Episode 01: Conversation with Ron Thurston, VP Stores, Intermix

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Written By Joshua T Williams
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Ron Thurston shares his unique perspective on developing a luxury retail business in the US market, with a focus on analytics, sales planning and empathetic and curious leadership.

Ron is an experienced retail executive with a demonstrated history of delivering exceptional results and building culture. Skilled in trend analysis, retail, client development and growing store fleet count. 

Ron is the Vice President of Stores at Intermix, an author and member of the Board of Directors at Goodwill.

Learn more: linkedin.com/in/rthurston | intermixonline.com | OurRetailStories.com

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

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

Executive Producer: Fashion Consort

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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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