TheIndustry.fashion & TheIndustry.beauty Podcast

Maria Chenoweth is the CEO of the TRAID charity, which has 12 stores in London, and Co-founder of the new sustainable retail concept, Charity Super.Mkt, the UK’s first multi-charity preloved pop-up fashion store.

The pop-up store is currently located in the former Topshop unit at Brent Cross shopping centre, in collaboration with landlord Hammerson.

It’s a format that has hit the ground running, and the initial four week period, from 27 January, has been extended to six weeks. What’s more, Chenoweth and fellow Charity Super.Mkt Co-Founder Wayne Hemingway, Founder of Red or Dead and Hemingway Design, plan to take the concept on tour.

She tells TheIndustry.fashion's Contributing Editor, Tom Bottomley, all about it.


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Maria Chenoweth is the CEO of the TRAID charity, which has 12 stores in London, and Co-founder of the new sustainable retail concept, Charity Super.Mkt, the UK’s first multi-charity preloved pop-up fashion store.

The pop-up store is currently located in the former Topshop unit at Brent Cross shopping centre, in collaboration with landlord Hammerson.

It’s a format that has hit the ground running, and the initial four week period, from 27 January, has been extended to six weeks. What’s more, Chenoweth and fellow Charity Super.Mkt Co-Founder Wayne Hemingway, Founder of Red or Dead and Hemingway Design, plan to take the concept on tour.

She tells TheIndustry.fashion's Contributing Editor, Tom Bottomley, all about it.


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Dr Jane Leonard is a GP and aesthetic doctor who recently appeared as an expert contributor to the revamped Embarrassing Bodies series on Channel 4 and has made it her mission to help young women, in particular, to find confidence in their looks and bodies.

She regularly cautions against unnecessary procedures, unrealistic expectations and unqualified practitioners, but, at the same time, she is keen for the aesthetics industry to be recognised for the positive impact it can have on people’s lives and health.

As well as appearing on this podcast, where she is talking to our Editor in chief Lauretta Roberts, Dr Jane has her own podcast in the making and is working on a documentary on female health.


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Dr Jane Leonard is a GP and aesthetic doctor who recently appeared as an expert contributor to the revamped Embarrassing Bodies series on Channel 4 and has made it her mission to help young women, in particular, to find confidence in their looks and bodies.

She regularly cautions against unnecessary procedures, unrealistic expectations and unqualified practitioners, but, at the same time, she is keen for the aesthetics industry to be recognised for the positive impact it can have on people’s lives and health.

As well as appearing on this podcast, where she is talking to our Editor in chief Lauretta Roberts, Dr Jane has her own podcast in the making and is working on a documentary on female health.


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Entrepreneur Sach Kukadia is perhaps best known for founding the UK’s first flash sales website, Secret Sales, with his brother Nish in 2007, which they sold in 2019 to Lifestyle Retail Group. 

He is now firmly focused on his latest venture, gold and platinum jewellery business 7879, which launched in November 2021. 

Having secured £5.5m in seed funding in November 2022, and with a pop-up space currently running in Harrods, Kukadia speaks to Tom Bottomley, Contributing Editor of TheIndustry.fashion, about what he’s learnt from his past businesses, the unique business model of 7879, and his future plans to scale the new business.

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Entrepreneur Sach Kukadia is perhaps best known for founding the UK’s first flash sales website, Secret Sales, with his brother Nish in 2007, which they sold in 2019 to Lifestyle Retail Group. 

He is now firmly focused on his latest venture, gold and platinum jewellery business 7879, which launched in November 2021. 

Having secured £5.5m in seed funding in November 2022, and with a pop-up space currently running in Harrods, Kukadia speaks to Tom Bottomley, Contributing Editor of TheIndustry.fashion, about what he’s learnt from his past businesses, the unique business model of 7879, and his future plans to scale the new business.

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Sabina Ranger is the entrepreneur behind fledgling beauty brand BELLA, which is shaking up the cosmetics market (and Instagram) with its WANDERLASH Mascara that promises a false eyelash effect in just a few simple strokes.

WANDERLASH is the first in a planned series of products that Ranger intends to launch in the world of beauty, with the stated aim of outperforming alternatives on the market.
 
Sabina tells Lauretta Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of TheIndustry.beauty, how her family’s business and her dissatisfaction with false eyelashes motivated her to enter the highly competitive cosmetics world, taking on global giants, how her product work and how she has achieved such a high profile in such a short space of time and what her ambitions are for future growth.

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Sabina Ranger is the entrepreneur behind fledgling beauty brand BELLA, which is shaking up the cosmetics market (and Instagram) with its WANDERLASH Mascara that promises a false eyelash effect in just a few simple strokes.

WANDERLASH is the first in a planned series of products that Ranger intends to launch in the world of beauty, with the stated aim of outperforming alternatives on the market.
 
Sabina tells Lauretta Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of TheIndustry.beauty, how her family’s business and her dissatisfaction with false eyelashes motivated her to enter the highly competitive cosmetics world, taking on global giants, how her product work and how she has achieved such a high profile in such a short space of time and what her ambitions are for future growth.

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John Snare and Rachel Kelly are the Co-founders of Thought, one of the UK’s earliest sustainable and ethical fashion brands.
 
Thought's focus is on creating a "circular economy", and over the years it has invested extensively in expanding the range of materials used.
 
The business boasts an impressive range of textiles compared to similar retailers, such as hemp, bamboo, and Seacell - a material made from harvested seaweed.
 
In this episode of the In Conversation podcast, John and Rachel speak to Tom Shearsmith, News Editor at TheIndustry.fashion, about how the business has progressed since they first created clothing in 1995, why the business has constantly needed to evolve and educate, the recent onboarding of retailers, and where the business is heading in the future.


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John Snare and Rachel Kelly are the Co-founders of Thought, one of the UK’s earliest sustainable and ethical fashion brands.
 
Thought's focus is on creating a "circular economy", and over the years it has invested extensively in expanding the range of materials used.
 
The business boasts an impressive range of textiles compared to similar retailers, such as hemp, bamboo, and Seacell - a material made from harvested seaweed.
 
In this episode of the In Conversation podcast, John and Rachel speak to Tom Shearsmith, News Editor at TheIndustry.fashion, about how the business has progressed since they first created clothing in 1995, why the business has constantly needed to evolve and educate, the recent onboarding of retailers, and where the business is heading in the future.


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