If you love fashion and design, and are considering a career or further education in the field, you may want to take a closer look at fashion merchandising. Fashion merchandising combines various aspects of design, marketing, sales, and even accounting skills. If you like moving at a fast pace with a variety of duties, there are many opportunities in the field of fashion merchandising that a college or education program can prepare you for.
A fashion merchandising Education involves marketing fashion lines to retail stores, or even working with the stores themselves to market products directly to consumers. Fashion merchandising is a broad field, and can encompass positions such as fashion buying, where you will select merchandise for a Retail store, and event coordination, such as fashion shows. Another growing field is visual merchandising, which involves designing the way the actual clothes and products are displayed, such as window displays and floor layouts.
While the fashion industry as a whole is very competitive, there is a lot of growth and opportunity in the merchandising field, because of the wide variety of assignments available. Although clothes may be manufactured all over the world, many of the sales related aspects take place right at Home. This is also the type of career that may involved a variety of different job descriptions over the years, so if you crave change and excitement, it could be a good fit.
The best way to get started in fashion merchandising involves related education. A quality fashion merchandising program will be comprehensive and involve a large variety of courses. In addition to design, you will learn other key concepts, such as marketing and advertising. You will also learn how the fashion business works, and how clothing is manufactured and delivered to retail outlets.
There are a number of choices available when choosing a fashion merchandising education. Many colleges offer fashion merchandising as an associate degree, and some that even offer it as a bachelor’s program. There are also many schools that embed fashion merchandising within a more traditional marketing degree, which will give you a broader course of study in basic business.
Other options include attending a strictly fashion design school, which will offer merchandising as one of their programs. In addition, you can also study online, as many of these schools will also offer an online or distance education program, as well.
Choosing which type of school to attend will depend partially on your educational goals. Are you looking to make a quick transition into the field, and want a career-oriented education, or do to have a strong basic business and marketing foundation? Most schools will offer internships in fashion, so you can have an opportunity to get your feet wet in the industry. Whatever type of school you choose, you can be assured that you will be learning a great deal about fashion and the fashion industry, and will be preparing for a fast-paced, quickly evolving career in fashion merchandising.
Amy Wells
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#1 by Someone Else on July 27, 2010 - 11:02 pm
Would anyone proofread my college acceptance essay?
Thanks to anyone willing to help! I am applying to the merchandising program at FIT and they only consider your GPA and essay so I want to essay to be as good if not better than my GPA. Any tips would be very helpful. Also do I have to site the quote and should I maybe not call it an "annoyingly cliche" song?
here is the essay:
From the exciting glamor of a fashion show to an eye catching window display, I have always had a fascination with fashion. After spending years reading magazines, watching runway shows and shopping with every spare cent I have, I believe I am ready to make my mark on the fashion world. My passion, creativity and desire to succeed make me a perfect candidate for FIT and the Fashion Merchandising Management program.
I have always been interested in the world of business. Growing up in the suburbs in New Jersey, I would spend most of my days at the town pool. One day my mother bought me a book to teach me different ways to make friendship bracelets by tying colorful strings in intricate patterns. Within a week I was taking custom orders from everyone in the neighborhood. I bought other colors of string to appeal to boys and not only girls, made sure I had multiples of every letter of alphabet beads, and even hired my sister to take orders and keep me organized. While most kids were splashing and running, I was playing CEO. I feel like I have always had a special relationship with fashion as well. My mother made me start doing my own laundry at 10 years old because I would wear an outfit for a few hours and then want to change. The way I saw it was that you have to dress a certain way to play house and that just may not be appropriate for kickball afterward. Needless to say my fashion passion continued to frustrate my parents as I grew older. In my teenage years I started reading magazines and watching fashion shows on TV. I started my first job at age 12 because I wanted a new trendy winter jacket but my parents wouldn’t buy it for me. Living in New York for the past three years has greatly fueled my love of fashion and the fashion industry. I draw inspiration daily from not only magazines and blogs, but also the vibrant street fashion that reflects the creativity and personality of this great city. To quote an almost annoyingly cliché song, “I want to be a part of it.”
I am confident that my many skills will also contribute to the FIT community. I have a keen sense of detail and strong analytical mind that I apply to everything I do. I also love working on creative projects with other people. The way different ideas can come together to create something original and innovative has always interested me. I am most comfortable in a position of leadership, but also know when it’s important to follow. I have a very strong intuition when it comes to determining how to make people happy. My years of working in retail jobs have taught me much about consumers buying habits and how to appeal to certain demographics. Mathematics has also been a very strong skill of mine, as well as statistical analysis. I hope that an education at FIT will further refine my skills and prepare me for a career in Fashion Merchandising.
If accepted, I will work my hardest to gain a further understanding of the fashion industry. I will take advantage of internship opportunities and work hard to be an example of an extraordinary FIT student. My many skills such as my ingenuity, math proficiency, and love of the fashion world make me the perfect candidate for admission. If given the opportunity to attend FIT, I will work hard to apply myself and excel in the Fashion Merchandising and Management field.
#2 by ownpool on July 28, 2010 - 4:04 am
You have written a good essay. However, it is not a great essay. It could become the latter with more work. A great essay usually requires about four drafts, each of which should be critiqued by more than one person.
You have a few very minor errors in grammar and syntax, mostly the latter. You have done a very good job of narrating personal experiences. Your method of connecting of these experiences to FIT and a career is acceptable, but could be improved.
Your last two paragraphs are going in the right direction, but become a bit more trite with each line. They will be fine if they are reworked.
I suggest leaving out the sentence with the quotation entirely. In fact, it is probably the only sentence which weakens the essay as a whole. Being aware that it is a cliche, you should not be including it at all. The admissions officer wants to read an applicant’s own words and does not care which songs the applicant knows!
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