TheIndustry.fashion & TheIndustry.beauty Podcast

A pioneer in natural, sustainable skincare since 2003, the Susanne Kaufmann skincare brand is globally renowned for its unique fusion of Austrian tradition with scientific innovation. 

Named after its Austrian born founder Susanne Kaufmann, who was raised within an idyllic nook of the Austrian Alps, the transformative brand prides itself on its use of native herbs and plants as-well as its ultra-sustainable sourcing and production methods - with each batch produced  by hand in the company’s own facility. 

Today, the brand is available internationally via a broad range of retail partners and of course via its global network of luxury Susanne Kaufmann Spas, including the spa in the original Hotel Post in Bezau, Austria, which has been headed up by the Kaufmann family since the 1990’s. 

In this latest episode of The Beauty Edit podcast from TheIndustry.fashion, Kaufmann talks Gaelle Walker, Contributing Editor through the brand’s journey from concept to creation, its latest sustainability feats and some of the many innovations to come.

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Influence, what does it really mean, who has it, how do you use it and how do you measure its impact? These questions are a pre-occupation for fashion, beauty and lifestyle brands the world over. To help answer them, we’ve teamed up with leading influencer marketing analytics platform Tribe Dynamics to produce a new series of podcasts: INFLUENCER MARKETING: LEVEL UP FOR SUCCESS
 
In the series we will be speaking to leaders of some of fashion and beauty’s biggest names to find out how they leverage their influence for the good of the business and the good of the community around them.

In the first episode Connie Nam, Founder of Astrid & Miyu, the contemporary brand making jewellery accessible to everyone, gives valuable insights into how her team use influencer marketing to drive her business and tips on how to use varying categories of Influencers to drive awareness, engagement and sales.

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

STILL TO COME IN THIS SERIES:

ASOS Brand Creative Director
YNAP Global Marketing Director
Monday Haircare Social Media Team
Selfless by Hyram & The INKEY List Co-founder
Tribe Dynamics Co-founder & President



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In the latest episode of The Beauty Edit podcast, we speak to Michelle Feeney, the visionary business leader and Founder of sustainable British fragrance brand – Floral Street. 

We talk about Michelle’s start in PR with the legendary Lynn Franks, to her time at Estee Lauder Companies launching the luxury skincare brand Crème de la Mer and made it into an overnight success. 

Her success doesn’t stop there, Michelle launched MAC Cosmetics into 40 countries and grow it from a $65 million brand to a $1-billion-dollar brand and also took a lead role in the legendary MAC AIDS Fund which has had an incredible impact in raising money and awareness for AIDS research. 

After a gap year at the age of 51, Michelle launched Floral Street in November 2017 and set out to do things differently to the big corporate fragrance houses.

Modern, British and powered by flowers, she has challenged the industry by placing eco-responsibility at its heart.

Floral Street is now available in 11 countries including the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa and Europe. And its flagship store in Covent Garden is well worth a visit.

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Tskenya-Sarah Frazer is a tour de force. Once an aspiring journalist, she changed course in life to become a footwear designer having found it frustrating to find flattering shoes to fit her size 9 feet.

A conversation with a non-binary university friend, who described a similar problem and also pointed out how alienated they could feel in a gender-specific store, encouraged her to set up her own label, Tskenya.

Armed with nothing but a bucket load of ambition and Google, Tskenya set about researching how to establish her brand and manufacture her shoes, having no experience whatsoever in the market. The result is a resolutely gender neutral collection, with non-gendered marketing, made from vegan materials, with each style named after iconic black women, who have inspired her over the course of her life.

She launched her label with the help of a grant from the Prince’s Trust and now acts as a mentor for other budding entrepreneurs on the scheme. 

Tskenya describes herself as an intersectional leftie and is passionate about promoting diversity in fashion and business. She is also one of a number of prominent black cultural figures and business leaders to be asked to contribute to a groundbreaking series of new books  A Quick Ting On, which explores the history and evolution of Black culture in Britain.

Tskenya takes on the subject of business and documents trail-blazing black figures dating back to the Tudor era. She says this is just the kind of book she would have loved to have read as she embarked on her entrepreneurial journey.

In this episode of the In Conversation podcast, She tells Lauretta Roberts, Editor in chief of TheIndustry.fashion, all about her journey so far, her commitment to her causes, her plans for the future, and her love of Chanel earrings.

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Molly Hart is the founder of HIGHR – the uber-transparent clean lipstick brand with a “higher purpose” to sustainably re-build the lip category. 

After cutting her teeth behind big name beauty counters, Hart moved into communications where she worked with some of beauty’s most eminent players on their customer communication strategies.  

It was work which saw her spend hours a day talking to real customers about their unique needs, wants and desires – valuable insights and skills which she later drew upon when crafting her brand. 

Powered by the belief that the lip category is “too invasive to not be clean,” all HIGHR lip products are formulated with pure, organic ingredients which are blended with clean actives and designed to perform as-well-as, if not better than, traditional versions.  

The brand also endeavours to operate from a sustainable mindset at all costs – an ethos which extends far beyond packaging and well into production.  

In this latest episode of The Beauty Edit Podcast from TheIndustry.fashion,  Hart talks to Contributing Editor Gaelle Walker,  about the inspirations behind the brand, the challenges she overcame along the way to building it and her hopes for the brand’s future and the beauty category as a whole. 

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Micaela Nisbet is the founder of Neighbourhood Botanicals – the southern hemisphere inspired natural skincare brand whose bold rejection of “fad ingredients” in favour of “genuine skin health” is making increasingly big waves in the UK market.  

The brand’s 100% natural and sustainably packaged range is all formulated and bottled within its own East London lab - and by Nisbet’s own fair hands.  But Nisbet didn’t set out to pursue a career in beauty, In fact, her working life began in the music industry, with the best part of her 20s spent touring the world as a professional sound engineer. 

In this engaging new episode of The Beauty Edit podcast from TheIndustry.fashion, Michaela takes Gaelle Walker on her journey from music creator to beauty brand founder and explains how her unique relationship with sound and fragrance continues to play a key role in new product development and the brand’s distinctive offer.  

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Allbirds, the Sustainability focused and results driven footwear and apparel brand have been disrupting the fashion industry since 2016. Headquartered in San Francisco and launched by duo Tim Brown and Joey Swillinger– the brand has reached all corners of the globe, with a store opening in London last year.
 
The company claims to be as eco-friendly as possible and is certified B Corp. Its continued innovation in both product development and sustainable materials has allowed its popularity to grow year on year.
 
 In March 2018, the company started offering its footwear with eucalyptus tree fibre and by 2020 had expanded into the apparel category. In May 2020, Allbirds announced a partnership with Adidas, with both companies collaborating to create the world’s lowest carbon footprint shoe.
 
In the latest edition of the In Conversation podcast in partnership with Klarna, Tom Shearsmith, News & Features Writer at TheIndustry.fashion speaks to Sustainability Lead Hana Kajimura at Allbirds.
 
Hannah talks about what initially drew her to the business, the projects she has supported in the last five years, why sustainability education is as important as sustainability innovation, the company’s carbon footprint calculator, its 2025 and 2030 goals and its highly anticipated upcoming collaboration with Adidas.

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Founded by former Bulldog Skincare MD Ben Grace in 2020, the cutting-edge skincare brand SBTRCT (pronounced subtract) was born out of one guiding principle: less is more.  

Driven by Grace’s own personal quest to “clean up” the UK beauty industry, the brand sets itself apart with its growing range of unisex skincare products sold in solid forms.

Formulations feature quality proven ingredients reduced down to their most potent forms as the brand seeks to tackle what Grace considers to be beauty's three biggest environmental challenges: plastic waste, water waste and palm oil. 

In a bold show of the true power and potential of the solid beauty format - recent months have seen SBTRCT innovate with first-to-market formulations - including the revolutionary launch of its first solid retinoid balm.  

In this latest episode of The Beauty Edit Podcast from TheIndustry.fashion, Ben talks to Gaelle Walker about the rise of the solid beauty movement, the founding of SBTRCT and his ambitions for the brand’s future.

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Polly McMaster is Co-founder & CEO of The Fold, the British womenswear brand that set out to shake up the workwear market by allowing women to express their individual personalities while retaining their sense of professionalism.

While she’s always been obsessed with fashion Polly in fact studied virology, which no doubt came in particularly useful when devising a strategy for her brand during the coronavirus pandemic.

After graduating she began her career in management consulting but before long the call of fashion became too strong and she set about creating The Fold, selling to a receptive audience of professional women in particular in London and New York.

Today the brand operates a successful e-store, retail store and catalogue business and Polly tells Lauretta Roberts Editor in chief of TheIndustry.fashion, how The Fold has adapted to our new hyrbrid lifestyles, how she views the future for fashion and workwear, and, yes of course, I did ask her to give her forecast, as a virologist, on how much longer this pandemic will last.

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In this episode of The Beauty Edit podcast from TheIndustry.fashion we speak to Jules Miller, who’s brand The Nue Co, was launched back in 2017 with the aim of redefining the relationship we have with our health. 

We talk about the way The Nue Co makes taking supplements feel like a treat and not a chore, and also, the levels of actives within them that really start to show results fast. 

Jules has that rare mix of the creative and business brain and gives us some super interesting insights into physical retail, Ecommerce and her experience with seeking and garnering investment, alongside getting really excited about new product development. 

 We talk about how she cold-emailed Natalie Massenet (founder of NAP) and Harvey Spevak (Founder of Equinox) with copies of her business plan.  Did they reply? I’ll leave you to listen to the episode for the answer. 

There’s a lot to be excited about for the future of The Nue Co.  They’ve launched a skincare line with the same ethos as the supplements, they’ve just closed a $25m of funding and are about to open some new physical stores.

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