Catherine Rowe-Kosary
Catherine Rowe-Kosary is a junior writer at TheIndustry.fashion whose coverage centres on how leadership changes, financial results and brand campaigns shape the direction of fashion, footwear and beauty businesses. She focuses on the intersection of corporate decisions and brand strategy, from new executive appointments such as Tory Burch’s first Chief Brand Officer to the performance of established retailers and labels. Her pieces are concise news reports that foreground job roles, headline numbers and the commercial goals behind each move.
Executive moves and leadership in global brands
Rowe-Kosary regularly covers senior appointments across global fashion and sportswear companies.
Her work includes stories on Dr. Martens appointing former Burberry Global Vice President Katie Morton as Global Customer Director, highlighting her background in omnichannel and business transformation for fashion and luxury. She reports on Puma hiring former Nike executive Steve Cecchini as Senior Vice President of Sports Marketing, noting his direct reporting line into the chief executive and the role’s importance for global sports marketing strategy.
She also tracks leadership changes in corporate groups, such as Fast Retailing naming James Kelly as global Chief Executive Officer of contemporary fashion brand Theory. Within retail and e-commerce, she covers moves like The Very Group’s Irish retail business appointing Henry Dummer as CEO, positioning these changes within the wider evolution of the business. In the home and lifestyle space, she reports on Heal’s appointing Sarah Coonan as CEO, showing her reach into adjacent categories where brand and retail leadership are central to the story.
Financial results and corporate strategy
A significant part of her output focuses on financial performance and turnaround strategies in fashion and retail.
Her coverage of Mulberry details how the British luxury brand has significantly reduced its losses and returned to growth, framing the results as evidence that its turnaround strategy is gaining momentum. She reports on Boden delivering sales and profit growth, including a 7% increase in group turnover to £387.1 million and improved profitability driven by continued expansion in the US market.
Rowe-Kosary tracks corporate actions around major retail groups, such as Carlyle scrapping a £2 billion sale of The Very Group when bidders do not meet the asking price, connecting deal activity to investor expectations and strategic direction. On the beauty side, she writes about the sale of Faace after a lengthy search for a buyer, and covers Revolution Beauty’s 22% increase in online sales alongside improving profitability, treating digital performance and margin improvement as core angles.
She also reports on Beauty Tech Group raising its outlook on the back of broad-based growth across markets and brands, showing an interest in how diversified portfolios deliver scalable growth.
Brand campaigns, collections and fashion events
Beyond corporate and finance news, Rowe-Kosary covers brand-facing stories where creative direction and marketing are central. Her reporting on AllSaints’ first collection under Creative Director Aaron Esh details the launch of a new campaign and visual identity as the brand seeks to reaffirm its London roots, tying creative changes directly to positioning in the market.
She covers London Fashion Week activity, including eBay’s Endless Runway returning for a third year, and sets out how the event brings together creatives like Daisy Edgar-Jones, Akinola Davies Jr, Harry Lambert and Charles Jeffrey to showcase pre-loved fashion. In these pieces she links events and collections to broader themes such as sustainability, resale and brand heritage, showing how campaign concepts serve both cultural and commercial aims.
Her work on leadership roles at fashion houses, including the appointment of a Chief Brand Officer at Tory Burch, also sits in this stream, connecting organizational changes to the future shape of campaigns and global growth plans.
Cross-over coverage with beauty, retail and curated news
Rowe-Kosary writes across both TheIndustry.fashion and sister masthead TheIndustry.beauty, covering finance, product and people news in beauty and adjacent retail categories.
Her articles on Faace, Revolution Beauty and Beauty Tech Group show a consistent interest in how independent brands and larger groups manage growth, profitability and investor communications in the beauty sector. In home and lifestyle retail, her Heal’s CEO piece adds another example of her following leadership changes beyond core apparel and footwear.
She also contributes to edited round-ups, including Editors’ Top Reads that bring together news from brands such as M&S, Adidas and Clarks, adding short commentary that points to why these stories matter for shoppers and the wider market. Directory-linked coverage of The Very Group further illustrates her comfort working within structured business contexts, blending corporate updates, logistics and fashion to give a fuller view of how multi-category retailers operate.
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