Last year, tucked inside the conversation around the industry’s revolving door of designers, was another conversation, smaller in scope but larger in consequence, about the lack of women creative directors at the industry’s biggest labels. Look closer, though, and it transpires that many women are instead at the helm of their own labels.
For the March 2025 issue of the magazine, Vogue Runway’s Nicole Phelps gathered three of the industry’s bright stars—Diotima’s Rachel Scott, Colleen Allen, and Julie Kegels—to ask them about the realities of being their own boss and navigating a fashion industry that seems to not always value its female talent. On the latest episode of The Run Through, the three designers join Phelps to discuss their role models, the ways in which the industry can better support up-and-coming designers, and what their idea of success looks like.
“It’s not hard to see that it’s a man’s business,” says Scott. “It’s really a conservative industry at the end of the day, and all we can do is just continue to push independent brands and voices.” Allen agrees: “It’s still male dominated. I have hope for women in the industry. I think it’s an exciting time, and we’re having a conversation [about it] for the first time in a really real way, which is a start.” Listen to their conversation here.
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