Conversation with Marc Mastronardi, Chief of Stores, Macy’s

Dec 15

Marc Mastronardi shares his extensive experience in developing fashion offering in a omni-retail department store setting. He discusses Macy's focus on diversity and inclusion, and the collaborative effort it takes to create the Macy's experience.

Marc has extensive knowledge of the omni channel retail business with experience in merchandising and planning in both traditional brick and mortar and e-commerce for Men's, Women's Accessories, Shoes, Jewelry, Cosmetics, Intimate Apparel, Ready-to-Wear, Seasonal Men's and Women's businesses. He began his career with the Filene's organization in Boston, before moving to New York City when Macy's purchased the May Company. He has held many important roles at Macy's including Senior Vice President of Customer Experience and Store Operations, Executive Vice President of Business Development Innovation and Executive Vice President of General Merchandise Management, Center Core. Marc's current role is the Chief of Stores for Macy's organization, covering all fashion offerings for Macy's and Bloomingdale's stories.

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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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