S10 E1 The Secret Tool: Inside the World of Trend Forecasting with Jane Kellock
This week, we're joined by Jane Kellock, Founder and Creative Director of Unique Style Platform (USP), one of the UK's leading trend forecasting consultancies. Jane's career has taken her from designi...
30 Kesä 1h 4min
S9 E10 Jo Ingham & Jo Ward: How Fashion can be more sustainable and still be profitable?
This week, we're joined by Jo Ingham and Jo Ward - two buyers who have pretty much seen it all. The pair first met at New Look (where they were so often mistaken for each other that they ended up answ...
23 Kesä 1h 6min
S9 E9 From Manchester to Japan: The Buyer's Guide to Trend Spotting
This week it's just the two of us - no guests, no agenda, just a good old buyers' debrief. A few weeks ago we headed to Manchester for the Buying and Beyond meetup, and naturally that meant hitting th...
16 Kesä 36min
S9 E8: From Lockdown Idea to Luxury Brand with Elena London
In this Buying & Beyond, we sit down with Elena, founder of Elena London, a luxury home fragrance brand she built from scratch during lockdown after becoming frustrated with reed diffusers that seemed...
9 Kesä 51min
S9 E7: From Buyer to Bangladesh with Nadya at NEXT
What does it actually look like to leave the familiarity of UK retail buying and move to Dhaka, Bangladesh, to work on the supplier side? In this episode, we sit down with Nadya - a buyer turned produ...
2 Kesä 34min
S9 E6:What Really Went Wrong With Debenhams with Retail Strategist Lucy Horden
This week we're joined by Lucy Horden, a commercial retail strategist who spent over 15 years at Debenhams working across franchise operations, brand partnerships, and business strategy. Lucy takes us...
26 Touko 1h 1min
S9 E5: Katie Williams: Burnout, Boundaries, and Life After Retail
In this episode we sit down with Katie Williams - former senior merchandiser at Topman and Quiz Clothing, psychotherapist, and founder of her own coaching business - to talk about the realities of bui...
20 Touko 54min
S9 E4: Why the Best Buyers Watch More Than Just Their Category
In this week's episode, Kate and Lyns dive deep into one of their favourite subjects - retail - and why staying commercially aware is one of the most powerful tools a buyer can have. From trade meetin...
13 Touko 45min
