Charlotta Hellichius is a passionate brand strategy leader unlocking change for C-suite clients across categories in the US and abroad. She has a proven track record of improving companies from the inside out, shaping product and services to customers' and employees needs, as well as crafting compelling comms and creative that strikes a chord. She began her career as a product designer, before becoming a technology trend forecaster, and starting her own business in the beauty category, called Baude. Originally from Stockholm, Sweden Charlotta currently lives in Rockaway Beach, NYC.

In this episode, Charlotta speaks with Gina Ciancone about the power of vagueness and her attitudes toward receiving feedback and the concept of failure.

Gina Ciancone is an in-house creative at Vespa, working between Milan, Italy and New York City. Her work focuses on concepting and managing the creative for global brand campaigns that help push Vespa into the future. Trained at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Gina has worked in different areas of the creative industry, always applying a cross-cultural and strategic mindset to design challenges. She started her career in photography working for Annie Leibovitz, and has since worked for the AD100 firm, Howeler + Yoon Architecture, as well as founding her own company, Green Screen.

In this episode, Gina speaks with Charlotta Hellichius about her outlook on handling failure and how her career has brought her full circle with her Italian heritage. 

Pamela has a rich and storied career with over 20 years of experience in luxury retail.  Prior to launching Collab Society, she consulted for Arhaus, managing a freelance creative team, creating seasonal concepts, and working closely with the founder and his product development team, and for Roman and Williams Guild, helping to develop the brand’s merchandising arm.  Berick co-founded two active proprietary clothing lines for Anthropologie: Girls from Savoy, a women's clothing collection, and The Good Friends, a sweater line.  In her prior roles, Berick served as a VP at The Line, where she oversaw its merchandising, product development, styling, and retail programs, as a furniture, hardware and found objects buyer at Anthropologie, and as a women's designer clothing buyer for Barneys New York. Her international experience includes dealing and importing vintage and antique furniture from France and Italy as well as extensive travel with her husband and pups.

In this episode, Pamela speaks with Abby Bruce about how her mother's hopes that one of her progeny pursue something creative set her on a path that led her to pursue studying the oboe and becoming an opera singer before ultimately transitioning to a career in fashion.

Abby is a creative strategist and communications expert, sometimes known as a “PR lady” and always relied upon as a connector of dots and people. A natural Ideas Person and Strategic Planner, Abby founded her consultancy, Common Point while living in France in 2012 to bring unique skills and knowledge of international business, communications, journalism, creative writing, brand design, and relationship marketing to help businesses create stand-out strategies in a world that is getting smaller every day. The first half of her career was spent in the UK and Europe, where she worked closely with high-profile brands such as L’Oréal, Nestlé, Pantone and Maker&Son as well as thought leaders, tastemakers, movers and shakers that help share stand out strategies and make going to work even more fun. Now based in Charlotte, North Carolina to be living close to family and the heart of US furniture manufacturing (another love), Abby is looking forward to continuing her career from a different perspective...

On this episode, Abby talks with Pamela Berick about her experiences with work and motherhood in France, and the path that eventually led her back to the states, and North Carolina.

Hilary Jochmans is the Founder of PoliticallyInFashion, a community for all those in fashion – designers, manufacturers, artisans, retailers, models, lawyers, reporters, consumers – to learn about legislative and regulatory issues of key importance to the industry. The mission is to educate individuals on public policy; and empower them with this knowledge; to then engage with elected representatives on how these issues impact companies and consumers. Recent initiatives from PoliticallyInFashion include spearheading advocacy for the creation of a Fashion Czar in the US and a Call to Action for the Federal Trade Commission to update the Green Guides, a federal regulation designed to assist businesses in making lawful environmental marketing claims and the public in understanding and appreciating these statements. These endeavors have been featured in WWD, Marie Claire, British Vogue and Fashionista, among others.

Hilary is also the Founder of Jochmans Consulting LLC, a boutique government affairs practice. Previously, she was the Director of the New York State Governor’s Office in Washington DC where she served as the Governor’s chief liaison with Congressional leadership and the Administration. Hilary also spent a dozen years on Capitol Hill as senior staff in both the House and Senate. Hilary holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School. She is the co-chair of the New York City Bar Fashion Law Committee; a Member Advisor of the American Influencer Council; an Advisory Board Member of the Model Alliance; and is a frequent speaker on panels concerning fashion and politics.

In this episode, Hilary talks with Yoana Strateva about how a professor's recommendation led away from her presumed career path and instead toward one combining fashion, government, legislation and entrepreneurship.

Yoana Strateva is a European attorney, who has lived in five different countries, at present based in Seattle, WA. Yoana holds a law degree from France and an LLM degree from Queen Mary University of London. Yoana specializes in Competition law, Intellectual property and has a special interest in Fashion law. Yoana obtained several certificates in Fashion law, and she is an alumna of the prestigious Fashion Law Bootcamp organized by the Fashion Law Institute.

Before moving to the United States, Yoana was an associate at a European law firm where her work involved cases in the area of Contract Law, Competition law, Trademark and Copyright Law. She has several publications in the field of Intellectual property. At present, her work is focused on Trademark and Copyright law.

Yoana has experience working in an international environment and advising multinational clients. She is also a European professional representative for Trademarks and Designs, and is also an active member of Sofia Bar Association.

In this episode, she speaks with Hilary Jochmans about her move from Europe to the United States and the differences in practicing and understanding the way fashion laws are enacted and interpreted between the two continents.

Kristen is the Founder of Luminate Brand Advisors, a consultancy that helps brands and retailers accelerate growth with a focus on omni-channel expansion, merchandising, and go to market. Kristen held roles such as President of The Americas at Marc Jacobs, EVP/Chief Merchant at Saks Fifth Avenue and President/Chief Merchant for several start-ups. Kristen partners with purpose driven brands to meet their potential at the intersection of brand, product, and commercial strategy.

On this episode, Kristen tells Katie Irving about the bold move that helped her earn her first job at Saks, where she worked for 20+ years, and how from there she moved to a startup with a completely different mission before starting her own company.

Katie Irving is a Whitespace Forecaster and the founder of MOONSHOT, a consulting agency that works with fashion brands to uncover first-to-market product opportunities that are deeply rooted in customer insights - not popular trends. Formerly the Consulting Director of Fashion at WGSN and Head of Concept at Abercrombie & Fitch, Katie delivers best-in-class advisory projects for leading brands including Farfetch, Under Armour, Athleta, GAP, Hollister, Target, Walmart and LL Bean.

On this episode, Katie talks with Kristen Sosa about her fascination with the relationships people do or do not forge with their clothing, and explains how her work in this space led her to start her own consulting business.

Christiana Mavromatis has over two decades of experience leading marketing and creative for iconic brands like Cartier, MAC Cosmetics, COACH, Peloton, W Hotels, L'Oreal, and Compass.

Christiana began her career as a creative in the advertising agency world before going brand-side, where she is now. She's passionate about using data to develop marketing strategy and to ensure creative efficacy, taking brands to cult status by accelerating affinity while also achieving the business's revenue and profitability goals.

In this episode, Christiana and Jessica Quillin chat about how an equally left-brained and right-brained approach has steered Christiana's success in driving results for some of the world's most iconic luxury brands.

Jessica Quillin, PhD is the Co-Founder and Principal for It’s A Working Title, LLC, a boutique agency and think tank focused on content strategy and research for fashion, luxury, and the experience economy. Jessica is an experienced content strategist, published author, and the former Fashion Editor for Glass Magazine. She has an extensive background in fashion, luxury, and retail, including strategy consulting and magazine editorial work with a range of brands, designers, and celebrities, including Maria Grazia Chiuri, Virgil Abloh, Sandra Choi, Tiffany & Co, and Burberry, among others. Jessica holds a PhD in English Literature and Music from the University of Cambridge and authored a book on Percy Bysshe Shelley and music. She also is an avid runner who runs marathons for fun.

On this episode, she talks with Christiana Mavromatis about her career move from tech to fashion and how she's married the two while at the same time taking on not only starting her own business, but also launching a fashion tech social media site as well.