Conversation with Carissa Barrett, VP Retail, Byredo

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Written By Joshua T Williams
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Carissa Barrett discusses her role as an innovative retail leader in the beauty industry, facilitating success for managers, which in turn creates an optimal experience for customers. She shares insights on how the high-touch, high-emotion beauty industry is adapting due to the pandemic. 

Carissa Barrett is currently the vice president of retail at BYREDO. Carissa has over eighteen years of progressive management experience, and twenty five years of experience in retail. Carissa is an experienced retail executive with a proven track record for performance & productivity management, achievement of sales goals, client development, team development, event coordination and operational expertise. Participated and oversaw multiple store openings in the United States, London, Paris, Dubai and Korea. Oversaw lease negotiations, the stores build out process, the selling ceremony training and recruitment of the store teams. 

Learn more: LinkedIn | BYREDO

Hosted by: Christopher Lacy, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Produced by: Joshua Williams, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Executive Producer: Fashion Consort

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Joshua T Williams

Joshua Williams is an award-winning creative director, writer and educator.  He has lectured and consulted worldwide, specializing in omni-channel retail and fashion branding, most recently at ISEM (Spain) and EAFIT (Colombia), and for brands such as Miguelina, JM, Andrew Marc and Anne Valerie Hash.  He is a full time professor and former fashion department chair at Berkeley College and teaches regularly at FIT, LIM and The New School.  He has developed curriculum and programming, including the fashion design program for Bergen Community College, that connects fashion business, design, media and technology.  His work has been seen in major fashion magazines and on the New York City stage. Joshua is a graduate of FIT’s Global Fashion Management (MPS) program, and has been the director and host of the Faces & Places in Fashion lecture series at FIT since 2010.

http://www.joshuatwilliams.com
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