TheIndustry.fashion & TheIndustry.beauty Podcast

Sarah Sklavenitis is the Founder of Messiah & Eve, a vegan brand that mixes 
skin-loving ingredients with modern fragrance blends to offer a range of affordable luxury bodycare products.

Sarah, speaks to Sophie Smith, Senior News & Features Writer at TheIndustry.beauty, about the inspiration behind Messiah & Eve, how she took the brand from concept to creation, her first trade show experience at Just Around The Corner and what she has learned since starting the business.

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Tiffany Salmon is a beauty entrepreneur and the Founder of Glow Hub, a vegan skincare brand that provides targeted solutions and simple routines for the Gen Z beauty community. 

Tiffany, speaks to Sophie Smith, Senior News & Features Writer at TheIndustry.beauty, about the inspiration behind Glow Hub, and the success social media - in particular TikTok - is having on the brand and more.

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Boardies celebrates a world of creativity, travel and good times.

Founded by Nick Crook, the privately owned London-based business creates unique swimwear influenced by experiences from around the world.

The company has successfully navigated the challenges of operating a beach-focused brand in a pandemic world of reduced travel, and has continued to see successes globally, with new collections and partnerships, including a recent collection with historic London department store Liberty. 

Crook tells Tom Shearsmith, News Editor at TheIndustry.fashion, about his early career, how he grew the Boardies brand, the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on the business, and how future investment will lead to global growth.

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Allison McNamara is TV host and fashion & beauty influencer who created the clean, algae-infused skincare line MARA. 

Allison started her career hosting television and digital programs for outlets like Who What Wear, POPSUGAR, ABC’s Emmy-Award-winning Oscar red carpet pre-show, The Today show, and TV Guide Network. 

She then took her experience to Refinery29 and ET Online where she created, hosted and produced beauty videos. But then the media-scape started to change, pivoting to social media, and her dreams changed. 

On a trip to Istanbul in 2017, Allison came up with the concept for MARA, inspired by the sea. Growing up in a beauty-centred family, with her father working for brands such as Too Faced and Neutrogena, Allison always saw a future in the industry. And so, MARA was launched in 2018 with just one product.  

In this episode of the In Conversation podcast, Allison talks to Lauretta Roberts, Editor in chief of TheIndustry.beauty, about her career shift from influencer and presenter to beauty entrepreneur, what makes her line of skincare so special and what her plans are to develop her business moving forward.

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Claus Lindorff began his career in finance in London before moving into advertising in Paris where he founded BETC Luxe – an agency specialising in fashion and luxury brands with clients including Louis Vuitton, Giorgio Armani, Jil Sander and Lacoste. Then, in 2012, he created his own brand, Ron Dorff, starting out with just five basic pieces which combined Swedish design and functionality with French style. 

The brand’s statement Tees and sweats have been popular from the start, but upgrading menswear staples across sportswear, loungewear and underwear have been the real key to Ron Dorff’s growth, and now Lindorff says they are taking their swimwear offer to another level, as well as launching sunglasses with TBD Eyewear from Milan and hand sewn espadrilles with Bayona from the Basque region – just in time for spring.  In this episode of the In Conversation podcast, he tells TheIndustry.fashion Contributing Editor Tom Bottomley all about the past and what lies ahead.

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Joanna Jensen is the Founder of Childs Farm, a natural and eco-friendly skincare and haircare brand designed for babies and children. 
 
Childs Farm was first launched as a solution to the sensitive and eczema prone skin of Joanna’s daughters. 
 
Today, the brand’s growing range of products are available online and in-store at a number of major retailers including Boots, Waitrose, and Amazon. 
 
Joanna, speaks to Sophie Smith, Senior News & Features Writer at the TheIndustry.beauty, about the inspiration behind the brand, its journey to achieving B Corp certification, how Childs Farm’s product range has developed over the years, and what it’s been like since PZ Cussons acquired the brand last year.

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Olivia Francis left her job with global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi to change the men’s underwear market with her Hamilton + Hare brand in 2014. She had been looking to buy boxer shorts for her brother, but just found a lot of poor quality and heavy branding.  She wanted to bring womenswear underwear standards to men, and that’s exactly what she did.
 
 That quality has now evolved into loungewear, sleepwear, T-shirts, shirts, sweatshirts and even suiting – all sold out of her Marylebone shop on Chiltern Street, as well as via the Hamilton + Hare website and through selected retailers, including Mr Porter.
 
 Francis tells Tom Bottomley, Contributing Editor at TheIndustry.fashion, all about her journey so far, and plans for the future.


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Maria Chenoweth is the CEO of the TRAID charity, which has 12 stores in London, and Co-founder of the new sustainable retail concept, Charity Super.Mkt, the UK’s first multi-charity preloved pop-up fashion store.

The pop-up store is currently located in the former Topshop unit at Brent Cross shopping centre, in collaboration with landlord Hammerson.

It’s a format that has hit the ground running, and the initial four week period, from 27 January, has been extended to six weeks. What’s more, Chenoweth and fellow Charity Super.Mkt Co-Founder Wayne Hemingway, Founder of Red or Dead and Hemingway Design, plan to take the concept on tour.

She tells TheIndustry.fashion's Contributing Editor, Tom Bottomley, all about it.


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Dr Jane Leonard is a GP and aesthetic doctor who recently appeared as an expert contributor to the revamped Embarrassing Bodies series on Channel 4 and has made it her mission to help young women, in particular, to find confidence in their looks and bodies.

She regularly cautions against unnecessary procedures, unrealistic expectations and unqualified practitioners, but, at the same time, she is keen for the aesthetics industry to be recognised for the positive impact it can have on people’s lives and health.

As well as appearing on this podcast, where she is talking to our Editor in chief Lauretta Roberts, Dr Jane has her own podcast in the making and is working on a documentary on female health.


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Entrepreneur Sach Kukadia is perhaps best known for founding the UK’s first flash sales website, Secret Sales, with his brother Nish in 2007, which they sold in 2019 to Lifestyle Retail Group. 

He is now firmly focused on his latest venture, gold and platinum jewellery business 7879, which launched in November 2021. 

Having secured £5.5m in seed funding in November 2022, and with a pop-up space currently running in Harrods, Kukadia speaks to Tom Bottomley, Contributing Editor of TheIndustry.fashion, about what he’s learnt from his past businesses, the unique business model of 7879, and his future plans to scale the new business.

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