The Italian menswear company’s public filing, the latest in a slew of fashion IPOs in 2021, is just one piece of a larger plan to redefine the brand.

This week, everyone will be talking about two key variables that will shape fashion’s immediate future, plus Dior’s show in London and Zegna’s upcoming IPO.

The Italian menswear brand is raising $880 million by merging with a New York-listed SPAC. The funds will give the luxury firm greater financial firepower to help it bounce back from a bruising pandemic year and fend off competitors.

After staging one of Milan Fashion Week’s most convincing ‘phygital’ shows, the designer discusses the hybridisation of the sartorial and the casual with Tim Blanks.

The lockdowns may have hit Milan hard, but in some quarters, it enabled the creativity to flow.

Major European luxury brands are placing bets on a September fashion month that is sure to be unlike any other, if it actually happens.

BoF tapped industry experts and analysed the market to determine which brands will likely be targeted this year — and which wild-card mergers could pick up steam.

Ermenegildo Zegna’s Alessandro Sartori is teaming up with Fear of God’s Jerry Lorenzo on a collection that launches during Paris Fashion Week. Tim Blanks decodes the logic behind the collaboration and what it says about the state of menswear.