In this episode of WWD Voices, Arthur Zaczkiewicz, executive editor of strategic content development, welcomes Roger Mayerson, senior vice president and industry principal of apparel and soft goods at Logility — which offers AI-powered forecasting solutions.

Mayerson discussed Logility's role in pioneering computerized logistics and demand planning, which has evolved over 40 years. Mayerson explained the concept of demand planning, which involves interpreting “demand signals” to create accurate forecasts and financial plans for retail and wholesale operations.

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There’s an inherent problem with much of traditional retail: The more you sell, the more you waste, especially when it comes to beauty, wellness and home items packaged in single-use plastic.

In this episode for business hub Retail Rx, Fairchild Studio Director Lauren Parker chats with Jeff Yurcisin, CEO of Grove Collaborative. This purpose-driven retailer has a unique mission: it not only sells eco-friendly items, but under its Beyond Plastic initiative, for every order sold containing single-use plastic, the company scoops up that ocean-bound plastic equivalent from the environment.

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Anthropologie's eclectic mix of fashion and home items, curated around the store for personal discovery, has created a fiercely loyal customer base, with earnings reports to back this up. Now, Anthropologie is taking its consumers on vacation, with the launch of Celandine.

In this episode of WWD Voices, Lauren Parker, director of Fairchild Studio, chats with Anu Narayanan, president, women's & home at Anthropologie Group, about Anthropologie’s customer and how she defines and embraces vacation time. 

"We've been seeing double-digit growth within our swimwear business, and we had also been noticing that the customer was really looking for more vacation lifestyle product from us," said Narayanan. "And this concept really taps into those demands."

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In this episode of WWD Voices host Arthur Zaczkiewicz chats with Jeanette Duke, director of marketing at Sky IT Group, about innovations in retail technology. She explains the limitations of traditional Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), particularly EDI 852, which has not adapted to modern retail needs such as detailed insights into sales trends, markdowns, and promotional activities.

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In this episode of WWD Voices, host Arthur Zaczkiewicz met with Rick Strauss and Rich Johnson, principals at Odyssey Retail Advisors, who the current retail landscape and the future of luxury retailing, leveraging the rich experience the duo brings from working extensively in the retail advisory space.

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As long as there have been brands and retailers. There's been the need to evaluate their worth, whether for a sale, asset backed loan licensing deal, brand spin off, or in the worst case scenario, liquidation.

In this episode of business hub Retail Rx, Lauren Parker, director, Fairchild Studio, chats with Ben Nortman, co-chief commercial officer at Hilco Global, and former CEO of Hilco Merchant Resources LLC about how the landscape for valuations and loans has shifted over the years, and what this has meant for the industry.

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In this episode of WWD Voices, Arthur Zaczkiewicz, executive editor of strategic content at WWD, interviews Gita Mirchandani founder of GitaPR, the communications agency.

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“Black in Fashion,” a stunning 300-page coffeetable book from WWD and Union Square Publishing, doesn’t just focus on the past century’s most influential Black models, muses, designers, photographers, stylemakers and creatives, but it also celebrates how WWD documented them.

In this episode, Lauren Parker, director of Fairchild Studio, chats with cultural historian and archivist Tonya Blazio-Licorish, the co-author of “Black in Fashion” and Archives Editor/WWD and Fairchild Media Group. They discuss how WWD, the "fashion bible” and flagship publication of Fairchild Media, often broke ground with Black-centric fashion news, features, illustrations and photo shoots, and continues to do so to this day.

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In this episode of WWD Voices, host Arthur Zaczkiewicz interviews Lawrence Lees, co-founder of the Australian fashion brand Outcast Clothing. The brand's name was penned by Lees’ wife and co-founder, Paris Merchant. The fashion brand initially launched in 2014 with bikinis sold on Instagram. It quickly added party, occasion and festival wear, and has now expanded into swimwear, casual wear, shoes, accessories, loungewear and lingerie.

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Peter Sadera, Sourcing Journal’s editor in chief, chats with Lauren Parker, director of Fairchild Studios, about the recent SJ Fall Summit, industry issues and how stakeholders are rising to the occasion, despite the challenges.

“With so much uncertainty out there, just sitting around doom scrolling your balance sheets is not really going to get you anywhere. So, people feel that when they’re participating in events like this, and there’s open, honest discussions, which I felt there were throughout the day, there is an opportunity to do things—as opposed to having things done to you. So, I do think that that lent a slightly optimistic tone.”

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