Industry Convo with Melissa Giuffrida: Building Collécte

Melissa Giuffrida came home from Washington DC in 2017, tried to help her sister sell some very good designer furniture, and found there was nowhere to do it besides eBay, Gumtree or the auction houses. So she built Collécte. Before that she was a fashion buyer and then effectively running Bloom Cosmetics for eight years, learning export, formulation and graphics, which is exactly the point she makes about working for other people first. A practical conversation about spotting a gap and backing yourself to fill it.