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Episode 240: To Create "Everybody & Everyone" Veronica Chou Left No Sustainability Stone Unturned Feb 14, 2020

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Veronica Chou is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Everybody & Everyone, a "big startup" "eco-innovative" women's clothing brand with a big vision and a heavy investment in the granular details of sustainability.

https://everybodyeveryone.com/

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Episode 239: Making Nice Bags In Brooklyn - Canvas & Hyde Feb 13, 2020

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Lisa Pongrass, an Australian living in New York City, is Founder & CEO of Canvas & Hyde, a luxury handbag brand manufactured in the Brooklyn Navy Yard (and Italy). Lisa discusses how she made the move from her marketing background to designing accessories, how she thinks about sustainability, and what it's like to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

https://www.canvasandhyde.com/

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Episode 238: Casting Coin Founder and CEO Michelle McCormack Jan 31, 2020

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Fashion photographer and media producer Michell McCormack set out to solve inefficiencies in the talent pipeline for fashion and entertainment brands, and the result is an app and platform called Casting Coin.

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Episode 237: The Best Fashion Technology Discussion You’ve Ever Heard Jan 21, 2020

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Powering Fashion's Future: Technology Tools Impacting Today's Fashion Industry

A panel discussion recorded as part of the Fashion Innovate program at the TexWorld USA 2020 trade show in New York City.

Big thank you to Eileen Small from TexWorld for coordinating all of this leading up to the event.

Big questions:

What is the history here? How did this work five minutes ago? What are the now ubiquitous improvements of the last five or ten years?
Who are the cool startups in this space, and what are they doing?
What are the major players doing in this space?
What does the “science fiction endgame” look like for an ultimate evolution in these technologies? If we are here, and innovators and startups are working on tomorrow, what’s 5, 10, 20, or 50 years out?

Panelists:

Natasha Franck (EON - https://www.eongroup.co/)
Teodora Nicolae (Lectra - https://www.lectra.com/en )
Melissa Rusinek (textile waste expert)
Andrew Wyatt (CALA - https://www.ca.la/ )

Moderator:

Charles Beckwith (@FashionTechGuru - https://charlesbeckwith.com/publications )

References:

GRAILED - https://www.grailed.com/
STOCKX - https://stockx.com/
Behemoth: A History of The Factory and The Making of The Modern World (Get it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/38AZ1y0 )
Clo3D - https://www.clo3d.com/
The Higg MSI (Materials Sustainability Index) - https://apparelcoalition.org/higg-msi/
Sewbots - http://softwearautomation.com/products/
Klaviyo - https://www.klaviyo.com/

Charles Beckwith's list of seven key overlapping and repeating phases of the fashion business product and sales cycles:

Ideation and Design
Sourcing and Costing
Pricing and Financing
Manufacturing and Production
Marketing and Sales
Distribution and Logistics
Analytics and Analysis

(Plus HR, accounting, and normal business processes)

More on that at... https://medium.com/@fashiontechguru/end-to-end-fashion-brand-operating-system-platforms-fashiontech-371fff3df795

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As always, you can find us and the archive of past episodes at https://americanfashionpodcast.com/

Episode 236: Ill-Fitting Intimates? After 2 Years of Research, CUUP Definitely Has Your Size. Jan 13, 2020

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CUUP co-founders Abby Morgan and Kearnon O’Molony talk about breaking out of the marking and grading mindset for making bras that make it so “you would never have to compromise between fit, function, and style” and using “fit therapists” to get it all just right.

https://shopcuup.com/

Episode 235: Suuchi - Helping Brands Manufacture Cost Effectively In The Americas Jan 13, 2020

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Continuing our look at "brand operating system" platforms, this is a conversation with Suuchi Ramesh, Founder and CEO of Suuchi, Inc., a company in New Jersey which has created the Suuchi GRID, a digital platform that connects brands with “a network of freelancers, factories, and suppliers” in North and South America, and allows brands to manage their production flow from a digital dashboard.

For more information about this and similar platforms see, this article on Brand Operating Systems: https://medium.com/@fashiontechguru/end-to-end-fashion-brand-operating-system-platforms-fashiontech-371fff3df795

Episode 234: Color As Narrative Jan 07, 2020

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Keith Recker (now Editor and Chief of Table Magazine) is an author and expert who has a long history with color and natural processes. He discusses how all that ties together in his new book, True Colors: World Masters of Natural Dyes and Pigments (find it on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/38DR23f ), and just... so much more. An episode you don't want to miss.

Keith Recker - https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-recker-7221834/

Additional references:

The International Folk Art Market - https://folkartmarket.org/
Angel Chang - https://angelchang.com/
Village Embassy - https://vimeo.com/villageembassy
Jota-Kena - https://www.jotakena.com/

Episode 233: Meet Cala CEO Andrew Wyatt, and say goodbye to how fashion worked yesterday. Jan 06, 2020

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Andrew Wyatt is CEO and Co-Founder of Cala, an "operating system" for fashion brands.

https://www.ca.la/

For additional analysis, see Charles Beckwith's article about End To End fashion platforms on Medium.

Episode 232: Badgley Mischka Sep 24, 2019

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Badgley Mischka founders Mark Badgley and James Mischka discuss their business and careers.

With special guest co-host, Dana Thomas, author of the new book Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes.

https://www.badgleymischka.com/

Episode 231: Fashionopolis - Ethical Fashion's New Bible Sep 19, 2019

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Author Dana Thomas discusses her new book, Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes.

Order Fashionopolis here: https://amzn.to/2sUzAbr

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