Retales From the Frontline

At NRF 2020: Retail’s Big Show, host Matt Rubel sat down with several high-profile executives to get their takes on where the retail industry is headed. In this episode, the second of our three-part Big Show series, John Caplan, Head of B2B North America for Alibaba.com, and Nicole Reyhle, Founder of Retail Minded and Spokesperson for American Express Small Business Saturday, discuss how small businesses can find the partners and tools they need to successfully sell across borders.

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At NRF 2020: Retail’s Big Show, host Matt Rubel sat down with several high-profile executives to get their takes on where the retail industry is headed. In this, the first of our three-part Big Show series, NRF President and CEO Matt Shay shares his thoughts on some of the most important issues in retail and the trends and developments that are likely to drive the industry in 2020.

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The first phase of the new American Dream mall has just opened under the creative direction of Ken Downing, who served as Fashion Director of Neiman Marcus for nearly three decades before joining mall developer Triple Five Group as Chief Creative Officer. In this episode, Downing sits down with host Matt Rubel to share his creative vision for American Dream and talks about all the ways the new complex is redefining the American mall experience.

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Weaving social good into your brand’s DNA is no longer optional—customers expect it. In fact, 89% of Gen Zers would rather buy from a company that is addressing social or environmental issues than from one that is not, and 92% say they would switch to a brand associated with a good cause. In this episode, Lisa Gurwitch, President and CEO of Delivering Good, and Kelly Cobb, Vice President of Community and Giving at Bombas, sit down with host Matt Rubel to talk about how companies do well by doing good and how their partnership is helping families affected by poverty and disaster in communities across the US.

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Nancy Berger is Publisher of Cosmopolitan—the biggest young women’s media brand in the world—as well as Seventeen and Women’s Health. She’s seen consumer magazines’ evolution into the digital age from the inside over her storied career, which has also included senior roles at Gourmet, Allure and Marie Claire. In this episode, Berger sits down with host Matt Rubel to talk about her career, the magazine business and what she’s learned about building brands that resonate with millennials and Gen Zers.

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The electricity went out during one of the runway shows. At another, the fashion editors got stuck in a broken elevator. But the last straw was when ceiling plaster came crumbling down on both the models on the catwalk and the press in the front row at one of the New York Market Week shows in 1991. That mini disaster was what spurred Fern Mallis to create a cohesive, modern iteration of New York Fashion Week that would let the industry (safely) put its best foot forward. In this episode, host Matt Rubel sits down with Mallis, who served as Executive Director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America from 1991 to 2001, to talk about how she organized and modernized NYFW, how it changed the industry and where American fashion is headed next.

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Jessica Anuna is CEO and Founder of Klasha, the first online marketplace to offer affordable fast fashion to millennials in all 54 countries in Africa. At just 27 years old, Anuna is already a veteran of Amazon, Net-A-Porter, Shopify, the Techstars Dubai Accelerator program and the Alibaba/UN eFounders Fellowship program. In addition, she has just been named to the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list. Anuna recently sat down with guest host Stacey Widlitz to talk about why Africa’s massive, young population and economy provide long-term prospects for growth and what international retailers need to know to succeed on the continent.

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Kerry O’Brien quit her corporate PR job in NYC after 9/11 and moved to Vermont with her husband to start a new chapter in life. She wasn’t sure what she was going to do, but she’d always loved fashion and had long been frustrated that there wasn’t an intimates brand that seemed to understand what she wanted—the best-quality fabrics combined with great styling and fit. So, she decided to launch her own intimates brand, Commando, and create underwear that “loves you back.” O’Brien recently sat down with host Matt Rubel to share her story and her tips for entrepreneurs planning to launch their own brand.

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A whopping 70% of online daters lie in their dating profile, mostly about height, weight and age, but only major exaggerations seem to matter much. That’s according to relationship and online dating expert Dr. Jess Carbino, who recently sat down with host Matt Rubel to talk about how people create their own personal storefront and romantic brand to attract the attention of potential mates on dating sites like Tinder and Bumble. She shared some surprising differences in how men and women personally brand themselves on dating platforms and why those brand stories may not be quite accurate.

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Christine Hunsicker had an idea to bring the sharing economy to apparel. Airbnb’s success had convinced her that consumers would embrace fashion rental: if people were willing to lay their heads on strangers’ pillows, she thought, they’d certainly be willing to wear clothes someone else had worn. So, she founded rental site Gwynnie Bee and CaaStle, the infrastructure platform that now powers fashion rental for Vince, Rebecca Taylor, American Eagle, Ann Taylor and others. In this episode, Hunsicker sits down with host Matt Rubel to talk about why rental is a great, profitable complement to retail and how fashion retailers should approach it.

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