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How to Future-Proof Your Fashion Career in 2025

Soft skills like agility, intellectual curiosity and an ability to work across departments and categories will be crucial in 2025 — but true success will mean playing the long game.

Fashion-industry talent who can adapt quickly and help brands find solutions to complex issues will fare best. (Getty)

Sheena Butler-Young

07 January 2025

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In December, Teodora Nicolae, a seasoned marketing executive, most recently at a fashion trade show group, took to LinkedIn to share a popular year-end refrain: “Today is my last day ... I am simultaneously very excited to step into a new chapter.”

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Is Fashion Done With Diversity Departments?

DEI programmes, widely adopted across the industry in 2020, now face a backlash from conservative activists and internal doubts about their effectiveness. To survive, they must evolve, experts say.

Fashion’s Most (and Least) In-Demand Skills

An industry-wide reckoning is leading fashion firms to prioritise soft skills like critical thinking and curiosity over once in-demand technical proficiencies.

What Fashion’s Advocacy Will Look Like in the Trump Era

Many brands have stopped engaging with social and political issues, fearing a conservative backlash. That calculus may change when Trump returns to office.

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Sheena Butler-Young

Sheena Butler-Young is Senior Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers workplace, talent and issues surrounding diversity and inclusion.

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Why Fashion’s Next Generation Is Rethinking College

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Jimmy Choo and Marissa Collections Are Hiring on BoF Careers

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How ESSEC Business School’s New Master’s Is Evolving Luxury Education

A pioneer in luxury education since 1991, French business school ESSEC has launched a new Master’s in Luxury Management — preparing students for the evolving luxury industry through a thorough academic and hands-on curriculum.

Can Sporty & Rich’s Emily Oberg Break the Founder-CEO Curse?

Oberg stepped into the top job at her startup last August. In an exclusive interview with The Business of Fashion, she explained how she plans to scale her business while sidestepping the ‘founder’s ego’ problem that has doomed many emerging brands.

Trump Signs Order to Combat Fraudulent ‘Made in America’ Labels, White House Says

The executive order directs ⁠the FTC chairman to prioritise enforcement of existing laws against sellers and manufacturers who falsely claim products are made in America.

Oil Market Set for Tumultuous Week as Kharg Attack Raises Stakes

Global oil markets face turmoil after a US attack on Iran's main export hub heightened risks to supply across the Middle East.

This Week: The Oscars Bring Red Carpet Season to a Close; Lululemon Adrift

The 98th Academy Awards, and Vanity Fair’s revamped after-party, bring luxury brands’ red-carpet strategies to a crescendo. Plus, Lululemon reports quarterly results with the CEO job still vacant.

The Season That Was: Signals From Fashion’s Front Lines

From the impact of the war in the Middle East to the future of Saks to the Kering conundrum, Imran Amed shares his intel and insight from the trenches of the latest ‘fashion month.’

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