The Glossy Podcast

Bayard Winthrop, the founder of American Giant, is building out his apparel company at a snail’s pace compared to the quickening speed of fast fashion retail. That’s intentional. He joined us on the Glossy Podcast to discuss retail competition, the value of the in-store experience and the difficulties of scaling an American-made brand.

The areas of fashion and law don’t often intersect, but digital and social media’s proliferation has changed the game, with brands now more concerned about influencers, social media trolls and copycatting issues.

We hosted Julie Zerbo, who saw this as a gap in the market, and launched the Fashion Law six years ago. She has since become a keen observer of the vagaries of the market.

Today, Bill Blass does close to no advertising, doesn’t adhere to the fashion calendar and does everything on e-commerce. And perhaps most interestingly, Chris Benz, its creative director, who joined us on this week’s Glossy Podcast, doesn’t even think of himself as a “serious fashion person.”

Rebecca Taylor on changes in the fashion industry since the 90s, and how people consume fashion just like they watch TV.

Fashion advertising has turned a corner, and brands are trying hard to stay current when it comes to changing platforms and a new type of customer. On this week’s Glossy Podcast, two veterans in the fashion advertising space, Lloyd and Co. executives Doug Lloyd and Jodi Sweetbaum, joined us to discuss why brands in the fashion world are finding it difficult to get the basics right.

While Brit + Co started in 2011 as a DIY destination for crafting, cooking and learning other new skills, it’s spread into a broader lifestyle site. Most recently, the team hired a new fashion reporter to expand coverage there. To build it out, founder Brit Morin is also focusing on video and educational classes. Morin joined the Glossy Podcast to discuss where Brit + Co is headed next, how the company participates in politics, and the evolution of content and commerce. 

The confluence of the streets and couture -- and the advent of social media -- has transformed the industry of streetwear. From a growth in “hustle” and the rise of re-selling to a genuine expansion of the streetwear community from the streets to inside Neiman Marcus, Bobby Kim has seen much of it happen.

Aurora James’s path to becoming a fashion designer was anything but straight and narrow, and not at all what one could consider traditional.

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Hilary Milnes, senior reporter, joins managing editor Shareen Pathak on the show floor at the NRF’s Retail’s Big Show, the flagship industry event in the retail industry, to talk about the biggest trends for 2017.