The Entrepreneurs
A weekly deep dive into global business. Inspiring stories from startups to legacy brands in hospitality, design, fashion, and retail.
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Unspun & The Restory
The modern, linear manufacturing that is typical of much fashion and textile production can be hugely wasteful and damaging to the environment. While the sector has been wising up, it’s not happening fast enough. We meet two entrepreneurs who explain how innovations in technology and a revolution in aftercare can…
Eureka 285: Stelar
Stelar was founded in Bali in 2017 by Scottish-born goldsmith Lorna Watson, a veteran of luxury design. Stelar’s artisans create elevated women’s accessories using many of Bali’s long-standing weaving methods, some of which have been eroded in recent years by the pressures of mass-manufacturing. Stelar’s range of bags is now…
Claude Cormier
Claude Cormier is one of Canada’s most celebrated landscape architects. His eponymous studio, which he founded in Montréal in 1995, has created several notable public spaces in Canada over the past few years. He tells Tomos Lewis about the evolution of his practice and explains how to reconcile design ideas…
Eureka 284: Ignae
We meet Claire Chung, CEO and co-founder of Ignae, an innovative Portuguese skincare brand that started in 2016 when her colleague and co-founder, Miguel Pombo, a native of the Azores, began to identify key natural ingredients on the Atlantic island chain with potential for use in anti-ageing creams and oils.…
Backdrop
Caleb and Natalie Ebel believe that they can use the power of paint to reshape your home, with a transformational approach to the business of selecting, buying and using the product. This husband-and-wife team explain how and why they started on the journey to make buying paint a better informed…
Eureka 283: The Restory
Vanessa Jacobs is co-founder and CEO of The Restory, the world’s first aftercare platform for fashion. The Restory helps the world’s biggest brands to offer care, repair and restoration services to their customers around the world. It has aftercare partnerships with celebrated stores, such as Harvey Nichols and Selfridges, and…
Value Retail
Value Retail founder and chairman Scott Malkin calls in at Monocle’s Zürich HQ for a discussion with editorial director Tyler Brûlé. Picking up a conversation that they began in early 2020, Malkin reflects on retail, property, great brands and the status of luxury – and explains why he remains positive…
Eureka 282: Fueguia
Inspired by the wilderness on his family’s estate in Argentina, artist Julian Bedel became intrigued by the natural scents of Patagonia and soon found himself concocting fragrances in his kitchen. In 2010 he founded Fueguia, a niche luxury perfume brand that he has since moved to Italy, where he oversees…
Hodinkee
Ben Clymer is the founder of Hodinkee, which began life as an online watch magazine but is now the leading platform for enthusiasts, collectors, novice buyers and anyone passionate about watch-making. In an industry dominated by heritage brands that are conservative by inclination and generally resistant to market challenges and…
Eureka 281: Bursa
Vasily Grogol is the founder of Bursa, the first art hotel built in Kyiv since the 2014 Maidan revolution. Grogol talks about why, despite conflict and uncertainty, opportunities abound for entrepreneurs in the city.
