TheIndustry.fashion & TheIndustry.beauty Podcast

Ian Bergin learnt his trade at Paul Smith, originally starting out on the shopfloor at the designer’s flagship Covent Garden store on Floral Street. Ten years at Paul Smith saw him in various roles, including as Brand Director of Paul Smith Jeans and culminating in Divisional Director of Paul Smith Casualwear. 

Following his time there, he left to set up business with two other former Paul Smith employees and they launched their own One True Saxon brand. 

Bergin then joined Barbour 11 years ago in May 2010 as Head of Menswear. In March 2015 he became Director of Menswear, Footwear and Accessories, and in April 2019 he was appointed to Barbour’s Board of Directors.

He’s responsible for the overall design direction and strategy for all of the menswear collections for Barbour and Barbour International.

In the latest episode of the ‘In Conversation’ podcast in partnership with Klarna, Ian talks openly about his career, Barbour’s re-waxing centenary, recent design collaborations with A Bathing Ape and C.P. Company, the famous Barbour South Shields HQ and factory and breaking new ground with new collections going forward.

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Daniel Peters is a fashion marketing specialist with a mission for promoting careers of marginalised voices within the industry. It was this mission that encouraged him to set up  Fashion Minority Report, an organisation dedicated to helping businesses create an inclusive workplace culture. 

Despite the fact that he established his business just as the Covid pandemic hit the UK last summer, Daniel is in demand, as fashion as a whole examines the way it represents and supports minority voices both internally and externally.

On top of running his own business, Daniel is also a member of the steering committee for diversity and inclusion at the British Fashion Council and is a regular speaker and commentator making numerous media appearances. 

In the latest episode of the IN DETAIL podcast, Daniel speaks to Lauretta Roberts Editor-in-chief of TheIndustry.fashion about how he helps companies confront some often uncomfortable questions to produce tangible results, but despite the failings in this industry and in the wider community he remains a huge fan of fashion and is an optimist who is determined to be a force for positivity and is also something of a dab hand in the kitchen as we shall discover.

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Born in Uganda, raised in Denmark and settled in London, Emolyne Ramlov is the vibrant founder of Emolyne Cosmetics – the ultra-inclusive UK beauty company launched in 2020 that’s already well on its way towards achieving cult status.

Following years of trying (and failing) to discover perfectly shade-matched lipsticks and nail polishes, the brand was born out of Emolyne’s personal desire to fulfil her quest for coordinated colour.

With a nude and red colour palette designed to play to people of all genders, ages and ethnicities, inclusivity is also at the heart of the brand’s ethos. 

Launched with 30 perfectly shade-matched lipsticks, lip liners and nail polishes, (including 15 red and 15 nude shades which have all been formulated to look different from person to person) the brand truly offers a shade for all.

As a working mother of four, Emolyne has also ensured that the range offers products that are as practical and quick drying as they are high-quality.

In this latest edition of The Beauty Edit podcast Emolyne Ramlov talks to Gaelle Walker,  Contributing Editor of TheIndustry.fashion in greater detail about the inspiration behind the brand’s founding, the challenges of launching during a global pandemic and her longer-term ambitions for the brand.

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Kim Dolder is the Senior Vice President & General Manager of Gilly Hicks, the loungewear and activewear brand owned by Abercrombie & Fitch Co.

Having officially relaunched the brand this summer, Dolder was the brains behind a host of new initiatives, including launching unisex clothing for the first time. The relaunch also saw the introduction of a new logo, stand-alone concept store in Ohio, new product categories and a UK store debut in Westfield London next to an existing Hollister store.

In her role as SVP and General Manager, Dolder oversees every element of the brand – from its ethos to product offering, merchandising, online and in-store experiences – no one understands the brand like she does.

In the latest episode of the ‘In Conversation’ podcast in partnership with Klarna, Kim tells Tom Shearsmith, Senior News and Features Writer at TheIndustry.fashion, about her extensive career so far, why being gender-inclusive and size inclusive is so important to her, exactly who the brand is aimed at and what the future holds for Gilly Hicks in the next 12 months.

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Mr Porter, the luxury online menswear platform from the Yoox Net-A-Porter Group, is more than just an online retailer – in the 10 years since it was founded, it has become a global style authority for men. Content has always been at the heart of its proposition through initiatives such as its magazine The Journal, industry insider podcasts and collaborations with taste makers through its Friends of Mr Porter programme on Instagram.

This is a brand that wields huge influence and it’s taking that influence very seriously indeed. We talk to its Global Marketing Director Sabah Naqushbandi about its on-going Health In Mind campaign, which supports the mental health of men around the globe, through partnerships with specialist charities and, this month, a collaboration with a number of leading brands on Go Out – a collection of clothing and accessories designed to encourage men to enjoy the great outdoors and the benefits it brings to their mental and physical wellbeing.

We also have a vital guide to accompany this series, entitled How to Measure Influencer Marketing Success. You can download this guide here.

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Having worked in the perfume industry for more than 20 years, industry experts Christopher Yu and Laurent Delafon  are widely considered to have the ‘Midas touch’ when it comes to perfume. 

As the founders of United Perfumes and having spent years working alongside some of the world’s most-renowned perfumers (Diptyque, Francis Kurkdjian, Olivier Polge and Yves Coueslant to Lyn Harris, Sophie Labbe and Dominique Ropion to name but a few) it was “only a matter of time,” before the pair decided to pour their combined knowledge and passion for fragrance into their own creation. 

That creation is Ostens, the exclusive fragrance brand born out of a desire to “rip up” the perfume rule-book in the pursuit of beautiful fragrance without rules, limitations, briefs or budgets. 

Crafted by some of the finest noses in the business, the brand’s debut collection includes six carefully crafted Eau de Parfums, each of which is paired with an ingredient ‘inspiration’ - captured within an oil - allowing the user to experience the raw material in its purest form. 

The brand is currently available direct to consumer at Ostens.com and through its exclusive London showroom where customers are invited to join an intimate one to one appointment and a true journey of discovery.

In this episode of The Beauty Edit podcast, the pair talk to Gaelle Walker, Contributing Editor of TheIndustry.fashion about their careers to date, their combined obsession with fragrance and the creative freedom that gave rise to the utterly unique Ostens brand.

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Tom Broughton launched Cubitts from his kitchen table on Cubitt Street in London’s King’s Cross in 2013, with a mission to become the finest spectacle company in the world.

Having started selling online, it wasn’t long before Broughton opened the first Cubitts store on Soho’s Marshall Street in 2014, and other London stores swiftly followed. 

He signed for Cubitts’ first store outside of London, in Brighton, literally as the pandemic struck in March 2020. 

With one-to-one service and physical retail so important for the brand, the pandemic and subsequent forced store closures during the various lockdowns spelled a very tough 18 months.

But Broughton and his team got through it, and during the summer Cubitts opened another store in Cambridge, with other key cities now on the radar.

As well as offering a curated range of spectacle shapes in every store, Cubitts offers customers made-to-measure and bespoke services that allow them to have existing frames made to their exact measurements, or to design their own entirely unique frames from scratch. 

Also in the summer, with its own HERU technology, the revolutionary Cubitts app launched in Beta with the aim to solve the number one problem facing spectacle wearers; finding frames that fit perfectly. 

The app scans and creates a 3D model of a customer’s face with detailed optical measurements. It’s a real gamechanger, with a full-on launch due soon. Broughton talks us through it all with a clear passion.

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Gillian Gorman Round is the CEO of Kjaer Weis – the independent Certified Organic make-up brand founded by renowned makeup artist Kirsten Kjaer Weis – who, after years of working on the world’s biggest runway shows and prestigious fashion shoots, was inspired to create a luxurious and high-performance range of products that also truly delivered in terms of sustainability, responsibility and transparency.  

A self-confessed “beauty obsessive,” Gorman Round has years of leadership experience at some of the world’s biggest beauty brands, including senior roles at Yves St Laurent Beauté, L’Oreal and Revlon. 

However, in 2020 and in the middle of the global pandemic, Gorman Round made the deeply personal decision to leave the world of big beauty behind her and join the independent Kjaer Weis brand as its first ever CEO. 

Recording this latest episode of The Beauty Edit podcast from her New York home, Gorman Round tells Gaelle Walker about the pull of the Kjaer Weis brand, its huge potential for future growth and how she plans to achieve it.

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MR PORTER Buying Director Sam Kershaw rose through the ranks of the luxury global online menswear retailer, having joined in 2012 just a year after the business launched in 2011.

He learnt his trade from some of the best buyers in the business at Harvey Nichols, where he spent five years before being recruited by MR PORTER – initially as an accessories buyer.

Sam talks us through his early days - transitioning from established luxury UK department store to what was then the start-up menswear specific arm of Net-a-Porter - and its exponential growth, as well as all that’s been going on to celebrate MR PORTER’s 10th anniversary.

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In the latest episode of INFLUENCER MARKETING: LEVEL UP FOR SUCCESS in partnership with Tribe Dynamics, we speak to ASOS Brand Creative Director John Mooney about his role in overseeing around 100 content creators who dedicate their time creating immersive, entertaining and engaging content across its social and digital marketing channels, as well as its website.

Founded in 2000, the online destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings, ASOS is a true digital pioneer. It changed the way we shop for fashion, even though when it launched many doubted we would be willing to buy clothes online, and it was very early to understand the power in blending content with commerce.

It has amassed a vast social media following and now has more than 12m followers on Instagram.

As you’d expect from such a trailblazing business, ASOS was one of the first companies to experiment with TikTok, where it now has almost 600,000 followers. Last year it launched a highly successful branded #hashtag campaign on the platform, #AySauce, complete with bespoke soundtrack and featuring some of the most high-profile TikTokkers in the UK and the US.

John tells us all about that campaign, how the brand engages with influencers, what success looks like when it comes to social media campaigns and hints at more exciting innovation to come.

We also have a vital guide to accompany this series, entitled How to Measure Influencer Marketing Success. You can download this guide here.


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