Imran Amed is a Canadian-British fashion

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and founder and editor-in-chief of ''The Business of Fashion''. He was appointed

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(MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honors for services to fashion.

Background

Amed was born and raised in

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, and is of Indian descent. Amed attended

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. After graduation, he worked as a management consultant. In 2000, he enrolled at

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to complete an MBA. Upon graduation in 2002, he moved to London to work for

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, the global management consulting firm. He left McKinsey in 2006 to explore his interest in the fashion industry.

Editorial work

Amed, an industry outsider, began writing a blog called "The Business of Fashion" about the fashion industry in January 2007 from his couch at home in London in the evenings, while consulting for fashion brands and emerging designers during the day. Prior to that, Amed had set up a company that provided capital to designers for a year. His idea to keep readers up to date with an e-mail newsletter was novel in the fashion world. In 2018, his daily newsletter had nearly 500,000 subscribers. Amed has interviewed Karl Lagerfeld, Kate Moss, Giorgio Armani, Yohji Yamamoto, Raf Simons, Tom Ford, Tommy Hilfiger, Stella McCartney, Franca Sozzani, Natalie Massenet, Nick Knight, Dolce & Gabbana, and Jefferson Hack, among others. Imran started his career at a consultancy firm before starting a fashion blog from his sofa in London in 2007. He had no professional fashion experience or training, but he had long been fascinated by the industry and its fascinating blend of creativity and business. Imran's writing filled a void in fashion media, and his analysis quickly drew tens of thousands of readers who opened The Daily Digest email newsletter every morning. Until 2013, Amed has become a main contributor to "The Business of Fashion" (BoF). Between 2013 and 2018, BoF's annual sales increased by more than 50 percent each year. BoF employs nearly 80 people in offices in London, New York, and Shanghai.

Awards and honors

In 2011, Amed was named one of the 100 most influential men in Britain by British '' GQ,'' and one of the 50 most influential Global Indians by Indian ''GQ''. In 2012, he was featured on the ''

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'' 100 list of the most influential figures in Britain's digital economy and was ranked number one on Indian GQ's list of the 10 best-dressed Global Indians. In 2015, he was named Honorary Professor of Fashion Business at

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. In 2016, at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, Amed was awarded the Media Award in Honor of Eugenia Sheppard.

Products

In 2011, Amed launched a bag design collaboration with British leather goods designer Bill Amberg.

Books

* ''Pattern'', Phaidon, 2013 (; )

References

External links

The Business of Fashion
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