TheIndustry.fashion & TheIndustry.beauty Podcast

Welcome to ‘Agility amid Uncertainty’ our latest podcast in partnership with international logistics company Advanced Supply Chain Group.  In this series we will explore how six leading fashion retailers are managing their businesses in the face of some of the greatest disruption the world has experienced in a lifetime.  In the wake of the pandemic, retailers are grappling with challenges across t...

Pangaia is nothing short of sensation. When the start-up launched a pop-up at Selfridges in Oxford Street last Spring, huge queues snaked around the store as shoppers, emerging from a long and tough lockdown, waited patiently to get their hands on one of their super bright sweatshirts and joggers. The sustainable values and optimistic colour palette struck a chord with a customer looking for style...

Céline Talabaza is the CEO of luxury skincare brand Noble Panacea.  With a wealth of experience in the beauty industry, Celine was hand selected by the brand’s Founder and Noble Prize-Winning Chemist, Sir Fraser Stoddart, to lead the launch of the brand in 2019.  Noble Panacea was developed using unique skincare technology which aims to protect and preserve active ingredients in products.  Celine...

Terry Betts is one of the best known faces in the British menswear market having held senior buying roles for some of industry’s most iconic retailers including Harvey Nichols and Selfridges. He was also part of the founding team for the then ground-breaking online menswear retailer Mr Porter, the brother site of Net-A-Porter. Six and a half years ago he made the bold move of leaving a plum job at...

Bridget Healy and Alice Sagnier are the Co-founders of EverySkin , the UK-based aesthetics and skincare business. They founded the business out of a mutual love for the laser hair removal and facial industry, recognising that most clinics in the UK often present a very cold location and gendered pricing and products.  Alice came from the world of Fortnum and Mason, where she headed up the iconic r...

Shaun Russell is the Founder of Skandinavisk, a home and bodycare brand inspired by the beauty of Skandinavia. Founded in 2012, Shaun wanted to promote the benefits of a more Scandinavian approach to life to the rest of the world, combining fragrance and design with storytelling to spread the word.  As the brand grew, so did Shaun’s desire to ensure Skandinavisk was environmentally responsible. To...

Jasper Conran is quite simply fashion royalty and a prominent member of a design dynasty that had brought good taste and understated chic to British wardrobes and lifestyles during the latter half of the 20th century to the present day.  Jasper’s extraordinary career in fashion began when he landed a place at the prestigious Parson’s School of Design at the age of just 15 . He then went on to work...

As a design student in the 90’s, Graeme Fidler cut his teeth at Nigel Cabourn no less, before landing a role soon after graduating at Ralph Lauren in New York.  London was then calling and he was snapped up to become the Design Director at Aquascutum – being instrumental in taking the heritage luxury British brand to a more style savvy consumer with some outstanding outerwear pieces, attention to...

Fashion Week is about to get underway in London once again and all the focus will of course be on the designers and the looks they send down the runway. But who actually produces those clothes? In many cases the answer will be MAES London, a fashion manufacturing business established by entrepreneur Diana Kakkar in 2018.  Diana trained as a fashion designer and has worked across Australia, the US...

Brendan Murdock is the Founder of modern apothecary brand Anatome.  Anatome is a holistic wellness brand dedicated to supporting modern life and helping consumers find the right balance. Through personalised advice and a product selection that enters multiple categories including skincare and supplements, Anatome is quickly becoming a household name for everything body health. Murdock talks Tom Sh...

Joe Kudla is the Founder of apparel brand Vuori. Based in California, Vuori has taken the activewear market by storm, growing a loyal customer base and a retail portfolio that spans 13 locations across California, Colorado and Arizona. Today the brand is known for its super soft fabrics and versatile product range that can be worn by consumers wherever their day takes them. Joe launched Vuori in a...

Danny Gray founded War Paint for Men with the hopes of tackling the stigma attached to the average male wearing makeup. When the brand launched in November 2018 it was just himself and one other hand packing the products in his flat - he says that he was expecting to have no more than £2,000 of sales in the first month, but they did over £11,000. War Paint’s advertisements generally focus on men t...

Anne-Christine Polet, who often goes by the abbreviation A-C, leads the startup behind Hatch and Stitch, two SaaS products that are changing the way fashion works - digitising the fashion value chain with 3D at the core. Having initially grown the business under the PVH brand, A-C has now stepped up to launch the products externally.    Hatch aims to help brands sell better to their wholesale cust...

In today’s episode of The Beauty Edit podcast from TheIndustry.fashion we are joined by a beauty industry maven who has played a huge part in the success of some of beauty’s best known brands such as Shu Uemura, Tweezerman and Aveda and is one half of the iconic 90s beauty brand Ruby and Millie.  To say Millie Kendall is busy is an understatement. She’s one of the founders of Brand Stand Communica...

The story of British knitwear brand Peregrine dates back to 1796 and, eight generations down the line, these days it's run by Tom Glover, who joined the business after graduating in design back in 2003. He set about re-establishing the Peregrine brand with clean, contemporary designs - adding shirts, outerwear and accessories, impressively all made in England as the company always has. Today...

Pop-up retail has boomed post pandemic as vacancies have opened up in high streets and major shopping destinations across the country. Greater flexibility from landlords has meant that smaller brands who haven’t yet ventured into the physical realm have had the chance to test the waters, big brands have been able to trial new locations and even non-retail brands have been able to exploit the marke...

Alia Hawa is the Managing Director of L’Occitane UK & Ireland . Alia has always had a deep interest in beauty, fashion and luxury. She studied Economics and Political Science at the University of Geneva culminating in a Master’s degree in 2005. While studying, she had started working at Clarins Group in 2003, where she stayed until 2006. Alia then joined L’Occitane as an Area Manager, overseei...

Hype was founded 10 years ago this year by Bav Samani and Liam Green. Their first product was a rather rude statement cigarette lighter, followed by a T-shirt featuring a defaced Albert Einstein complete with nose ring, ear stretchers and tattoos, which sold out in hours.  The pair had met while working at a graphic design and T-shirt printing company in Leicester. They decided to join forces and...

Esther Verburg is the Executive Vice President of Sustainable Business and Innovation at Tommy Hilfiger and PVH Europe. Having had an extensive career in sustainable fashion, her knowledge about circularity and innovation is unrivalled. She started her sustainability journey at MADE-BY, a non-profit organisation focused on making sustainable fashion common practice. Co-building the organisation fr...

Aaron Wallace is the Co-founder and CEO of his eponymous haircare brand which creates quality products for male afro hair. Aaron first launched the brand in 2016 under a different name, before re-branding the business to truly reflect its audience – black men, who like himself, were unable to find products easily that were suited for their hair and skin. The product line has since been reformulate...

April Gargiulo is the Founder & CEO of California-based skincare brand Vintner’s Daughter.  With only two products on the market, the brand has refused to play ball with beauty industry - Vitner’s Daughter runs without a marketing team, it refuses to release products for the sake of it, and focusses on 100% active products.  April created her Active Botanical Serum because she was tired of com...

Moses Rashid is the Founder and CEO of The Edit LDN, the UK's No.1 online consignment store for high end streetwear and footwear, including brands such as Yeezy, Jordan, Off-White and Supreme. Moses launched The Edit Man in January 2020, before later rebranding as The Edit London to appeal to a growing demographic of women making purchases. What began as a personal passion and obsession for f...

Influence, what does it really mean, who has it, how do you use it and how do you measure its impact? These questions are a pre-occupation for fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands the world over. To help answer them, we’ve teamed up with leading influencer marketing analytics platform Tribe Dynamics to produce a new series of podcasts: INFLUENCER MARKETING: LEVEL UP FOR SUCCESS.  In the latest epi...

Brook Harvey-Taylor is the Founder & CEO of Pacifica Beauty,  a 100% vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand that has been leading innovation in the beauty industry for over 25 years. Since the brand’s inception in 1996, Brook has been dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic community, giving back to meaningful causes while always listening to consumers needs. The brand has an ethos that...

In this episode of INFLUENCER MARKETING: LEVEL UP FOR SUCCESS in partnership with Tribe Dynamics, we speak to Juliana Krost and Charlotte Fleming who have the exciting job of managing all things marketing and social media at accessible luxury haircare brand Monday . MONDAY is all about salon-quality haircare at affordable prices.  The brand is a global success story and is available in Australia,...