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Tim Blanks

Editor-at-Large

Tim Blanks has been Editor-at-Large of The Business of Fashion since 2016. He covers fashion's personalities, as well as the seasonal runway shows. During the prior decade, he fulfilled the same function at Condé Nast’s Style.com. From 1989 to 2005, Tim hosted the CBC’s globally syndicated show Fashion File. In 2013, he received the Media Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

Fashion Week

The Beating Heart of Haute Couture

IT’S ALIVE! in the dreamweaving hands of Alessandro Michele at Valentino and Daniel Roseberry at Schiaparelli, reports Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

The Beating Heart of Haute Couture

IT’S ALIVE! in the dreamweaving hands of Alessandro Michele at Valentino and Daniel Roseberry at Schiaparelli, reports Tim Blanks.


Fashion Week

Blazy’s Chanel Couture Was a Slam Dunk!

Who knew an inspiration as unlikely as ‘bird on a mushroom’ could unleash such a torrent of creativity, reports Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

Blazy’s Chanel Couture Was a Slam Dunk!

Who knew an inspiration as unlikely as ‘bird on a mushroom’ could unleash such a torrent of creativity, reports Tim Blanks.


Fashion Week

Another Day, Another Dior Debut for Jonathan Anderson

A schedule that, on paper, looks like it would try the patience of a saint produced a couture show that was anything but in a beautiful synthesis of two very distinct design sensibilities, reports Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

Another Day, Another Dior Debut for Jonathan Anderson

A schedule that, on paper, looks like it would try the patience of a saint produced a couture show that was anything but in a beautiful synthesis of two very distinct design sensibilities, reports Tim Blanks.


Creative Class

Exclusive: Véronique Nichanian’s Hermès Exit Interview

On the eve of her final runway show after 38 years at Hermès, Nichanian sits down with Tim Blanks to discuss her life at the French luxury powerhouse, designing for men as a woman, the ‘magic’ the fashion industry has lost, her successor Grace Wales Bonner and what comes next.

Creative Class

Exclusive: Véronique Nichanian’s Hermès Exit Interview

On the eve of her final runway show after 38 years at Hermès, Nichanian sits down with Tim Blanks to discuss her life at the French luxury powerhouse, designing for men as a woman, the ‘magic’ the fashion industry has lost, her successor Grace Wales Bonner and what comes next.


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Luxury

Valentino, Italy’s Fashion ‘Emperor,’ Has Died

A master of breathtakingly beautiful eveningwear, the couturier turned a startup label into one of the world’s best known fashion brands.

Luxury

Valentino, Italy’s Fashion ‘Emperor,’ Has Died

A master of breathtakingly beautiful eveningwear, the couturier turned a startup label into one of the world’s best known fashion brands.


Creative Class

Antony Price: The Greatest Designer You May Never Have Heard Of

The late Price was often overlooked, but his work for Roxy Music helped to create one of the great before-and-after stylistic schisms in the history of popular music and power a new wave in fashion, writes Tim Blanks.

Creative Class

Antony Price: The Greatest Designer You May Never Have Heard Of

The late Price was often overlooked, but his work for Roxy Music helped to create one of the great before-and-after stylistic schisms in the history of popular music and power a new wave in fashion, writes Tim Blanks.


Creative Class

Exclusive: Helmut Lang on Helmut Lang

The elusive arch-minimalist and master brand builder was never a man of many words. In a rare moment of candour, he talks to BoF's Tim Blanks about his career in fashion and his first and only retrospective.

Creative Class

Exclusive: Helmut Lang on Helmut Lang

The elusive arch-minimalist and master brand builder was never a man of many words. In a rare moment of candour, he talks to BoF's Tim Blanks about his career in fashion and his first and only retrospective.


Creative Class

Annie in Wonderland

The celebrated American photographer Annie Leibovitz opens up to Tim Blanks about taking pictures, life and death, Susan Sontag, that Timothée Chamalet Vogue cover and her upcoming exhibition in Spain, a kind of swansong for her life in fashion.

Creative Class

Annie in Wonderland

The celebrated American photographer Annie Leibovitz opens up to Tim Blanks about taking pictures, life and death, Susan Sontag, that Timothée Chamalet Vogue cover and her upcoming exhibition in Spain, a kind of swansong for her life in fashion.


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Creative Class

Raf Simons and Pieter Mulier: Why Fashion Needs Disrupting

The top designers sit down with Tim Blanks to discuss creative risk-taking, the meaning of luxury and how to disrupt fashion, courtesy of Self Service.

Creative Class

Raf Simons and Pieter Mulier: Why Fashion Needs Disrupting

The top designers sit down with Tim Blanks to discuss creative risk-taking, the meaning of luxury and how to disrupt fashion, courtesy of Self Service.


Creative Class

Dries Van Noten and Julian Klausner: How to Make a Designer Transition Work

The star designer and his successor sit down with Tim Blanks to discuss passing the baton, emotions AI can’t create and how commentary on social media impacts design, courtesy of Self Service.

Creative Class

Dries Van Noten and Julian Klausner: How to Make a Designer Transition Work

The star designer and his successor sit down with Tim Blanks to discuss passing the baton, emotions AI can’t create and how commentary on social media impacts design, courtesy of Self Service.


Fashion Week

The Biggest Fashion Month Ever | The BoF Podcast

Tim Blanks and Imran Amed unpack a high-stakes season of debuts at Chanel, Dior, Gucci and more.

Fashion Week

The Biggest Fashion Month Ever | The BoF Podcast

Tim Blanks and Imran Amed unpack a high-stakes season of debuts at Chanel, Dior, Gucci and more.


Fashion Week

A Lost Weekend in Paris: Chapter Two

Valentino, Miu Miu, Hermès, Junya Watanabe and Maison Margiela ran the gamut of emotional extremes, writes Tim Blanks.

Fashion Week

A Lost Weekend in Paris: Chapter Two

Valentino, Miu Miu, Hermès, Junya Watanabe and Maison Margiela ran the gamut of emotional extremes, writes Tim Blanks.