Hosted by Arthur Zaczkiewicz, former Executive Editor at WWD with over two decades covering the fashion, beauty and retail industries — the show where C-Suite leaders speak candidly about what's actually moving the needle.
Ep. #035: 'Circularity Needs a Revenue Line' — Sydney Badger, Fillogic
Sydney Badger, VP of Commercialization and Circular Strategy at Fillogic, joins Arthur Zaczkiewicz fresh from Climate Week to explain why circular fashion keeps stalling: nobody has built the sorting infrastructure, quality resale supply is hard to identify, and brands won't prioritize anything without a revenue line.
They also cover how AI is identifying untagged returns, what the K-shaped consumer means for off-price, and why secondhand is winning the branding battle. Street Talk is the podcast for fashion, beauty and retail leaders.
00:00 — Introduction
00:40 — What does Fillogic do, and why put returns hubs inside shopping centers?
02:46 — How a Ralph Lauren buyer ended up building reverse logistics infrastructure
10:24 — Why has circularity stayed on the horizon, and what will move it?
12:10 — Could scarcity or production caps make fashion truly circular?
14:54 — What Climate Week revealed: why quality resale supply is hard to find
17:17 — How AI identifies and sorts returned and end-of-life goods
19:33 — What the K-shaped consumer means for off-price and resale
22:07 — Closing
6 Oct 2026
Ep. #034: 'It's About Purchasing as Little as Possible' — : Kate Assaraf, Founder & CEO, Dip
Kate Assaraf, founder and CEO of Dip, joins ArthurZaczkiewicz on Street Talk to explain how a sustainable hair care brand grows by selling less. Dip makes salon-quality shampoo and conditioner bars that last so long she keeps them off Amazon to protect independent refill stores and salons.
Assaraf talks about the K-shaped economy from both sides,the day her contract manufacturer went bankrupt, and why she built her own factory with her own team.
A conversation for anyone building a brand on repeatpurchase, and wondering what happens when the product is designed to be bought less.
00:00 -- Introduction
00:47 -- What is Dip, and why do bar shampoo skeptics giveit one last shot?
01:25 -- How refill-store distribution works, and why Dipstays off Amazon
03:05 -- Why a 20-year beauty veteran launched a bar haircare brand
03:49 -- Who is the sustainable beauty customer, and what dothey actually want?
07:14 -- How an economics background shapes a beauty brandbuilt on buying less
09:02 -- Why mass-market sustainability keeps getting itwrong
10:32 -- How the K-shaped economy is changing the way people shop
13:50 -- Why Dip built its own factory after a contractmanufacturer went bankrupt
15:59 -- Where does Dip go in the next five years?
29 Sept 2026
Ep. #033: 'Making Resale the Obvious Choice' — Kate Sanner, Beni
Kate Sanner, founder and CEO of Beni, built an AI browser extension that shows shoppers a cheaper secondhandversion of whatever they're about to buy, before they buy it.
Sanner tells Arthur Zaczkiewicz how Beni normalizes over a million resale listings an hour from Poshmark, eBay, The RealReal, Depop and ThredUp into a 300-million-item catalog, why she built Beni around “pull” instead of “push,” and why a generation raised on influencers trusts them less.
A conversation about resale, AI,and making “good” the easy choice.
00:00 — Introduction
00:25 — Why “Beni”? The story behind the name and the “sidekick” mission
01:11 — What's broken about how shopping algorithms feed us?
02:01 — How the Beni browser extension surfaces resale in real time
03:09 — How does Beni turn messy secondhand listings into a searchable catalog?
06:25 — Is the K-shaped economy pushing more shoppers toward resale?
08:17 — Who is Beni actually built for?
13:08 — Why Beni bets on “pull” over “push”
17:21 — Why Gen Z and Gen Alpha are losing trust in influencers and AI
18:53 — What's next: Beni's evolution into a “home for style discovery”
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