American Fashion Podcast — exploring innovation and sustainability across the industry

Richard R. Shapiro is the Founder and President of The Center For Client Retention. Richard has spent decades studying how to keep customers coming back to stores. This is rather important, considering how much it costs to get them in the door in the f...

Rick Helfenbein is the President and CEO of the American Apparel & Footwear Association, which is a trade association lobbying for the interests of roughly 350 companies and 1,000 brands in our nation's capital. -

A roundtable discussion of the human components of the fashion industry. Panelists include Fashion Mingle founder Melissa Shea, Human B founder Boaz David, and Rachel Tobias from the Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator. -

Norma Kamali has a long history of innovation and anticipating "the moment" again and again in fashion and the New York City community. In this interview recorded with a live audience at Spring Place in TriBeCa,

Can Fashion Save The Planet, or At Least Make It Better? Lisa Mazzota , the producer of RiverBlue, an environmental documentary, is passionate about rivers. Hear Lisa, Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs, designer and co-founder of Tabii Just,

Elaine Kwon used to help run Amazon Fashion. Now she is the founder of Kwontified, an e-commerce management and SAS firm. She and her partner Jordan Taylor consult from the points of “what is the best business model for me to use on Amazon” and “how do...

Anya Ferring is Factory8's Product Development and Local Supply Chain Specialist. Factory8 helps designers and brands large and small manage a streamlined developed and Made In USA production process. - Factory8 References: -

Eliza Brooke is a writer at Racked, who recently wrote an article, "Why Does Every Lifestyle Startup Look the Same?" In the studio, she speaks with Charles Beckwith and Cathy Schepis about how minimalist design is probably the hardest style in which to...

Nicole Giordano is the founder of the online designer community platform StartUp Fashion, where she helps designers figure out what's next and how to keep moving forward with their businesses and brands. She has brought along a group of designers from ...

A conversation with two designers whose businesses are very much about the fit of clothing. Melissa Mendez of Melissa Mendez Design Studio is a freelance technical designer who spends a lot of time working with clients who "just have an idea" and don't...