Every November, the global fashion industry gathers in Oxfordshire for BoF VOICES, the Business of Fashion’s annual summit that brings together visionaries shaping the worlds of fashion, beauty, luxury and beyond. This year marks a decade of BoF VOICES, a milestone celebrating ten years of groundbreaking conversations, creative intersections, and cultural shifts. And among the names set to grace the 2025 stage is one of South Africa’s most celebrated global exports — DJ Black Coffee.
Known far beyond the decks, Black Coffee’s influence extends into design, technology, architecture, and cultural innovation. His addition to this year’s VOICES lineup cements his place as not just a world-renowned DJ and producer, but a multidisciplinary creative whose work continues to bridge art forms and industries.
This kind of multidimensional creativity is exactly what BoF VOICES celebrates; the intersection of culture, innovation, and influence. Black Coffee represents a wave of artists blurring the boundaries between creative disciplines, showing how the modern creator can operate within music, fashion, tech, and lifestyle ecosystems simultaneously.
Since its launch in 2016, BoF VOICES has hosted more than 400 speakers from designers and CEOs to activists and cultural leaders to explore how fashion connects to wider global conversations. This year’s theme, marking ten years of “extraordinary conversations and meaningful connections,” finds a natural extension in DJ Black Coffee’s story as an artist who’s turned sound into a language of global unity and creative evolution.
For the African creative economy, his presence on the BoF VOICES stage signifies recognition of the continent’s cultural power. It highlights how African artists are not only contributing to the global creative conversation but actively shaping it with vision, depth, and innovation.
Black Coffee’s artistry has always been about more than music. It’s about building bridges between continents, genres, and industries. Whether he’s curating immersive experiences, collaborating with architects on lifestyle spaces, or performing at Coachella and Madison Square Garden, his creative philosophy mirrors what BoF VOICES stands for: the belief that creativity is a catalyst for global change.
