time reveals, and monumental illuminated stage sculptures for giant scale stadium concert events. She has been the topic of a serious new monographic ebook, An Atlas of Es Devlin, described by Thames & Hudson as their most intricate and sculptural publication thus far, and a retrospective exhibition at present displaying on the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. In 2020 she turned the primary feminine architect of the UK Pavilion at a World Expo, conceiving a constructing which used AI to co-author poetry with guests on its 20 metre diameter facade. Her follow was the topic of the 2015 Netflix documentary sequence “Summary: The Artwork Of Design.” She is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, College of the Arts London and the Royal Society of Arts. She has been awarded The London Design Medal, three Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, an Ivor Novello Award, doctorates from the Universities of Bristol and Kent and a CBE.
Jefferson Hack is a curator and the co-founder of Dazed Media, the dad or mum firm of titles resembling AnOther Journal, One other Man, Dazed and Dazed Magnificence that includes print magazines, social and digital platforms and a world occasions division. Hack has curated exhibitions together with ‘An Invitation to Dream’, a serious public exhibition offered by Moncler in 2024. Throughout Frieze 2019 Hack curated ‘Transformer: A Rebirth of Marvel’ at 180 Strand. In 2016 Hack and Ferdinando Verderi launched Hack the System, a Rizzoli ebook to current a radical imaginative and prescient of the way forward for publishing.
Tom Graham is CEO of Metaphysic, an organization creating generative AI applied sciences and machine studying analysis to create immersive photorealistic content material at web scale. Metaphysic Studios is aiming to be the gold-standard for creating production-quality content material for Hollywood movies, AI music concert events, promoting and past. Graham and Metaphysic have been exploring the sector of moral AI, serving to people and types gather, personal and monetise their likeness, voice. Graham is initially from Australia and is now based mostly in London.
Bianca Saunders is the founder and inventive director of her namesake menswear label which launched in 2017. The model is thought for its silhouettes and craftsmanship, usually exploring the idea of physique mapping across the male kind by means of bespoke prints. The designs are deeply rooted in Saunders’ private British Caribbean identification and the social tapestry of Anglo-Caribbean relations. The Bianca Saunders model has proven at London Vogue Week. The model produces two collections a 12 months and engages in collaborations that run alongside the primary assortment. Saunders has gained a variety of prestigious awards together with the BFC/GQ Designer Vogue Fund in 2024, the New Institution Menswear award in 2023 and the thirty second ANDAM Grand Prix Vogue Award in 2021.
Giles Duley is the CEO of Legacy of Battle Basis, a charity helping individuals impacted by battle and warfare. Duley acquired his begin as a music photographer, capturing stars resembling Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz. In 2004, he shifted focus to documentary images, working with charities resembling Save the Youngsters and UNHCR. Duley paperwork battle zones, showcasing the resilience of these affected by adversity. His work spans nations like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. In 2011, Duley was severely injured by an IED in Afghanistan, leading to triple amputation, however he returned to proceed his work. In 2015, he launched the Legacy of Battle undertaking, collaborating with artists like Huge Assault and PJ Harvey. He has offered for Channel 4 and VICE TV, and in 2022 was appointed the UN’s World Advocate for Individuals with Disabilities in Battle. In 2023, he was awarded an MBE and joined Angelina Jolie’s Atelier Jolie as a company impression advisor.
Ekow Eshun is a author, curator and the chairman of the Fourth Plinth, overseeing Britain’s foremost public artwork programme. Beforehand, Eshun was the director of the Institute of Up to date Arts, London. He has staged exhibitions internationally, together with The Time is At all times Now, at present on present on the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork. Eshun was awarded the Affiliation for Artwork Historical past’s Curatorial Prize in 2023. Eshun was the primary Black editor of a serious journal within the UK when he led Enviornment journal. He’s an everyday contributor to publications together with Vogue, The New York Occasions, Monetary Occasions and The Guardian. He has created documentaries for BBC TV and radio and is the creator of books together with Black Gold of the Solar, which was shortlisted for the Orwell prize, and The Strangers: 5 Extraordinary Black Males and the Worlds That Made Them.
Tina Brown is a author and the previous editor-in-chief of Vainness Honest, The New Yorker and Tatler. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen for her providers to journalism in 2000, and inducted into the Journal Editors’ Corridor of Fame in 2007. In 2008, Brown launched and edited the digital information website The Each day Beast, which gained the information web site of the 12 months award in 2012 and 2013. For a decade she organised and hosted Girls within the World, with summits in New York, London and Delhi, and smaller salons all through North America. In 2017 The Vainness Honest Diaries, her account of her editorship of Vainness Honest, was chosen as among the finest books of the 12 months by a variety of publications, In October 2024, Brown Launched a weekly Substack e-newsletter, “Contemporary Hell: Tina Brown’s Diary.”
Fred Swaniker is the founder and chief government of Sand Applied sciences, a world know-how firm that builds synthetic intelligence-powered functions for corporations and governments. Swaniker started his profession at McKinsey & Firm in Johannesburg, South Africa as a enterprise analyst. After his tenure at McKinsey, Swanker co-founded Synexa Life Science, a bioanalytical providers supplier and analysis agency. In 2004, he based African Management Group, an umbrella organisation that homes ventures and academic establishments together with the African Management Academy in South Africa, designed to groom the subsequent era of African entrepreneurs. Swaniker holds levels from Stanford College and Macalester School.
Julie Bornstein is the founder and chief government of Daydream, an AI powered trend search engine. Previous to Daydream, she based THE YES, a venture-backed trend advice app, which was acquired by Pinterest. Bornstein has additionally served because the chief working officer and board member of Sew Repair, Inc., a private type service and on-line retailer from. She additionally held the function of chief advertising and marketing and digital officer of Sephora US the place she led the creation of its loyalty programme, Magnificence Insider. Bornstein helped launch Nordstrom.com in 1999, the place she ran e-commerce for five years. She serves on the board of administrators of Redfin, Weight Watchers and Sweetgreen and holds a level from Harvard College.
Ruth Diaz is the vp of Amazon Vogue Europe. She joined the enterprise in 2011 and has held a number of advertising and marketing and retail management positions at Amazon Italy in addition to main the House Innovation Program for Europe. In her present function as vp of Amazon Vogue Europe, a place she took in October 2020, Diaz leads all elements of the enterprise, together with the accountability for rising Amazon Vogue choice and bettering buyer expertise throughout Europe. Previous to becoming a member of Amazon, Diaz earned a level in Enterprise Administration on the Autonomous College of Madrid, Spain. Subsequently she gained appreciable expertise and experience in enterprise, trend, leisure and e-commerce working at Common Footage and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Spain. She turned the chief government on the on-line leisure firm Entradas.com and was on the helm of BuyVip, the web trend firm that Amazon acquired in 2010.
Mory Fontanez is the founding father of Eight22 Group, a consultancy that helps organisations and public personalities elevate their consciousness. After a notable profession as a disaster supervisor for Fortune 500 corporations, Fontanez realised many leaders fail as a result of they’re disconnected from their instinct and function. As an intuitive management coach, Fontanez guides C-suite leaders, performers and different public personalities, to reconnect with their interior knowledge to efficiently navigate change, challenges and development. Her first ebook, “The All-Realizing You,” can be revealed by HarperCollins in February 2025.
Daniel Ervér is the chief government of the H&M Group. He joined H&M in 2006 as a enterprise controller on the design and shopping for workplace in Stockholm. His intensive information of the H&M model was constructed by means of experiences in key markets like Germany and the USA, in addition to main H&M’s residence market in Sweden. Throughout the H&M head workplace, Daniel assumed a number of roles resembling head of world gross sales and world shopping for director. In 2020, he took on the management function of chief government of the H&M model, and since January 2024, he holds the place because the chief government for the complete H&M Group.
Laurie Parsons is reader in human geography at Royal Holloway, College of London. His work explores the nexus of local weather change and the worldwide financial system, specializing in how on a regular basis objects like clothes, bricks and different items join environmental impacts all over the world. He’s the creator of three books: Going Nowhere Quick (2020), Local weather Change within the World Office (2021), and Carbon Colonialism (2023), in addition to quite a few papers and stories highlighting how the worldwide manufacturing unit hides and exacerbates the impression of local weather change, particularly within the world South. His awards for this work embody the 2020 Occasions Larger Training award for Analysis Mission of the Yr, and the 2024 Affiliation of American Publishers award for ebook of the 12 months in Economics.
Abiramy Sivalogananthan is the South Asia regional coordinator for the Asia Flooring Wage Alliance (AFWA), the place she leads efforts to advance labour and gender rights throughout the area. As a PhD candidate in Transitional Justice, her tutorial pursuits complement her intensive fieldwork, which has transitioned from political actions to a deep give attention to labour rights in South Asia. With a number of years of expertise addressing systemic injustices within the garment business, Sivalogananthan is dedicated to effecting transformative change in world provide chains, guaranteeing fairness and justice for garment employees.
Beto Bina is the founder and chief government of FarFarm, a consultancy specialising in accountable provide chains. Bina beforehand led the sourcing staff at VEJA, specializing in rubber within the Amazon and agroecological cotton. He’s a member of the advisory board of Fibershed Brazil, and a counsellor at Papel & Caneta. He holds a level in Enterprise Administration and a grasp’s in social impression and sustainability from IE New York School.
Bandana Tewari is a tradition journalist and sustainability advocate and previously, the editor-at-large of Vogue India for 13 years. She sat entrance row to a quickly evolving business and reported extensively on the worldwide trend business. Together with her unrestrained and fiercely impartial voice, understanding of socio-political dynamics of trend and trademark ahead pondering, she is taken into account one among India’s foremost authorities on trend. Tewari’s items have appeared in publications resembling The New York Occasions, US Vogue, British Vogue, ATMOS and a number of other main Indian journals — Mint Lounge, Platform and Take. In December 2017, she, together with documentary film-maker Andrew Morgan of The True Price and Vanessa Friedman, spoke on the United Nations on the brand new handworker financial system. She sits on the advisory boards of Nest and Redress Hong Kong and is particular advisor to Copenhagen Vogue Summit.
Rosey Chan is a London-based multimedia artist and composer whose visionary work merges music, know-how, and wellness. As a classically educated musician and entrepreneur, she based Sonic Apothecary, a well-tech firm that integrates sound and science to reinforce well-being. Sonic Apothecary collaborates with main consultants to create soundscapes that promote psychological and emotional wellness. At its core, it’s a collective of innovators exploring how sound can remodel environments and uplift well-being, delivering options throughout enterprise, hospitality, and healthcare.
Olya Kuryshchuk is the founder and editor-in-chief of 1 Granary, a number one world trend schooling platform and inventive community. With a give attention to trend design, 1 Granary makes use of its print, digital content material, occasions, recruitment, and model improvement program to drive optimistic change within the trend business and supply sensible sources for the subsequent era of inventive minds. By way of the distinctive designer community constructed by means of 1 Granary, Kuryshchuk is a number one knowledgeable in expertise acquisition and improvement, scouting design expertise and constructing holistic model methods that embody design, manufacturing, communication, and advertising and marketing. She can also be an affiliate lecturer at Central Saint Martins and an everyday jury member at worldwide design competitions.
Cleo Valentine is a programs designer and doctoral researcher on the College of Cambridge, whose work sits on the intersection of setting, neurophysiology, and human well-being. Her analysis focuses on neuroimmunology, exploring how areas and sensory stimuli work together with the physique’s nervous and immune programs. Valentine additionally leads Sonic Apothecary’s analysis and improvement staff, overseeing scientific testing and validation of sound-based wellness interventions. Valentine is at present affiliated with the Spatial Cognition Lab at College School London and MIT’s Division of City Research and Planning. She is an alumna of the College of Cambridge, the College of Oxford, McGill College, and the College of Copenhagen.
Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of International Coverage. He’s additionally the host of FP Stay, the journal’s video channel and podcast, on which he usually interviews world leaders and policymakers. Earlier than becoming a member of FP in2018, Agrawal labored at CNN for greater than a decade in full-time roles spanning three continents, together with because the community’s New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent. He has shared a Peabody Award and three Emmy nominations for his work as a TV producer, and his writing for FP was a part of a sequence nominated for a 2020 Nationwide Journal Award for columns and commentary. Agrawal is the creator ofIndia Linked: How the Smartphone Is Remodeling the World’s Largest Democracy. He’s a graduate of Harvard College.
David Allemann is the co-founder and co-chairman of Swiss sportswear firm On, which he based alongside Caspar Coppetti and Olivier Bernhard. Allemann leads On’s product, advertising and marketing and direct-to-consumer groups. Beforehand, he served as chief advertising and marketing officer for furnishings model Vitra, and suggested world shoppers in sports activities and media at McKinsey, the place he additionally supported entrepreneurs by means of the McKinsey startup accelerator programme. Allemann holds a grasp’s diploma in regulation from the College of Zurich.
Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini are the founders of The Attico, a ready-wear label based mostly in Milan. Since its launch in 2016, The Attico has been nicely obtained by type icons, prime editors, and celebrities, leading to quite a few public appearances, crimson carpets, and particular initiatives. In 2018, Archive acquired 49 % of the model to help its inventive and enterprise development. In September 2023, The Attico hosted its first trend present throughout Milan Vogue Week .The model is at present distributed in over 200 retailers, boutiques, and idea shops worldwide.
Mitch Anderson is co-founder and government director of Amazon Frontlines, a non-profit organisation based mostly within the Higher Amazon, which defends Indigenous peoples’ rights to land and cultural survival. In 2011, he moved to Ecuador’s northern Amazon to begin a grassroots clear water undertaking with Indigenous communities dwelling downriver from contaminating oil operations. By way of constructing greater than 1,000 clear water programs in over 70 villages, Anderson supported the formation of the Ceibo Alliance, an Indigenous-led non-profit that gained the distinguished UN Equator Prize.
Gemma D’Auria is a senior associate at McKinsey & Firm and the worldwide chief of its attire, trend and luxurious sector. Based mostly in Milan with over twenty years of consulting expertise throughout the US, Center East and Europe, D’Auria companions with firm executives to create lasting change by means of holistic development methods, digital transformations, and functionality constructing at scale. She usually publishes insights related to the style, retail, and luxurious sectors together with McKinsey and BoF’s annual State of Vogue report, which she leads and co-authors.
Karl Sanchez is a French-born New-York based mostly make-up artist, performer and Drag Queen underneath the title Nicky Doll. Sanchez hosted the French model of the acclaimed RuPaul’s Drag Race. Sanchez can also be a commentator of the EuroVision Track contest and took part within the Olympic Torch Relay in Marseille. He co-wrote and co-created a 4 episode documentary “Les Voyages de Nicky” which explores the artwork and historical past of drag.
Lauren Santo Domingo is the co-founder and chief model officer of luxurious e-commerce platform Moda Operandi. Moda Operandi launched in 2010 with a runway pre-order mannequin and a give attention to rising designers and types. In 2023, Santo Domingo was named creative director of Tiffany’s residence assortment. She at present sits on the Board of Administrators for Moda Operandi and Save Venice Inc., a non- revenue devoted to the conservation of the humanities in Venice, Italy. She beforehand served as an editor at American ce.
Jens Grede is the co-founder and chief government of viral lingerie and loungewear model SKIMS, at present valued at $4 billion. The model’s revolutionary strategy to the intimates and lounge class has amassed thousands and thousands of consumers since its launch in 2019. He’s additionally the co-founder and Chairman of FRAME and a prolific investor in retail and media by means of his holding firm Common Tradition. Previous to partnering together with his spouse Emma Grede and Kim Kardashian to launch the enterprise in 2018, Grede based Los Angeles-based FRAME with Erik Torstensson in 2012. Earlier than that, the duo spent years working in trend and media, serving as editors-in-chief of journal Man About City and launching Industrie journal, earlier than co-founding the advertising and marketing company Saturday Group in 2003.
Bethann Hardison is a mannequin, documentary filmmaker and activist. Hardison turned one of many first high-profile Black fashions when she walked within the historic 1973 Battle of Versailles trend present. She can also be the founding father of her namesake modelling company, which has guided the careers of younger fashions with a give attention to diversifying the style business. In 1988, alongside mannequin Iman, she based Black Ladies Coalition to advocate for equal pay for Black and minority ethnic fashions and has garnered accolades together with the CFDA’s Founder Award for her advocacy. In 2018 Hardison based The Designers Hub to information and empower Black designers; the next 12 months she turned an inaugural member of Gucci’s Changemakers Council. Hardison made her directorial debut in 2023 with “Invisible Magnificence,” a documentary that chronicles her profession and has gained awards together with the NAACP Picture Award for Excellent Documentary Movie. She serves on the CFDA’s Board of Administrators and as Gucci’s Govt Advisor for World Fairness and Cultural Engagement.
Clover Hogan is a local weather activist and the founding father of Drive of Nature, a non-profit organisation advocating for larger urgency across the local weather disaster.Hogan can also be a public speaker; her TED Speak, “What to do when local weather change feels unstoppable,” has been considered 2 million instances. At 22 she was recognised on the Forbes 30 Below 30 listing for her work with Drive ofNature. Hogan leads a 12-person staff researching local weather nervousness, which has delivered programmes to younger individuals in 50+ nations to assist them take motion of their locales. Her organisation works with companies, policy-makers and educators to put younger individuals on the coronary heart of selections affecting their future.
Stephanie Horton is the senior director of world client advertising and marketing and technique for commerce at Google the place she leads the worldwide B2C advertising and marketing groups serving to to form and drive the imaginative and prescient and technique for Google Buying and Funds. Previous to Google, Horton held positions as chief government at Hemp Tailor, chief government at Alexander Wang, chief advertising and marketing officer at Farfetch and senior stage positions at Shopbop, US Vogue and The New York Occasions. Horton at present serves on The Advisory Boards of NYU Stern Vogue/Luxurious MBA, The Black in Vogue Council and McMullen Boutique. She serves as a senior advisor for personal fairness agency Three Hills Capital Companions and has a board seat on one among their core investments FaceGym. Horton can also be the co-founder of Vogue Tech Connects, which connects feminine faculty college students of color with trend and tech internships.
Simon Porte Jacquemus is a French designer and the founding father of Jacquemus, a ready-to-wear and equipment label. Jacquemus’ collections are impressed by nice artwork, images, sculpture, French tradition and the designer’s personal life. All through the trajectory of the label the model has challenged advertising and marketing norms in trend, staging runway productions in surprising places together with a Parisian swimming pool, a lavender subject in Provence or a wheat subject outdoors of Paris. Jacquemus’ profession milestones embody self-publishing the espresso desk images books “Marseille Je T’aime”(2017), “Photographs” (2020), and “Le Chouchou” (2023), shot by Martin Parr.
Jeremy Jauncey is the founder and chief government of Lovely Locations, a method and inventive company servicing journey corporations together with lodges and airways. In 2017, Lovely Locations was named as one of the crucial revolutionary corporations in journey by Quick Firm. Jauncey can also be an envoy for World Wildlife Fund, Panerai and Technogym.
Michael Kliger is the chief government officer of Mytheresa, a place he has held since 2015. On this function, Kliger has assembled a management staff devoted to driving development for the Munich-based luxurious e-tailer. Below his management, Mytheresa accomplished its itemizing on the New York Inventory Trade. Kliger additionally sits on the corporate’s administration board. Previous to becoming a member of Mytheresa, Kliger was the worldwide vp for eBay Enterprise. He has additionally held managing director roles and government positions at Accenture, First Capital Companions and Actual Holding, in addition to serving as the previous principal of McKinsey & Firm, the place he headed the consultancy’s German retail follow.
Jesse Lee is the founder and chief government of Primary Area, a web based market specialising in males’s and ladies’s attire. Lee can also be chairman of Design Miami, a design firm that holds 4 annual collectible design festivals in Miami, Florida in addition to Los Angeles, California, Basel, Switzerland, and Paris, France. In 2023, Primary Area acquired Design Miami. Previous to launching Primary. Area, Lee had based and operated dFm, a inventive company with shoppers in know-how, media, retail and trend.
Lawrence Lenihan is the chairman and co-founder of Resonance, an organization that goals to allow any model to make one garment on-demand, at scale, sustainably and profitably. Over the course of his 30-year profession, Lenihan has began 10 know-how corporations and types, and invested in dozens of transformational corporations. He has additionally taught trend innovation and entrepreneurship for greater than a decade as an adjunct professor at NYU. Previous to Resonance, Lenihan was the founder and chief government of FirstMark Capital, the place he was an early investor in Shopify, Pinterest, Digital Forex Group, and Tommy John.
Alessandro Michele is the inventive director of Maison Valentino, a task he has held since his appointment in Could 2024. Michele started his profession at knitwear label Les Copain and has labored underneath the inventive management of Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini at Fendi. At Fendi, Michele was liable for the expansion of the equipment assortment. In 2002, he was tapped by Tom Ford to design for Gucci. Over twenty years at Gucci, Michele held a variety of positions together with inventive director of the model, which he assumed in 2015. In that function, Michele formed Gucci’s inventive imaginative and prescient and constructed on its model identification.
Nemonte Nenquimo is a Waorani chief and the co-founder of each the Indigenous-led non-profit Ceibo Alliance and its associate organisation, Amazon Frontlines. Nenquimo led her individuals in an historic authorized victory in opposition to the oil business, defending half one million acres of rainforest and setting a precedent for Indigenous rights throughout the area. Her management has been broadly recognised; in 2020, she gained the Goldman Environmental Prize for Central and South America and was named within the BBC’s 100 Girls listing and the TIME listing of the 100 Most Influential Folks within the World.
Benjamin Paulin is the co-founder of Paulin, Paulin, Paulin, a household enterprise that distributes, promotes and preserves the works of French designer Pierre Paulin (1927-2009). The corporate produces and sells uncommon items of the designer’s work, a lot of which weren’t commercially out there on the time of design.
Josephine Philips is the founder and chief government of Sojo, the UK based mostly B-Corp licensed repairs and alterations platform. Philips based the style tech start-up in January 2021 with the mission of serving to to make the style business extra round by modernising the clothes restore sector. Sojo delivers door-to-door restore and alterations service to clients through their London-based tailoring studio. It affords an built-in and scalable resolution for e-commerce retailers and trend manufacturers to assist cut back returns and enhance circularity inside their companies. Sojo launched its first B2B partnership with Ganni in 2021 and at this time counts 25 manufacturers and retailers together with Marks andSpencer, Vestiaire Collective and Peachy Den as shoppers.
Bohan Qiu is the founder and director of BOH Mission, a communications and inventive manufacturing company situated inShanghai, China and Seoul, South Korea. The company hopes to bridge the creativity hole between Japanese and Western cultures. BOH Mission has a shopper roster of world manufacturers together with Amiri, Balenciaga, Calvin Klein and Gucci. It additionally companions with rising designers in China resembling Louis Shengtao Chen, Mark Gong, and Rui, amongst others. The company not too long ago expanded into South Korea with the the objective tapping into the affect of Korean trend and foster significant connections between the Chinese language and Korean markets.
Utkarsh Saxena is the co-founder and chief government of Adalat AI, an AI platform geared toward reworking justice programs in India and the World South. Saxena has a decade of authorized expertise, together with clerking for a justice of the Indian Supreme Court docket. He performed a pivotal function within the battle for marriage equality in India, petitioning the Supreme Court docket and taking part within the historic oral arguments that sought to legalise same-sex marriage. Past litigation, Saxena labored with the Ministry of Legislation and Justice and the Ministry of Finance to determine systemic challenges inside India’s judicial system, resembling courtroom delays. His dedication to justice reform impressed him to pivot in the direction of technological improvements, culminating within the founding of Adalat AI. Saxena holds twin bachelor’s levels in economics and regulation from the College of Delhi, an LL.M. from Harvard Legislation Faculty.
Sven Smit is a senior associate at McKinsey & Firm and the chairman of the McKinsey World Institute, the agency’s enterprise and economics analysis arm. He’s a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders Council in addition to its government committee, often known as the Acceleration Crew, overseeing insights and ecosystems. As chairman of MGI, Smit leads analysis and authors stories on world financial developments and matters resembling productiveness and development, urbanisation, innovation and know-how and the way forward for work. He’s additionally the co-author of two books: “Past the Hockey Stick” and “The Granularity of Progress.” Smit beforehand led McKinsey’s western Europe area and its world technique and company finance follow. He holds a level from Delft College of Know-how and an MBA from INSEAD.
Ravi Thakran is the founder and managing associate of Turmeric Capital Holdings, a Singapore-based personal fairness agency focussed on investing in Asia’s client sectors. Thakran served as group chairman of LVMH Asia in addition to chairman of L Capital Asia (now L Catterton Asia), which he based in 2008 and grew into one among Asia’s largest consumer-focused development funding corporations. In his twenty years at LVMH Asia, Thakran held prime roles throughout the likes of Sephora Asia and LVMHWatches & Jewelry Asia earlier than serving as group president in 2008 and group chairman in 2014. Alongside his involvement with museums, world tourism boards and animal conservation charities, he serves on Harrods’ board of administrators and is concerned within the Saudi Vogue Fee.
Salman Toor is a Pakistani visible artist based mostly in New York Metropolis. His work, which depicts the lives of imagined younger, brown and queer males, might be discovered within the everlasting collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and Whitney Museum of American Artwork, in addition to the Tate in London and the Pinault Assortment in Paris. At present, his work is on view within the sixtieth Worldwide Artwork Exhibition of La Biennaledi Venezia.
Jacopo Venturini is Maison Valentino’s chief government officer, a task he has held since 2020. Venturini started his profession at La Rinascente, an Italian division retailer, as a purchaser in 1995. He has held positions throughout massive trend homes together with merchandising coordinator at Prada Group in addition to government vp and chief merchandising and licensing officer at Gucci. Previous to assuming the function of chief government at Valentino, Venturini served as womenswear and menswear model supervisor and because the home’s ready-to-wear assortment and retail picture director. Venturini holds a level in economics and enterprise from Bocconi College in Milan.
Brandon Wen is the inventive director of the style division of the Royal Academy of Tremendous Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. He teaches design and guides the division by means of a give attention to creativity and reference to the objective of creating Antwerp’s creative group. Wen can also be a designer and efficiency artist engaged on initiatives based mostly on private themes round identification.
