Fashion Retailing Opportunities

As a trained, experienced professional who can demonstrate the right skills and knowledge, you should be able to pursue many exciting and respected career options.

Fashion Director

Fashion directors are always on the go. Their daily activities are varied and exciting, and may include forecasting trends and producing fashion shows. Fashion shows could involve supervising set designers, hiring models, and directing makeup artists and dressers.

Apparel Buyer

Buyers often work closely with fashion directors to help decide the styles, colors, patterns, and sizes of clothing and accessories to put in the stores. Apparel buyers may visit vendors at fashion showrooms and markets in order to view and discuss collections. Buyers need to be able to evaluate garments and negotiate terms of sales.

Personal Shopper

Solid communication skills, a keen sense of taste, and a service-first attitude are needed for this one-on-one career. In a private setting, personal shoppers help customers choose clothes and accessories and sometimes an entire wardrobe. Personal shoppers could work in a private designer salon within a larger store, and may show clothing at a client’s home or office.

Specialty Manager

Some managers may be in charge of a specific line of merchandise, such as handbags, lingerie, jewelry, or furs. Possible tasks include setting up displays, supervising employees, pricing goods, coordinating sales, and helping customers. Each day of a manager’s career may be filled with a different schedule of activities that keeps them on the move.

Manufacturer’s Representative

Representatives of apparel manufacturers and designers often travel from market to market to show the season’s new lines to prospective buyers. A representative must be able to set up samples, set up showrooms, promote their products, interact well with past customers, and acquire new ones.

Enroll online or call 1-800-535-1613 to speak with an Admission Advisor!