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Jack Reynolds
Jack Reynolds is the Chief Marketing Officer of Free People and its activewear offshoot FP Movement, both part of Philadelphia-based Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN). He was promoted to the CMO role in April 2021 after several years running e-commerce and digital marketing for the brand, and before that spent roughly 13 years at Bertelsmann Media Group managing online and direct programs. He studied English and Philosophy at Dickinson College and originally wanted to work in music as an A&R representative, drifting into marketing while figuring out how to promote artists. Under his marketing leadership, FP Movement has grown from a single 2020 store into a fast-expanding activewear label, backed by campaigns like the 2024 Anomaly-created "Stand Out, Never Still" (starring a pink sheep named Tilly and five Olympic hopefuls) and the 2025 signing of snowboarder Bea Kim as the brand's first winter-sports ambassador ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Jill Beraud
Jill Beraud is an American consumer brand executive who has spent more than three decades building and running some of the best-known names in retail, beauty, luxury and beverages. She began in brand management at Procter & Gamble, ran her own New York advertising agency, then spent 13 years at Limited Brands, where as Chief Marketing Officer of Victoria's Secret she helped grow the label into a multi-billion-dollar business and also led marketing across Bath & Body Works, Express, Henri Bendel, C.O. Bigelow and Limited Stores. In December 2008 PepsiCo created the role of worldwide Chief Marketing Officer for her, reporting to Indra Nooyi; there she pushed the company away from Super Bowl spending and into the $20 million Pepsi Refresh Project, and later ran the Starbucks and Lipton joint ventures. She went on to serve as CEO of Living Proof, EVP of Global Retail Operations at Tiffany & Co., and CEO of the luxury jewelry house IPPOLITA, before co-founding the plant-based functional beverage company Sh'nnong. Fast Company named her one of its 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2013. She has sat on the board of Levi Strauss & Co. since 2013, was re-elected in April 2026, chairs the Fashion for Good board, and has served on the World of Children Board of Governors since 2009.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) is a Columbus, Ohio-based global specialty apparel retailer that operates a family of brands - Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie kids, Hollister, Gilly Hicks, Social Tourist and the YPB activewear line - across roughly 840 company-operated stores, a franchise network and a digital business that accounts for close to half of revenue. Founded in 1892 as a Manhattan outfitter that supplied Theodore Roosevelt's safaris and counted Ernest Hemingway among its customers, the company spent the 2010s dismantling the exclusionary teen-mall identity it had built in the 1990s and 2000s. Under CEO Fran Horowitz, who took over in 2017, it split its two flagship brands into distinct demographic lanes - Abercrombie for millennials in their twenties and thirties, Hollister for teenagers - shrank store footprints, and rebuilt merchandising around a lean-inventory 'chase' model that reads early demand signals and reorders fast. The approach produced record fiscal 2025 net sales of $5.27 billion, a third straight year of double-digit operating margin, and one of the more complete reputational reversals in modern American retail.
Belk
Belk is a privately held American department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina. Headquartered in Charlotte, it operates roughly 290 stores across about 16 Southeastern states plus belk.com, selling mid-priced national and private-label apparel, shoes, cosmetics, jewelry, accessories and home goods. Marketed under the tagline 'Modern. Southern. Style.,' Belk blends a 130-plus-year Southern retail heritage with an omnichannel model and a portfolio of exclusive private brands.
Brixton
Brixton is a California-based lifestyle apparel and headwear brand founded in a Oceanside garage in 2004. Named after The Clash song 'The Guns of Brixton,' it started with a single vintage-inspired newsboy cap and grew into a full line of hats, clothing and accessories inspired by heritage workwear - from mariners and aviators to cowboys and laborers. Distributed in more than 30 countries and backed by Altamont Capital Partners, Brixton blends classic silhouettes with modern function and a growing commitment to sustainable materials.
Burlington Stores, Inc.
Burlington Stores, Inc. is one of the largest off-price retailers in the United States, selling brand-name apparel, footwear, accessories, baby gear, and home goods at prices well below full-price department stores. Founded in 1972 as Burlington Coat Factory, the company built its business on opportunistically buying excess and closeout merchandise from thousands of vendors and passing the savings to shoppers through a rotating, treasure-hunt assortment. Headquartered in Burlington, New Jersey and trading on the NYSE under the ticker BURL, it operates more than 1,200 stores and is pursuing an aggressive small-format expansion toward a long-term target of 2,000 doors.
Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein is an American global fashion house founded in 1968 by designer Calvin Klein and business partner Barry Schwartz. Known for minimalist design, denim, underwear, fragrances and provocative advertising, the brand elevates everyday essentials to iconic status. Now owned by PVH Corp., Calvin Klein products generate roughly $9 billion in global retail sales annually and are sold across apparel, underwear, fragrances, accessories and home through wholesale, retail and digital channels worldwide.
Cartier
Cartier is a French luxury jewellery and watchmaking maison founded in Paris in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier. Dubbed the 'Jeweller of Kings and King of Jewellers' by Edward VII, it built its reputation supplying royal courts and later defined 20th-century design with icons like the Tank watch, Santos, Trinity ring and Love bracelet. Now the flagship brand of Switzerland's Richemont group, Cartier operates more than 200 boutiques across roughly 125 countries and anchors Richemont's jewellery division, the largest and most profitable part of the group.
Crocs, Inc.
Crocs, Inc. is a Broomfield, Colorado footwear company best known for the molded-foam Classic Clog and its snap-in Jibbitz charms. Built on a proprietary closed-cell resin called Croslite, the once-polarizing shoe grew into a multi-billion-dollar global brand spanning clogs, sandals, and sneakers, plus the HEYDUDE casual-loafer label acquired in 2022. Trading on Nasdaq as CROX, the company reported roughly $4.0 billion in 2025 revenue and reaches customers in more than 80 countries through its own stores, wholesale partners, and a large direct-to-consumer digital business.
Edikted
Edikted is a Los Angeles-based, Gen Z-focused online fashion brand founded in 2020 by former Adika executives Dedy Shwartzenberg and Zvika Alon. It sells trend-led, affordable women's apparel and accessories - dresses, denim, tops, swimwear and more - and rose to prominence through viral TikTok marketing. After starting online-only, Edikted has expanded into physical retail, opening flagship stores in major U.S. malls and moving into Europe, positioning itself as a curated, community-driven alternative to ultra-fast-fashion players like Shein and Temu.
Frances Valentine
Frances Valentine is a New York-based, vintage-inspired fashion label founded in 2016 by Kate Spade, Andy Spade, Elyce Arons and Paola Venturi - the same circle behind the original Kate Spade brand. It designs joyful, color-forward apparel, handbags, shoes, jewelry and accessories built to transcend trends, sold primarily direct-to-consumer online and through a small network of owned stores. The brand pairs quality craftsmanship with a playful, heritage-minded aesthetic drawn from mid-century style icons, aiming to make everyday dressing fun.
Frank & Eileen
Frank & Eileen is a Los Angeles-based apparel brand founded in 2009 by Audrey McLoghlin to reinvent the women's button-up shirt using premium Italian fabrics historically reserved for menswear. Named for the founder's Irish grandparents, the brand is 100% woman-owned, has never taken venture capital, and became a Certified B Corporation in 2020 with one of the highest impact scores of any U.S. apparel company. Its shirts are woven in Italy and its knitwear is made in California, and its work has been worn by figures including Oprah Winfrey, Meghan Markle and Angelina Jolie.
Free People
Free People is a Philadelphia-based bohemian lifestyle brand for women, part of Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN). Rooted in the counterculture store that Dick Hayne opened near Penn's campus in 1970 and relaunched as a wholesale label in 1984, it now sells eclectic, vintage-influenced apparel, accessories, shoes, intimates and beauty across its own boutiques, wholesale accounts and freepeople.com. Its fast-growing activewear spin-off, FP Movement, has made Free People URBN's second-largest brand, with roughly $1.5 billion in annual revenue.
FULLBEAUTY Brands
FULLBEAUTY Brands is a New York-based online retailer and holding company dedicated to plus-size and extended-size fashion for women and men. Tracing its roots to 1901, it operates a portfolio of 15+ brands - including Woman Within, Roaman's, Catherines, Jessica London, ELOQUII, CUUP, Swimsuits For All, KingSize, Avenue, Dia & Co and BrylaneHome - serving customers in sizes 12 and up with apparel, intimates, swimwear, shoes, accessories, beauty and home goods. Once a catalog mail-order pioneer, the company now positions itself as a digital-first destination and marketplace for inclusive fashion.
Gap Inc.
Gap Inc. is the largest specialty apparel company in the United States, a San Francisco-based house of brands that includes Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta. Founded in 1969 by Donald and Doris Fisher as a single Levi's jeans store, the company now operates roughly 3,500 stores plus a large e-commerce business, serving customers across value, core and premium price points. Under CEO Richard Dickson, Gap Inc. is executing a turnaround built on brand reinvigoration, a stronger operating platform and a diversified, more resilient supply chain.
goop
goop is a wellness and lifestyle brand founded by actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2008 that began as a weekly email newsletter and grew into a direct-to-consumer company selling clean beauty, skincare, supplements, fashion, and home goods alongside editorial content, a podcast, and events. It pairs aspirational storytelling with 'contextual commerce,' turning wellness articles into shoppable curation for a largely affluent, female audience. The brand is known both for pioneering the modern wellness-media category and for the controversy its more provocative products and health claims have generated.
Honeylove
Honeylove is a Los Angeles-based direct-to-consumer apparel company that designs shapewear, wireless bras, and everyday intimates engineered with targeted compression and supportive panels. Founded in 2018 by former EDM vocalist Betsie Larkin after she couldn't find shapewear that stayed in place on stage, the brand built its reputation on no-roll construction and comfort-first engineering. It has grown from a $300K Kickstarter and a Y Combinator batch into a nine-figure-revenue business serving more than 3 million customers, backed by a $13M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
J.Crew
J.Crew is a New York-based American specialty apparel retailer founded in 1983, known for preppy, versatile clothing for men, women and children sold through stores, catalogs and jcrew.com. Part of J.Crew Group (which also owns Madewell), the brand pairs updated wardrobe classics with quality fabrics and a run of buzzy cultural collaborations, and is executing a widely covered comeback under CEO Libby Wadle after emerging from a 2020 Chapter 11 restructuring.
Kellwood Company
Kellwood Company is an American apparel design, sourcing, manufacturing and marketing firm founded in 1961. It builds and operates women's, juniors' and girls' fashion brands - including Democracy, Jolt, Briggs New York, Rewind, My Michelle and Wit & Wisdom - and provides private-label and full-package product development, sourcing, quality assurance and distribution services for major retailers such as Nordstrom, Macy's, Kohl's, Dillard's, Target and Costco.
Kering
Kering is a French global luxury group that owns and develops a portfolio of Houses in fashion, leather goods, jewelry and eyewear - including Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Boucheron, Pomellato, Qeelin and Ginori 1735, plus Kering Eyewear and Kering Beaute. Controlled by the Pinault family through holding company Artemis, Kering grew out of a lumber and retail company (PPR) and reoriented itself entirely toward luxury, positioning creativity and sustainability at the center of its strategy.
KnitWell Group
KnitWell Group is one of the largest specialty apparel companies in the United States, a multi-brand operating company that unites eight iconic American women's fashion brands - Ann Taylor, LOFT, Talbots, Chico's, White House Black Market, Soma, Lane Bryant and Haven Well Within - under a single shared-services platform. Formed in 2023 by private equity firm Sycamore Partners and led by Executive Chair and CEO Lizanne Kindler, the company generates roughly $6 billion in annual sales, operates close to 3,000 retail stores, employs about 45,000 associates and serves more than 20 million loyal customers nationwide.
Macy's
Macy's is one of America's best-known department store chains, founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy in New York City and now the flagship nameplate of Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M). The company sells apparel, accessories, beauty, cosmetics, footwear and home goods across roughly 450 stores and macys.com, and also operates the higher-end Bloomingdale's and the beauty specialty chain Bluemercury. Anchored by its Herald Square flagship and cultural touchstones like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Fourth of July fireworks, Macy's is executing a multiyear turnaround called the 'Bold New Chapter' under CEO Tony Spring.
Marine Layer
Marine Layer is a San Francisco-based casual apparel brand built around one obsession: absurdly soft clothes. Founded in 2009 by Mike Natenshon and Adam Lynch, the company built its identity on proprietary fabrics - blends of Supima cotton, MicroModal spun from beechwood pulp, and recycled fibers - sold through a direct-to-consumer model spanning e-commerce and 55+ retail stores. A Certified B Corporation, Marine Layer runs a textile take-back program called Re-Spun that has collected over a million used T-shirts and turns them into new garments. The brand sits in the premium-casual, California-lifestyle segment, competing on comfort, sustainability credentials, and a laid-back aesthetic.
Michael Kors
Michael Kors is an American accessible-luxury fashion house founded in 1981 by designer Michael Kors. Known for jet-set American sportswear, its signature Saffiano-leather handbags, watches and ready-to-wear, the brand sells through hundreds of retail and outlet stores worldwide, wholesale partners and a growing e-commerce business. Now the anchor brand of parent Capri Holdings, Michael Kors accounts for roughly 70% of the group's revenue and targets style-conscious, aspirational consumers who want luxury design at a more attainable price point.
Portland Leather Goods
Portland Leather Goods is a bootstrapped, direct-to-consumer leather brand founded in 2015 by Curtis Matsko in a single-car garage in Portland, Oregon. What began as a handmade journal for his girlfriend grew into one of Etsy's top all-time sellers and a $100M+ business selling handcrafted full-grain leather totes, crossbodies, wallets and accessories. Known for its signature tumbled 'pebble' leather, aggressive social-media community building, and a fiercely loyal customer base, PLG blends artisan craftsmanship with modern DTC marketing to offer high-end leather at accessible prices.
PVH Corp.
PVH Corp. is one of the world's largest branded apparel companies, built around two iconic global lifestyle brands, Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER. Tracing its roots to an 1881 shirtmaking business in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, the New York-headquartered company designs, markets and distributes clothing, footwear and accessories in more than 40 countries through wholesale, retail and direct-to-consumer channels. Under CEO Stefan Larsson's PVH+ Plan, the company is concentrating on brand-building, digital and DTC-led growth, generating roughly $8.95 billion in annual revenue with more than 70% coming from outside the United States.
Q4 Designs LLC
Q4 Designs LLC is a New York-based apparel company that designs, sources, produces and manages branded outerwear and sportswear on behalf of well-known brand partners. Founded in 2011 by Harry Tawil and built on more than five decades of combined industry experience, Q4 handles the full product life cycle - design, sourcing and production, planning and sales, and operations - across four Centers of Excellence. Its licensed portfolio spans brands including DKNY, Reebok, Jessica Simpson, Steve Madden, Free Country, Bebe, Canada Weathergear, Snozu and Spyder, covering men's, women's and children's outerwear, sportswear, swimwear and accessories.
Randa Apparel & Accessories
Randa Apparel & Accessories is a privately held, family-run fashion company and the world's largest men's accessories business. Tracing its roots to a 1910 Lower East Side neckwear shop, Randa designs, sources, manufactures and distributes belts, wallets, headwear, gloves, umbrellas, slippers, tailored clothing and sportswear across a portfolio of 30-plus owned and licensed brands - including Levi's, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Columbia, Dickies, Haggar and Totes Isotoner. Operating in roughly 11 countries with about 2,000 employees, the company topped $1 billion in sales and quietly supplies the accessories sold in more than 10,000 stores under names most shoppers recognize but rarely connect to Randa.
Shinesty
Shinesty is a Boulder-born, Denver-based direct-to-consumer apparel brand built around one idea: make the world take itself less seriously. Best known for its cheekily named Ball Hammock pouch underwear and Boob Hammock bralettes, the company pairs proprietary soft fabrics and a supportive pouch design with an irreverent brand voice and outrageous themed party clothing. Founded in 2014 by University of Colorado Boulder friends, Shinesty has sold more than 12 million pairs of underwear, runs a monthly underwear subscription, and landed on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing U.S. companies.
Steve Madden
Steve Madden (Steven Madden, Ltd.) is a New York-based, publicly traded fashion company that designs, markets and sells trend-driven footwear, handbags and accessories at accessible price points. Founded in 1990 by designer Steve Madden with roughly $1,100, the company built its reputation on translating runway trends into affordable, fast-moving styles for young women. Today it operates a portfolio of owned and licensed brands - including Steve Madden, Dolce Vita, Betsey Johnson, Madden Girl and, following its 2025 acquisition, Kurt Geiger - across wholesale, retail and direct-to-consumer channels, generating over $2.5 billion in annual net sales.