Fashioncast®

Episode #49, July 16, 2024

Stacy Igel, Fashion’s Queen of Collaboration

Listen closely fashionistas! On this episode we introduce you to “fashionpreneuer” extraordinaire Stacy Igel, Founder Boy Meets Girl apparel company and best-selling author of Embracing The Calm In The Chaos.   

As Stacy says, she was interested in fashion while “still in the womb,” and her history since birth reinforces her prenatal yearning to build a career in fashion.  What makes this episode so appealing is that Igel is both a steadfast businessperson and a creative.  Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Igel made her mark as a hosiery salesperson when Marshall Fields hired her while still in the eighth grade!  She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she tripled majored in design, merchandising, and retail.  She soon moved to New York City to learn the fashion business from the ground up, and in 2001 she launched the Boy Meets Girl apparel company.

Whether interviewing Igel, or writing about her, one always is in high gear.  Igel is kind, intelligent, professional, and yes, humorous.  But more than anything else, Igel is full of positive energy, and constantly multitasking like the entrepreneur, designer, and mother you would expect!

Fashioncast could have easily produced two episodes out of this interview, one focused on Igel’s phenomenally successful company, Boy Meets Girl, and another on her equally successful book, Embracing The Calm In The Chaos. The book details Igel’s fashion journey including the launch of her brand.

We found Igel’s interview full of one surprise after another.  This is after all, someone who has made her way in New York’s fashion world through twenty years of grit and determination.  Boy Meets Girl sports a Who’s Who list of collaborations with industry heavyweights from Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom to Bergdorf Goodman and the Chicago Bulls.  Igel has come a long way since dressing classmates in grade school!

Of course, Fashioncast probed Igel about sustainability, the lack of a business curriculum in fashion colleges, and the big issues she believes are headwinds for the industry.  We are certain you will find Stacy Igel as energetic, knowledgeable, and entertaining as we did!

Please enjoy the show!

www.boymeetsgirlusa.com                www.stacyigel.com

https://www.amazon.com/Embracing-Calm-Chaos-Perseverance-Collaboration/dp/140023493X