Best new partnership of the year.
Speaker AChad, back to you for this one, sir.
Speaker ALet's get your envelope ready and tell.
Speaker BUs best new partnership is all right.
Speaker BAnd the Omni goes to David.
Speaker BStaying within again the fashion and apparel space.
Speaker BBut it is Skims with North Face.
Speaker CSo.
Speaker BInteresting one, right?
Speaker BSo Skims has, has developed, you know, kind of a series of partnerships most recently here with, with North Face and you know, kind of take Kim Kardashian's influence here and they, they've done these with brands like in the past like Fendi and Swarovski, and they've also taken to sports with the WNBA and Summer Olympics.
Speaker BAnd these partnerships have really helped skims kind of break away from just pure shapewear exclusively and create, you know, a real brand.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BAnd so the North Face partnership kind of brings them into outerwear, specifically pointed to skiing and snow sports.
Speaker BAnd, you know, when you look at great partnerships, it draws on the strengths of each brand.
Speaker BRight here it's, it's North Face.
Speaker BWith their well known designs, functionality and quality and outerwear, Skims brings that kind of base layering.
Speaker BIt's sculptive and compressive fit with its classic color palette.
Speaker BSo.
Speaker BSo this combination really makes both recognizable and in particular, Skims really wins here because of the category expansion.
Speaker ASo, Chad, what is the sculpt?
Speaker AWhat's your favorite sculpting component of the skims?
Speaker ADo you have a preference?
Speaker AIs it a top layer, a base, a bottom layer?
Speaker ALike, do you have a preference?
Speaker APersonally, I'm just curious.
Speaker BYeah, no, I always believe in a good sculpting base.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker BReally?
Speaker BKind of even out the hips and the, the upper thigh.
Speaker AGood foundation.
Speaker BI really.
Speaker BBut yeah, no, absolutely.
Speaker BEspecially for something like ski wear, you know, it's really important to get that mobility.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BWhile, while looking sleek, you know, on the slopes.
Speaker BAnd thank you for asking.
Speaker AI do, I do love that pick though, Chad, because I think it's really important to call out too, that there's a quality component to that partnership.
Speaker ALike Skims is not just Kim.
Speaker AI think people think Kim Kardashian's brand.
Speaker ANo, the quality of that product in each and the quality of the North Face product too.
Speaker ALike they both hold their own and so together they're even better.
Speaker ABut I think that's a great pick.
Speaker ADave Ritter.
Speaker CSo mine's a little non traditional.
Speaker CIt's more of a collab than a partnership.
Speaker AThat's okay.
Speaker AWe take collabs here.
Speaker DCollab partnership.
Speaker DI think it goes in words.
Speaker CSarah V with Michael.
Speaker CSarah.
Speaker CSo I just think that that collaboration has been wonderful.
Speaker CSo their kind of tagline in the marketing campaign was just to clear things up once and for all.
Speaker CCeraVe is developed by dermatologists, not by Michael Cera.
Speaker CRead here for the full story.
Speaker CAnd to shop Sarah V Products.
Speaker CI just think it's creative.
Speaker CI love it.
Speaker AI love it, I love it.
Speaker AChris, where do you land?
Speaker AWhat was yours best partnership?
Speaker DYeah, I liked, I did, I did like Chad's because, you know, I've personally moved away from shapewear around the age of 45.
Speaker DBut yeah, away from shape.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AYou just want it all hanging out.
Speaker DJust doesn't work anymore, you know, I think most people would attest that, but mine, mine, I'm going back to Starbucks and DoorDash and we talked about this a couple months ago.
Speaker DYou know, Starbucks is now white labeling delivery via DoorDash directly through their app.
Speaker DAnd I love this because there's one probably a market for it.
Speaker DI think that's a key thing.
Speaker DThere's people that are willing to pay for it, which is a new, new market to get more coffee into more people's mouths.
Speaker DAnd the other part I love about too, which I talked about on the show, it creates more slack for Starbucks operations in store because it gives them more time to prepare orders because delivery timing is not as.
Speaker DYou don't need to be as fast for delivery as you do when you're ordering, serving up coffee in store, like we talked about before.
Speaker AWell, I think that Door Dash won the year for partnerships, Chris.
Speaker ASo I'm already going to give this category to you and I because I also picked but a different partnership with Lyft.
Speaker AActually that was my, my partnership of the year.
Speaker DYeah, that was a good one too.
Speaker AThey, they now DoorDash members can get max subscription Starbucks, like you said.
Speaker ABut I think that there's a lot of opportunity too for again, what they'll learn with Starbucks is really important.
Speaker ABut I also think that what they'll learn with Lyft about delivering people and goods at the same time, I think really will lock it down for them.
Speaker AThey've made really smart situation strategic partnerships this year.
Speaker ASo Door Dash wins, Chris.
Speaker AEnd of, end of category.
Speaker DI think so.
Speaker DThat's two out of four again, Ann.
Speaker DI think that's the math, right?
Speaker DThat's the math we're going on here.