Imran Amed

Imran Amed (born April 20, 1975) is a Canadian-British fashion media entrepreneur. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the website The Business of Fashion.

Early life Amed was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. He is of Indian descent. He left McKinsey in 2006 to explore his interest in the fashion industry.

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. BoF launched in China in 2014; Vanity Fair described it as the "only fashion-industry publication of its kind in the country." As of 2024, the company had 100 employees.

In October 2016, BoF launched a subscription 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.

He was an appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (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, Phaidon, 2013 (; )