Kellie Hush, Fashion Entrepreneur | Checkout

[Voiceover]: Meter maids, bikies and one of the best dam retail events in the country. That's what the Gold coast is known for. Retail Global is coming up on the 29th to the 31st of March and features amazing speakers from e commerce leaders like Amazon, Kogan and Booktopia. But the best part is catching up with some of the greatest people in e commerce. I'm going to be putting on my Budgie Smugglers and heading down there and I hope to see you there too. Tickets for the three day festival start at $450 and are still available over at retailglobal.com that's retailglobal.com get your ticket, drop me a note. I'd love to see you there. Welcome to the checkout. We catch up with previous guests of Add to Cart where we ask them five quick questions to understand more about them and leave you with a little extra inspiration to get through your. Today's checkout features Kelly Hush, fashion entrepreneur and former editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar Australia. Kelly shares everything that she's seeing in the world of fashion and e commerce.

Nathan Bush: I've got five quick questions for you which we'll see if we we learn a little bit about Kelly Hush that we haven't learned before. All right, what is the weirdest thing you've ever bought online?

Kellie Hush: I'm buying plastic plants at the moment for my youngest daughter. She's obsessed with. She's redecorating a room. It's not me, it's her jungle theme. It's a jungle theme.

Nathan Bush: Yeah, yeah.

[Voiceover]: We've kind of touched on this already.

Nathan Bush: But who is your favorite retailer?

Kellie Hush: I actually spend a lot of money if it's on spend. It's net a porter and Mecca. But if I could spend my money anywhere, it would be on Colton Space Furniture. I love a good couch.

Nathan Bush: Nice. Nice. Which retail fad do you wish was history?

Kellie Hush: Disposable fashion. We've just got to start thinking about what we buy. That's my serious answer. Can I say mum jeans too? Because I really hate mum jeans. I want to wear jeans that are called mum jeans.

Nathan Bush: I'm just not in a position to comment on that at all. So I'm going to leave that well alone.

[Voiceover]: Can you recommend a book or a

Nathan Bush: podcast that our listeners should immediately get into?

Kellie Hush: Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas. It's really. It's really looking into the impact of fast fashion. I've actually got it here. She's actually a friend of mine. She's based American journalist based in Paris it's incredible. And she's a real journalist.

Nathan Bush: Okay. We'll put a link to that in the show notes if people want to find out more about that.

Kellie Hush: Yeah, she's written quite a few. You know, she wrote another book about the luxury fashion industry. Has luxury lost its lustre? She's brilliant. Yeah. It's from a journalist perspective. So it's thoroughly, thoroughly researched and unbiased. It's good. Right?

Nathan Bush: And finish this sentence. The future of retail is

Kellie Hush: it's going to be tough, but if you feel this and you've got the gut for it, you're going to kill it.

[Voiceover]: Awesome.

Nathan Bush: I think that sums up our conversation. Thank you very much for joining us, Kelly. It's been great chatting and appreciate you sharing everything.

Kellie Hush: Thank you.

Nathan Bush: Talk soon.

[Voiceover]: To hear more from Kelly, jump back into episode 13 where we talk to Kelly about the importance of brand stories, innovative retail partnerships and customer communities. Kelly also shares why she thinks the circus is over for luxury fashion. I mean, who needs those scary clouds? Anyway, thanks for listening and until next time, keep adding to cartoon.