Fashion & Founders The Podcast
by Victoria Smith
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How to Turn a Personal Brand Into a Real Business with Alexis Barber
Aug 31, 2026
56m 04s
Inside Copenhagen Fashion Week: Invites, PR, Events
Aug 17, 2026
29m 41s
How Ganni Became a Global Brand
Aug 10, 2026
34m 06s
How Fashion is Forecasted with WGSN Head of Consumer Forecasting
Jul 26, 2026
56m 34s
Luxury Business Secrets with LVMH Chairwoman
Jul 19, 2026
58m 03s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 8/31/26 |  How to Turn a Personal Brand Into a Real Business with Alexis Barber | How to build a personal brand, make money as a content creator, and turn an online audience into a real business. In this episode of Fashion and Founders, host Victoria Smith is joined by Alexis Barber. Alexis is the founder and host of Too Smart For This and has built a portfolio career spanning content, consulting, speaking, entrepreneurship, and publishing. In this episode, she shares why she believes content creation is a skill, not a career and how creators can use content as a dis... | 56m 04s | ||||||
| 8/17/26 | Inside Copenhagen Fashion Week: Invites, PR, Events | How to get invited to fashion week, what I wish I knew before attending my first fashion week, who gets invited to fashion shows? Inside Copenhagen Fashion Week SS27. What makes Copenhagen Fashion Week different and why it’s one of my favorites. We go over the Live Podcast with Ganni and how the brand engages in fashion tech and innovation. Plus tips I’ve learned about getting invited to fashion events and how to make the most of them. Ganni Founder Podcast Ganni Chief Sustainability Of... | 29m 41s | ||||||
| 8/10/26 |  How Ganni Became a Global Brand | How did Ganni become a global name? Is Ganni a sustainable fashion brand? What innovation is needed for fashion brands? Recorded live at Copenhagen Fashion Week at 1Hotel Copenhagen, Victoria sits down with GANNI co-founder Nicolaj Reffstrup to talk about building one of fashion’s most recognizable global brands. Nicolaj shares how his background in tech shaped the way he and his wife, Ditte Reffstrup, built GANNI. He also reflects on the rise of the “GANNI Girl,” taking on outsid... | 34m 06s | ||||||
| 7/26/26 |  How Fashion is Forecasted with WGSN Head of Consumer Forecasting | What is trend forecasting? How are fashion trends predicted? How do brands predict what consumers will want years before it happens? In this episode, we go inside WGSN, one of the world's leading trend forecasting companies, to explore how fashion and consumer trends are forecasted and what founders, marketers, and creatives should be paying attention to now. Cassandra Napoli is the Head of Consumer Forecasting at WGSN, where she helps brands understand how consumers think, feel, shop, ... | 56m 34s | ||||||
| 7/19/26 | luxury fashionbusiness education+3 | Pauline Brown | LVMHHarvard Business School+1 | — | luxuryfashion+5 | — | 58m 03s | ||
| 7/12/26 | fashion careercreative direction+4 | Michelle Ochs | Hervé LégerMarc Jacobs+2 | — | fashioncreative director+5 | — | 51m 26s | ||
| 6/28/26 | female fandomsports culture+3 | Morgan RiddleCherry Beagles | The 400 ClubNew York Times+1 | — | female fan economysports fandom+3 | — | 59m 07s | ||
| 6/21/26 | creator economyaffiliate marketing+3 | Caley-Rae Pavillard | ShopMy | — | ShopMycreators+5 | — | 57m 07s | ||
| 6/14/26 | fashion careernetworking+4 | — | — | — | fashion careernetworking+4 | — | 23m 28s | ||
| 5/24/26 | fashion entrepreneurshipbrand building+3 | Rebecca Hessel Cohen | LoveShackFancyCosmopolitan | — | LoveShackFancyRebecca Hessel Cohen+5 | — | 41m 54s | ||
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| 5/10/26 | AI beauty techbachelorette trip+3 | Colby Mitchell | Swan BeautyAcquired Style | — | Swan BeautyColby Mitchell+5 | — | 24m 10s | ||
| 5/3/26 | beautyentrepreneurship+3 | Giovanni Vaccaro | GlamSquad | — | GlamSquadbeauty services+3 | — | 44m 41s | ||
| 4/26/26 | fashion brand buildingventure capital+3 | Sali Christeson | Argent | — | fashionbrand building+5 | — | 46m 13s | ||
| 4/13/26 | resale platformluxury fashion+3 | Klemen Drole | Vestiaire Collective | — | Vestiaire Collectiveresale+5 | — | 37m 45s | ||
| 4/5/26 | influencer marketingfashion industry+3 | Hannah Krohne | David YurmanDanielle and Alix+1 | — | influencerTikTok+3 | — | 36m 25s | ||
| 3/22/26 | fashion businessentrepreneurship+4 | Ashley Moubayed | CFDA Vogue Fashion FundDon’t Let Disco | New York | CFDA Vogue Fashion FundDon’t Let Disco+5 | — | 46m 46s | ||
| 3/15/26 | viral fashion contentstreet style+4 | — | OOTD | New York | fashioncontent strategy+5 | — | 39m 43s | ||
| 3/8/26 | fashionentrepreneurship+4 | Matilda Djerf | Djerf Avenue | — | Djerf AvenueMatilda Djerf+5 | — | 32m 38s | ||
| 2/22/26 | New York Fashion Weekfashion industry changes+3 | — | Ralph LaurenMarc Jacobs+1 | San Francisco | NYFWfashion week+7 | — | 23m 04s | ||
| 2/15/26 | sustainabilityfashion design+4 | Lauren Bartley | Ganni | — | sustainabilityGanni+5 | — | 35m 52s | ||
| 2/8/26 | Copenhagen Fashion Weeksustainability+3 | — | Substack | — | Copenhagen Fashion Weeksustainability+3 | — | 28m 24s | ||
| 1/25/26 | entrepreneurshipfashion+4 | Kate March | Undone by Kate | New York | COVID side hustlebridal brand+5 | — | 35m 13s | ||
| 1/18/26 |  Marina Larroudé: Reinventing the Footwear Business Model | In this episode, Victoria sits down with Marina Larroude, founder of Larroudé, to unpack how she built one of fashion’s fastest-growing footwear brands by rewriting the rules. Marina shares her journey from interning at Condé Nast to leading fashion at Barneys, and how those experiences revealed the white space that inspired Larroudé. They dive into why footwear is one of the hardest categories in fashion, how vertical integration and pre-orders became a growth engine, and why the brand chose... | 39m 26s | ||||||
| 1/11/26 |  Rebecca Minkoff: Building a Household Name Fashion Label | In this episode, Victoria sits down with designer and founder Rebecca Minkoff to break down what it really takes to build a fashion brand and keep it alive through industry curveballs. Rebecca shares how an internship led to her first break, the celebrity moment that helped launch her label, and why success is a slow build of momentum over time. They dive into the business realities fashion school doesn’t teach like costing, pricing, profitability, and why she believes founders should b... | 37m 16s | ||||||
| 1/3/26 |  Cynthia Rowley: How to Make it in Fashion in NYC | In this episode, Victoria sits down with Cynthia Rowley, CFDA award winning designer, to talk about building a fashion career the scrappy way. Cynthia shares how she got started making clothes, her accidental path to New York, and what it really takes to sustain a long-term career in fashion. She breaks down the realities behind runway shows, navigating changes in the global fashion industry, and why small wins, consistency, and risk-taking matter more than chasing instant success. Cynthia al... | 41m 58s | ||||||
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