BoF VOICES 2024 is Coming: First Speakers Announced

The Enterprise of Trend is happy to announce the early speaker lineup for BoF VOICES 2024, uniting the movers, shakers and trailblazers of the worldwide trend, luxury and beauty industries with the thought leaders, entrepreneurs and provoking folks shaping the broader world.

Happening from November 12 to fifteen in Oxfordshire, the three-day gathering will carry collectively leaders and disruptors from the worlds of science, technology, well being and wellness, meals, movie, politics, the arts, philosophy and philanthropy – and, after all, trend, luxurious and sweetness – to advertise cross-industry discourse and spark innovation.

Audio system confirmed thus far embody:

• Simon Porte Jacquemus, founder and inventive director, Jacquemus
• Michael Kliger, chief government, Mytheresa
• Jens Grede, co-founder and chief government, Skims
• Lauren Santo Domingo, co-founder and chief model officer, Moda Operandi
• Bethann Hardison, trend advocate, documentarian and luxurious model guide
• David Allemann, co-founder and government co-chairman, On
• Salman Toor, visible artist
• Sven Smit, senior accomplice and chair of the McKinsey World Institute
• Jeremy Jauncey, founder and chief government, Lovely Locations
• Gemma D’Auria, senior accomplice, world chief of attire, trend, and luxurious, McKinsey & Company
• Ravi Thakran, founder and managing accomplice, Turmeric Capital Holdings
• Julia Sarr-Jamois, stylist, trend director and co-founder, Greatest Represents

A restricted variety of invitation-only tickets stay to hitch us in particular person at Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire. To request an invite, please full this form.

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Simon Porte Jacquemus is a French designer and the founding father of Jacquemus, a ready-to-wear and equipment label. Jacquemus’ collections are impressed by high-quality artwork, images, sculpture, French tradition and the designer’s personal life. All through the trajectory of the label the model has challenged advertising and marketing norms in trend, staging runway productions in surprising areas together with a Parisian swimming pool, a lavender discipline in Provence or a wheat discipline exterior of Paris. Jacquemus’ profession milestones embody self-publishing the espresso desk images books “Marseille Je T’aime”(2017), “Photographs” (2020), and “Le Chouchou” (2023), shot by Martin Parr.

Michael Kliger is the chief government officer of Mytheresa, a place he has held since 2015. On this position, Kliger has assembled a management group devoted to driving development for the Munich-based luxurious e-tailer. Beneath his management, Mytheresa accomplished its itemizing on the New York Inventory Alternate. Kliger additionally sits on the corporate’s administration board. Previous to becoming a member of Mytheresa, Kliger was the worldwide vp for eBay Enterprise. He has additionally held managing director roles and government positions at Accenture, First Capital Companions and Actual Holding, in addition to serving as the previous principal of McKinsey & Firm, the place he headed the consultancy’s German retail follow.

Jens Grede is the co-founder and chief government of viral lingerie and loungewear model Skims, at the moment valued at $4 billion. The model’s revolutionary strategy to the intimates and lounge class has amassed hundreds of thousands of shoppers since its launch in 2019. He’s additionally the co- founder and chairman of Body and a prolific investor in retail and media via his holding firm In style Tradition. Previous to partnering together with his spouse Emma Grede and Kim Kardashian to launch the enterprise in 2018, Grede based Los Angeles-based Body with Erik Torstensson in 2012. Earlier than that, the duo spent years working in trend and media, serving as editors-in-chief of journal Man About City and launching Industrie journal, earlier than co-founding the advertising and marketing company Saturday Group in 2003.

Lauren Santo Domingo is the co-founder and chief model officer of luxurious e-commerce platform Moda Operandi. Moda Operandi launched in 2010 with a runway pre-order mannequin and a concentrate on rising designers and types. In 2023, Santo Domingo was named inventive director of Tiffany’s residence assortment. She at the moment sits on the Board of Administrators for Moda Operandi and Save Venice Inc., a non-profit devoted to the conservation of the humanities in Venice, Italy. She beforehand served as an editor at American Vogue.

Bethann Hardison is a mannequin, documentary filmmaker and activist. Hardison grew to become one of many first high-profile Black fashions when she walked within the historic 1973 Battle of Versailles trend present. She can be the founding father of her namesake modelling company, which has guided the careers of younger fashions with a concentrate on diversifying the style {industry}. In 1988, alongside mannequin Iman, she based Black Ladies Coalition to advocate for equal pay for Black and minority ethnic fashions and has garnered accolades together with the CFDA’s Founder Award for her advocacy. Hardison made her directorial debut in 2023 with “Invisible Magnificence,” a documentary that chronicles her profession and has received awards together with the NAACP Picture Award for Excellent Documentary Movie.

David Allemann is the co-founder and co-chairman of Swiss sportswear firm On, which he based alongside Caspar Coppetti and Olivier Bernhard. Allemann leads On’s product, advertising and marketing and direct-to-consumer groups. Beforehand, he served as chief advertising and marketing officer for furnishings model Vitra, and suggested world purchasers in sports activities and media at McKinsey, the place he additionally supported entrepreneurs via the McKinsey begin up accelerator programme. Allemann holds a grasp’s diploma in regulation from the College of Zurich.

Salman Toor is a Pakistani visible artist based mostly in New York Metropolis. His work, which depicts the lives of imagined younger, brown and queer males, will be discovered within the everlasting collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and Whitney Museum of American Artwork, in addition to the Tate in London and the Pinault Assortment in Paris. Presently, his work is on view within the sixtieth Worldwide Artwork Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

Sven Smit is a senior accomplice at McKinsey & Firm and the chairman of the McKinsey World Institute, the agency’s enterprise and economics analysis arm. As chairman of MGI, Smit leads analysis and authors experiences on world financial traits and matters similar to productiveness and development, urbanisation, innovation and know-how, and the way forward for work. He’s additionally the co-author of two books: “Past the Hockey Stick” and “The Granularity of Development.” Smit beforehand led McKinsey’s western Europe area and its world technique and company finance follow. He holds a level from Delft College of Expertise and an MBA from INSEAD.

Jeremy Jauncey is the founder and chief government of Lovely Locations, a method and inventive company servicing journey firms together with accommodations and airways. In 2017, Lovely Locations was named as one of the vital revolutionary firms in journey by Quick Firm. Jauncey can be an envoy for World Wildlife Fund, Panerai and Technogym.

Gemma D’Auria is a senior accomplice at McKinsey & Firm and the worldwide chief of its attire, trend and luxurious sector. Primarily based in Milan with over 20 years of consulting expertise throughout the US, Center East and Europe, D’Auria companions with firm executives to create lasting change via holistic development methods, digital transformations, and functionality constructing at scale. She frequently publishes insights related to the style, retail, and luxurious sectors together with McKinsey and BoF’s annual State of Trend report, which she leads and co-authors.

Ravi Thakran is the founder and managing accomplice of Turmeric Capital Holdings, a Singapore-based personal fairness agency focussed on investing in Asia’s client sectors. Thakran served as group chairman of LVMH Asia in addition to chairman of L Capital Asia (now L Catterton Asia), which he based in 2008 and grew into one in every of Asia’s largest consumer-focused development funding companies. In his 20 years at LVMH Asia, Thakran held prime roles throughout the likes of Sephora Asia and LVMH Watches & Jewelry Asia earlier than serving as group president in 2008 and group chairman in 2014. Alongside his involvement with museums, world tourism boards and animal conservation charities, he serves on Harrods’ board of administrators and is concerned within the Saudi Trend Fee.

Julia Sarr-Jamois is a stylist, trend director and co-founder of expertise administration company Greatest Represents. Raised in South London, Sarr-Jamois started her profession as a mannequin earlier than becoming a member of the editorial group at i-D on the age of 19. In 2018, Sarr-Jamois grew to become trend editor-at-large at British Vogue and later grew to become the youngest and first ever Black trend director within the publication’s historical past. A founding member of the Mentoring Issues and Rubric mentoring initiatives, Sarr-Jamois has additionally participated in Africa’s Warranty Belief Trend Weekend. Her work has been featured in publications together with T Journal, Self Service and M Le journal du Monde, and she or he has collaborated with photographers similar to Tyrone Lebon and Alasdair McLellan. Sarr-Jamois’ consumer roster consists of the likes of Dolce & Gabbana, Hermès and Chanel.