Former Amazon manager Elaine Kwon: 'There are a lot of things that are scary to brands about Amazon'

'We're living history': Neiman Marcus's Ken Downing on the future of fashion week: Ken Downing, the fashion director and svp at Neiman Marcus, will see just under 100 fashion shows this season. That's a light year. It used to be about 120 overall -- and at one point, it was that many shows in New York alone. Things are changing. As... by The Glossy Podcast

27 min listen

Bando founder Jen Gotch: 'Retail is better when everyone wins': Bando, the e-commerce site selling kitschy office supplies and accessories designed for the Instagram generation, has struck a balance between mass and niche. The brand’s strong, mostly pink aesthetic, cult-like customer following and best-selling... by The Glossy Podcast

31 min listen

Stone and Strand founder Nadine McCarthy Kahane: Trying to please everyone is no way to run a business: Nadine McCarthy Kahane, founder of online jewelry marketplace Stone and Strand, joined the Glossy Podcast to discuss her company's experiments offline, its influencer partnerships and how it has tried to compete with Amazon. by The Glossy Podcast

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Designer Daniella Kallmeyer: 'The idea of a brand is either going to not exist entirely, or change completely': Designer Daniella Kallmeyer got her first internship in the fashion industry when she handed Luca Luca designer Luca Orlandi her resume at age 15. She went on to more internships with brands including Proenza Schouler and Alexander McQueen,... by The Glossy Podcast

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InStyle founding editor Hal Rubenstein: 'If you want to be everything to everybody, you are nothing to nobody': Hal Rubenstein, one of the founding editors of InStyle magazine, joined the Glossy Podcast to discuss retail's "too much stuff" problem, the crime of athleisure and why he's skeptical of all influencers, except maybe Selena Gomez. by The Glossy Podcast

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Designer Mara Hoffman: 'As a creative, standing still will kill you': Three years ago, designer Mara Hoffman went through what one could call an existential crisis. After running her eponymous label for 15 years when she hit a wall. Feeling like all her brand was doing was adding more “stuff” to the world -- and... by The Glossy Podcast

38 min listen

Story founder Rachel Shechtman: 'We haven't even seen retail armageddon yet': Rachel Shechtman is the founder of the concept store Story in Chelsea, a neighborhood in New York City. Story changes its inventory and physical layout every few weeks, and each new remodel is based around a theme. The merchandise carried by Story is... by The Glossy Podcast

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Former Amazon manager Elaine Kwon: 'There are a lot of things that are scary to brands about Amazon': When Elaine Kwon realized just how much fashion and luxury brands don’t understand retail’s new digital world order, she started her own e-commerce management firm, Kwontified, to help them figure it out. Kwon had been working at Amazon,... by The Glossy Podcast

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Rachel Zoe: Being a designer today means 'navigating the noise': Rachel Zoe launched her brand in 2011, as direct-to-consumer businesses were booming online. But even though she already had a following from her time spent working as a celebrity stylist and sending out her then-newsletter, The Zoe Report (now a... by The Glossy Podcast

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Nordstrom's vp of creative projects Olivia Kim: 'Earning trust is how you gain wallet share': Olivia Kim joined Nordstrom and moved from New York to Seattle in 2013 as the director of creative projects. Now vp of creative projects, she’s in charge of Nordstrom’s pop-up shops, brand collaborations and exclusives with digitally native... by The Glossy Podcast

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The Dreslyn founder Brooke Taylor Corcia: 'Data needs to be taken with a grain of salt': Brooke Taylor Corcia, the founder of online fashion and lifestyle store The Dreslyn, wanted to launch her own company to get a more accurate representation of West Coast fashion into the e-commerce lexicon. Three years after launching The Dreslyn as... by The Glossy Podcast

34 min listen

James LaForce: 'Social media isn't an extension of e-commerce': James LaForce started his career hand-delivering printouts of press releases that highlighted the biggest news and best gossip from parties the night before. He would drop them off at the home of the society reporter at Women’s Wear Daily and return... by The Glossy Podcast

31 min listen

AYR co-founder Maggie Winter: For DTC brands, infinite triple-digit growth is a 'fallacy': AYR, the direct-to-consumer brand for women’s apparel, has an origin story that sets it apart from the sea of other digitally native brands selling women’s clothing without the middleman. For its first two years in business, it was incubated by... by The Glossy Podcast

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Grana founder Luke Grana: 'Years ago, there was more capital available to DTC brands': Luke Grana, the founder of the apparel startup Grana, joins the Glossy Podcast to discuss the state of digitally native retail, why he decided to launch his business in Hong Kong, and what defines a modern, successful brand. by The Glossy Podcast

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Influencer Chriselle Lim: 'People who say yes to everything won't do justice for anyone': Chriselle Lim launched her blogger and influencer career on YouTube in 2010, creating videos centered on makeup tutorials and style advice. Since then, her face has been closely tied to her brand as she's built her Instagram following... by The Glossy Podcast

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Designer Dan Liu: ‘Fashion is still lacking some major force of change’: Designer Dan Liu, who owns both his namesake label as well as the fashion brand Tatsuaki, needs fellow designers to pick up the pace. Designers used to have months to design new collections, and that window has been dwindled down to about two weeks.... by The Glossy Podcast

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'You can't stand on ceremony': The best moments on the Glossy Podcast in 2017: This year on the Glossy Podcast, we discussed the forces of change, driven by digital technology, that designers, brand founders, and the agencies who work with them were forced to adjust to. We explored topics including how Instagram is changing the... by The Glossy Podcast

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Madewell's secret sauce: J.Crew Group-owned Madewell is often pegged as the namesake brand’s younger, hipper sister (although president Libby Wadle refutes the notion that Madewell is millennial-geared). As J.Crew scrambles to revitalize stalled sales growth, Madewell’s... by The Glossy Podcast

34 min listen

Store No. 8's Katie Finnegan: In fashion, technology is fueling an entirely new business model: Katie Finnegan is shaping the future of Walmart’s relationship with technology. As the principal of Store No. 8, an incubator that’s owned by Walmart but operates as an individual LLC, Finnegan is playing the long game. Her company acquires... by The Glossy Podcast

32 min listen

Slow Factory's Celine Semaan on bringing sustainability to New York Fashion Week: Celine Semaan, the CEO and designer at the sustainable fashion and accessories brand Slow Factory, realizes that running her own fashion brand is, in and of itself, an unsustainable exercise. During New York Fashion Week, Semaan hosted... by The Glossy Podcast

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Designer Audra Noyes discusses why she left the NYFW runway: 'It was too much the priority': Designer Audra Noyes has put in hours working at luxury fashion houses Lanvin and Ralph Lauren. But she's always had her sights set on putting on a fashion show of her own. And her brand, Audra, held a spot on the official NYFW runway calendar for... by The Glossy Podcast

22 min listen

How talent managers deal with influencers during NYFW: Vicky Yang, a talent and digital strategy manager at the talent agency The Society Management, has picked up a few new tricks over the last several years. While managing modeling jobs and schedules for the company's roster of talent,... by The Glossy Podcast

24 min listen

How Milly CEO Andy Oshrin is reframing the wholesale brand for a direct-to-consumer world: Since Milly launched in the early 2000s, the rules luxury brands are supposed to follow have changed. Now that department store traffic is falling and boutiques are struggling to master e-commerce at scale, luxury brands that could once rely on... by The Glossy Podcast

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Boll & Branch founder Scott Tannen: 'The more money you have, the sloppier you can be': Scott Tannen, the founder and CEO of Boll & Branch, has experience on both the brand side and the investor side of the DTC startup world. by The Glossy Podcast

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Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake: 'The current shift in customer behavior is permanent': When Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake took her company public in 2017, her pitch was a little bit rusty. Stitch Fix’s IPO, which valued it at nearly $2 billion, was the biggest exit for an e-commerce company last year. Now, the company has to prove it... by The Glossy Podcast

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Athleta CEO Nancy Green: 'We point the arrow toward what's possible for Gap Inc.': Under Nancy Green, Athleta has leaned into being a brand associated with both women’s empowerment and sustainability, by carving out a list of related core values and updating its branding around those. On Tuesday, the company announced it was... by The Glossy Podcast

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Live from NRF: How Rent the Runway's Unlimited subscription model changed its in-store strategy: Glossy senior reporter Hilary Milnes discuss Rent the Runway's in-store strategy, data and unlimited subscriptions with Hampton Catlin, senior director of engineering at Rent the Runway. by The Glossy Podcast

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Designer Alice McCall makes the case for the runway show: As other designers reconsider the role that runway plays in their businesses, Alice McCall is just getting started at New York Fashion Week. For her debut runway show, which took place Saturday morning, the Australia-based designer said she embraced... by The Glossy Podcast

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Porter editor-in-chief Lucy Yeomans: 'Content and commerce coming together just makes sense': Net-a-Porter recently relaunched its editorial content to reflect a new approach: Porter, Net-a-Porter’s print magazine, combined with The Edit, Net-a-Porter’s online blog, for a more cohesive content strategy. In total, Net-a-Porter’s... by The Glossy Podcast

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Why founder Jessica Lee didn't raise any VC funding for Modern Citizen: Jessica Lee was on the M&A team at Gap Inc., scouting for potential young brands appealing to a more modern customer that the corporation could snap up, when she decided to set off on her own and found a new mid-priced women’s fashion... by The Glossy Podcast

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