Imran Amed (born April 20, 1975) is a Canadian-British fashion media entrepreneur. He is the founder and

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of the website ''The Business of Fashion''.

Early life

Amed was born and raised in

Calgary, Alberta Calgary () is a major city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a Metropolitan area, metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the List of ...

. He is of Indian descent. Amed attended

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. In 2000, he enrolled at

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to complete an

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Career

Upon graduation in 2002, Amed moved to London to work for

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, a global management consulting firm. He left McKinsey in 2006 to explore his interest in the fashion industry. In 2011, Amed launched a bag design collaboration with British leather goods designer Bill Amberg.

''The Business of Fashion''

Amed is the founder of ''The Business of Fashion'' (BoF), a fashion news website. He launched it as a blog from his flat in

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in 2007. In 2013, Amed raised $2.5 million in seed financing. BoF launched in China in 2014; ''Vanity Fair'' described it as the "only fashion-industry publication of its kind in the country." In 2015, BoF had 30 employees, which expanded to 80 by 2018 at offices in

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and

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. The website had 100 employees as of 2024. In October 2016, BoF launched a subscription model for full access to its content. In 2018, ''

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'' reported that while some of BoF's content was original, the rest was aggregated from publications such as ''Vogue'', ''

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'' and Chinese newspapers. As of 2024, BoF had over 100,000 subscribers from over 130 countries. The ''

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'' described BoF as "a publication that is part trade reporting, part networking, for the industry professional who reads financial reports more than the enthusiast who follows ''Vogue'' covers".

Personal life

Amed is in a relationship with Nikhil Mansata, a creative director and stylist.

Awards and honors

In 2016, at the

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Awards, Amed was awarded the Media Award in Honor of

Eugenia Sheppard Eugenia Benbow Sheppard (July 24, 1899 – November 11, 1984) was an American fashion writer and newspaper columnist for some 80 newspapers (including the ''Columbus Dispatch'', ''New York Post'', ''The Boston Post'', and most notably, the ''New ...

. He was an appointed

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(MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to fashion. In 2018, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts London.

Books

* ''Pattern'',

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, 2013 (; )

References

External links

The Business of Fashion
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amed, Imran Canadian fashion journalists McGill University alumni Businesspeople from Calgary Journalists from Alberta Canadian emigrants to the United Kingdom Living people Harvard Business School alumni McKinsey & Company people Canadian people of Indian descent English people of Indian descent Members of the Order of the British Empire 1975 births