Bonus Conversation: Emily & Jessica

Written By Joshua T Williams
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MPS Fashion Management students Emily Wiens and Jessica Tsai share their retail strategies for Net-a-Porter and Muji, as part of their “Retailing and Service Design” final projects. They also provide insight on youth culture, consumer engagement and post-pandemic retailing.

Emily Wiens is a Canadian Fashion Management master’s student, currently researching the future of sustainable fashion systems and effective leadership management. She finds life in balancing her education with travel, and believes her time spent exploring diversity and cultures beyond her home has shaped her passion to empower marginalized communities. With a background in business, politics and technology, she aims to discover new ways where these experiences intersect with the fashion industry.

Learn more: LinkedIn | Email: emilyrwiens @ gmail.edu

Jessica Tsai has spent the past three years in Public Relations. She specializes in fast fashion, influencer marketing and social media content creation, particularly in the Asian market. She received her BA in German and Literature and spent time working as a professional German tour guide. She is a MPS Fashion Management student, graduating in August.

Learn more: LinkedIn | Email: tsaiy240 @ newschool.edu

Hosted by: Christopher Lacy, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Produced by: Joshua Williams, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Executive Producer: Fashion Consort

Follow the podcast on Instagram: @RetailRevolutionPodcast

Joshua T Williams

Joshua Williams is an award-winning creative director, writer and educator.  He has lectured and consulted worldwide, specializing in omni-channel retail and fashion branding, most recently at ISEM (Spain) and EAFIT (Colombia), and for brands such as Miguelina, JM, Andrew Marc and Anne Valerie Hash.  He is a full time professor and former fashion department chair at Berkeley College and teaches regularly at FIT, LIM and The New School.  He has developed curriculum and programming, including the fashion design program for Bergen Community College, that connects fashion business, design, media and technology.  His work has been seen in major fashion magazines and on the New York City stage. Joshua is a graduate of FIT’s Global Fashion Management (MPS) program, and has been the director and host of the Faces & Places in Fashion lecture series at FIT since 2010.

http://www.joshuatwilliams.com
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