TheIndustry.fashion & TheIndustry.beauty Podcast

Commercial visionary and pioneer of ground-breaking ecommerce solutions, Chris Griffin, and his Lifestyle Retail Group (LRG), acquired Secret Sales in March 2020. The aim was to move the business from an antiquated members-only flash sales website to a dedicated premium non-full price ecommerce marketplace for fashion, beauty and homeware - where brands can retain control of price, inventory and b...

Established in 2015, Nobody’s Child is a London-based womenswear brand creating responsible clothing with materials that have a lower impact on the planet.    Jody first joined the company as CEO in March 2020, bringing years of experience from brands including New Look, F&F Clothing and Reiss.    Jody speaks to Sophie Smith, News & Features Writer at the TheIndustry.fashion, about the ben...

With a background in material science and design, Lauren Bowker, Founder of The Unseen Beauty, entered the beauty market to help transform how people see, think about and express their beauty. The Unseen Beauty first launched with a hair colour, called Colour Alchemy, which adapts and changes colour in response to changes in temperature and sunlight. Most recently, the brand launched a reflective...

Rami Cassis is an international dealmaker, investor, and operator. He leads Parabellum Investments, the family office he founded, which trades as a private equity firm. Cassis acquired Manchester luxury fashion retailer Hervia in May 2022 and intends to use Hervia as the foundation to form a new British fashion group. He speaks to Lauretta Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of TheIndustry.fashion, about his...

Rochelle Humes isn’t just a former member of girl group The Saturdays and a current TV personality, she is also a fully-fledged beauty business owner.  Her brand, My Little Coco launched in 2020 and is known for its ever-evolving range of family-friendly skincare and lifestyle products. In this episode of the In Conversation podcast from TheIndustry.beauty, Rochelle speaks to News & Features W...

Lucy Litwack is one of the lingerie industry’s best known figures and her stellar career has taken in some of the biggest names in the business, including Victoria’s Secret, La Perla, XIX Entertainment (where she headed up David Beckham Bodywear), Bendon and Myla. Since April 2014 she has been CEO of London-based Coco De Mer, a brand she also owns. Lucy talks us through her career to date and what...

The UK’s first luxury consumer beauty event dedicated to women of colour takes place this weekend (Dec 3 - 4) at the Congress Centre on London’s Great Russell Street.  The Beauty Beat is the brainchild of luxury events specialist Donna Dia who took her 15 years of experience in the industry and her bulging contact book and put them to good use to conceive and launch this concept. The event has the...

Charlotte Knight is a beauty entrepreneur and the founder of Ciate London, Lottie London and Skin Proud. Her first brand, Ciate London launched in 2009 and Lottie London in 2014, and are both known for their range of makeup and nail products. In 2020, Charlotte then entered the skincare market with the launch of her third and most recent brand, Skin Proud. Charlotte, speaks to Sophie Smith, News &...

During the height of the Covid pandemic, Private White V.C. owner James Eden won a government contract to supply PPE for the NHS, turning part of the brand’s Manchester factory in to a working production line to help the cause. The additional specialist equipment that had to be brought in has since been repurposed, and is now making an-ever growing jersey collection, adding to the company’s excell...

Welcome to the The Bold Moves Academy podcast brought to you by TheIndustry.fashion in partnership with Klarna for Business. Here we speak to some of fashion’s disrupters about the bold moves they’ve made to drive the future of the fashion industry and inspire you to do the same. Haeni Kim was an early adopter of the Bold Move. At the age of just 12 years old she upped sticks from her home in Sout...

Gym + Coffee is one of Ireland’s fastest growing lifestyle brands. Founded in 2017 by a team of friends with backgrounds in media, marketing and retail and a shared passion for combining fitness and community, the brand began with a core collection of hoodies.  It has since expanded into a fully-fledged activewear collection for men and women and, as well as its international e-stores, now has phy...

Jamie O’Banion is the Founder and CEO of BeautyBio, a results-driven and science-based brand known for its range of skincare and haircare products.  Having grown up in the skincare industry and learning from her biochemist father, Jamie saw a need in the retail space for clinical-grade skincare developed for plastic surgeons and dermatologists.  Today, the US-based brand is sold at a number of lea...

Nayna McIntosh brings Hope – both literally and metaphorically – to women and the fashion industry. After a high flying career that took in some of fashion retail’s biggest brands from Next to George at ASDA and Marks & Spencer, McIntosh took a step back at the age of 50 and decided to establish her own brand. Hope, named after Nayna’s mother, is unapologetically aimed at women in the 50-plus...

Simon Comins is the Chief Commercial Officer at Superdrug. Having worked his way up from the shop floor, he has an extensive career history at the health and beauty retailer.  In his role as CCO, which he was appointed earlier this year, Simon works to ensure Superdrug stocks the most exciting selection of accessible health and beauty products on the high street.  In this episode of the In Convers...

In this episode of the In Conversation podcast in partnership with Klarna for Business, Contributing Editor Eric Musgrave talks to Jason Kirk, CEO & Co-founder of eyewear business Kirk & Kirk. Jason created Kirk & Kirk to present fashionable individuals with the opportunity to find unbranded, bold and elegant eyewear to suit their specific style. Jason grew up surrounded by optics. He...

Suzanne Duckett is the Founder & CEO of Onolla, an expertly curated beauty, skincare and fragrance retailer.  Duckett, a Journalist and Editor with over three decades of experience at some of the most successful magazines in the world including Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping, founded the business after becoming frustrated with the lack of transparency between journalists and consumers.  On...

Built on the philosophy of having a minimal impact on the planet, footwear brand Hylo is aiming to revolutionise high performance trainers.  Launched by a trio that includes ex-professional footballer Michael Doughty, Hylo’s footwear has a 42% reduction in carbon footprint compared to the industry standard running shoe.  The products are largely created from sustainable corn fibre and organic cott...

Provence-born and Paris-trained, Frédéric Fekkai opened his groundbreaking namesake salon atop New York’s Bergdorf Goodman Department Store, creating the concept of beauty hospitality and revolutionising the industry standard for hair stylists.  Fekkai is now continuing his legacy with a new mission to create the cleanest, most sustainable haircare that delivers salon performance to every customer...

In this episode of the In Conversation podcast in partnership with Klarna for Business, we speak to Simon Brown,  CEO of  Joe Browns.  After leaving school at 18, Simon Brown travelled the world before returning to the UK to establish fashion retailer Joe Browns. The carefree spirit of Joe Browns’ clothing range is the perfect representation of Simon himself.   Launching originally as a mail order...

Alison Lloyd founded Ally Capellino in 1980 and was one of the first contemporary British designers to really crack the Japanese market in the early ‘90s.  She’s had a busy year this year so far, with a collaboration with Barbour on jackets and bags and a pop-up space in Selfridges for her new packable bag collection.  In this episode of the In Conversation podcast in partnership with Klarna for B...

Michele Scott-Lynch is the Founder of Boucléme, a plant-powered haircare brand designed for the curly hair community.  The brand was created after Michele felt there was a lack of products in the UK that really catered towards her curly hair, especially for black men and women.  Today, Boucléme’s range of haircare products are stocked at a variety of leading retailers including Boots, Selfridges,...

Welcome to the The Bold Moves Academy podcast brought to you by TheIndustry.fashion in partnership with Klarna for Business . Here we speak to some of fashion’s disrupters about the bold moves they’ve made to drive the future of the fashion industry and inspire you to do the same. Nick Robertson is the Founder of online fashion and beauty retailer ASOS and was CEO of the Ecommerce giant from 2000...

In this episode of the In Conversation podcast in partnership with Klarna, we speak to Rasmus Brix, General Manager UK & Ireland at jewellery company Pandora, which is known for its charm bracelets. Founded in 1982 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the business now counts the UK as its second biggest market. As Rasmus explains, the size of the jeweller is quite “mind blowing”, with almost half of women...

Maria Grachvogel created her first collection when she was just 14 . Obsessed with the idea that clothing can transform your body, your mood and your confidence she experimented with innovative cutting techniques and always kept the woman who wears the clothing front of mind. Her approach to design which celebrates the woman first and puts joy and well-being into the design process has created man...

ARgENTUM began when brand founder, Joy Isaacs, woke from a dream with a clear vision to use the power of silver in skincare. After many years of research, ARgENTUM created a patented fusion of two active ingredients - Silver Hydrosol & DNA HP. The result is a range of natural, super hydrating products that target fine lines and the texture of the skin. ARgENTUM, named after the latin word for...