It’s just some weeks till we collect for BoF VOICES 2025, our annual gathering for giant thinkers. This yr marks the tenth version of VOICES, making this an particularly significant milestone. We’ll be reflecting on a decade of daring conversations, artistic cross-pollination, boundary-pushing concepts and to look forward with urgency and readability to the challenges nonetheless earlier than us. More than ever, we’re dedicated to convening the folks and concepts that may transfer our business—and the world—ahead.
Today, we’re happy to announce the most recent audio system who will be a part of us on the VOICES stage:
- Nicolas Houzé, government chairman of the historic Galeries Lafayette division retailer in France.
- Regis Schultz, chief government officer of JD Sports, the British multinational sports-fashion retail firm.
- Libby Wadle, chief government officer of J.Crew.
- Scott Malkin, chairman of Value Retail.
- Riz Ahmed, the award-winning British actor and activist.
- Luca Guadagnino, the award-winning Italian movie director, identified for his critically acclaimed movies Call Me By Your Name and Challengers.
- June Sarpong OBE, the trailblazing broadcaster and founder Indigenous Brands.
- DJ Black Coffee, the modern South African DJ and report producer.
- Marley Dias, author and activist, who spearheaded the #1000BlackGirlBooks motion.
- Gemma D’Auria, Senior Partner, Global Leader of Apparel, Fashion, and Luxury sector at McKinsey & Company.
- Deeyah Khan, the Norwegian documentary filmmaker and UNESCO goodwill ambassador.
- Marc Spiegler, the Franco-American cultural strategist.
- Ayesha Hussain, actor and stuntwoman.
- Michele Casucci, founder and common supervisor of Certilogo S.p.A.
- Patrick McDonicely, artistic director of his namesake model.
They be a part of an already excellent lineup together with chief government of Prada Group, Andrea Guerra, government chairman of Chalhoub Group Patrick Chalhoub, international artistic director of Uniqlo Clare Waight Keller and founder and chief government of Poubel The Gstaad Guy.
We hope you’ll be a part of us this November 18 to 21, 2025 at Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire, UK — not simply to have a good time the tenth version of BoF VOICES, however to co-create the conversations that can form style’s subsequent decade.
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Nicolas Houzé is a enterprise chief and chairman of Galeries Lafayette Group’s government board. Houzé has over 25 years of expertise and has labored for the Galeries Lafayette Group since 2009, having served as deputy CEO, CEO, and in 2024, chairman of the group’s government board. Houzé can also be a member of the manager committee of MEDEF, the committee of administrators of the Alliance du Commerce, the manager committee of the IADS, and the supervisory board of M6. He oversees the Galeries Lafayette Corporate Foundation and is a INSEAD enterprise faculty graduate.
Regis Schultz is the chief government officer of JD Sports Fashion. Schultz was appointed CEO in 2022, and continues to information the corporate by way of a multi-year strategic plan involving worldwide enlargement, digital acceleration, and brand-led client engagement. Schultz is a seasoned international retail government with over 25 years of expertise, and has labored throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Prior to his present position, Schultz was president of Retail and Al-Futtaim Group the place he oversaw a multi-brand portfolio throughout 16 markets. He was additionally the CEO of Darty, group technique and improvement director at Kingfisher, and CEO of the French retail firm But.
Libby Wadle is the chief government officer of J.Crew Group. Wadle brings over 30 years of expertise to the position, the place she oversees J.Crew, J.Crew Factory and Madewell manufacturers, in addition to serving on the board of administrators. During her tenure she has led J.Crew’s resurgence and was a founding member of the Madewell crew, the place she helped the start-up model change into a pacesetter in denim retail. Wadle has been named Fortune 40 underneath 40, Rivet 50 for denim management, and one in all Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.
Scott Malkin is the founder and Chairman of Value Retail. The international platform is liable for creating The Bicester Collection, and operates its 12 experiential retail locations, sports activities/ music enviornment, and two award profitable boutique motels on the seashores of Southern California. Malkin is a graduate of Harvard College, Law School and Business School. He serves on varied non-profit boards together with these of The New York Public Library, The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace, Lincoln Center, The University of Austin and Partners In Health.
Riz Ahmed is an award-winning actor, producer, author, and musician. Ahmed is an Academy Award and Emmy Award winner who lately starred in David Mackenzie’s thriller “Relay” and Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme”. His upcoming initiatives embody a comedy collection written and produced for Amazon Prime Video, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s characteristic for Warner Bros, starring reverse Tom Cruise. Ahmed has received awards for his solo album “The Long Goodbye” and his manufacturing firm Left-Handed Films, and in 2021, launched a multi-layered initiative for Muslim illustration in media, in partnership with USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
Luca Guadagnino is an award-winning director, author, producer, and designer, identified for movies comparable to “Call Me by Your Name” (2017), “Suspiria” (2018), “Bones & All” (2022), “Challengers” (2024), and “Queer” (2024). The Italian filmmaker has over three a long time value of expertise, typically exploring emotional complexity, the unconscious, and the unseen. In addition to his characteristic movies, Guadagnino has launched quite a few shorts and documentaries, working alongside the likes of Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, and Timothée Chalamet all through his profession. The prolific director is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Grammy nominee, and in 2022, “Bones & All” received him the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
June Sarpong OBE is a broadcaster, entrepreneur, and writer. Sarpong has loved a 25 yr lengthy profession in British Television and beforehand appeared in quite a few exhibits throughout the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4. In 2019, Sarpong was appointed because the BBC’s first director of artistic variety, the place she held the place for 3 years and spearheaded the organisation’s $124 million funding in various content material. Sarpong additionally co-founded Women: Inspiration & Enterprise in 2010, aiming to encourage and help ladies in enterprise, and is the writer of three books printed by Harper Collins. Sarpong is on the board of Tate artwork museums and galleries, and in 2023, curated an artwork expertise titled “filling in the pieces”, which was proven in London and Brussels and introduced collectively over 50 artists from throughout the African Diaspora.
Black Coffee is an acclaimed multidisciplinary, digital music artist. Also generally known as Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo, this South African DJ’s sound may be categorised by its mix of conventional African rhythms, jazz, and the evolving home music motion in South Africa. Black Coffee is globally recognised and has collaborated with quite a few artists together with Pharrell, Drake, and Alicia Keys, he additionally offered out Madison Square Garden in 2023, and received a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album in 2022. The DJ based his personal basis, which supplies schooling and empowerment for underprivileged youth in South Africa. Black Coffee is dedicated to utilizing his platform to advocate for change in his native nation and taking South African tradition international.
Marley Emerson Dias is a author, activist, and cultural critic. At the age of 10, Dias launched the award-winning “#1000BlackGirlBooks” marketing campaign, which has donated over 15,000 titles that includes Black protagonists to libraries throughout the US. In 2024, Dias was honoured at the United Nations Young Activists Summit in Geneva for advancing racial fairness and literacy. She has served because the nationwide ambassador for the NEA’s “Read Across America” marketing campaign and is the manager producer and host of “Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices” on Netflix. She has been recognised as a Do Something Visionary Vanguard, an Obama Foundation Voyager Scholar, and a United Nations Laureate, reflecting her dedication to justice by way of storytelling. Dias is at the moment learning sociology and African American research at Harvard University.
Gemma D’Auria is a senior associate and the worldwide chief of attire, style, and luxurious at McKinsey & Company. Based in Milan with over twenty years of consulting expertise throughout the US, Middle East and Europe, D’Auria companions with firm executives to create lasting change by way of holistic progress methods, digital transformations, and functionality constructing at scale. She recurrently publishes insights related to the style, retail, and luxurious sectors together with McKinsey and The Business of Fashion’s annual State of Fashion report, which she leads and co-authors.
Deeyah Khan is an award-winning documentary movie director and producer. Khan has been a filmmaker for over a decade, and has received two Emmys, a BAFTA, an RTS, and two Peabody Awards. Her work is understood for its clever confrontation of polarising world points and has led her to movie American home terrorists, white supremacists, armed militia teams, and battle-hardened jihadis. Khan is devoted to spotlighting inequality, racism, struggle, and social exclusion, in her filmmaking and past. She is the founding father of Fuuse, a media and schooling firm that goals to spotlight various, inclusive tales, and in 2016, grew to become the primary UNESCO goodwill ambassador for inventive freedom and creativity.
Marc Spiegler is an unbiased journalist and cultural strategist. Spiegler writes the month-to-month Arts Radar column for The Business of Fashion, and has beforehand written for New York, Wired, Art Review, and The Independent. From 2012 to 2022, Speigler was Art Basel’s international director, overseeing the launches of Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Basel Paris. He has labored on quite a few cultural initiatives with the likes of the Prada Group and Sanlorenzo, and is the board president of Superblue, and advisory-board chairman for Hamburg’s Digital Art Museum. Speigler has taught cultural administration at Milan’s Università Bocconi since 2016, and lately launched the net Art Market Minds Academy.
Ayesha Hussain is a stuntwoman and actor. This twice SAG Stunt Award nominee is Europe’s first ever stuntwoman of South Asian and MENA descent, and grew to become the primary South Asian to be a part of the X-Men when she performed Psylocke in “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Alongside showing in “Gladiator II” and “Dr Who”, Hussain has labored with Miu Miu, Harry Styles, and partnered with Levi’s to launch a biographical documentary. She has carried out at the famend cultural pageant, Venice Biennale, and has appeared in Vogue India, The Guardian, and Dazed.
Michele Casucci is the founder and common supervisor of Certilogo S.p.A. The entrepreneur established his firm in 2006, and has now change into a number one supplier of consumer-facing digital authentication options and linked product applied sciences. Casucci has held a number of senior management roles, together with serving as ambassador for Italy at the Singularity Group in California, vp of company gross sales at US-based media firm Rodale International, and CEO of Lycos Italy. Casucci additionally co-founded JobRapido, one of many world’s main job search engines like google and yahoo, and is likely one of the founding buyers of the Italian Founders Fund.
Patrick McDonicely is the founder and artistic director of his eponymous London-basedlabel, identified for redefining luxurious style by mixing creativity, innovation, and round design. Since its founding, McDonicely has garnered international recognition for pioneering sustainable practices that don’t compromise on high quality or artistry.Earlier this yr, McDonicely was named within theForbes Europe 30 Under 30Class of 2025, and was honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, offered by HRH The Princess of Wales. A dedicated advocate for business transformation, they’ve spoken about their work in sustainable style at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, each in 2022 and 2024, calling for a reimagined, environmentally accountable future.
Patrick Chalhoub is the manager chairman at Chalhoub Group. The former group president has over 40 years of expertise, and is liable for technique, management improvement, and the sustainable progress of the corporate. The group has a portfolio of 8 owned manufacturers and over 300 worldwide manufacturers, and Chalhoub’s management has helped it change into a number one luxurious participant within the Middle East. The government has a expertise for balancing innovation and respect for heritage, ensuing within the profitable improvement of quite a few home-grown manufacturers. Chalhoub was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite by the French authorities, and he was additionally honoured with the title of grade officer within the National Order of the Cedar, Lebanon’s highest state ornament.
Olivier Bron is the chief government officer of Bloomingdale’s. With over a decade of expertise, Bron has held C-suite roles at Galeries Lafayette, Central and Robinson Department Stores, and BHV Group. Using his experience in administration and enterprise, Bron has beforehand developed methods for digitisation, luxurious buyer progress, cultural transformation, and sustainable progress following covid-19. He has a deep understanding of retail, client items, and non-public fairness from 10 years at Bain & Company, and holds a grasp’s diploma in Engineering from ECAM in Lyon.
Clare Waight Keller is the worldwide artistic director for ladies’s and menswear at Uniqlo. After learning at Ravensbourne College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, Waight Keller started her profession at Calvin Klein in New York earlier than becoming a member of Ralph Lauren as head designer of the lads’s purple label. She later returned to London as senior designer at Gucci, working with Tom Ford, and went on to lead Pringle of Scotland as artistic director. In 2011, she was appointed artistic director of Chloé, re-energising the Parisian home along with her easy model. Six years later, she made historical past as the primary feminine inventive director of Givenchy, the place she relaunched Haute Couture and expanded the maison’s international stature. Her honours embody Womenswear Designer of the Year at the 2018 British Fashion Awards and recognition in Time journal’s 2019 Time 100.
The Gstaad Guy is a London-based social media content material creator identified for satirising the often-absurd lives of the world’s elite by way of movies. Through this, he has amassed over 2.5 million followers throughout social media platforms, permitting him to work with manufacturers together with Audemars Piguet and Loro Piana. The Gstaad Guy is the founder and chief government of attraction jewelry model Poubel.
Maria Cornejo is the founder and artistic director of Zero + Maria Cornejo. The Chilean designer creates wearable luxurious for ladies, with designs emphasising freedom and simplicity. Cornejo has labored as a artistic advisor throughout manufacturers like Joseph, Tehan, and Jigsaw. In 1998, quickly after transferring to New York, she established Zero + Maria Cornejo, the place she started making clothes from upcycled supplies. Cornejo most lately obtained the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 CFDA Fashion Awards. She is a founding member of the CDFA’s Sustainability Committee, and was appointed to the CDFA Board of Directors in 2019. She additionally sits on the board at Women.ny, a programme devoted to supporting and empowering the ladies of New York City.
Lidewij Edelkoort is a revered pattern forecaster and the founding father of Trend Union. The Dutch native launched her firm in 1986 and has since produced pattern instruments for strategists and designers at quite a few manufacturers. She has labored throughout style, magnificence, way of life, communications, and retail, and can also be a writer, educator, and exhibition curator. Edelkoort was the Dean of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons for five years, and is the writer of the Anti Fashion Manifesto, which explores the obsolescence of the style system. Recently, she co-founded the World Hope Forum to encourage the artistic neighborhood put up covid, and collaborated with Polimoda to create an modern textiles Masters course.
Laura Nestler is the vp of neighborhood at social discussion board web site Reddit, the place she leads Reddit’s Community crew, which is liable for key initiatives round moderation, governance, and worldwide neighborhood progress. Before Reddit, Nestler served as Duolingo’s Global Head of Community. She additionally spent eight years at Yelp, the place she helped craft Yelp’s neighborhood progress playbook. Nestler is enthusiastic about community-driven progress and serves in advisory, board, and investor roles for organisations that construct merchandise with neighborhood intentionality.
Phoebe Gates is the co-founder of the AI private buying platform, Phia. Gates can also be an entrepreneur, a podcast host for The Burnouts, and an advocate for ladies’s reproductive rights and gender fairness. Co-founded with Sophia Kianni, the Phia app has garnered over 400K downloads since its launch, and is VC backed with angel buyers together with Kris Jenner and Sara Blakely. Gates’s advocacy work contains collaborating with healthcare leaders and activists to advance entry and alternative for ladies and women. Recognised because the 2024 Rising Reproductive Freedom Champion by Reproductive Freedom for All. Gates has a bachelors diploma from Stanford University in Human Biology.
Sophia Kianni is the co-founder of the AI private buying platform, Phia. Kianni is an entrepreneur, local weather activist, and podcast host for The Burnouts. Co-founded with Phoebe Gates, the Phia app has garnered over 400K downloads since its launch, and is VC backed with angel buyers together with Kris Jenner and Sara Blakely. As a young person, Kianni based Climate Cardinals, now the world’s largest youth-led local weather nonprofit with 16,000 volunteers in 80+ nations. She went on to function the youngest UN local weather advisor in US historical past and sit on the EPA’s National Youth Advisory Council. She has been recognised by Forbes 30 Under 30, BBC 100 Women, and VICE’s Human of the Year. Kianni has a bachelors diploma from Stanford University in Science, Technology, & Society.
His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist lama and the lineage holder of the Shangpa Kagyu custom. In 1992, he was recognised as a reincarnate lama by H.H. the Dalai Lama when he was two years previous. In 2004, he entered right into a solitary retreat within the Himalayas, which he accomplished in 2008. Today, that transcendent self-discipline is channeled right into a uniquely modern life. Having spent the final 17 years within the West, His Eminence is a cultural architect who bridges worlds. He manages 55 Buddhist facilities worldwide, with the thoughts of a religious entrepreneur and connects with a digital neighborhood of hundreds.
Dr. Donatien Grau is an writer, editor and scholar who specialises in philology and museums. Based in Paris, he’s at the moment the pinnacle of up to date applications at the Musée du Louvre and has beforehand held the identical title at the Musée d’Orsay. Dr. Grau is the editor in chief and inventive director of the journal Alphabet, and has additionally authored and edited publications comparable to Living Museums (Hatje Cantz, 2020), and Under Discussion. The Encyclopedic Museum (Getty, 2021). He has labored alongside Azzedine Alaïa, advising on the couturier’s not-for-profit exhibition house, in addition to being a visitor curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Azeem Azhar is the founding father of Exponential View, a number one platform exploring the societal influence of rising applied sciences. Azhar has served as an advisor, advisor and keynote speaker to worldwide organisations, assume tanks, authorities, universities and enterprise, together with the World Economic Forum, UNGA, OECD and Fortune 500 corporations, comparable to Goldman Sachs, Accenture and Salesforce. In 2022, he printed his debut e book “Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology” to essential acclaim. His first TV collection, a Bloomberg Original, “Exponentially with Azeem Azhar,” debuted in 2023. In addition, his analysis and work has been featured within the New York Times, The Financial Times and WIRED. Azhar is a fellow at Stanford University, Oxford Martin School and Harvard Business School. He has a level in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.
Max Vadukul is a photographer, identified for his signature black-and-white model. Born in Nairobi to Gujarati Indian dad and mom, Vadukul is fully self-taught. Vadukul was found by Yohji Yamamoto at 22, and he has helped outline the visible language of French Vogue, Italian Vogue, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone. In 1996, he succeeded Richard Avedon as workers photographer at The New Yorker, the place he later shot the landmark “Brain Trust” portrait of twenty-two Nobel Laureates. Across his four-decade profession, Vadukul has captured icons from Mother Teresa to A$AP Nast, with work exhibited at MAXXI, Galleria d’Italia, Fondazione Sozzani and the Brooklyn Museum. In 2025, Vadukul offered The Buddha Relic Project, in collaboration with His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche.
Anoushka Shankar is a musician, composer and activist who experiments throughout a number of genres from neo-classical to international and digital. Based in London, the Indian recording artist has 13 solo albums and eleven Grammy nominations to her title. She is the primary ever Indian girl to carry out dwell and current at the Grammy Awards. Shankar has performed the sitar and studied Indian classical music for the reason that age of 9, and right this moment she has carried out in symphony halls and to pageant crowds as large as 40,000. Her collaborations embody Sting, the Dalai Lama, Jacob Collier and Patti Smith. Shankar is likely one of the first feminine composers to be added to the UK A-level syllabus, and she has lately obtained an honorary diploma in Music from the University of Oxford.
Alexander Asseily is an entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and CEO of Zulu Group, a enterprise studio that builds and invests in formidable merchandise that goal to resolve societal and planetary challenges. Over a interval of twenty years, Asseily has based a number of expertise corporations within the US and Europe, together with client electronics firm Jawbone and ladies’s well being tech firm Elvie, amongst others. Asseily obtained his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Kartiki Gonsalves is an Academy Award profitable director and documentary filmmaker from India. Her debut movie, The Elephant Whisperers, obtained an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film at the ninety fifth Academy Awards in 2023. Gonsalves is the primary ever Indian director to obtain an Oscar, and in the identical yr obtained the Tara Award from King Charles III for her vital contribution to environmental advocacy and storytelling. She is the founding father of Earth Spectrum, an organisation devoted to elevating consciousness about biodiversity and cultural heritage by way of storytelling. She can also be a photojournalist, exploring conservation, indigenous communities and upholding ladies’s voices. Gonsalves obtained Rotary International’s Paul Harris Award in recognition of her humanitarian work.
Andrea Guerra is the CEO and government director of Prada group, having joined the board in 2023. An skilled enterprise chief, he has beforehand held prime roles at LVMH, Eataly, Luxottica, and Merloni Elettrodomestici (now Indesit). Guerra additionally served as a strategic advisor to the Italian Prime Minister and has held board positions at Bocconi University, Save the Children and a number of main listed corporations. A graduate of Sapienza University of Rome, he’s identified for steering international manufacturers by way of transformative progress and stays a key determine in Italian business and worldwide luxurious enterprise.
Jean Campbell is the founder and presenter of the I’m Fine podcast. Having battled with continual ache for the reason that age of 12, Campbell’s podcast goals to assist these struggling with bodily and psychological ache by normalising transparency and honesty. The podcast hosts medical doctors and specialists inside the fields of psychological well being, sexual wellness and extra. Campbell can also be a mannequin who has labored with Burberry, Erdem, Bottega Veneta and Louis Vuitton. In 2024, she was nominated for the Social Mover award at the Model of the Year Awards for her social activism surrounding continual ache and psychological well being.
Gabriel Whaley is the founder and CEO of MSCHF, a Brooklyn-based artwork collective and artistic studio identified for blurring the strains between artwork, style, tech and satire. Whaley leads a crew of artists dedicated to mischief, controversy, and cultural critique. From viral stunts like turning a pair of Air Max 97s into “Jesus Shoes”, to promoting 1,000 Warhol artwork items (solely one in all being actual); Mschf continues to make headlines and disrupt style business norms. With Whaley at the helm, the collective has earned international recognition, museum placements and awards, together with being named one in all Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies and a spot on Hypebeast’s Top 100 checklist.
Alvaro Barrington is a London-based artist born in Grenada and grew up between the Caribbean and New York. He explores this heritage in his work, specializing in themes of migration, reminiscence and hip-hop tradition. Primarily a painter, Barrington makes use of discovered objects, sewn yarn and postcards to create mixed-media items. He has levels from Hunter College in New York and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Recent highlights embody “Grace”, a significant Tate Britain Commission (2024), and “Come Home” at Art Basel Parcours (2024).
Anthony ‘Staz’ Stazicker is an acclaimed former Special Forces operator with 13 years of army service, together with a decade within the UK Special Forces. He earned the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for fight operations in Afghanistan in 2013, the place he served as a chief sniper teacher and demolitions knowledgeable. After his time within the army, Staz co-founded ThruDark, a multi-million pound efficiency outerwear model that has been named amongst The Sunday Times’ 100 fastest-growing non-public corporations. He is a printed writer and is a part of the quickest identified crew to velocity ascent Mount Everest from London in simply 7 days.
Monita Rajpal is an authorized life coach and former CNN anchor with over twenty years of worldwide media expertise. She spent 13 years at CNN International anchoring flagship programmes and internet hosting a worldwide interview present, talking with world leaders, cultural icons, and changemakers. Now based mostly within the UK, Rajpal works with high-achieving ladies navigating ambition and self-doubt, the place she blends real-life perception with neuroscience-based strategies and a no-nonsense strategy.
Rohan Silva is chair of Founders Factory Australia, backing climate-tech and nature-tech startups globally. Based in Fremantle, Australia, Silva was beforehand senior coverage advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron, spearheading key innovation insurance policies, together with Entrepreneur Visas and the Open Data agenda. He based London’s Tech City and helped launch the UK’s Life Sciences and Genomics methods. After, he grew to become a analysis affiliate at MIT, the place he based Second Home, a socially pushed innovation hub. As nicely as being an everyday columnist and broadcaster, Silva is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Kristina O’Neill is at the moment Head of Sotheby’s Media and editor-in-chief of Sotheby’s Magazine and has performed a defining position in New York’s media panorama, bringing a pointy editorial imaginative and prescient to a few of style and tradition’s most influential publications over the previous 25 years. Previously, she served as editor-in-chief of WSJ. Magazine for over a decade, overseeing its international enlargement and award-winning reinvention. O’Neill started her profession helping Sex and the City writer Candace Bushnell, and went on to maintain senior roles at Harper’s Bazaar, New York Magazine, and Time Out New York. A Gallatin graduate, she lives in Brooklyn and co-authored the forthcoming All the Cool Girls Get Fired (2025).
Laura Brown is a journalist, writer, and founding father of LB Media, a communications agency connecting luxurious, the humanities, and neighborhood influence. She is the previous editor-in-chief of InType, the place she launched the Badass Women cowl collection and banned fur from the journal. Previously, she was government editor at Harper’s Bazaar, the place she received the 2016 ASME Fashion Cover of the Year for Bazaar’s Jaws-inspired shoot that includes Rihanna. She has additionally held senior roles at W and Details. Brown has obtained a number of business awards and co-authored the upcoming All The Cool Girls Get Fired. She chairs (RED)’s Creative Council and sits on the boards of The Fashion Trust US, me too, and Foot Soldiers Park.