The co-lab career stories

Jonathan Joseph is the CEO and creator of Little Red Fashion, the first fashion ed-tech and publishing company focused on teaching kids about and through fashion. He’s the author of their first book “The Little Red Dress: A Kids Book About Fashion.” LRF is also developing unique DEI & CSR resources including consulting for fashion companies to leave a better industry for the kids they write st...

Katie Welch is a creative thinker and brand storyteller with more than 20 years of marketing experience. At Rare Beauty, Katie works to bring Selena Gomez’s mission and vision for Rare Beauty and the Rare Impact Fund to life. An innovative thought leader, she has continually pushed the envelope while working with globally respected beauty brands, including Hourglass, Bliss, Elemis, Burt’s Bees and...

Caroline has led the Supergoop!’s digital transformation and online channel growth since 2019, overseeing e-commerce, site development, digital marketing, paid media, CRM and customer experience for the fast-growing, category-creating SPF beauty brand. Prior to Supergoop!, Caroline oversaw exponential growth of the Digital business at ready-to-wear women's fashion brand Veronica Beard. Her early c...

For over twenty five years, Malia Mills has pioneered an inclusive and inspiring voice on the subject of women and beauty. In 1993, Mills launched her luxurious collection of bra-sized swimwear separates to critical acclaim. With Love Thy Differences™ as her mission, mantra and driving force, Malia Mills has expanded her signature swimwear collection to include ready-to-wear and accessories. From...

Stephanie von Watzdorf is an accomplished creative director, curator and fashion designer with more than 30 years' experience. She is known for the artistic and intuitive style she brings to design, be it clothes, accessories, or soulful spaces. She currently works as a consultant specializing in fashion, accessories and interior design. Stephanie was born in Paris to a German/French father and a...

Originally from Spain, Rosella Lopez has worked in the fashion industry for over 20 years starting in Paris with Diane Von Furstenberg, then in London with Ralph Lauren, and for the past ten years in New York as the Vice President of CUSHNIE. Growing CUSHNIE from the start to a multi-million-dollar company, she acquired the experience and knowledge to focus her career on consulting for companies i...

Rachel Wolff has more than two decades of experience in fashion retail - general management, strategy, merchandising, operations, buying, sales, product development. Her career experience includes Chief Merchandising and Product officer of Cuyana, General Manager/ VP Merch for Loeffler Randall & Tea Collection. Currently, Rachel is partner and Brand President of FREDA SALVADOR a unique emergin...

Rita comes from one of the most prominent families in the international fashion system. Her former key positions include: GM of North America of Woolrich USA, CEO of Costume National USA and Executive Vice President of USIT. She speaks with Agathe Lerolle about her family's remarkable influence on international fashion, what she learned about the business from her parents and working with her brot...

Agathe Lerolle is the Founder of Sur Mesure Executive Search, a boutique recruitment firm specializing in the Fashion, Luxury, and Retail industry. She has conducted over 5,000 interviews in the span of a 15-year career and is a leading expert in executive recruitment talent marketing, and sourcing. Prior to starting Sur Mesure Executive Search, she was a Director at K&J Executive Search and a...

April co-founded THE BOARD, a vetted network of C-level consultants bringing “dream team” expertise to brands. April most recently held CEO positions at VIOLET GREY & ONDA Beauty. She was the Chief Brand Officer and founding team member at the ground breaking mobile first market place SPRING where she led brand strategy and curation. Prior to Spring she spent 25 years in the fashion industry,...

Marisa has more than a decade of experience creating premium content in the fashion, beauty and lifestyle space. As a digitally-savvy, metric-focused editor and content creator, she has spearheaded everything from new video series and branded content to e-commerce strategy. She served as the Senior Style Producer & Editor for Entertainment Tonight Digital, where she launched both the Style &am...

Kathryn Kallison has 20 years of experience building and leading teams managing logistics, customer service, distribution and warehousing for retail and wholesale consumer goods. She is currently VP Logistics for Flow Commerce (acquired by Global-e), a SaaS platform that helps e-commerce merchants scale their brands globally. Listen as she tells Carol Pearson about how the HR job she accidentally...

Carol grew up in the United Kingdom and after her studies, embarked on a 20-year odyssey around the world pursuing her global HR career. Carol opened Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Australia and Asia, led the HR aspects of a start-up in San Francisco, worked as SVP Human Resources North America, for the LVMH Fashion Group and more recently was European HR VP for InterContinental Hotels Group. Carol now wo...

An entrepreneur and business leader at heart, Beryl founded Poplar, The Modern Drug Store, in 2018 after personally discovering natural medicine solutions. Beryl added cannabis to her health and wellness routine and decreased her dependence on pharmaceutical anti-anxiety/antidepressants. Prior to transitioning into the wellness space, Beryl was a Fashion and Retail Executive focused on creating an...

Bari Schorr has 30 years in the industry starting at Bloomingdales, and most recently as SVP GMM at Rue Gilt Groupe. She's known for her performance excellence in high volume businesses through strategic planning and implementation, an extensive background in online marketing and user experience. She's also a strategic and data driven decision maker, an expert at selling a sales and marketing plat...

Susan Joy is a regenerative strategist and fashion brand advisor, with a background in fashion media, brand and design consulting, and a master’s in sustainability. She has a background in fashion media, brand and design consulting, having worked with a broad cross section of designers, brands and magazines, including contributing to the New York Times for a decade.  Susan is committed to bui...

Gayle has more than 20 years of experience in product development, creative direction, cross-functional collaboration, intellectual property expansion, strategic foresight, and trend analysis.  She is a smart and passionate optimist focused on working with mission-driven brands supporting the well-being of people, the planet, and creating long-term value. Gayle is scheduled to complete a Mast...

A former magazine stylist for Harper’s Bazaar, Nicole’s quest to find the perfect pair of jeans inspired her to co-found Habitual, a cult denim brand which won the Vogue/CFDA Fashion award. On the back of that success Nicole was appointed co-Creative Director of Helmut Lang and is lauded with the brand's successful relaunch. Nicole, along with her husband Michael, then launched their own sustainab...

New York based Aussie Natasha Silva-Jelly  has worked for renowned media brands like Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, GRAZIA, The Guardian Life & Style. A long time journalist and editor specializing in fashion, beauty, lifestyle, she started her career at Australian Vogue, run the fashion round at The Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper and worked for Vogue in London. She moved with her family to NYC...

A brand marketer with more than a decade of experience in fashion and community-building, Libby leads marketing for Nickel & Suede, an accessories brand dedicated to inspiring confidence in women. Previously, she oversaw PR, Partnerships, and Social Impact at Stella & Dot, a global lifestyle brand known for accessorizing everyone from Selena Gomez to RBG. In 2019, Libby launched...

Meg Barr has a passion for understanding consumer behavior and is currently working as a product marketing manager in the skincare industry. In her current role, Meg is setting business strategy for the North America region and working to bring new products to life and drive sales. When she is not working, Meg is preparing to run her second marathon in London, UK next year (hopefully!). In this ep...

Naomi Mishkin is an artist and designer making things in Brooklyn, New York. Trained as a glassblower, she spent a decade making sculpture before founding NAOMI NOMI in 2018. The conceptual themes of her sculpture ring true in her clothes: love your materials and put meaning in the making.

A Boston native, she could knit since before she could read and decided to become a designer when she was 13. She attended Cornell University for design school, and then moved to New York, where she temped briefly in a knitting factory before joining the design team at Oscar de la Renta as a knitwear product development assistant.  After four years as a product developer, she left to go to MI...

Catrina Reingold has spent the past 15 years of her career in the fashion industry. She is an innovative creative strategist adept at transforming brands through insightful product strategy in order to create long-term brand value. Her experience includes trend forecasting & marketing at Jones apparel, Director of Licensing for Isaac Mizrahi, Vice President of Design at C.Wonder for QVC, and t...

For almost two decades, Jamie has consulted with globally recognized fashion, beauty, technology, and e-commerce companies to find and place the best talent at all levels. From filling specific roles in the C-Suite to staffing entire departments, she has built a much-deserved reputation for not only knowing everyone in the industry, but helping her candidates feel fulfilled and successful in their...