Hosted by Elisabeth Mac Hale · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 55 episodes
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This podcast "Thrive in Fashion" is your ultimate guide to navigating the dynamic world of FASHION BUYING & MERCHANDISING. Hosted by Elisabeth Mac Hale, a seasoned fashion buyer and industry consultant, this podcast is designed for aspiring buyers, fashion graduates & boutique owners, passionate about the fashion business.Each episode explores different aspects of fashion buying, from trend analysis and product development to retail strategy. Elisabeth shares her wealth of experience, offering practical insights and industry tips, to help you build a successful career in fashion buying.
Elisabeth Mac Hale hosts Thrive in Fashion Buying and Merchandising, a arts show with 55 episodes published.
Every fashion buyer makes wrong calls. The question is not whether it happens but instead what you do when it does. In this episode, Elisabeth Mac Hale talks about getting a buying decision wrong and how you can learn fr
Fashion college teaches you how to buy. It does not teach you how to be assessed as a professional in a commercial business. In this episode, Elisabeth Mac Hale explains what is actually being looked at in a performance
Supplier negotiation is one of the most commercially significant skills a fashion buyer develops and one area where limiting habits can form early. In this episode, Elisabeth Mac Hale shares what she wishes she had under
Seasonal planning is one of the most important technical skills a fashion buyer develops and one of the areas where the most avoidable mistakes happen. In this episode, Elisabeth Mac Hale draws on 25+ years of industry e
Range review and Range Sign off meetings are one of the most commercially significant meetings in the buyers calender. In this episode, Elisabeth Mac Hale draws on 25+ years of experience on both sides of the review room
Most mid-level buyers are waiting for a promotion to make them strategic. In this episode, Elisabeth explains why that is the wrong order and what the specific, observable behaviours are that change how you are perceived
Most buyers at the three to five year stage in their careers know when they should push back. The challenge is knowing how to do this in a way that is commercially useful rather than personally costly. In this episode, E
Knowing your category and having the right data is only part of what it takes to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders. In this episode, Elisabeth breaks down why capable buyers can lose credibility and what t
Being told to "show more initiative" is one of the most common pieces of feedback junior fashion buyers receive and one of the least well explained. In this episode, Elisabeth Mac Hale breaks down what initiative actuall
Most buyer performance plans are thorough on paper and thin on impact. In this episode, Elisabeth Mac Hale draws on her years of industry experience of reviewing and writing development plans across retail organisations
Every buyer knows the declared metrics — sell-through, margin, critical path etc..But the assessment that actually determines whether you progress happens differently: This happens continuously, informally, and against c
Supplier relationships are among the most commercially valuable things a fashion buyer builds. But one of the skills buyers are least prepared for is the moment when those relationships come under pressure. In this episo
There are assessments that happen without you knowing or realising, conversations where your name comes up for a promotion, a bigger budget, or a project but it is never communicated directly to you. In this episode, Eli
Every buyer uses instinct. The question is whether instinct is the whole picture or just the starting point. Forecasting is one of the most practically useful skills in fashion buying and one of the least formally develo
Margin comes up in every buying meeting. It is in every range review, every supplier negotiation, every conversation with your merchandiser or finance team. And yet most buyers enter the profession without ever being for
Open-to-buy. If those three words make you feel slightly anxious, you are not alone. OTB is one of the most important financial tools in fashion buying and one of the least formally taught. Most buyers are expected to un
In almost every buying office when something goes wrong like a supplier crisis, a shipment delay or a supply chain disruption.This is when the your problem solving skills as a buyer become visible. Its not about how well
The critical path is the glue that holds all the pieces of the buying process together. Understanding it is the difference between looking like you know what you're doing and actually knowing what you're doing. If you wa
After 25 years hiring fashion buyers and managing $100M+ in budgets, the industry reality is that even expensive fashion education often leaves graduates unprepared for the commercial demands of buying roles. This isn't
If you think fashion buying success is about having a "good eye"? Think again. After 25 years in the industry, managing over $120 million in annual budgets and hiring more than 100 fashion buyers, Elisabeth Mac Hale reve
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