Fashion and Style Sector Snapshot: September 2023
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6 Sep 2023
Fashion and Style Sector Snapshot: September 2023

How is fashion merging with the broader entertainment industry? What’s the evolving consumer mentality around resale? What makes a contemporary style icon in the context of rapidly accelerating trends? Is fashion finally becoming less Western-centric and more intercultural?

Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas

Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas is a professor in marketing and sustainable business at the British School of Fashion, GCU London, where she runs the innovative postgraduate module in sustainable luxury on the MBA luxury brand management programme. She is also the co-author of Fashion Management: A Strategic Approach. Natascha’s cross-disciplinary research spans creative industries practice, sustainable fashion, social enterprise and responsible business, cultural heritage, consumer behaviour, and international fashion marketing. Natascha is a keynote speaker at conferences in China, the US, and Europe, and a contributor to industry and media pieces on fashion business and consumer behaviour.

Anastasiia Fedorova

Anastasiia Fedorova is a senior insights editor at Canvas8. A writer, curator and cultural strategist, she specialises in art, fashion, design, technology and visual culture. Her personal work explores sexuality, identity and queer communities while interrogating our place in a world shaped by rapidly changing technologies. As an avid sci-fi fan since teenage years, she is always interested in thinking about multiple and diverse futures.

Rebecca Smith

Rebecca Smith is the Head of Toolkit at Canvas8. With a background in psychology, she has worked with global clients such as Google, Nike, and Mars, exploring everything from what people want from a fake tan to Gen Z’s relationship with social media. Outside of work, you’ll find her binge-watching reality TV, listening to hyperpop, or with her nose buried in a fantasy novel.

Alex Strang

Alex Strang is a senior insight editor at Canvas8 who used to be in a punk band that was signed, shaped, and spat out. He enjoys using his experience of being the product to help brands understand how to sell theirs. After studying philosophy and critical theory, he found his feet in the market research world and has been over-analysing consumer behaviour ever since, including his own. He can usually be found playing board games, watching Seinfeld, or trying too hard to make his daughter laugh.