Theory Founder Andrew Rosen on Fashion’s Past and Future | Inside Fashion

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The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The fashion retail pioneer speaks with BoF Chief Correspondent Lauren Sherman about identifying a gap in US and international markets for contemporary clothing brands and investing in emerging designers.

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0:00.0	One day my uncle came to me and said,
0:05.0	you're not just going to play golf for the rest of your life.
0:09.0	When are you going to think about getting a serious job?
0:12.0	I had to become the CEO of the company at 25 years old.
0:16.0	What was your idea for theory?
0:19.0	You essentially created the contemporary market.
0:22.5	The idea of clothing having more versatility, clothing be able to travel and that a person's
0:29.2	office was not just a place where they went, it was wherever they were.
0:35.9	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion.
0:39.1	Welcome to the BOF podcast this week on Inside Fashion.
0:43.1	Our chief correspondent in New York, Lauren Sherman, sits down with Andrew Rosen, a legendary
0:48.1	executive from the New York garment industry.
0:51.4	Andrew's career has taken him from his own family business to Anne Klein to
0:56.1	becoming the founder of boundary-breaking contemporary brand theory. And now he's reached a new stage
1:02.6	in his career. He's investing in companies. He's thinking about what's going on in the industry,
1:08.0	and he's evaluating where the industry might head in the future.
1:12.8	So this week, Lauren sits down with Andrew to take stock.
1:16.5	Here's Andrew Rosen inside fashion.
1:22.9	You come from this world of apparel.
1:27.2	Your third generation, right?
1:29.0	Yes.
1:29.9	When you were growing up, where did you grow up?
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