The Business of Fashion Celebrates the BoF 500 Class of 2025 During Paris Fashion Week – Red Carpet Arrivals
The Business of Fashion (BoF) attended the BoF 500 Gala at the Shangri-La Paris. Guests from the global fashion community gathered to celebrate the BoF 500 Class of 2025, the latest inductees to the definitive index of people shaping the global fashion industry.
Guests included Kim Kardashian, Charli XCX, Freen Sarocha Chankimha and Becky Armstrong, Colman Domingo, Ananya Panday, Ice Spice, Davika Hoorne, Jaden Smith, Jameela Jamil, Adwoa Aboah, Demi Lovato, FKA Twigs, Alex Consani, Anok Yai, Heidi Klum, Wisdom Kaye, Lil Simz, Tara Emad, Arca, Karen Wazen, Bright Vachirawit Chivaaree, Ishaan Khatter, Yasmin Finney, Joshua Hong, Barbara Palvin, Simone Bellotti, Daniel Lee, Veronica Leoni, Giambattista Valli, Christian Louboutin, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, Edward Enninful and Kyle Hagler.
Guests walked the blue carpet, posed in front of a glambot and sipped cocktails under the view of the Eiffel Tower as the party continued into the early hours. Actor Colman Domingo joined Imran Amed, founder and CEO of The Business of Fashion, onstage to raise a toast to guests.
The BoF 500 2025 was presented by Amazon Fashion, the Shangri-La Hotel, La Fantaisie, and La Mode en Images.
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ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF FASHION
The Business of Fashion is a next-generation media company recognised around the world for its authoritative, analytical point of view on the $2.5 trillion global fashion industry. Serving members in more than 125 countries, BoF combines independent, agenda-setting journalism with practical business advice, online learning, career-building tools and immersive events and experiences designed to open, inform and connect the global fashion community.
WHAT IS THE BoF 500?
The BoF 500 began as a live index of the 500 most influential people in the global fashion industry in September 2013. Since then, BoF has regularly added new names to the index, which now includes 1,613 people representing more than 98 nationalities, based in more than 66 countries across eight categories: Designers, Executives, Retailers, Entrepreneurs, Creative Class, Media, Models & Muses and Catalysts.
WHY CREATE THE BoF 500?
No other industry has a cast of characters as unique, passionate and diverse as those who animate the business of fashion, from business titans to creative upstarts. But back in 2013 we saw that what’s projected in the popular media is typically only a thin, and sometimes superficial, slice of this captivating group. We wanted to collect this talented community of people together online and share their stories of personal and professional growth in an honest and inspiring way. Today, the BoF 500 is a vital and free-to-access resource for anyone who is interested in learning about the industry and the people who make it tick.
WHAT IS THE METHODOLOGY?
The BoF 500 is driven by a core question: Who is shaping the global fashion industry of today and tomorrow? To answer it, BoF’s network of editors and correspondents gather nominations and intelligence from industry sources around the world. Then, we conduct extensive research and evaluate each nominee on key factors, including leadership, creativity, innovation, social impact, and success. Then, our team of editors discusses and debates each name and narrows the list down to a target of 100 people who are added to the Index each year.
