TheIndustry.fashion & TheIndustry.beauty Podcast

Ian Bergin learnt his trade at Paul Smith, originally starting out on the shopfloor at the designer’s flagship Covent Garden store on Floral Street. Ten years at Paul Smith saw him in various roles, including as Brand Director of Paul Smith Jeans and culminating in Divisional Director of Paul Smith Casualwear.  Following his time there, he left to set up business with two other former Paul Smith e...

Daniel Peters is a fashion marketing specialist with a mission for promoting careers of marginalised voices within the industry. It was this mission that encouraged him to set up  Fashion Minority Report , an organisation dedicated to helping businesses create an inclusive workplace culture.  Despite the fact that he established his business just as the Covid pandemic hit the UK last summer, Danie...

Born in Uganda, raised in Denmark and settled in London, Emolyne Ramlov is the vibrant founder of Emolyne Cosmetics – the ultra-inclusive UK beauty company launched in 2020 that’s already well on its way towards achieving cult status. Following years of trying (and failing) to discover perfectly shade-matched lipsticks and nail polishes, the brand was born out of Emolyne’s personal desire to fulfi...

Kim Dolder is the Senior Vice President & General Manager of Gilly Hicks , the loungewear and activewear brand owned by Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Having officially relaunched the brand this summer, Dolder was the brains behind a host of new initiatives, including launching unisex clothing for the first time. The relaunch also saw the introduction of a new logo, stand-alone concept store in O...

Mr Porter , the luxury online menswear platform from the Yoox Net-A-Porter Group , is more than just an online retailer – in the 10 years since it was founded, it has become a global style authority for men. Content has always been at the heart of its proposition through initiatives such as its magazine The Journal, industry insider podcasts and collaborations with taste makers through its Friends...

Having worked in the perfume industry for more than 20 years, industry experts Christopher Yu and Laurent Delafon  are widely considered to have the ‘Midas touch’ when it comes to perfume.  As the founders of United Perfumes and having spent years working alongside some of the world’s most-renowned perfumers (Diptyque, Francis Kurkdjian, Olivier Polge and Yves Coueslant to Lyn Harris, Sophie Labbe...

Tom Broughton launched Cubitts from his kitchen table on Cubitt Street in London’s King’s Cross in 2013, with a mission to become the finest spectacle company in the world. Having started selling online, it wasn’t long before Broughton opened the first Cubitts store on Soho’s Marshall Street in 2014, and other London stores swiftly followed.  He signed for Cubitts’ first store outside of London, i...

Gillian Gorman Round is the CEO of Kjaer Weis – the independent Certified Organic make-up brand founded by renowned makeup artist Kirsten Kjaer Weis – who, after years of working on the world’s biggest runway shows and prestigious fashion shoots, was inspired to create a luxurious and high-performance range of products that also truly delivered in terms of sustainability, responsibility and transp...

MR PORTER Buying Director Sam Kershaw rose through the ranks of the luxury global online menswear retailer, having joined in 2012 just a year after the business launched in 2011. He learnt his trade from some of the best buyers in the business at Harvey Nichols, where he spent five years before being recruited by MR PORTER – initially as an accessories buyer. Sam talks us through his early days -...

In the latest episode of INFLUENCER MARKETING: LEVEL UP FOR SUCCESS in partnership with Tribe Dynamics, we speak to ASOS Brand Creative Director John Mooney about his role in overseeing around 100 content creators who dedicate their time creating immersive, entertaining and engaging content across its social and digital marketing channels, as well as its website. Founded in 2000, the online destin...

A pioneer in natural, sustainable skincare since 2003, the Susanne Kaufmann skincare brand is globally renowned for its unique fusion of Austrian tradition with scientific innovation.  Named after its Austrian born founder Susanne Kaufmann, who was raised within an idyllic nook of the Austrian Alps, the transformative brand prides itself on its use of native herbs and plants as-well as its ultra-s...

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 series we...

In the latest episode of The Beauty Edit podcast, we speak to Michelle Feeney, the visionary business leader and Founder of sustainable British fragrance brand – Floral Street.  We talk about Michelle’s start in PR with the legendary Lynn Franks, to her time at Estee Lauder Companies launching the luxury skincare brand Crème de la Mer and made it into an overnight success.  Her success doesn’t sto...

Tskenya-Sarah Frazer is a tour de force . Once an aspiring journalist, she changed course in life to become a footwear designer having found it frustrating to find flattering shoes to fit her size 9 feet. A conversation with a non-binary university friend, who described a similar problem and also pointed out how alienated they could feel in a gender-specific store, encouraged her to set up her own...

Molly Hart is the founder of HIGHR – the uber-transparent clean lipstick brand with a “higher purpose” to sustainably re-build the lip category.  After cutting her teeth behind big name beauty counters, Hart moved into communications where she worked with some of beauty’s most eminent players on their customer communication strategies.   It was work which saw her spend hours a day talking to real...

Micaela Nisbet is the founder of Neighbourhood Botanicals – the southern hemisphere inspired natural skincare brand whose bold rejection of “fad ingredients” in favour of “genuine skin health” is making increasingly big waves in the UK market.   The brand’s 100% natural and sustainably packaged range is all formulated and bottled within its own East London lab - and by Nisbet’s own fair hands.  Bu...

Allbirds, the Sustainability focused and results driven footwear and apparel brand have been disrupting the fashion industry since 2016. Headquartered in San Francisco and launched by duo Tim Brown and Joey Swillinger– the brand has reached all corners of the globe, with a store opening in London last year.   The company claims to be as eco-friendly as possible and is certified B Corp. Its continu...

Founded by former Bulldog Skincare MD Ben Grace in 2020, the cutting-edge skincare brand SBTRCT (pronounced subtract) was born out of one guiding principle: less is more.   Driven by Grace’s own personal quest to “clean up” the UK beauty industry, the brand sets itself apart with its growing range of unisex skincare products sold in solid forms. Formulations feature quality proven ingredients redu...

Polly McMaster is Co-founder & CEO of The Fold , the British womenswear brand that set out to shake up the workwear market by allowing women to express their individual personalities while retaining their sense of professionalism. While she’s always been obsessed with fashion Polly in fact studied virology, which no doubt came in particularly useful when devising a strategy for her brand durin...

In this episode of The Beauty Edit podcast from TheIndustry.fashion we speak to Jules Miller, who’s brand The Nue Co, was launched back in 2017 with the aim of redefining the relationship we have with our health.  We talk about the way The Nue Co makes taking supplements feel like a treat and not a chore, and also, the levels of actives within them that really start to show results fast.  Jules ha...

Criminal Damage was launched by Sunny Aytan in East London back in 1991. The business, still operating today, is now owned by himself and his brothers. The pioneering streetwear brand was heavily influenced by its East London roots, with music culture and identity taking centre stage. The brand is known for taking inspiration from styles of retro fashions of the past and mixing them with the best...

Built on a product philosophy of exfoliate, treat and soothe, the OLEHENRIKSEN brand is globally renowned for its transformative results and simple, joyful, approach to skincare , which seeks to imbue users with that: “Ole Glow.” For Henriksen himself, great skin begins with a positive outlook – an infectious, can’t stop you from smiling, zest for life that has taken him, and his namesake brand, o...

Throughout his career Kevyn Aucoin made up some of the world's most famous women;  from the original supermodels of the world to Elizabeth Taylor,  his work graced countless catwalks, billboards and covers. Before his passing in 2002, he was considered to be one of the most influential makeup artists in the world,  with his legacy continuing today.  He pioneered the "art of contouring&qu...

As the Menswear and Womenswear Buying Director for Browns, Ida Petersson’s day job is all about finding amazing things we all want and need, and amazing things we didn’t even know we wanted or needed. Usually travelling the globe countless times during the year, the pandemic has thrown up a whole new way of finding treasures and during business – but she’s remained on top of her game throughout, a...

Tom Shearsmith, News & Features Writer at TheIndustry.fashion is joined by Erica MacCallum, International Trainer at Eve Lom. Erica brings over 15 years of experience to the table – having worked extensively in clinics and spas. Joining Eve Lom four years ago and taking up the role of International Trainer last year, she talks about what made her excited to join the company, what her role actu...