Stephanie Phair on Nurturing Fashion’s Future Female Leaders | Inside Fashion
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In conversation with BoF’s Imran Amed, in front of 150 fashion professionals from the BoF Careers community, Farfetch’s chief strategy officer and chair of the British Fashion Council Stephanie Phair shared her insight on how fashion can better support gender diversity within the workplace. As the global #MeToo movement has spotlighted sexual misconduct within creative industries, this issue has gained increasing momentum, sparking industry-wide conversation on the continuing gender imbalance in the fashion sector.
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| 0:00.0 | If you look at people who seem like they've got it all sorted out, the reality is they probably don't. |
| 0:08.0 | They're just better at conveying that image. |
| 0:11.0 | How did you get on the leadership track? |
| 0:14.0 | If you've got that drive and energy and you believe in something, you can bring people along with you. |
| 0:19.0 | Little by little, I realize that to become |
| 0:21.6 | a leader, people need to relate to you and they need to understand where you're coming from. |
| 0:25.7 | What was the lowest moment? Well, you've not done an MBA or you don't have business experience. |
| 0:30.8 | And so that was quite tough to sort of hold out and say, no, I can do something. |
| 0:35.4 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion. |
| 0:38.9 | We have a special episode of the BOF podcast for you today, recorded live in conversation with |
| 0:44.8 | Stephanie Fair, Chief Strategy Officer of Farfetch and Chairman of the British Fashion Council. |
| 0:49.7 | Now, Stephanie has had an incredible career in the fashion industry. |
| 0:53.7 | She's worked for industry legends like Anna Wintour and Natalie Massanay. |
| 0:58.3 | She's worked in entrepreneurial environments. |
| 1:00.1 | She's worked in publishing. |
| 1:01.3 | She's worked in technology. |
| 1:03.1 | So we thought who better to speak to than Stephanie to talk about what it's like to build |
| 1:06.9 | a career in the fashion industry, especially as a woman. |
| 1:10.6 | We all know that the fashion industry, especially as a woman. We all know that the fashion industry |
| 1:12.1 | is primarily targeted at women, but there's so few women who have reached the top echelons of the |
| 1:18.1 | fashion industry. So we wanted to get Stephanie's advice for all of you out there looking to build |
| 1:22.4 | your career in fashion. So here's Stephanie Fair Inside Fashion. |
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