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Michael Jaïs and the price of being talked about
A finance graduate helped bring software to the fashion front row. Now Michael Jaïs is asking a harder question: what should a brand do with all that attention?
Matt Baer’s future of shopping has a familiar face
He grew up in a furniture family, took a detour through law, and helped build the digital businesses at Walmart and Macy’s. At Stitch Fix, Matt Baer is betting that the future of shopping will feel a little more like being remembered.
Walden Lam and the trouble with making clothes too soon
Before a pair of trousers becomes waste, it begins as a prediction. The unspun co-founder has spent years trying to change the order of events - and make the customer come first.
Liyia Wu Put the Shop Window Inside the Phone
She began with a travel directory nobody needed. Then Liyia Wu noticed that the most useful part of a shop was not the shelf, but the person standing beside it.
Kirk Keel Built 99 Shirt Sizes - Then Learned the Customer Was Somewhere Else
The engineer-turned-marketer built Stantt around an elegant sizing algorithm. The harder invention was a business willing to follow customers from a screen to a fitting room - and back again.
Debbie Woloshin
Debbie Woloshin is the Chief Marketing Officer of Stitch Fix, the personalized styling and apparel company. A brand builder with more than 30 years in fashion marketing, she joined in 2022 from Marc Jacobs, where she led a global digital transformation. Across earlier roles at the Jones Group, Ann Inc., the Frye Company, L'Oreal and Nine West, she has shaped some of fashion's most recognizable brands and orchestrated collaborations with talent from Taylor Swift to Kate Hudson. At Stitch Fix she launched the 'Retail Therapy' brand platform and pushed a marketing strategy that pairs empathetic storytelling with AI-powered personalization.
Ryan Heller
Ryan Heller is the Chief Marketing Officer of Fabletics, the membership-based activewear brand headquartered in El Segundo, California. He leads the company's creative, media and acquisition, CRM, brand partnerships and PR functions. A data-driven marketer with more than a decade inside the TechStyle Fashion Group family of brands, he rose from Vice President to Senior Vice President of Marketing and helped launch customer acquisition for Savage X Fenty before taking the top marketing seat at Fabletics in early 2021.
Jen Rhi
Jen Rhi is the founder and CEO of NXN Labs, a San Francisco and Seoul based AI company building an operating system for fashion and commerce imagery. A Stanford computer science graduate and former McKinsey and SoftBank Ventures alum, she left the investor side of the table to attack a problem she kept seeing in brands: creative ideas were cheap, but the production bandwidth to shoot models, garments and campaigns at scale was the real bottleneck. NXN Labs answers that with proprietary multimodal diffusion models that generate photorealistic on-model imagery, video and virtual try-ons without a physical shoot. Two months after founding, the company was backed by Naver D2SF, KB Investment and Smilegate; by 2026 it had landed European luxury clients and a spot on the NRF Innovators' Showcase Top 50.