Krisha Kotak is the founder of Tula + Tye, a loungewear brand responsibly made from recycled and organic materials, hand-dyed with eco-friendly dyes, and packaged in recycled and reusable bags. Founded in 2020 it attracted over 600 customers in the first year.
[Read more…]382: Launching a luxury sustainable fashion brand with funding and a kickstarter! It’s VENIM
Leslie Fong has been in eCommerce since 2009, and in 2018 took the leap into founding her own fashion brand. VENIM launched with a super successful kickstarter in 2019, has been awarded grants by Spanx, SIA Scotch, and Facebook, AND been nominated in FGI’s Rising Star Awards.
[Read more…]381: The Fashion Business Model of the Future? This is Unfolded with Cally Russell
Cally Russell is a Forbes 30 under 30, a Drapers 30 under 30, has been on Dragons Den (that’s the UK’s shark tank). Since 2013 Cally has been changing the fashion industry, and since 2020 that change has been highly focused on using data to remove waste and change lives. His current project is This is Unfolded, a fashion brand doing amazing things on many fronts! I’m going to let Cally explain all about it in a moment.
[Read more…]380: Building Europe’s most Sustainable Product Marketplace with Veo’s Joe Darwen
Joe Darwen is the founder of Veo – Europe’s most sustainable online shopping destination. It’s a marketplace with over 200 independent brands selling over 50,000 unique products across Fashion, Beauty, Food, Drink, and Home! Started in 2019 they’ve been perfecting their model and the technology that powers it, and re-launched the ‘final’ version in September 2021 and are growing 30% month on month.
[Read more…]379 10 Simple Ways to Make Your eCommerce Brand More Sustainable
Chloe’s been busy researching how to make an eCommerce business more sustainable, including reducing carbon usage and offsetting. During her research, she’s found a LOT of ways you can very easily take the first step on the path to net zero. AND found a lot of tools that will also improve your marketing AND help your customers make better buying decisions. So…. she’s pulled the best 10 of them together in this episode for you. Listen to find 10 easy ways to quickly make your business more sustainable. We’ve got tips, process changes, and several Shopify Apps! (which also work with other platforms!!).
[Read more…]378: Balancing the Bricks and Clicks with Jarrold Department Store Neil Park
Neil Park is the Head of eCommerce at Jarrold Department Store. The store was founded in 1770 and is a shopping, beauty, and dining destination in its hometown of Norwich. They’ve had an eCommerce store for 10 years, that really came into its own during the last 2 pandemic years pushing sales up 250%, and leading to 3.8 million visitors a year online.
[Read more…]377: Taking a Sustainable Products brand to 2million+ customers with Jennie Perry from Grove Collaborative
Jennie Perry is the Chief Marketing Officer at Grove Collaborative, an eCommerce store that crafts and curates earth-changing products for the home with over 2 million customers. Jennie’s been marketing products and retailer stores (on and offline) for over 25 years including Old Navy, Stride Rite, Amazon Fashion & Amazon Prime.
[Read more…]376: Clothes Swapping success and how it can work for brands too with Nuw’s Aisling Byrne
Aisling Byrne is the founder and CEO at Nuw, a fashion exchange app for preloved highstreet, vintage, and designer fashion labels. Founded in 2018, the app went live in 2020 already has a 4.5-star rating and in 2021 they facilitated 20,000 item exchanges!
[Read more…]373: How Sustainability and Community are super-powering this fashion brand with Katie McCourt from Pantee
Katie McCourt is the co-founder of Shopify Fashion store Pantee, a range of sustainable underwear made from deadstock. Launched with a very successful Kickstarter in Nov 2020 they’ve had a phenomenal start with a growing tribe of happy customers, they’ve just completed another successful round of fundraising, and amazing press coverage including being named one of the ‘9 best sustainable lingerie brands you need to know about’ AND being one of this year’s Drapers 30 under 30! (for non-UK listeners, Drapers Magazine is the beating heart of the UK fashion industry).
[Read more…]372: Building a lucrative second hand market with Kalkidan Legesse founder of Sancho’s and Owni
Kalkidan Legesse is the Managing Director of Sancho’s an ethical and sustainable fashion and lifestyle bricks and clicks boutique. Founded in 2015 they now do 8-1500 orders a month.
Drapers (the UK’s fashion industry magazine) named Kalkidan in their 30 under 30 list for 2021. AND she’s also the founder of Owni (called Shwap when we recorded), an easy way for brands to add a resale marketplace to their business.
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