Luxury fashion's designer diversity problem.
In this week's Careers Newsletter, discover the latest BoF Podcast episode: The Debrief | Luxury Fashion's Designer Diversity Problem: Luxury fashion remains an exclusive club, where leadership positions are often filled from within tight, familiar circles. Despite industry-wide commitments to diversity and inclusion, the sector continues to struggle with gender and racial diversity in its top creative roles. Many luxury companies still operate within networks that favour traditional backgrounds, making it difficult for new, diverse talent to break through. "It's a role where I think people's unconscious biases really can come into play because whether or not they receive something as good design or bad design is going to be so much influenced by the person who told them that it's good design or bad design," said BoF's luxury editor Robert Williams. This week on The Debrief, BoF senior correspondent Sheena Butler-Young sat down with Williams to discuss the structural barriers that keep women and minorities from ascending to these coveted positions. They explore how the industry's patriarchal business models perpetuate these challenges, the influence of consumer expectations in driving change, and how mass brands like Uniqlo are beginning to shift the narrative by appointing creative directors from unconventional backgrounds. —> LEARN MORE | |
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| | By Sheena Butler-Young and Robert Williams |
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