“It’s in her blood. It’s what she does. She wakes up. She does her morning routine and then she’s working,” Pommersheim said. “And she works sometimes all day. Sometimes she’ll work in the morning and take the evening off or vice versa. She’s really driven and that’s definitely the difference between making a living in.
New fashion CEOs more likely to be female with digital and deep retail know-how, according to Nextail report
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MADRID, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/
The modern fashion CEO is
digitally savvy and ecologically aware, according to research by algorithmic merchandising firm
Nextail, which looked at the skill-set of over 100 newly appointed CEOs of leading fashion brands.
The report, published today, provides a snapshot of where the fashion retail sector is heading as it grapples with a number of challenges and also highlights the
growing number of women taking on the top job.
Nextail is a SaaS platform that enables agile merchandising decisions. Its latest report looks at major fashion retail CEO appointments made in 2020, primarily in Europe and the USA.