What is hot and what is not: it’s an idiom that fuels fashion, an industry worth about £1.8 trillion pounds. So who has the most influence?
38. Mahmud Kamani and Carol Kane
Joint chief executives, Boohoo.com
Although once sneered at for their lower-than-low price points (£37 for a new suit?), the Boohoo brand have taken over where bricks-and-mortar chains have failed to change tack, with revenue doubling to £580m in 2018.
Boohoo Group PLC (LON:BOO) operates as an online fashion retailer in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the United States, and internationally. The company also provides its products under the boohoo, boohooMAN, PrettyLittleThing, and Nasty Gal brand names.