Beyond Fashion Business

"The fashion world is evolving before us, with winter on the horizon. Much like a farmer, a founder must discern the current season and adapt their brands accordingly. Just as a farmer relishes the bounty of spring while also bracing for winter, so too must we be ready for the shifts in our industry." Preview of my recent podcast conversation with Flattered Co-founder & CEO Gustav Lidén for The Fu...

This this week's episode, we sat down with Copenhagen Cartel founder Katrine Lee Larsen. In this episode, we talked about: 1) How Katrine started s successful sustainable fashion brand with no fashion or sustainability experience. 2) How being on the TV show Shark Tank exploded her success. 3) The roadmap to her brand's success. 3) Why she decided to quit her role as CEO. 5) Dealing with depressio...

In this week's episode, we sat down with ex-Unilever marketing executive turned entrepreneur Ashley Boyce. Ashley Boyce is a marketing expert passionate about growing business through innovation and purposeful storytelling. She is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience launching highly successful new brands and new categories on some of Unilever’s largest beauty and personal care bran...

In this episode, we talked with fashion executive and CEO of BANDIER, Kate Nadolny. our conversation revolved around the art of building global fashion brands through 3 main principles: Organizational engineering (hiring), an in-depth understanding of pricing, and learning how to create an adaptive strategy. Kate is a highly accomplished retail executive and startup advisor with a proven track rec...

In this episode, we sat down with EO Products Co-Founder Brad Black and discussed the business, personal, and spiritual foundations necessary to build a business powerhouse. EO Products is a family-owned, zero-waste, vegan, and cruelty-free beauty & personal care company that has thrived in a very competitive and difficult industry for over 30 years. EO Products: https://www.instagram.com/eoproduc...

In this episode, we sat down with entrepreneur Matt Altman to share his deeply valuable experience on manufacturing and managing a production process.

Start A Fashion Brand With A Low Budget & No Experience. Join The Modern Fashion School: https://go.thefutureoffashionbusiness.com/start-a-fashion-brand In this podcast episode, we had the pleasure of hearing from Jenny Baxter Moser, a seasoned investor and partner at TSG Consumer. With her expertise in investing in high-growth consumer companies, Jenny has played a pivotal role in TSG's investmen...

An inspiring conversation around survival, spiritual fulfillment, and how those 2 variables fuelled the ambition and growth behind the multi-million dollar beauty brand Odacité. Start A Fashion Brand With A Low Budget & No Experience. Join The Modern Fashion School: https://go.thefutureoffashionbusiness.com/start-a-fashion-brand

For video clips and video format of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@thefutureoffashionbusiness Very few people have experienced failure and success better than Rebecca Minkoff. Founder of Rebecca Minkoff. In this episode, we explored the reality of failure, and how to overcome it to have a brand that can truly last decades. Rebecca Minkoff is an American fashion brand that was founded by br...

In this episode, we talked about: - What investors look for in fashion brands - Current challenges faced by brands and how to surpass them For video clips and video format of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@thefutureoffashionbusiness Odile ROUJOL is the Founder of FaB Fashion and BeautyTech community (19 chapters in Asia Europe and America, now 15,000 founders and VCs, 10K+ followers linked...

Aman Advani is Co-founder and CEO of Ministry of Supply, a clothing brand inventing a new category: Performance Professional, of better known as performance dress clothes. The company was founded in 2012 with the mission to incorporate fundamental engineering and performance principles into dress clothing staples, to now a business that has sold over 1 million units. In this episode, we talked abo...

Matthew Parvis co-founded Fresh Clean Tees (now Fresh Clean Threads) in 2015. It went from being a fashion business that they were running out of their garage with no investors, to a business that makes around $20 million dollars per year. In this episode, we spoke with Matthew about how to start a brand in today's difficult landscape. What challenges await consumer business entrepreneurs? How can...

Christopher Gavigan is an entrepreneur who co-founded The Honest Company alongside Jessica Alba and Brian Lee. In 2021, The Honest Company made $319 million in sales. He is also the founder and CEO of Functional Botanicals + CBD brand PRIMA. He is also the author of Healthy Child Healthy World: Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home. For video clips and full video version of this episode: //www.y...

June (Pai) Van Heel is a sales and business executive that has been responsible for the growth and international expansion of multiple multi-million active-wear companies like Bala, and Manduka. In this episode, we talked about how brands can use international expansion to multiply their sales, and the details/steps of how to go about this. For the video version of this episode: //www.youtube.com/...

Born and raised in China, Phoebe Yu spent 15 years producing homewares for some of the largest US retailers. Now Phoebe is the founder of online eco-bedding retailer, Ettitude, and her decade and a half of experience proved fertile ground for Ettitude, a bedding business generating approximately 7 to 15 million dollars in revenue per year. For the video version of this episode: //www.youtube.com/c...

Rick Wittenbraker is the CMO of Howler Brothers, an Austin-based lifestyle apparel valued at approximately 50 to 75 million dollars. He previously served as the VP of Marketing for YETI Coolers, helping to grow that company from a local start-up to a powerhouse brand. Rick joined the Howler family after successfully taking the reigns of several start-ups, as well as steering Austin-based YETI Cool...

Siblings Bronte, Cody, and Cooper Mance started the footwear brand Naked Wolfe. In the first year, Ariana Grande, Gigi, and Bella Hadid all rocked the brand. Just before Covid, they were selling $80 million of shoes globally. Inspiring story and success so listen closely to how everything started. For Clips & Highlights Of The Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/EstebanJulian/featured Naked Wolfe:...

Tastemaker and youth culture expert Qiu Bohan is a former fashion publicist and columnist, he founded the Chinese PR agency Boh Project, where he works for several of China’s most popular celebrities, and designer labels, as well as championing emerging local talents. For Clips & Highlights Of The Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/EstebanJulian/featured Bohan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.co...

This episode is not about fashion, but it is a branding and marketing masterclass taught by an incredible entrepreneur. A must-watch if you are in any branding and design-related business. Ghia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drinkghia/?hl=en

Futura Dos Mil & Running A Street Culture Driven Business with Sky Gellatly Sky's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skygellatly/?hl=en ICNCLST Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/icnclst/?hl=en

In this episode, we sat down with marketing executive ace rice and discussed how to think about marketing.

In this week's episode, we sat down with cultural tastemaker, entrepreneur, and manager Sky Gellatly. He is also the co-founder of ICNCLST. Sky was one of the figures responsible for what people know as "hype beast" culture today. Sky's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skygellatly/?hl=en ICNCLST Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/icnclst/?hl=en

In this episode, we sat down with sustainability executive Christine Gouley and discussed sustainability, the lies, the reality, and how it can all be solved through collaboration.

Fashion stylist & content creator Kyron Warrick talks about his story, his youtube career, his take on why generating content successfully in the fashion space has changed, and how to adapt. Start A Fashion Brand With A Low Budget & No Experience. Join The Modern Fashion School: https://go.thefutureoffashionbusiness.com/start-a-fashion-brand

Founder of Into Archive & Into Ike Kate Mao talks about her story, and how at 21 years of age, she started one of the first and most relevant luxury vintage e-boutiques. Into Archive's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intoarchive/?hl=es Kate's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kateemao/?hl=es Video Format Of This Episode: https://www.youtube.com/c/EstebanJulian/about