The Best Fashion Business Podcasts

MouthMedia Network currently produces three premium fashion business podcasts, focused on multiple aspects of the fashion industry.

Three Great Fashion Business Podcasts:

• American Fashion Podcast focuses on the changing nature of the fashion industry from a holistic perspective, exploring every niche, and advocating for ethical sustainable practices.

• Fashion Is Your Business tells fashion business stories and explores innovation on the technical side, as well as stories about consumer engagement.

• Retail Is Your Business specifically focuses on the concerns of those dealing with retail experiences using innovative technologies and modern practices, so while it should be of interest to people in the fashion industry, the series does not focus exclusively on fashion. The series has a broader mission to explore a variety of commerce stories.

Great Fashion Business Podcasts, Great Conversations

Our philosophy in producing podcasts has always been to tell the most interesting stories. If you’re going to talk about innovation, it should be inspiring. We know that we have a B2B audience for all of these shows and that executives are busy people, so we try not to waste their time when they're listening to one of our shows.

We also strive to make each show educational, by having the guests share real-world lessons learned, both good and bad. It's no wonder our podcasts are so successful. They're just plain old-fashioned compelling.

The Value of Fashion Business Podcasting For The Listeners

We launched American Fashion Podcast back in 2014 with a very specific goal in mind: to tell the stories you never hear about the fashion ecosystem, what goes on inside the industry, and how it works “under the hood,” giving the people who make it all work the opportunity to “broadcast” their wisdom to the rest of the world.

American Fashion Podcast has interviewed over 300 different people, from industry-leading designers like Joseph Abboud and Rebecca Minkoff, Mark Badgley and James Mischka, Donna Karan, and Alabama Chanin founder Natalie Chanin, to entrepreneurs like pioneering founders Andrew Wyatt of Cala and Federico Pignatelli of Pier 59 Studios to luminaries like Simon Collins, Tim Gunn, and theater and experience designer Robert Wilson. You can hear many of these from links right on the front page of the American Fashion Podcast official website.

It's an eclectic mix that gives you a truly 360-degree view of the fashion business. Plus, every episode is carefully crafted to get your mind thinking and provide you with nuggets of wisdom that can improve your bottom line.

Some of American Fashion Podcast's most surprisingly popular episodes are not with top designers though, they're with fashion journalists and business leaders. Our episodes with writers Lauren Sherman (Business of Fashion) and Dana Thomas (author of Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano, and Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster) outperformed some of the episodes featuring the actual designers the writers cover in total downloads. A more recent interview with Maxine Bédat, Executive Director at New Standard Institute and the author of the new book Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment, has also been extremely popular.

Executive Education

For Fashion Is Your Business, some of the most popular episodes have been the Timeless Conversations series, such as Timeless Conversations - Strategies from the C-Suite – Growing and Scaling Your Company. This episode is from one of our popular live networking events. It features a solid lineup of heavy hitter fashion business leaders, including Steven Balasiano, CEO of MHR Advisory, Counsel at Sills Cummis; Terri DiPaolo, Head of Licensing, Sponsorships, & Endorsements at TKO; and Jodd Readick, CEO of LymeLog, Founder of Roam Coin, and Co-Founder of User-Centric Communications; with a special guest moderator, Avani Patel, Co-Founder of Ember and Founder of TrendSeeder. You can listen to that episode right here right now:

The History of Our Fashion Business Podcasts

The American Fashion Podcast was the first series, launched in 2014, long before MouthMedia Network even existed. Fashion Is Your Business was created a few months later, to specifically cover fashion technology. Both series have grown in their missions. In 2016, we brought the two shows together to form MouthMedia Network, and started other — Is Your Business shows, like Beauty Is Your Business and Retail Is Your Business.

Tackling The Complexities of Retail

Here is one of the most popular episodes from Retail Is Your Business, in which Ward Kampf of Northwood Retail talks about “meeting consumers where (and how) they are:”

Prolific Podcasts: Voices of The Fashion Business

Today, American Fashion Podcast has over 250 episodes published and is about to start dropping a new season, Fashion Is Your Business has released nearly 400 episodes, and later series Retail Is Your Business is catching up with them quickly, now almost at its 100 episodes mark. Another series that ran for a while, Material Is Your Business, recorded 62 episodes, and is available as part of the American Fashion Podcast Archives, which is all about the business. Combined, MouthMedia Network’s fashion business podcasts have published over 750 episodes to date.

Participatory Conversations

If you’re an executive or expert working in or around the fashion business and are interested in being a guest on one or more of our podcasts, please use the Be A Guest form to get in touch.

If you’re interested in starting your own show about anything business-related, please use the form below to request a free consultation.

written by Chief Innovation Officer, Charles Beckwith