The Enterprise of Trend is happy to announce that Valentino’s inventive director Alessandro Michele and chief govt Jacopo Venturini will be part of us on stage at BoF VOICES 2024 to debate their inventive revamp of the enduring Roman style model. Michele’s first style present will happen on September 29 throughout Paris Trend Week.
Additionally added to the speaker lineup are the editor-in-chief of Overseas Coverage Ravi Agrawal, Josephine Philips, founder and CEO of clothes alteration and repairs firm Sojo, Bohan Qiu, founder and director of China-based model consultancy BOH Project, Brandon Wen, inventive director of the famed style division on the Royal Academy of Effective Arts in Antwerp and Clover Hogan, local weather activist and founding father of youth non-profit Drive of Nature.
They be part of an already excellent line-up of {industry} audio system together with designer Simon Porte Jacquemus, David Allemann of Swiss sports activities firm On, Jens Grede of viral lingerie and loungewear model Skims, style advocate and documentarian Bethann Hardison, and luxurious e-commerce leaders Lauren Santo Domingo of Moda Operandi and Michael Kliger of MyTheresa.
Going down from November 12 to fifteen, 2024 at Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire, UK, the distinctive three-day gathering will convey collectively leaders and disruptors from the worlds of science, know-how, well being and wellness, meals, movie, politics, the humanities, philosophy and philanthropy – and, after all, style, luxurious and sweetness – to advertise cross-industry discourse and spark innovation.
A restricted variety of invitation-only tickets stay to affix us in particular person at Soho Farmhouse. To request an invite, please full this manner.
Different BoF VOICES 2024 audio system confirmed to date embrace:
- Salman Toor, visible artist
- Sven Smit, senior companion and chair of the McKinsey World Institute
- Jeremy Jauncey, founder and chief govt, Stunning Locations
- Gemma D’Auria, senior companion, international chief of attire, style and luxurious, McKinsey & Firm
- Ravi Thakran, founder and managing companion, Turmeric Capital Holdings
For the total listing of confirmed audio system click on right here.
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Alessandro Michele is the inventive director of Maison Valentino, a job he has held since his appointment in Might 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 answerable for the expansion of the equipment assortment. In 2002, he was tapped by Tom Ford to design for Gucci. Over 20 years at Gucci, Michele held quite a lot 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.
Jacopo Venturini is Maison Valentino’s chief govt officer, a job 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 giant style homes together with merchandising coordinator at Prada Group in addition to govt vp and chief merchandising and licensing officer at Gucci. Previous to assuming the function of chief govt 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.
Josephine Philips is the founder and CEO 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 {industry} extra round by modernising the clothes restore sector. Sojo delivers door-to-door restore and alterations service to clients by way of their London-based tailoring studio. It gives an built-in and scalable answer for e-commerce retailers and style manufacturers to assist cut back returns and enhance circularity inside their companies. Sojo launched its first B2B partnership with Ganni in 2021 and at the moment counts 25 manufacturers and retailers together with Marks and Spencer, Vestiaire Collective and Peachy Den as shoppers.
Bohan Qiu is the founder and director of BOH Challenge, a communications and inventive manufacturing company situated in Shanghai, China and Seoul, South Korea. The company hopes to bridge the creativity hole between Japanese and Western cultures. BOH Challenge has a shopper roster of world manufacturers together with Amiri, Balenciaga, Calvin Klein and Gucci. It additionally companions with rising designers in China akin to Louis Shengtao Chen, Mark Gong, and Rui, amongst others. The company just lately expanded into South Korea with the the objective tapping into the affect of Korean style and foster significant connections between the Chinese language and Korean markets
Ravi Agrawal is the editor-in-chief of Overseas Coverage, {a magazine} protecting American and worldwide present affairs and public coverage. Agrawal can be the host of FP Reside, the journal’s video channel and podcast, on which he frequently interviews world leaders and policymakers. Earlier than becoming a member of FP in 2018, Agrawal labored at CNN for greater than a decade in roles that took him to 3 continents, together with because the community’s New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent. He has gained a Peabody Award and garnered three Emmy nominations for his work as a TV producer. His writing for FP was a part of a collection nominated for a 2020 Nationwide Journal Award for columns and commentary. Agrawal can be the writer of India Related: How the Smartphone Is Reworking the World’s Largest Democracy.
Brandon Wen is the inventive director of the style division of the Royal Academy of Effective Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. He teaches design and guides the division by way of a concentrate on creativity and reference to the objective of creating Antwerp’s creative group. Wen can be a designer and efficiency artist engaged on tasks based mostly on private themes round identification.
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 be a public speaker; her TED Discuss, “What to do when local weather change feels unstoppable,” has been seen 2 million occasions. At 22 she was recognised on the Forbes 30 Underneath 30 listing for her work with Drive of Nature. Hogan leads a 12-person staff researching local weather anxiousness, 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 position younger individuals on the coronary heart of choices affecting their future.
