American Fashion Podcast — exploring innovation and sustainability across the industry

A talent-based industry. Crispin Argento, founder of Portland Apparel Lab, has been traveling around the world trying to understand what designers need in terms of business support to grow their brands. This episode covers much of what he has been studying, from process to investment. In an exclusive clip from the Initiatives In Art and Culture Fashion Conference, Naeem Khan weighs in on the story about Ralph Rucci leaving his own company and how designers need to think about owning and selling their brand identities. In other clips from the same conference, Charles Beckwith argues with an Under Armour executive about textile waste, and interviews MJSA education director Peggy Jo Donahue about Made In USA issues for jewelry producers.

references:

* Portland Apparel Lab

* Pino

* “The Portland Apparel Lab (and the Hopefully Hopeful Future of Manufacturing in General)” – The Portland Mercury

* “Business accelerator for the fashion crowd nears launch” – Portland Business Journal

* Patagonia

* Jantzen

* Pendleton

* A.C.P.

* Naeem Khan

* Everlane

* Buffalo-Area Mall Threatens To Fine Stores That Don’t Open On Thanksgiving – The Huffington Post

* Style Rookie

* Initiatives In Art and Culture’s Fashion Conference

* Hijacking The Runway (b00k)

* Goop

* Ralph Rucci Leaves His Namesake Label – Fashionista

* Ralph Rucci to step away from his company – Emperor’s Old Clothes

* Materialise

* Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America

The value of curation. Lisa Dolan, CEO of Savile Row Society, speaks about her company's remodel of the personal stylist concept, as well as issues in fashion business to business (b2b) e-commerce. Rob Sanchez sits in and talks fashiontech startups and business pitfalls. Seth ponders how brands can keep the right stock on hand, and it leads into discussion of new methods of wholesale inventory management. Can just in time business work in the fashion business? Shopping big city boutiques from anywhere. Bringing knowledgeable human interaction to e-commerce, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria.

Decoded Fashion's New York Summit is coming up next week -  November 18-19 in Manhattan

references:

* Ovio

* Joor

* Modalyst

* NuOrder

* Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit

* BaubleBar

* Instacart

* Warby Parker

* Bonobos

* Shoptiques

* Farfetch

* life/after/denim

* Trunk Club

* HauteLook

* Dover Street Market New York

* Umbrella Fashion Show Interrupted in Beijing, Designer and Models Arrested

* Panic at the Ports as Holiday Looms

* H&M Pushes Growth, Talks Sustainability

The value of curation. Lisa Dolan, CEO of Savile Row Society, speaks about her company's remodel of the personal stylist concept, as well as issues in fashion business to business (b2b) e-commerce. Rob Sanchez sits in and talks fashiontech startups and business pitfalls. Seth ponders how brands can keep the right stock on hand, and it leads into discussion of new methods of wholesale inventory management. Can just in time business work in the fashion business? Shopping big city boutiques from anywhere. Bringing knowledgeable human interaction to e-commerce, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria.

Decoded Fashion's New York Summit is coming up next week -  November 18-19 in Manhattan

references:

* Ovio

* Joor

* Modalyst

* NuOrder

* Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit

* BaubleBar

* Instacart

* Warby Parker

* Bonobos

* Shoptiques

* Farfetch

* life/after/denim

* Trunk Club

* HauteLook

* Dover Street Market New York

* Umbrella Fashion Show Interrupted in Beijing, Designer and Models Arrested

* Panic at the Ports as Holiday Looms

* H&M Pushes Growth, Talks Sustainability

The value of curation. Lisa Dolan, CEO of Savile Row Society, speaks about her company’s remodel of the personal stylist concept, as well as issues in fashion business to business (b2b) e-commerce. Rob Sanchez sits in and talks fashiontech startups and business pitfalls. Seth ponders how brands can keep the right stock on hand, and it leads into discussion of new methods of wholesale inventory management. Can just in time business work in the fashion business? Shopping big city boutiques from anywhere. Bringing knowledgeable human interaction to e-commerce, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria.

Decoded Fashion’s New York Summit is coming up next week –  November 18-19 in Manhattan

references:

* Ovio

* Joor

* Modalyst

* NuOrder

* Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit

* BaubleBar

* Instacart

* Warby Parker

* Bonobos

* Shoptiques

* Farfetch

* life/after/denim

* Trunk Club

* HauteLook

* Dover Street Market New York

* Umbrella Fashion Show Interrupted in Beijing, Designer and Models Arrested

* Panic at the Ports as Holiday Looms

* H&M Pushes Growth, Talks Sustainability

Gretchen Harnick (Parson's, The New School for Design) joins the team to talk about the current fashion business environment. Is bad marketing ruining social media? Are new payment methods like Apple Pay safe to use?Why does Kim Kardashian have 20 times more online followers than Vogue? Why don't retailers stock the new and different anymore?

references:

* Decoded Fashion's New York Summit (November 18-19)

* PatternToPlan.com, an online designer community for fashion business knowledge and resource sharing

* Is Marketing Ruining Social Media? (gretchenharnick.com)

* fun NYC restaurants

* Arturo's

* Pho 32

* New Wonjo

* Condé Nast Moves Into the World Trade Center as Lower Manhattan Is Remade (NY Times)

* Mired In Mediocrity (NY Times)

* Shoescribe

* Wal-Mart's Answer To Apple Pay Has Already Been Hacked (Business Insider)

* Obama's Cyber Czar Wants to Replace Passwords With Selfies (National Journal)

* Halloween Costumes Treat Americans to Jobs (ABC News)

* The Future of Shopping, Part Two: Federico Marchetti (style.com)

* Telegraph Lays Off 55 Employees, Including Senior Fashion Staff (BoF)

* Vanessa Friedman's Fashion Manifesto (fashioneditoratlarge.com)

* How Kim Kardashian Is Changing the Fashion Industry

* Fashion’s B Corporations Blend Business with Social Good (BoF)

* Decoded Fashion's New York Summit (November 18-19)

* Lovelane (ETSY)

* Opposite of Far (ETSY)

* Little Hero Capes (ETSY)

* SuperflyKids

* Ohio Knitting Mills

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Gretchen Harnick (Parson's, The New School for Design) joins the team to talk about the current fashion business environment. Is bad marketing ruining social media? Are new payment methods like Apple Pay safe to use?Why does Kim Kardashian have 20 times more online followers than Vogue? Why don't retailers stock the new and different anymore?

references:

* Decoded Fashion's New York Summit (November 18-19)

* PatternToPlan.com, an online designer community for fashion business knowledge and resource sharing

* Is Marketing Ruining Social Media? (gretchenharnick.com)

* fun NYC restaurants

* Arturo's

* Pho 32

* New Wonjo

* Condé Nast Moves Into the World Trade Center as Lower Manhattan Is Remade (NY Times)

* Mired In Mediocrity (NY Times)

* Shoescribe

* Wal-Mart's Answer To Apple Pay Has Already Been Hacked (Business Insider)

* Obama's Cyber Czar Wants to Replace Passwords With Selfies (National Journal)

* Halloween Costumes Treat Americans to Jobs (ABC News)

* The Future of Shopping, Part Two: Federico Marchetti (style.com)

* Telegraph Lays Off 55 Employees, Including Senior Fashion Staff (BoF)

* Vanessa Friedman's Fashion Manifesto (fashioneditoratlarge.com)

* How Kim Kardashian Is Changing the Fashion Industry

* Fashion’s B Corporations Blend Business with Social Good (BoF)

* Decoded Fashion's New York Summit (November 18-19)

* Lovelane (ETSY)

* Opposite of Far (ETSY)

* Little Hero Capes (ETSY)

* SuperflyKids

* Ohio Knitting Mills

*

Gretchen Harnick (Parson’s, The New School for Design) joins the team to talk about the current fashion business environment. Is bad marketing ruining social media? Are new payment methods like Apple Pay safe to use?Why does Kim Kardashian have 20 times more online followers than Vogue? Why don’t retailers stock the new and different anymore?

references:

* Decoded Fashion’s New York Summit (November 18-19)

* PatternToPlan.com, an online designer community for fashion business knowledge and resource sharing

* Is Marketing Ruining Social Media? (gretchenharnick.com)

* fun NYC restaurants

* Arturo’s

* Pho 32

* New Wonjo

* Condé Nast Moves Into the World Trade Center as Lower Manhattan Is Remade (NY Times)

* Mired In Mediocrity (NY Times)

* Shoescribe

* Wal-Mart’s Answer To Apple Pay Has Already Been Hacked (Business Insider)

* Obama’s Cyber Czar Wants to Replace Passwords With Selfies (National Journal)

* Halloween Costumes Treat Americans to Jobs (ABC News)

* The Future of Shopping, Part Two: Federico Marchetti (style.com)

* Telegraph Lays Off 55 Employees, Including Senior Fashion Staff (BoF)

* Vanessa Friedman’s Fashion Manifesto (fashioneditoratlarge.com)

* How Kim Kardashian Is Changing the Fashion Industry

* Fashion’s B Corporations Blend Business with Social Good (BoF)

* Decoded Fashion’s New York Summit (November 18-19)

* Lovelane (ETSY)

* Opposite of Far (ETSY)

* Little Hero Capes (ETSY)

* SuperflyKids

* Ohio Knitting Mills

* FI...

Are you tired of "it?" Guests, stylist and former Calvin Klein / London Fog design and production team member Asanti Austin, and LIM College Reference and Instruction Librarian Nicole LaMoreaux, discuss fashion labels dabbling in cosmetics, normcore, personal style apps, fashion labels gone but not forgotten, art and fashion history as an important foundation for design education, and many other topics.

references:

* Stylitics (personal style app)

* Planogram retail store layout software (website)

* LIM College's Fashion: Now & Then conference (website)

* Hecht Sewing Machine & Motor Company (Yelp)

* Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis: Bill Cunningham recalls the greatest fashion show he’s ever seen (clip)

* Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution (documentary)

* Hedi Slimane highlights the undercarriage of designer beauty brands (Financial Times, register to read)

* Fashion labels move into make-up (Financial Times, register to read)

* Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers (book)

* Gap Just Wants You to ‘Dress Normal,’ Okay? (The Cut)

* Inside the World of Ed Burstell (WWD / paywall)

* Suzanne Rae

* Lindsay Degen

* Edmundo Castillo

* Isabel and Ruben Toledo

* Tuleh

* Norma Kamali

* SCORE Business Mentor Search

Are you tired of "it?" Guests, stylist and former Calvin Klein / London Fog design and production team member Asanti Austin, and LIM College Reference and Instruction Librarian Nicole LaMoreaux, discuss fashion labels dabbling in cosmetics, normcore, personal style apps, fashion labels gone but not forgotten, art and fashion history as an important foundation for design education, and many other topics.

references:

* Stylitics (personal style app)

* Planogram retail store layout software (website)

* LIM College's Fashion: Now & Then conference (website)

* Hecht Sewing Machine & Motor Company (Yelp)

* Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis: Bill Cunningham recalls the greatest fashion show he’s ever seen (clip)

* Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution (documentary)

* Hedi Slimane highlights the undercarriage of designer beauty brands (Financial Times, register to read)

* Fashion labels move into make-up (Financial Times, register to read)

* Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers (book)

* Gap Just Wants You to ‘Dress Normal,’ Okay? (The Cut)

* Inside the World of Ed Burstell (WWD / paywall)

* Suzanne Rae

* Lindsay Degen

* Edmundo Castillo

* Isabel and Ruben Toledo

* Tuleh

* Norma Kamali

* SCORE Business Mentor Search

Are you tired of “it?” Guests, stylist and former Calvin Klein / London Fog design and production team member Asanti Austin, and LIM College Reference and Instruction Librarian Nicole LaMoreaux, discuss fashion labels dabbling in cosmetics, normcore, personal style apps, fashion labels gone but not forgotten, art and fashion history as an important foundation for design education, and many other topics.

references:

* Stylitics (personal style app)

* Planogram retail store layout software (website)

* LIM College’s Fashion: Now & Then conference (website)

* Hecht Sewing Machine & Motor Company (Yelp)

* Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis: Bill Cunningham recalls the greatest fashion show he’s ever seen (clip)

* Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution (documentary)

* Hedi Slimane highlights the undercarriage of designer beauty brands (Financial Times, register to read)

* Fashion labels move into make-up (Financial Times, register to read)

* Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers (book)

* Gap Just Wants You to ‘Dress Normal,’ Okay? (The Cut)

* Inside the World of Ed Burstell (WWD / paywall)

* Suzanne Rae

* Lindsay Degen

* Edmundo Castillo

* Isabel and Ruben Toledo

* Tuleh

* Norma Kamali

* SCORE Business Mentor Search