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Internationally acclaimed stylist and designer — and soon to be talk show host — Rachel Zoe’s career has played out in front of millions thanks to her reality TV show “The Rachel Zoe Project.” Zoe is paid to give her expert advice to clients (including many celebrities) on the latest fashions and trends, but not...
Birchbox, an online monthly subscription service, is always on the cutting edge of retailing. Earlier this summer, Birchbox announced an augmented reality and direct mail marketing campaign to help promote the release of Birchbox Man. In addition, the retailer announced a partnership with Gap, bringing pop-up locations to six storefronts across the U.S. However, my...
Hello readers! We’re back with another fabulous career opportunity that we want to share with you. Until our job board is up and running (it’s coming soon!), we’re using this space to highlight job openings that may be of interest to our readers. Take a look! Director, E-Tailer Accounts, Elizabeth Arden This New York City-based...
Thinking of emailing your resume and cover letter for the next job opening that strikes your fancy? Think again … at least according to Jenna Lyons, J.Crew’s group president and executive creative director. In this interview with Glamour’s Cindi Leive, Lyons dishes on a wide range of topics, from the proper way to apply for...
Welcome to “Ladies Who Launch,” our newest feature that profiles women who have founded interesting retail and e-commerce startups. This week we chatted with Shereen Campbell, the e-commerce and outlet planner for Vince, who just launched My Little Magic Shop, an e-commerce company that sells products, kits and a subscription service aimed at simplifying spiritual practices. Inner...
The annual Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) list of the top 25 highest-paid executives from publicly traded retail companies was released last week, and as per usual, only a small number of women made the list. Granted, the No. 1 spot did go to a woman, Carol Meyrowitz, CEO of TJX Companies Inc., the parent of discount chains...
Welcome to another installment of “A Minute With … ,” where we ask our board members a few questions about work and life. This week we chatted with Leisa Glispy, the founder of Collective Meaning, a digital consultancy providing e-commerce and digital consulting and interim digital services for luxury goods firms, brand manufacturers and consumer...
Pinterest is in the market for female engineers. While the social media network has an overwhelmingly female user base — 71 percent of its 72.5 million users are women, according to comScore — it lacks diversity in its workforce. Expect that to change in 2016.
We all know that the U.S. economy has been slow to recover from the Great Recession. In fact, some are suggesting that we may have slipped back into a recession. Slow growth has become the new normal for our economy, and economists all have their theories on why, but an interesting one emerged this week:...
As our online worlds expand, the opportunity for targeted ads and promoted content to infiltrate our Facebook news feeds continues to grow. Algorithms shape the everyday online community we immerse ourselves in — the suggested Facebook friends we should make, the search results we see on Google and the trending news we should be following on Twitter. The data collected is considered objective, at least most of the time. However, as the Internet of Things becomes more prevalent, the research of human influence on these algorithms and big data software says otherwise. As a result, it seems facts do have a bias.
