ANNA HOANG - ANNA QUAN
ON CREATING A BREAD & BUTTER ITEM + REACHING A DECADE IN BIZ
This episode is proudly sponsored by Australia Post.
Anna Hoang is the founder and creator of ANNA QUAN, a contemporary Australian fashion label. The brand epitomises simplicity, elegance and quiet luxury.
You may know the label for its bread and butter item, the white button down shirt. Anna has managed reimagined and redefined this staple , and has people from all over the world coming back for time and time again.
Anna opens up in this rare interview, about her transition from law to fashion, her struggle in the first few years with gaining traction in the Aussie market and the bold move she made next, how her values help her hire the right people, and the important questions she asks herself as she hits 10 years in business.
In this ep, you’ll learn about:
• The transition she made from law school to fashion school
• Her first business failure and finding the confidence to go it alone
• The Paris showroom debacle and what happened when she tried to rent her own Airbnb for showings
• Why she's big on iterating styles that have been left on the cutting room floor to create a version that customers actually want
• Why it's important to have a bread and butter product
• Her thoughts on greenwashing and sustainable fashion
• The type of brand she wants to build and the values that underpin it
• The questions she asks herself after reaching a decade in business
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“I think my biggest mistake was probably not thinking bigger and a bit more globally, particularly in the earlier days. And it’s only taken the last few years for me to really think of a bit more of an overarching position that I want the brand to be in. It was just, I want to make clothes. ”
““People forget that they have agency and that’s why they externalize blame for things that happen to them because they don’t recognize their own sense of agency.””
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