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Business Fashion Academy (BFA) Appoints Top Advisors in Preparation for International Growth

The Business Fashion Academy (BFA) appointed four leading professionals as members of its new advisory board, effective June 1, 2025. With this strategic move, BFA underscores its growing position within the fashion and education world, as well as its international ambitions, which became concrete earlier this year with the opening of the...

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BFA launches new English-language program in Business & Fashion

This September, the Business Fashion Academy introduces a brand new, English-language program focused on the intersection of business and fashion. Program integrates fashion and business for a dynamic career The curriculum of this new program is rich and versatile, covering both the business and creative facets of the fashion world. Students...

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Management

British Footwear Association names Jane Wilson as board chairman

The British Footwear Association (BFA) has appointed footwear professional Jane Wilson as chairman of the board of directors. The company said in a release that Wilson succeeds Robert Perkins, who held the chairmanship of the BFA for more than four years. Commenting on the development, BFA chief executive officer, Lucy Reece Raybould, said: "I...

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Fairs

Moda announces line-up featuring more than 160 brands

Trade show Moda, also known as the National Footwear Show, has announced a line-up of over 160 footwear, fashion, accessories, and jewellery brands for its upcoming event in September. Moda will run alongside the leading home and gift show Autumn Fair for the first time, from September 5 to 8 at NEC Birmingham, as part of the organiser Hyve...

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Business

Research shows that an anti-viral treatment can inactivate coronavirus on leather

Researchers at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) working with the British Footwear Association (BFA) have discovered that while coronavirus can remain on shoe leather for up to two days that there is also an anti-viral treatment that can inactivate coronavirus after two hours. The independent research was commissioned to help the shoe...

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Fashion |INTERVIEW

Parsons: Three to Watch Part III: Elizabeth Bastian

As the student fashion shows wrap up for another year, and graduates’ job search plans are put on short term hold while well-earned vacations are embarked upon, I’ve had a moment to reflect on this year’s stands outs. If Parsons represents the cream of the crop, it is there I must return to seek out the three BFA students whose visions for their...

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Parsons: Three to Watch Part II: Shen Zhang

As the student fashion shows wrap up for another year, and graduates’ job search plans are put on short term hold while well-earned vacations are embarked upon, I’ve had a moment to reflect on this year’s stands outs. If Parsons represents the cream of the crop, it is there I must return to seek out the three BFA students whose visions for their...

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Fashion |REVIEW

Parsons Fashion Show 2015

New York - Outside the River Pavilion, the sun glimmers off the Hudson; inside, Parsons student collections dazzle on a raised white runway. It is the annual Fashion show. A rigorous judging system ensures that only a select number of BFA students get to show three looks on this special night. Many of the Class of 2015 will graduate and go on to...

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