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Indie Brands Are Making This Fashion’s Biggest Olympics Ever

Canada, France and Ireland are among the countries working with home-grown fashion talent to create uniforms for their teams at this summer’s Olympic Games. For these small labels, it’s an unprecedented opportunity to capitalise on one of sport’s largest events.
French designer Stéphane Ashpool was appointed as artistic director for Team France, and has created several ranges of apparel for the country's athletes to compete in, as well as clothing for events such as the closing ceremony.
French designer Stéphane Ashpool was appointed as artistic director for Team France, and has created several ranges of apparel for the country's athletes to compete in, as well as clothing for events such as the closing ceremony. (Pauline Scotto Di Cesare)

For the past three years, French designer

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Capitalising on sport’s soaring commercial and cultural relevance is becoming a primary focus for fashion brands. Winning sports-marketing strategies today hinge on building long-term, collaborative partnerships with athletes and organisations that resonate with a brand’s target consumers, as experts in BoF’s latest case study explain.

How the Paris Olympics Will (Really) Impact Fashion Week

From security checkpoints to spiking hotel prices, fashion brands are struggling to plan for the upcoming men’s and haute couture fashion weeks — and separate fact from fiction — in the lead-up to the 2024 Summer Games.

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Daniel-Yaw Miller is a contributing writer at The Business of Fashion. Miller is a New York based journalist, editor and advisor who specialises in sports, fashion and business.

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