American Fashion Podcast

10/26/2021

Ge**er, invented the technology that has underpinned the fashion industry for roughly the last five decades.

Few people in the industry know the landscape of product development and manufacturing technology better than our guests in this episode, Karsten Newbury, Chief Strategy & Digital Officer, and Mary McFadden, Vice President for CAD Product Management, at Ge**er Technology.

We discuss what they do, where they think everything is going, and the new Innovation Center they've set up in midtown Manhattan.

Ge**er invented the technology that has underpinned the fashion industry for roughly the last five decades. Few people in the industry know the landscape of product development and manufacturing technology better than our guests in this episode, Karsten Newbury, Chief Strategy & Digital Officer, and...

10/26/2021

Recorded in May 2020, the story of a collaboration between Lucky Brand, New Fashion Products, and Brother Sews to use what they had and start making masks as quickly as possible.

Recorded in May 2020, the story of a collaboration between Lucky Brand, New Fashion Products, and Brother International Corporation to use what they had and start making masks as quickly as possible. — Guests: Peter Holland, Vice President, Industrial Products Division, Brother International Corpo...

10/22/2021

This event looks fantastic.

Join us for City Source, Tours, Seminars and Talks

09/25/2021

New episode up. Five more of these backlogged that I will try to drop in the next week or two, and then we will be back to running weekly-ish fresh content again, finally.

Gabriella Santaniello is the Founder of the retail consulting firm A Line Partners.

09/12/2021

Fashion Week is half over, which means that market week is around the corner. Charles updated our Trade Show Survival Guide today, and hopefully, it's just in time.

Whether you’re showing at Capsule, FFANY, Coterie, MAGIC, or anywhere else, if you are a fashion designer who wants to sell products at…

05/04/2020

We couldn't have asked for a more perfect guest for our 250th episode. Ladies and gentlemen, Nataline Chanin.

In this, our 250th episode, we welcome one of the true original champions of the slow fashion movement, Natalie Chanin, designer and founder of the Florence, Alabama-based and globally recognized leading ethical fashion brand Alabama Chanin. https://alabamachanin.com/ https://journal.alabamachanin.c...

05/04/2020

6 years, countless hours of labor, and what do we have to show for it?! Well, 250 episodes of the best fashion business podcast in the world, it turns out. Keep listening.

04/01/2020

If you missed the American Fashion Town Hall live stream yesterday, here is the recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeUQAHtPCxY

First hour is a mashup of interviews and then it’s a live discussion and Q&A.

Resources mentioned in the program are listed and linked at americanfashionpodcast.com/townhall

Big learning experience for us. Thinking about doing more things like this and what we would do differently next time. Feedback very welcome.

03/27/2020

Join us on Tuesday at 2pm EST for a special American Fashion Town Hall Livestream, with fashion industry leaders and experts discussing the COVID-19 situation.

03/25/2020

Collaboration, not chaos.

The world is in crisis and the fashion industry is in trouble. Time to put our heads together. Join us Tuesday March 31st at 2pm EST the American Fashion Town Hall, a live stream event with experts talking about the impact of COVID-19 on our industry and what we can all do to help each other and our...

02/06/2020

New episodes rolling out. Like anything we’ve posted lately?

Exploring fashion as an art and a business. American Fashion Podcast is the fashion show for fashion people, diving deep into the designing, making, and selling of garments and accessories through long-form interviews with people at all levels and in all corners of the business, with an emphasis on....

01/06/2020

Blasting into 2020 with a fashion-shaking episode!

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.