Episode 5: Creative Capital: Designing Purposeful Growth
Gigi Burris, Founder, Gigi Burris Millinery & Executive Chairwoman, Closely Crafted
Maria Cornejo, Founder & Creative Director, Zero + Maria Cornejo
Moderated by: Gena Smith, Chief Human Resource Officer, LVMH North America

Synopsis: Episode 5, Creative Capital: Designing Purposeful Growth, explores the landscape of sustainable fashion through the viewfinders of independently founded and women led brands.

Hear from Gigi Burris (Gigi Burris & Closely Crafted) and Maria Cornejo (Zero + Maria Cornejo) who are each revered for charting new, enduring frontiers as creative practitioners. Moderated by Gena Smith (LVMH), this conversation portrays collective journeys of balancing brand stability, growth, and creative goals with an ESG quadruple bottom line (people, purpose, planet, profit) and aligning brand/business strategy to a blended financial, social, human and natural capital value system.