Tim Blanks

United Kingdom

Editor-at-Large at Business of Fashion (BOF)

Host at The Business of Fashion Podcast

Editor at large, http://t.co/uEmlzkRJVq

Articles

Inside J.W. Anderson’s ‘Disobedient Bodies’

2 days ago | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

WAKEFIELD, United Kingdom — Years ago, after Issey Miyake had presented yet another of his genre-busting fusions of clothes, music, dance, whatever they were, I presumptuously challenged him about his conviction that fashion was not an art form. His customary diffidence spilled over into irritation. “Clothes, clothes…,” he insisted cryptically. Not sculpture, not oil on canvas. Just cloth.
David Bailey, Immortal

1 week ago | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

David Bailey wanted to play jazz, like his hero Chet Baker, but his trumpet was stolen when he was 19. He bought a Rolleiflex camera, by which happy accident he became a finger on the handful of photographers who have defined their age. And you don’t have to guess which finger: the “up yours” of his most iconic images nailed a time and place like no one has since.
Hello, Goodbye: Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Next Chapter

1 week ago | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

ROME — Human nature abhors a vacuum. Maria Grazia Chiuri’s status at the house of Dior has been the object of furious speculation for months now but in the absence of any confirmation from LVMH that the runway spectacle she staged in Rome on Tuesday night was her last hurrah at the brand, the audience made up its own mind. The designer was greeted with a rousing standing ovation when she walked out at the finale.
Fashion’s World-Builder-in-Chief

2 weeks ago | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

If a name is destiny, Niklas Bildstein Zaar has more than lived up to his. It could belong to a scion of House Harkonnen, an impression that is consolidated by his ascetic appearance — ghostly pale, shaven-headed, invariably swathed in voluminous black — and doubly underscored by the work his Berlin-based architecture and design studio Sub produces.
Lucien Pagès Merges with AIPR

1 month ago | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

LONDON — The glow has scarcely faded from the monumental party Lucien Pagès threw for his 50th birthday and he’s already celebrating another watershed with Wednesday morning’s announcement that his public relations agency Lucien Pagès Communication is forming a joint venture with Adam Iezzi’s London-based agency AIPR. Backing the union is The Independents, the global design, production and PR giant, which acquired LPC last December. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
A Restless, Radical Mind: How Jonathan Anderson Transfigured Loewe

2 months ago | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

Jonathan Anderson’s decade-plus tenure at Loewe, which officially ends today, has been defined by two passions: craft and curation. They have shaped one of the most distinctive, radical voices in fashion. It has challenged all sorts of orthodoxies, foremost the relationship between form and function. What comes to mind for some reason are the porcelain plates Japanese ceramicist Takuro Kuwata inserted into dresses in the A/W 2020 collection. I think of the perennial Rei Kawakubo question — Why?
The BoF Podcast | Demna Takes Gucci, Versace’s New Chapter Begins

2 months ago | businessoffashion.com | Imran Amed |Tim Blanks

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Sarah Burton’s Givenchy Debut: First Principles Take Flight

Mar 7, 2025 | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

Facing the challenge of her new position as creative director of Givenchy, Sarah Burton had been asking herself the inevitable questions. What does Givenchy stand for? Where do I want to begin? Since Count Hubert himself retired in 1995, the house has bounced from pillar to post under owner LVMH. While it’s true that risks were taken with the creative directorship over the years, the designer churn also suggested the brand was less of a priority than its larger stablemates.
Ackermann and Ford: A Deliciously Dangerous Liaison

Mar 5, 2025 | businessoffashion.com | Tim Blanks

The mirrors that lined the walls of Haider Ackermann’s show venue on Wednesday night were subtly graffiti-ed with suggestions of deviance: it was easy to imagine provocative phrases, obscene drawings, phone numbers, hand prints… the sort of improvised decor you might find in a gamy club privé. This Versailles of Vice was inspired by a much younger Ackermann’s work experience in a nightclub in Antwerp’s red light district. Come dawn, the working girls would meet up to review the night’s adventures.
How Cynthia Erivo Claimed Her Space in Hollywood, and Held it

Feb 13, 2025 | anothermag.com | Nadine Ijewere |Katie Shillingford |Tim Blanks |Styling Katie Shillingford

Fresh from her turn in Wicked, Cynthia Erivo speaks to Tim Blanks about why the film has opened up conversations about racism and queerness, ‘holding space’, and her deep bond with Ariana GrandePhotographyNadine IjewereStylingKatie ShillingfordTextTim Blanks Lead Image This article is taken from the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of AnOther Magazine: Our first meeting was chance.