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We’re excited to announce that Retail Revolution is now streaming on Amazon Music, available to all Amazon Prime users, and via Alexa! “We’re so excited to expand our presence, and provide this content to more listeners worldwide,” states producer Joshua Williams.
Fashion Consort launched Season 3 of Retail Revolution on Tuesday, September 8th, 2020. The Retail Revolution podcast was developed to give voice to fashion retailer experts at all levels of the business, from C-Suite to store floor, in order to better understand the seismic shifts happening in the industry, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Produced by Joshua Williams and hosted by Christopher Lacy, Season 3 of Retail Revolution podcast kicks off with guest expert Keanan Duffty, British fashion designer and founding director of the MPS-Fashion Management graduate program at Parsons School of Design.
As students transition from the classroom to virtual learning, Parsons School of Design has launched a Retail Revolution podcast that features weekly episodes with experts from a variety of fields offering insights and perspectives on how retailers can weather the coronavirus crisis.
New episodes of the podcast, which is housed on its own web site as well as on Instagram, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn and Spotify, will air twice a week. So far, episodes have featured Meisha Brown, vice president of department stores for Kering Eyewear; Brandon Roe, marketer and author, and Noam Levavi, chief executive officer of ByondXR.
The retail industry is undergoing a profound shift in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. Stores are closed, millions of people are out of work, and shopping for clothing and accessories isn’t considered essential business. Legacy brands, designers, stylists, and other creative professionals are rapidly pivoting their business strategies in order to survive, and creating plans in order to move forward in the aftermath of the crisis.
For “Retailing and Service Design,” the final 5-week course in the MPS Fashion Management program in the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design, professors Joshua Williams and Christopher Lacy had always planned to teach students about retail from an omnichannel perspective in order to help them find spaces to innovate after graduation. The current global health crisis has forced them to alter the curriculum, which now includes lecture videos, a weekly online seminar, and a podcast, “Retail Revolution,” where they interview experts about the impacts of Covid-19.
Retail Revolution podcast was borne out of a need to rethink the graduate-level “Retailing & Service Design” course for online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This course is part of the Fashion Management program at Parsons School of Design, and it was important to ensure that students were still able to engage with retail industry leaders and experts. From that starting point, it became an opportunity to engage the greater retail community in conversation about the short and long term implications of the pandemic, as well as the opportunity to rethink fashion retail for the future.