Imran Amed
{{short description|Canadian-British entrepreneur and fashion expert}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Imran Amed
| honorific_suffix = MBE
| image = Imransimon (cropped).jpg
| image_caption = Amed in 2010
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|4|20}}
| birth_place = Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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| occupation = Entrepreneur
| known_for = Founding The Business of Fashion website
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| education = McGill University
Harvard University
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| credits =
| partner = Nikhil Mansata
}}
Imran Amed {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (born April 20, 1975){{cite web |title=Imran Amed |url=https://the-talks.com/interview/imran-amed/ |website=The Talks |access-date=6 December 2023 |date=11 February 2015 |archive-date=7 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207180505/https://the-talks.com/interview/imran-amed/ |url-status=live }} is a Canadian-British fashion media entrepreneur. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the website The Business of Fashion.{{cite web|title=Imran Amed Bio|url=http://www.businessoffashion.com/about/imran-amed-editor-london|publisher=The Business of Fashion|access-date=December 28, 2012|archive-date=January 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116152744/http://www.businessoffashion.com/about/imran-amed-editor-london|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |last=Kurrien |first=Che |date=2023-04-14 |title=BoF founder Imran Amed on his Indian identity, his role in the fashion industry and what lies ahead |url=https://www.gqindia.com/content/bof-founder-imran-amed-on-his-indian-identity-role-in-fashion-industry-what-lies-ahead |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=GQ India |language=en-IN |archive-date=2023-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618084958/https://www.gqindia.com/content/bof-founder-imran-amed-on-his-indian-identity-role-in-fashion-industry-what-lies-ahead |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Lewis |first=Tim |date=2018-09-09 |title=Imran Amed: meet fashion's most influential man |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/sep/09/imran-amed-business-of-fashion-interview-is-this-fashions-most-influential-man |access-date=2023-06-18 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712 |archive-date=2024-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925125717/https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/sep/09/imran-amed-business-of-fashion-interview-is-this-fashions-most-influential-man |url-status=live }}
Early life
Amed was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He is of Indian descent. Amed attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 2000, he enrolled at Harvard Business School to complete an MBA.
Career
Upon graduation in 2002, Amed moved to London to work for McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm.{{Cite web |date=2023-04-06 |title=Imran Amed: "I'm grateful to have work that I care about, to do work that touches people" {{!}} Exclusive |url=https://www.lifestyleasia.com/ind/culture/imran-amed-dior-maria-grazia-chiuri-business-of-fashion-luxury-india/ |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=Lifestyle Asia India |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925125819/https://www.lifestyleasia.com/ind/culture/imran-amed-dior-maria-grazia-chiuri-business-of-fashion-luxury-india/ |url-status=live }} 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.{{cite news |last=Menkes |first=Suzy |date=February 17, 2011 |title=Cast your vote for Lam |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/fashion/18iht-rimran18.html?_r=1 |access-date=December 23, 2012 |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |archive-date=September 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925130221/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/fashion/18iht-rimran18.html?_r=1 |url-status=live }}
= ''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 Notting Hill in 2007.
In 2013, Amed raised $2.5 million in seed financing.{{Cite web |last=Blasberg |first=Derek |date=2015-11-11 |title=How Imran Amed Is Turning Business of Fashion into an Empire |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2015/11/imran-amed-business-of-fashion |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=Vanity Fair |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925125818/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2015/11/imran-amed-business-of-fashion |url-status=live }} 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 London, New York and Shanghai.{{Cite web |last=Mohammed |first=Sagal |date=2018-11-04 |title=Is Imran Amed the most powerful man in fashion? |url=https://www.you.co.uk/imran-ahmed/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416150824/https://www.you.co.uk/imran-ahmed/ |archive-date=April 16, 2021 |access-date=2020-01-20 |website=YOU Magazine |language=en-US}} The website had 100 employees as of 2024.{{Cite web |last=Mlotek |first=Haley |date=September 3, 2024 |title=The Outsiders |url=https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/the-outsiders-business-of-fashion-imran-amed.php |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=Columbia Journalism Review |language=en |archive-date=2024-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240915224934/https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/the-outsiders-business-of-fashion-imran-amed.php |url-status=live }}
In October 2016, BoF launched a subscription model for full access to its content. In 2018, The Observer reported that while some of BoF's content was original, the rest was aggregated from publications such as Vogue, The New York Times and Chinese newspapers.
As of 2024, BoF had over 100,000 subscribers from over 130 countries. The Columbia Journalism Review 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.{{Cite web |last=Chowdhury |first=Rishita Roy |date=2020-10-11 |title=Sonam Kapoor wishes stylist Nikhil Mansata on birthday: Love you my personality twin |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/celebrities/story/sonam-kapoor-wishes-stylist-nikhil-mansata-on-birthday-love-you-my-personality-twin-1730539-2020-10-11 |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=India Today |language=en |archive-date=2021-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922182449/https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/celebrities/story/sonam-kapoor-wishes-stylist-nikhil-mansata-on-birthday-love-you-my-personality-twin-1730539-2020-10-11 |url-status=live }}
Awards and honors
In 2016, at the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, Amed was awarded the Media Award in Honor of Eugenia Sheppard.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/06/08/how-imran-amed-became-canadas-stealth-player-in-global-fashion.html |title=How Imran Amed became Canada's stealth player in global fashion |date=June 8, 2016 |newspaper=The Star |access-date=March 27, 2017 |archive-date=March 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328195445/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/06/08/how-imran-amed-became-canadas-stealth-player-in-global-fashion.html |url-status=live }}
He was an appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to fashion.{{London Gazette|issue=61803|supp=y|page=N15|date= December 31, 2016}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/580999/new-years-honours-2017-full-list.pdf|title=New Years Honours List 2017|date=December 31, 2016|website=www.gov.uk|publisher=HM Government of the United Kingdom|access-date=December 31, 2016|archive-date=December 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231075327/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/580999/new-years-honours-2017-full-list.pdf|url-status=live}}
In 2018, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts London.{{Cite web |last=UAL |date=2023-06-01 |title=Imran Amed MBE |url=https://www.arts.ac.uk/people/honoraries/imran-amed-mbe |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=UAL |language=en |archive-date=2024-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925130327/https://www.arts.ac.uk/people/honoraries/imran-amed-mbe |url-status=live }}
Books
- Pattern, Phaidon, 2013 ({{ISBN|0714849723}}; {{ISBN|978-0714849720}})
References
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External links
- [http://www.businessoffashion.com/ The Business of Fashion]
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Category:Canadian fashion journalists
Category:McGill University alumni
Category:Businesspeople from Calgary
Category:Journalists from Alberta
Category:Canadian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Category:Harvard Business School alumni
Category:McKinsey & Company people
Category:Canadian people of Indian descent
Category:English people of Indian descent