"The fashion world is evolving before us, with winter on the horizon. Much like a farmer, a founder must discern the current season and adapt their brands accordingly. Just as a farmer relishes the bounty of spring while also bracing for winter, so too must we be ready for the shifts in our industry."

Preview of my recent podcast conversation with Flattered Co-founder & CEO Gustav Lidén for The Future of Fashion Business. In this episode, we spoke about the evolution of the D2C fashion landscape and why brands need to adapt to different business seasons.

For clips and video version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALRJUvCL5a15ZwW7dcpCyA

This this week's episode, we sat down with Copenhagen Cartel founder Katrine Lee Larsen. In this episode, we talked about:

1) How Katrine started s successful sustainable fashion brand with no fashion or sustainability experience.

2) How being on the TV show Shark Tank exploded her success.

3) The roadmap to her brand's success.

3) Why she decided to quit her role as CEO.

5) Dealing with depression and stress as a founder.

For clips and video version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALRJUvCL5a15ZwW7dcpCyA

Copenhagen Cartel: https://www.instagram.com/cphcartel/?hl=en

In this week's episode, we sat down with ex-Unilever marketing executive turned entrepreneur Ashley Boyce. Ashley Boyce is a marketing expert passionate about growing business through innovation and purposeful storytelling. She is a successful entrepreneur with extensive experience launching highly successful new brands and new categories on some of Unilever’s largest beauty and personal care brands, including AXE and Dove. In today's conversation, we spoke about how young brands can differentiate themselves in today's highly competitive landscape by discovering their customer and having an experiential approach to marketing.

For clips and video version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALRJUvCL5a15ZwW7dcpCyA

Noteworthy: https://www.instagram.com/noteworthyscents/

In this episode, we talked with fashion executive and CEO of BANDIER, Kate Nadolny. our conversation revolved around the art of building global fashion brands through 3 main principles: Organizational engineering (hiring), an in-depth understanding of pricing, and learning how to create an adaptive strategy.

Kate is a highly accomplished retail executive and startup advisor with a proven track record in operations, strategic management, and business development. She is responsible for the recent branding repositioning of BANDIER, a multi-million dollar American activewear brand founded by Jennifer Bandier in 2014 .

BANDIER: https://www.instagram.com/bandier/?hl=en

In this episode, we sat down with EO Products Co-Founder Brad Black and discussed the business, personal, and spiritual foundations necessary to build a business powerhouse. EO Products is a family-owned, zero-waste, vegan, and cruelty-free beauty & personal care company that has thrived in a very competitive and difficult industry for over 30 years.

EO Products: https://www.instagram.com/eoproducts/?hl=en

In this episode, we sat down with entrepreneur Matt Altman to share his deeply valuable experience on manufacturing and managing a production process.

Start A Fashion Brand With A Low Budget & No Experience. Join The Modern Fashion School: https://go.thefutureoffashionbusiness.com/start-a-fashion-brand

In this podcast episode, we had the pleasure of hearing from Jenny Baxter Moser, a seasoned investor and partner at TSG Consumer. With her expertise in investing in high-growth consumer companies, Jenny has played a pivotal role in TSG's investment in REVOLVE, where she served on the board from 2012 to July 2020. Additionally, she has spearheaded successful investments in numerous fashion and beauty brands.

Throughout the episode, our conversation with Jenny revolved around the art of attracting investors for fashion brands. We delved into the intricacies of the current investment landscape, thoroughly analyzing the factors that shape the decisions of potential investors. With Jenny's insights, we explored valuable strategies and considerations that can help fashion entrepreneurs secure the financial backing they need to flourish.

An inspiring conversation around survival, spiritual fulfillment, and how those 2 variables fuelled the ambition and growth behind the multi-million dollar beauty brand Odacité.

Start A Fashion Brand With A Low Budget & No Experience. Join The Modern Fashion School: https://go.thefutureoffashionbusiness.com/start-a-fashion-brand

For video clips and video format of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@thefutureoffashionbusiness

Very few people have experienced failure and success better than Rebecca Minkoff. Founder of Rebecca Minkoff. In this episode, we explored the reality of failure, and how to overcome it to have a brand that can truly last decades.

Rebecca Minkoff is an American fashion brand that was founded by brother and sister duo Rebecca Minkoff and Uri Minkoff in 2005 in New York City. The brand has retail stores in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Korea, and is distributed in over 900 stores worldwide. The Rebecca Minkoff brand carries a wide range of apparel including handbags, footwear, jewellery and accessories.

For video clips and video format of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@thefutureoffashionbusiness

In this episode, we talked about:

- What investors look for in fashion brands

- Current challenges faced by brands and how to surpass them

For video clips and video format of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@thefutureoffashionbusiness

Odile ROUJOL is the Founder of FaB Fashion and BeautyTech community (19 chapters in Asia Europe and America, now 15,000 founders and VCs, 10K+ followers linked in and Instagram, and 3800 subscribers of the newsletter) and Fab co-creation studio Ventures (fund II ambition $20M, first closing last Oct), seed stage, backing consumer tech and new commerce (in the space of conscious Beauty/Wellness and sustainable Fashion) startups.

She’s an advisor with The Hive Data building startups in AI and machine learning. And a Board member for Startups in Fintech, Social media analytics, augmented reality, tech companies.

Odile was most recently the Chief Strategy and Data Officer at Orange (a leading $40 billion+ market cap French telco in 30 EMEA markets with 350 million customers), where she reported to the CEO. She previously served as SVP of Brand and Communications and SVP of Marketing for the company.

Before entering the technology and telecommunications field, Odile spent a large part of her career with major brands in the field of beauty and luxury as an executive with L’Oréal, Yves Saint Laurent and Bourjois (groupe Chanel). While with L'Oréal, she managed the Lancôme brand in France and the United States and became Managing Director / President of Lancôme International in 2006 (#1 worldwide cosmetic brand in luxury retail, now $3 billion revenues, 135 markets).

She has been a Board Member of Groupama SA, a key European insurance company based in Paris. She's a Business Angel at @50Partners, a French accelerator funded by 50 entrepreneurs dedicated to supporting selected startups.

Odile is a graduate of the HEC School of Management in Paris - MBA.

She is now based in Los Angeles, and has lived 6 years in San Francisco.