The Best Companies to Work for in Fashion, Rei Kawakubo, Alessandro Michele on Plagiarism Charges

Ivanka Trump Secretly Relabelled, Marie Claire Mexico is #TiedTogether [View on Web]( [Add to contacts]( [New reader? Subscribe]( [BoF]( THE DAILY DIGEST TODAY'S MUST READ [The Best Companies To Work For In Fashion 2017]( BY Amanda Dargan and Robin Mellery-Pratt [The Business of Fashion surveyed over 2,600 industry professionals, representing more than 190 leading fashion companies around the world for our first annual report on the best companies to work for in fashion.]( [Read more]( TOP STORIES [Rei Kawakubo: A Punk’s Pain]( BY Tim Blanks [On the eve of a major retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the radical and reclusive Comme des Garçons designer talks to BoF’s Tim Blanks about the pain of constant creation and the impossibility of stopping.]( [Read more]( [Gucci's Alessandro Michele Responds to Plagiarism Charges]( BY Tamara Abraham [The Gucci creative director has refuted claims that the label's new alien-inspired video series is plagiarised from the work of a Central Saint Martins student.]( [Read more]( [Amidst Backlash, Ivanka Trump Clothing Is Secretly Relabelled as Adrienne Vittadini]( BY Lauren Sherman [BoF has learned that G-III, the company that licenses Ivanka Trump ready-to-wear, has relabelled inventory without the knowledge of the brand and sold it to discount chain Stein Mart.]( [Read more]( [Over 8,640 Stores to Close in US, Signalling Sea Change in Retail]( BY BoF Team [With American store closings on track to surpass their 2008 peak, only the smart will survive.]( [Read more]( [Rent the Runway Co-Founder Joins Walmart Incubator, Marie Claire Mexico Is #TiedTogether and More...]( BY BoF Team [In today's News Bites, Ireland {NAME} wears a white bandana on the cover of Marie Claire Mexico & Latinoamérica, and Elizabeth Saltzman collaborates with Rocket Dog.]( [Read more]( [DAILY DIGEST Fashion News from Around the Web]( 1 [Markets Sense Relief After French Vote]( ["The value of the euro jumped to a five-month high, after the first round of voting in the French presidential election on Sunday."]( 2 [The Reason Larger Clothes Fit so Badly]( ["The issue is the way many clothing companies create their range of sizes — by using a single fit model and mathematically scaling up and down based on that one person’s measurements."]( 3 [Bangladesh: Sewing Full-Time for €61 a Month]( ["Four years ago the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,100 people. Working conditions have improved since then, but wages have not."]( Welle]( 4 [How In-Home Package Delivery Could Save E-Commerce]( ["The makers of the August smart lock asked participants to overcome their concerns and see if they liked in-home deliveries. They really did."]( Company]( 5 [Intersex and Proud: Model Hanne Gaby Odiele on Finally Celebrating her Body]( ["When the Belgian model revealed she was intersex earlier this year, she gave voice to something she’d always been told to hide."]( Observer]( FROM THE ARCHIVE [The Art of Disclosure: Fashion’s Influence Economy and the FTC]( BY Lauren Sherman [As the importance of native advertising continues to grow, are brands and digital influencers coming clean with consumers about the deals that power fashion’s influence economy?]( [Read more]( [Subscribe Were you forwarded this email? To subscribe to this newsletter, click below.]( for Free]( [BoF CAREERS - FEATURED JOBS]( [Director, Photo Studio Operations]( [Tommy Hilfiger]( Amsterdam, Netherlands [Art Director]( [Amaro]( Sao Paulo, Brazil [Design Assistant]( [Cynthia Rowley]( New York, United States [Senior Designer Materials - Trims Expert]( [Adidas]( Bavaria, Germany [VP Design, CKS/CKP]( [Calvin Klein]( New York, United States [Menswear Fashion Features Editor]( [Farfetch]( London, United Kingdom [View All Jobs]( Follow Us [The Business of Fashion]( [Sponsorship & Advertising]( [About]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Add to Address Book]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [Edit Newsletter Subscriptions]( The Business of Fashion Moray House - 6th Floor · 23-31 Great Titchfield St London W1W 7PA · United Kingdom