Careers in Fashion and What They Entail

A comprehensive overview of different careers related to fashion, including both the business and social aspects of the fashion world.

For some, a career in fashion may be associated with images of The Devil Wears Prada and Anne Hathaway running around New York with several coffees during the chaos of Fashion Week. Whilst this may be the media’s depiction of a fashion intern, the job itself has many more responsibilities and elements than what is shown in the media. Although internships and executive positions may be the most represented fashion jobs in the media (outside of modelling), there are many different areas of the fashion industry which are just as fascinating and important.

 

A picture containing car, road, outdoor, personDescription automatically generated
Credit: Pinterest

 

Fashion Journalism

A job in fashion journalism involves working for a fashion-focused magazine, blog, or website. Particulars of this job depend on the publication, as processes for choosing a topic, the formatting of the article, and the ‘voice’ of the article can be regulated or unregulated. Generally, a job in fashion journalism includes forecasting trends, creating opinions on recent fashion lines, trends, and shows, and interviewing important people in the fashion industry. This job requires staying up to date with recent collections and street style trends, understanding the business behind fashion, and having discerning and detailed opinions. Fashion journalism is crucial to the fashion world, as it is the medium that transcribes trends, documents designs, and keeps the public informed on fashion-related matters.

 

Fashion Marketing

Fashion marketing works closely with psychology and trend forecasting in order to predict the average fashion consumer’s wants, and understand the best ways to reach consumers. In recent years this has involved clothing brands exercising their influence on social media to appeal to a younger audience, including following popular trends with a fashionable influence. Additionally, brands utilize popular figures are the “face” of their brand in order to appeal to the audiences they influence and bring publicity to the brand. Celebrities such as Lily Rose Depp (Chanel), Harry Styles (Gucci), and Emma Watson (Prada) have been used as figureheads in high-end fashion companies to generate a “buzz” around new lines and re-popularize brands. Creating the “face” of a fashion line involves carefully selecting popular celebrities and models that embody the brand’s image and character to create a sense of luxury and exclusivity. However, with the growing popularity of luxury items, fashion brands have shifted their marketing to utilize popular influencers, social media stars, and social media platforms to appeal to the wider population.

 

A group of people in a roomDescription automatically generated with low confidence
Credit: Pinterest

 

Consumer Psychology

This area of corporate fashion studies the psychological aspects of consumers and how to best tailor designs, marketing, and packaging to public desires. This includes studying the ways in which consumers shop for clothes, and what influences their style and streetwear trends. This information can then be passed onto design teams in order to tailor clothing lines to consumer desires. Additionally, by studying consumer behavior companies can understand the best ways to promote their clothing lines, and how to best market their products to create interest and generate “buzz”. Lastly, by studying consumer psychology a company can understand how to improve its products and packaging to be more appealing to a wider audience. For example, many high-end brands have started to use less packaging due to the current movement towards sustainability and avoiding waste. Overall, fashion is a capitalistic business that depends on consumers, therefore, fashion brands must take consumer behaviors, opinions, and interests into account in order to succeed.

 

Fashion Designer

This is possibly the most synonymous job when thinking of fashion. Fashion designers utilize their creativity and artistic capabilities to create clothing lines that appeal to the public while involving unconventional and noteworthy aspects. This includes sketching out potential garments based on original designs that take into account the materials, fabrics, colors, and textures of items. Then, the fashion designer must choose the most cohesive items with the highest possible saleability to turn into samples for corporate leaders and other powerful figures to organize into a fashion line. Often, a company has one head designer or a few main designers who produce and assemble the majority of the fashion line. However, it is common practice for several lower-level designers and interns to create designs for the head designer to edit or consider for the fashion line, which are then produced under the head designer’s name.

 

A picture containing person, groupDescription automatically generated
Credit: Pinterest

 

Event Planner

Event planners are crucial to the fashion industry as they design the events, shows, and exhibitions that present fashion lines to the public and fashion community. The events they design must be styled for the brand that is hosting the event; this entails picking venues, models, and schedules, as well as designing and arranging the space to best fit the event. Event planners often work with fundraising boards and marketing teams to create a budget and promote the event. Additionally, an event planner will supervise an event to ensure that it is memorable and entertaining, and executed with as few issues as possible.

 

Fashion Lawyer

It has become increasingly popular for fast fashion brands to take designs from small businesses and high-end designers in order to resell at a lower quality and price. Brands such as Cider and Shein will take high-quality designs and items that have sold well at a high-end price, and re-produce them with extremly low quality at an extremly low price (relative to the original). As this becomes more of a popular practice, it has become more common for these brands to be sued for plagiarization as they do not give any credit to the orginal designers and display the designs as their own. Fashion law helps to protect designers from the reproduction of their garments, which consitutues artistic theft, as well as companies through brand protection and copyright. Therefore, fashion lawyers are extremly important as they allow artists to share their designs without another company plagiarizing their work for profit.

 

A person in a white dress and a person in a white dressDescription automatically generated with medium confidence
Credit: Pinterest

Comments

comments

64 thoughts on “Careers in Fashion and What They Entail

  1. Great post. I used to be checking constantly this weblog and I’m impressed! Very useful info particularly the ultimate part 🙂 I handle such information a lot. I used to be seeking this particular info for a very long time. Thank you and best of luck.

  2. I’ve learned several important things as a result of your post. I would also like to mention that there might be situation in which you will apply for a loan and don’t need a co-signer such as a U.S. Student Support Loan. But when you are getting credit through a regular financial institution then you need to be able to have a co-signer ready to make it easier for you. The lenders will certainly base their decision on the few variables but the most significant will be your credit history. There are some loan providers that will likewise look at your job history and make a decision based on this but in many cases it will hinge on your score.

  3. This is really interesting, You are a very skilled blogger. I’ve joined your feed and look forward to seeking more of your great post. Also, I have shared your web site in my social networks!

  4. I?ve been exploring for a little bit for any high-quality articles or weblog posts in this kind of house . Exploring in Yahoo I ultimately stumbled upon this web site. Studying this info So i am glad to convey that I have an incredibly just right uncanny feeling I came upon exactly what I needed. I most unquestionably will make sure to don?t forget this web site and give it a look on a constant basis.

  5. Many thanks for your post. I’d really like to write my opinion that the price of car insurance varies from one plan to another, mainly because there are so many different issues which play a role in the overall cost. For example, the model and make of the car will have a massive bearing on the fee. A reliable old family motor vehicle will have a more affordable premium over a flashy sports vehicle.

  6. Heya i am for the primary time here. I found this board and I in finding It really helpful & it helped me out a lot. I am hoping to give one thing again and help others such as you helped me.

  7. Today, I went to the beach with my kids. I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said “You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear.” She put the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is totally off topic but I had to tell someone!

  8. Definitely believe that which you stated. Your favorite reason appeared to be on the internet the easiest thing to be aware of. I say to you, I definitely get irked while people think about worries that they just do not know about. You managed to hit the nail upon the top as well as defined out the whole thing without having side effect , people could take a signal. Will likely be back to get more. Thanks

  9. You have made some decent points there. I looked on the web to find out more about the issue and found most people will go along with your views on this website.

  10. I have viewed that clever real estate agents almost everywhere are Advertising and marketing. They are realizing that it’s in addition to placing a sign post in the front area. It’s really concerning building human relationships with these retailers who one of these days will become purchasers. So, while you give your time and efforts to helping these suppliers go it alone : the “Law associated with Reciprocity” kicks in. Thanks for your blog post.

  11. Hey there! I just wanted to ask if you ever have any problems with hackers? My last blog (wordpress) was hacked and I ended up losing many months of hard work due to no data backup. Do you have any methods to stop hackers?

  12. Oh my goodness! an amazing article dude. Thank you However I’m experiencing subject with ur rss . Don?t know why Unable to subscribe to it. Is there anybody getting an identical rss downside? Anyone who is aware of kindly respond. Thnkx

  13. Thanks for one’s marvelous posting! I certainly enjoyed reading it, you may be a great author.I will be sure to bookmark your blog and will often come back in the future. I want to encourage one to continue your great writing, have a nice morning!

  14. Oh my goodness! Impressive article dude! Thank you so much, However I am experiencing issues with your RSS. I don’t know why I am unable to subscribe to it. Is there anybody else getting similar RSS problems? Anyone that knows the solution can you kindly respond? Thanx!!

  15. What i do not realize is in truth how you’re not really a lot more well-liked than you might be now. You are very intelligent. You recognize thus significantly when it comes to this topic, produced me personally imagine it from numerous various angles. Its like women and men are not interested unless it?s something to do with Lady gaga! Your personal stuffs great. All the time handle it up!

  16. I believe that avoiding packaged foods could be the first step so that you can lose weight. They can taste very good, but packaged foods contain very little vitamins and minerals, making you take more to have enough energy to get with the day. In case you are constantly ingesting these foods, transferring to grain and other complex carbohydrates will aid you to have more energy while taking in less. Good blog post.

  17. When I initially commented I seem to have clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and from now on whenever a comment is added I recieve four emails with the same comment. Perhaps there is a way you can remove me from that service? Many thanks.

  18. Greetings! I know this is kinda off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this website? I’m getting sick and tired of WordPress because I’ve had problems with hackers and I’m looking at options for another platform. I would be awesome if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.

  19. I?m impressed, I must say. Really hardly ever do I encounter a blog that?s both educative and entertaining, and let me inform you, you’ve gotten hit the nail on the head. Your thought is excellent; the problem is one thing that not sufficient persons are speaking intelligently about. I’m very joyful that I stumbled across this in my seek for something relating to this.

  20. I couldn’t agree more with the insightful points you’ve articulated in this article. Your profound knowledge on the subject is evident, and your unique perspective adds an invaluable dimension to the discourse. This is a must-read for anyone interested in this topic.

  21. I just couldn’t depart your site prior to suggesting that I really enjoyed the standard information a person provide for your visitors? Is gonna be back often in order to check up on new posts

  22. Howdy! I know this is somewhat off topic but I was wondering which blog platform are you using for this site? I’m getting sick and tired of WordPress because I’ve had problems with hackers and I’m looking at options for another platform. I would be awesome if you could point me in the direction of a good platform.

  23. I’m very happy to read this. This is the kind of manual that needs to be given and not the accidental misinformation that is at the other blogs. Appreciate your sharing this greatest doc.

  24. I’ve been absent for some time, but now I remember why I used to love this site. Thank you, I?ll try and check back more frequently. How frequently you update your web site?

  25. One other issue is when you are in a circumstance where you do not possess a co-signer then you may really want to try to wear out all of your educational funding options. You will discover many grants and other free college funding that will give you funding to assist with university expenses. Thanks for the post.

  26. A fascinating discussion is worth comment. I think that you need to write more about this topic, it might not be a taboo subject but usually folks don’t speak about these topics. To the next! Best wishes.

  27. Useful information. Fortunate me I found your web site by accident, and I am stunned why this accident didn’t took place earlier! I bookmarked it.

  28. Hi! Do you know if they make any plugins to protect against hackers? I’m kinda paranoid about losing everything I’ve worked hard on. Any recommendations?

  29. I’m really enjoying the theme/design of your site. Do you ever run into any web browser compatibility issues? A small number of my blog readers have complained about my website not operating correctly in Explorer but looks great in Safari. Do you have any tips to help fix this problem?

  30. Thank you for the good writeup. It in fact was once a amusement account it. Glance complicated to far introduced agreeable from you! By the way, how could we keep up a correspondence?

  31. Hola! I’ve been reading your website for some time now and finally got the bravery to go ahead and give you a shout out from New Caney Tx! Just wanted to say keep up the excellent job!

  32. Wow, fantastic weblog structure! How lengthy have you ever been running a blog for? you make running a blog look easy. The whole look of your website is wonderful, let alone the content material!

  33. Thanks on your marvelous posting! I really enjoyed reading it, you are a great author.I will be sure to bookmark your blog and may come back someday. I want to encourage yourself to continue your great work, have a nice weekend!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

THE STAND