Director of South African Fashion Week, Lucilla Booyzen, has been elevated to the influential fashion industry communications and analysis hub, The Business of Fashion’s (BoF)’s annual BoF 500 Global Fashion Leader Index for 2022.
The hundred new additions to the index, updated yearly, were released at the end of last month (30 September 2022) and celebrated at a gala event in Paris, France, on 1 October 2022.
They include the founder of Senegal’s Dakar Fashion Week, Adama Ndiaye, Nigerian designer Adebayo Oke-Lawal of Orange Culture as well as Ukrainian designer, Anna October.
The BoF 500, first launched in 2013, is regarded as an authoritative index of the professionals shaping the $2.4 trillion global fashion industry. They are hand-picked by the editors of
The Business of Fashion is based on nominations received from current BoF 500 members and thorough data analysis and research.
It currently includes 1,100 people representing more than 70 nationalities, based in more than 45 countries, says Imran Amed, Founder & CEO of The Business of Fashion.
Booyzen joins fellow South Africans which includes publisher Khanyi Dhlomo, founder of Ndalo Media, Nkosiyati Khumalo, editor of Apple Music South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Hanneli Rupert, owner of iconic Merchants on Long concept store that focuses on ethically-produced African fashion, design, and art as well as her own Okapi handbag range.
“I am deeply humbled and grateful to be invited to join this exceptional circle of global fashion industry leaders,” says Booyzen.
“I truly regard this as the pinnacle of my personal and life-long dedication to carving a place for South Africa’s creative talent on the world stage.”
