Beyond Fashion Business – Details, episodes & analysis

Start & Grow Your Fashion Brand For Free Here: https://www.skool.com/fashionanticourse/about Get Your Brand/Designs Reviewed For Free Here: https://www.skool.com/fashionanticourse/about In this week's episode, we sat down with Kate Spade Co founder, and Francis Valentine Founder, Elyce Arons. Kate Spade is a multi billion dollar fashion brand that revolutionized the affordable luxury market in the early 2000s. After selling Kate Spade, Elyce started yet another highly successful fashion brand called Frances Valentine. In this episode, Elyce shared the key principles and secrets behind her success in building incredible fashion brands. I hope that these insights are invaluable in your understanding and approach to starting, and growing fashion brands.

Start & Grow Your Fashion Brand For Free Here: https://www.skool.com/fashionanticourse/about Get Your Brand/Designs Reviewed For Free Here: https://www.skool.com/fashionanticourse/about This episode is a masterclass on the foundations that you need to understand in order to start an ethical fashion brand, or implement a more ethically conscious approach to your products. Due to the deep nature of this topic, this conversation will be divided into 2 parts. In this first part of our conversation revolved around building your first product, building your production infrastructure, your most important roles and first team hires, expanding into other categories, and an introduction on building the foundations necessary for growth and scale.

Join our free fashion business school: https://www.beyondfashionbusiness.com/school In this week's episode, we discussed the key principles to building a perfect fashion brand: simplicity in merchandising and processes, staying focused on your brand's vision and operations, disciplined & patient decision-making, and reliable production infrastructure. Colorful Standard: https://www.instagram.com/colorfulstandard/?hl=en

In this episode of The Future Of Fashion Business we sat down with the Vice President of Product management at Crocs, Michael Pao. Michael has a fascinating story, as he went from being a professional football player to working for one of the biggest and most influential footwear brands in the world. We spoke about what makes a unique product unique, the most important features a footwear product must have, and the main things you have to consider if you want to start a footwear line. Hope you enjoy this one and dont forget to follow our podcast for future episodes.

In this weeks episode we sat down and spoke with the Co-Founder of Cala, an online platform that helps aspiring fashion entrepreneurs and designers build their first collections and product lines by taking care of all of the logistical and operational activities. We talked about the most common mistakes and challenges fashion entrepreneurs face when it comes to creating their first products and delivering them to their customer, and how they can leverage technology platforms to help them with the early challenges of starting a fashion brand.

In this episode of The Future Of Fashion Business, we sat down with Jodie Udzenija. Jodie is the Director of Apparel Product Development at 5.11 Tactical. This was a very special episode and one of our favorite ones to this day. We talked about the common mistakes fashion entrepreneurs make when making their first clothing samples, how to avoid these mistakes, what entrepreneurs should expect when making their first products, and about the different stages of development a product has to go through so that it is ready to sell. There was so much valuable information in this episode, so make sure you have a pen and paper nearby!

In this episode we sat down with Emily Li Mandri, a digital marketing consultant for fashion and retail businesses. We talked about the importance of having a digital strategy, and Emily also gave us a lot of tips that anybody can start applying online to have an edge over their competition. Digital has increasingly become one of the most important places for your brand to be at, so as a fashion entrepreneur, we hope you can start applying these concepts into your fashion business.

Just after having one of the largest investment rounds for a female-founded fashion started, we sat down with the Co-Founder and CEO of Cuyana Mrs Karla Gallardo and talked about how a passion project turned into an extremely successful fashion brand that inspires intentional buying through pieces that are crafted with integrity.

In this episode, we spoke with the founder and managing director of aussieBum, Sean Ashby. The story of Sean Ashby and aussieBum is a fascinating and very unusual one, and it shows just how much is possible by believing in yourself and what you are doing. We hope you enjoy this wonderful episode and learn a lot from how Sean managed to start his company from nothing, against all odds, and still became a global success story.

On this episode, we are talking to a Mexican entrepreneur called Diego Lira that started an e-commerce sock brand called Noma Outfitters. We talked about the challenges that e-commerce is facing due to the lack of development in third world countries like Mexico, but also, about the amount of opportunities for entrepreneurs and designers in these countries.

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