John David Ridge is a celebrated American fashion and costume designer, through whose stories we hear firsthand what it was like to be just about everywhere in those worlds over the past fifty years.

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Gerber invented the technology that has underpinned the fashion industry for roughly the last five decades. Few people in the industry know the landscape of product development and manufacturing technology better than our guests in this episode, Karsten Newbury, Chief Strategy & Digital Officer, and Mary McFadden, Vice President for CAD Product Management, at Gerber Technology. We discuss what they do, where they think everything is going, and the new Innovation Center they've set up in midtown Manhattan.

Gerber: https://gerbertechnology.com/

Also Gerber: https://gerbersoftware.com/

Karsten: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karstennewbury/

Mary: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-mcfadden-b274405/

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Recorded in May 2020, the story of a collaboration between Lucky Brand, New Fashion Products, and Brother International Corporation to use what they had and start making masks as quickly as possible.

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Guests:

Peter Holland, Vice President, Industrial Products Division, Brother International Corporation — https://brother-usa.com

Allison Charalambous, Senior Manager of Sustainability and Social Responsibility, Lucky Brand — https://www.luckybrand.com/

Bobby Ahn, President & CEO, New Fashion Products — https://www.newfashionproducts.com/

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