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" Designers may be the most visible to the general public, but\u00A0there are scores\u00A0of other people behind the scenes\u2014in boardrooms and edit meetings,\u00A0behind lenses and screens\u2014that are just as integral to\u00A0making\u00A0the fashion world\u00A0what it is.\u00A0Which is why The\u00A0Business of Fashion&amp;#039;s yearly BoF500 feature, which details the 500 most influential people in the industry,\u00A0is so interesting. You get the designers, yes, but you also learn about the investors, executives, photographers, artists, and innovators that are shaping the state of style today. The most recent outing includes loads of familiar faces\u2014Dries Van Noten, David Beckham, Thom Browne,\u00A0Brunello Cucinelli,\u00A0and, of course, Kanye\u2014but it&amp;#039;s the\u00A0new additions, nearly 100 of them,\u00A0that\u00A0we find most fascinating. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom, for one. Caitlyn Jenner, for another. Alessandro Michele, the new creative director of Gucci, made the cut, as did\u00A0Patrick Grant of E. Tautz and \u00A0Balmain&amp;#039;s\u00A0Olivier Rousteing. Oh, and H&amp;amp;amp;M chief exec\u00A0Karl-Johan Persson, along with kpop star\u00A0G. Dragon. Suffice to say, it&amp;#039;s a wide-ranging and varied list. It&amp;#039;s also 500 names long, so we won&amp;#039;t get into it all here, and instead recommend that you check it out in full to get your fashion insider fix.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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