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Yehuda Shmidman Knows What a Familiar Name Can Carry
Before Toys“R”Us and Vera Wang, there was an iPod loaded with Talmud lessons. Yehuda Shmidman’s career has kept returning to the same question: how do you bring something people value within easier reach?
G-III wants to own the label.
The company behind familiar department-store names learned the price of borrowed fame. Now it is buying a bigger say in fashion’s future.
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.
Marc Gallagher
Marc Gallagher is a beauty and luxury executive with 25+ years turning storied brands into digital-first businesses. A would-be architect who detoured through the dot-com boom, he spent nearly a decade inside LVMH building the digital engines of Benefit Cosmetics, Marc Jacobs and Fresh, then doubled Elemis revenue during the pandemic as Chief Brand and Digital Officer, and became the first-ever CMO of British skincare challenger Facetheory. He is associated with Michelle Pfeiffer's clean fragrance house Henry Rose in Los Angeles. His operating creed, inherited from a mentor: if it does not make you nervous, it is not worth doing.