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To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
Rarely does Karen Harvey, CEO and Founder of The Karen Harvey Companies sit down on the other side of the podcast mic. Having worked with top talent and brands in the fashion world for almost 22 years, Karen shares what it takes to succeed in the industry. Karen knew at an early age that she wanted to know and help people on a deep level. This, coupled with her love for fashion, eventually led her into consulting. Karen began Karen Harvey Consulting in 2001. For Karen, placing talent was much more than just a transaction. Her commitment to her values, even while scaling her business, has enabled her to care deeply about the people and brands she works with. Karen attributes her success to her incredible team of women, most of whom, have been with her for over a decade. The Karen Harvey Companies also include Karen's two other businesses: INDX and Fashion Tech Forum. Today, you can find Karen speaking on her podcast with some of the leading names in the fashion industry. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to order Rebecca's new book, Fearless: The New Rules for Unlocking Creativity, Courage, and Success. Follow Superwomen on Instagram. Social Media: @harveyvision @_indx_ @fashtechforum Big Ideas: -Difference between being really good at something versus talent -How to scale your vision while remaining in integrity to your values -Failed projects and knowing when it's time to pivot -What it takes to make it in the fashion world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/superwomen/support
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLCin Partnership with NasdaqFounder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLCin Partnership with NasdaqFounder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To read more about Claire's and Generation Zalpha you can read the New York Times article here.To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLCin Partnership with NasdaqFounder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
Alex Adelman is the CEO & Co-founder of Lolli, a rewards application that lets people earn bitcoin when they shop online from 1,000+ top merchants. Alex was previously the CEO & Co-founder of Cosmic, the leading e-commerce gateway, which was acquired by PopSugar in '15 and then by Ebates in '17. Alex positioned Cosmic and Lolli as high growth, high value, and industry-leading technology companies, establishing strategic partnerships with key partners in e-commerce. Alex was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Retail & E-Commerce. His work has been featured on WSJ, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, TechCrunch, Cheddar, MarketWatch, and Digiday and he's presented at Advertising Week, Fashion Tech Forum, TechCrunch Disrupt, Tech Cocktail, Money 20/20, and Technori. Alex holds a BA in Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crypto-hipster-podcast/support
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
Alex Adelman is the CEO & Co-founder of Lolli, a rewards application that lets people earn bitcoin when they shop online from 1,000+ top merchants. Alex was previously the CEO & Co-founder of Cosmic, the leading e-commerce gateway, which was acquired by PopSugar in '15 and then by Ebates in '17. Alex positioned Cosmic and Lolli as high growth, high value, and industry-leading technology companies, establishing strategic partnerships with key partners in e-commerce. Alex was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Retail & E-Commerce. His work has been featured on WSJ, Forbes, Fortune, Wired, TechCrunch, Cheddar, MarketWatch, and Digiday and he's presented at Advertising Week, Fashion Tech Forum, TechCrunch Disrupt, Tech Cocktail, Money 20/20, and Technori. Alex holds a BA in Economics from UNC-Chapel Hill. Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation's financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X.
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael SimonelliMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
This week Anna speaks to beauty boss Maria Hatzistefanis, founder of skincare group, Rodial. She's just released her second book, How To Make It Happen where she spells out how to motivate yourself and harness your drive and energy. With clear guidance, tips and celebrity stories throughout, Maria sums up her business secrets with three golden rules: set your goals; plot your trajectory; make it happen! To shop the Achievher X Prickly Pear range go diaries, journals and planners visit https://www.pricklypear.me/collections/notebooks Profile: London-based beauty entrepreneur, Maria Hatzistefanis, founded her ground-breaking skincare group, Rodial, in 1999 by identifying a niche for treatments targeted to specific skin concerns. With a growing global beauty empire, her results-oriented products excite with evocative tongue-in-cheek names such as Dragon's Blood and Snake Serum. There are 2 brands – Rodial, and Nip + Fab – sold through 20,000 doors across 35 countries worldwide including Saks Fifth Avenue, Space NK, Harvey Nichols and Harrods. Today, the cutting-edge products are available in the most prestigious stores around the world, while high profile celebrities such as Kylie Jenner and Sofia Richie fronting the brands campaigns. In 2014, Hatzistefanis expanded Rodial with a makeup collection and an exclusive sculpting bar and counter in London's Harvey Nichols. She pioneered the concept of communicating with the consumer in the digital age via social media with her own social media handle @mrsrodial, with over 1 million followers across Instagram, Twitter and Youtube. She is also the executive producer and star of the docu-series “The Mrs Rodial project”, about the drama and glamour of the world of beauty, fashion and celebrities. Maria started her career as a beauty writer before moving to New York where she received an MBA from Columbia Business School. After a stint in corporate finance at Salomon Brothers, first in New York and then London, she followed her passion and instinct for beauty by founding Rodial. Maria has become a respected and sought-after opinion- leader. Her point-of-view attracts followers both online and off, and she is increasingly in demand to speak at fashion, business and digital conferences such as her latest appearance at London's Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design, Web Summit, Fashion Tech Forum and WWD Digital. Along with speaker events, Maria is also known for her mentoring and entrepreneurial guidance, where most recently she was a judge for the BFC Vogue fashion fund, as well as guest appearances as a mentor on US fashion series, aired on Lifetime TV, Project Runway: Fashion Startup. Maria also be appeared as a guest mentor at the Project Runway: All Stars in Fall 2017. Maria is a patron of the British Fashion Council and is heavily involved in working alongside the BFC to support and promote young, emerging talent and promoting British fashion. Maria's latest venture is the launch of her first book – How To Be An Overnight Success. Exploring Maria's journey so far, the book provides insights into how she built and began her brands and the challenges and fun that she encountered along the way. The book was a huge success with it becoming a best-seller on Amazon. Instagram @MrsRodial
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Garrett CroweMix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael Simonelli Mix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael Simonelli Mix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael Simonelli Mix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael Simonelli Mix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael Simonelli
To learn more about Heron and his work , visit @heronpreston and heronpreston.com.To learn more about Karen Harvey, Fashion Tech Forum and The Karen Harvey Companies, visit thekhc.co© 2020 Fashion Tech Forum, LLC.Produced by Fashion Tech Forum LLC331 Park Avenue SouthNew York, NY 10010Founder and CEO, Karen HarveyExecutive Producers, Karen Harvey and Jason OberholtzerProducers, Maia Wojcik and Meghal JanardanEditor, Michael Simonelli Mix, Andrew AtkinTheme music written and performed by Michael SimonelliSpecial Thanks to Heron Preston, Jenna Blaha, Lenora Martinez and Julia Newhall.
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In episode #167 I welcome Maria Hatzistefanis, beauty entrepreneur, businesswoman, best-selling author, speaker, mentor - and podcast host. She founded her ground-breaking skincare group, Rodial, in 1999 by identifying a niche for treatments targeted to specific skin concerns. With a growing global beauty empire, her results-oriented products excite with evocative tongue-in-cheek names such as Dragon’s Blood and Snake Serum. There are 2 brands – Rodial, and Nip + Fab – sold through 20,000 doors across 35 countries worldwide including Saks Fifth Avenue, Space NK, Harvey Nichols and Harrods. Today, the cutting-edge products are available in the most prestigious stores around the world, while high profile celebrities such as Kylie Jenner and Sofia Richie fronting the brands campaigns. Maria is a patron of the British Fashion Council and is heavily involved in working alongside the BFC to support and promote young, emerging talent and promoting British fashion. She has become a respected and sought-after opinion- leader. Her point-of-view attracts followers both online and off, and she is increasingly in demand to speak at fashion, business and digital conferences such as her latest appearance at London’s Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design, Web Summit, Fashion Tech Forum and WWD Digital. Along with speaker events, Maria is also known for her mentoring and entrepreneurial guidance, where most recently she was a judge for the BFC Vogue fashion fund, as well as guest appearances as a mentor on US fashion series, aired on Lifetime TV, Project Runway: Fashion Start-up. Maria also appeared as a guest mentor at the Project Runway: All Stars in Fall 2017. Maria is author of best-selling book How To Be An Overnight Success and hosts her own podcast show Overnight Success, both of which I highly recommend. I visited Maria at Rodial's London HQ where we preceded to talk about podcasts, especially each others..before remembering the interview, and finding out about the secrets to her success. Let's StartUp!
Boss Files with Poppy Harlow: Conversations about business, leadership and innovation
Actress Sophia Bush is teaming up with entrepreneurs Nia Batts and Katy Cockrel to partner and invest in Detroit Blows, a blowdry salon that is contributing to Detroit's comeback. They open up about why they aim to build a more inclusive space for women with all hair types, the challenges they face raising money as female founders, and their philanthropic arm, Detroit Grows. This interview was recorded in front of a live audience at the Fashion Tech Forum in New York City. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.
IKEA is a brand that is no stranger to collaborations. It’s a company that loves to elevate everyday item to artwork, while still making those designer home designs something accessible even for the first time home owner, young adult or student setting out on their own. Spearheading the company’s latest collaboration is Henrik Most, who is the Creative Lead at Ikea. Most is the one who is working hand-in-hand with white hot designer Virgil Abloh, who just presented his first collection as the menswear designer of Louis Vuitton, on a line of cobranded Ikea items. I interviewed Most at the Fashion Tech Forum conference in Los Angeles right after he finished a round table talk with Abloh. At the conference they discussed what the home items they are creating together, which will drop early next year, would look like. Called The Markerad collection, the designs are all about elevating the anonymous, everyday pieces that we use without noticing and giving them a subtle pop-art inspired twist. Iconic staple and functional items have been injected with a modern designer polish that makes the familiar feel fresh and new. The perfect example of this thinking is the standard white Ikea rug that Abloh re-envisioned. In a very meta move the designer transformed the white rug into an oh-so-familiar white Ikea receipt (bar code et all) that actually showed printed on the rug the price of the rug itself. But instead of me trying to explain what it is like to work with Abloh on a creative collaboration, I am going to turn it over to Most to tell you more about this exciting adventure in interior designs.
Stephanie Phair, the chief strategy officer at luxury online marketplace Farfetch, has been in the news lately because she was just appointed as the new Chair of the British Fashion Council, succeeding Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet, who stepped down in December 2017 after five years in the role. Stephanie will basically be overseeing core events that the BFC puts on, most notably London Fashion Week and The Fashion Awards, while at the same time still doing her day job as CSO at Farfetch. The Chairmanship of the BFC is a seriously big side hustle, but I have no double that Stephanie is up to the task. Bacially because when we spoke at the Fashion Tech Forum in Los Angeles Stephanie was so fired up about all the new projects she was working on for Farfetch and jazzed about the future of online and offline shopping in the luxury sector. I mean just to give you some perspective, Farfetch has raised over $700 million in funding and has partnered with JD.com in China and Chalhoub in the Middle East. Two major deals that are part of a global expansion ahead of an expected initial public offering later this year that could value the company at greater than $5 billion, according to some reports. Stephanie is in the fashion pole position right now and is clearly going full throttle into the future.
I was lucky enough to be a moderator of a panel that Adam Pritzker, the Chairman and CEO, Assembled Brands, was on at the famed Fashion Tech Forum conference that took place in Los Angeles. The event was hosted by the renowned Karen Harvey, who founded the Karen Harvey Consulting Group and is known for her ability to make high level connections between fashion and tech companies around the globe. It made sense that Pritzker would be speaking at Karen’s conference. He co-founded and raised millions for his tech-education platform General Assembly, which – among other things became known for its great coding bootcamps and got him on Forbes 30 Under 30 list when he was 28. Then in 2013 he launched Assembled Brands, which is a next generation holding company of niche fashion and lifestyle brands like The Line, Khaite, Pop & Suki, Protagonist and Margaux. Pritzker, who it is worth pointing out is the scion of the Hyatt Hotels family, dove into the world of fashion because he saw an opening that needed filling in the circle of life of modern day fashion brands. He wants Assembled Brands to be the place where this growing number of targeted smaller fashion labels can come and build their business thanks to the infrastructure and support his company will be able to provide them. Thus leaving the creative entrepreneurs who start these labels room to focus their energy on building their unique product. When we spoke about it at the conference he compared the concept behind Assembled Brands to Y Combinator, a respected accelerator for nascent tech startups. We spoke about all of this in the somewhat noisy backstage green room right after we had finished our Fashion Tech Forum’s round table talk in a quick and precise interview that proves Pritzker has a clear vision of the future of fashion, where creativity is supported and elevated by lifting the burden of the business side of the industry off the shoulders of talented designers. Once you have finished this podcast you might just want to get in touch with Pritzker about becoming part of the Assembled Brands family yourself.
Late last year I was honored to be asked by Karen Harvey, CEO of Karen Harvey Consulting Group and founder of Fashion Tech Forum to participate in the latest Fashion Tech Forum conference in Los Angeles. And besides speaking on the center stage of the forum I had the all access privilege to interview some of the key speakers at the event. So backstage, between presentations, round-table talks and motivational speeches I got to pick the brains of some of the leading minds in the fashion and tech industry. The first chat from this series of interviews that I want to share with you is with Jeff Carvalho. He is the managing editor of one of the coolest, street savvy and innovative fashion websites online today – Highsnobiety, which counts a global audience of 12.5 million monthly readers. Jeff is also a partner at Titelmedia, which owns Highsnobiety. He joined in 2007 when the company’s founder and CEO David Fischer brought him on board not only to oversee the website but also develop other print and online content and brand partnerships. The company has worked with some of the hottest brands of today- from Louis Vuitton and Nike to Mercedes-Benz and Levi’s. Jeff is considered to be an expert in the street wear culture and is often asked to comment by the New York Times and The Business of Fashion on this growing market and its influence on fashion and luxury on a broader scale. And I have to tell you I understand why those publications want to hear from Jeff. We spoke right after he had interviewed designer Virgil Abloh and Henrik Most, Creative Lead at Ikea about the Ikea and Off White collaboration that will soon debut. In rapid fire, well thought out answers to my questions Jeff proved himself to be a skilled speaker, who wasn’t distracted in the slightest by the background noise at the venue or the fact that Virgil, Will.i.am and Joe Zee were milling about. I basically just sat back and let him loose to explain the success of his site, explore the idea of jet stream influencers and discuss how the way we use and consumer products and news is continuing to evolve. So hold onto your seat and get ready for a ride into the future.
Coming to you live from Startup Fashion Week's Fashion Tech Forum! On October 6th, journalist Amanda Cosco moderated a panel on the future of fashion and retail with key characters dotting the fashion tech landscape, including Roger Chabra of Frank + Oak, textile designer Fionna Hanna, Vincent Thériault of Surmesur, and Mario Christian of Daniel Christian Tang. The panel touched on the different ways Canadian companies small and large blend fashion and tech, as well as some key challenges (Photo by Stephanie Greenall. Music by Andrew Applepie)