Imran Amed

Price hikes, diminished quality, growing inequality and the meaning of luxury itself were under the microscope at the FT’s Business of Luxury Summit this week as the sector struggles to recover from a downturn, writes Imran Amed.

The New York-based stylist and fashion editor joins Imran Amed to discuss navigating the class barriers of early 2000s fashion publishing, the gruelling logistics of image-making and how heritage can become a style point of view.

Kering's Luca de Meo, LVMH's Sidney Toledano, Levi's Michelle Gass, Tapestry's Joanne Crevoiserat and Saks Global's Geoffroy van Raemdonck will share their strategies at BoF's annual gathering for big thinkers, from Dec. 1-4, 2026 in Oxfordshire, UK.

Fourteen-time Grammy-nominated sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar shared the creative process behind her music at BoF VOICES 2025.

Ismail Hussein Sidi Ahmed (aka Miles), 1947 – 2026 I am my Dad's son.

One month after filing for an IPO, Tom Hale joined Imran Amed at The Business of Beauty Global Forum to lay out the company's central thesis: that Oura is building the world's first large physiological model, ‘continuously monitoring your body, learning from your physiology and helping you make better decisions.'

After a prolonged slowdown, luxury is gradually returning to growth, led by the US and China. Drawing on a survey of more than 2,000 clients and dozens of interviews across both markets, The Business of Fashion and McKinsey & Company find in the latest edition in our State of Fashion series a base of customers with increasingly distinct local preferences that nonetheless share an overarching desire for emotional connection.

At The Business of Beauty Global Forum 2026 in Napa Valley, California, Mona Kattan discusses stepping away from the Huda Beauty shadow, the creation of luxury fragrance brand Kayali, and building a long lasting vision for herself.

Amidst a record-breaking heatwave, top brands and independent designers soldiered on, showcasing the creative obsessions and aesthetic shifts that defined the haute couture Autumn/Winter 2026 season. Imran Amed and Tim Blanks break it all down.

Paloma Elsesser joined The Business of Beauty's Executive Editor Priya Rao about staying true to herself amid the pressures of tokenism and why — after a decade building other people's brands — she's finally thinking about building one of her own.