Jobs in the Fashion Industry
Fashion Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion marketing and merchandising professionals are responsible for identifying and creating fashion trends to sell the products created by fashion designers. Drawing on their knowledge of consumer psychology and trends, they promote fashion with advertising and visual marketing campaigns. The fashion merchandising field includes jobs in both retail and wholesale sales.
Fashion Media & Promotions
The fashion industry offers a number of opportunities for creative professionals who aren't attracted to the design side. Fashion writers and editors are employed by newspapers, magazines, web sites, and other media outlets to keep consumers up-to-date on style trends. Fashion photographs, illustrators, and stylists are often employed by catalogs and magazines.
Other Fashion Careers
Other fashion career opportunities include costume design for TV, film and theater productions; personal stylist positions with high-end department stores and private clients, and modeling work for everything from newspapers ads to strutting the catwalk in Milan or Paris.
Fashion Marketing/Merchandising
Visual Merchandising
Retail Merchandising-
Fashion Buyer
Fashion Stylist
Fashion Buyer-
Fashion Media & Promotions
Fashion Photography-
Modeling
Fashion Design Production
Fashion Design-
Accessory Design-
Fashion Merchandising-
Textile Design
Product Manager/Fashion Management/ Retail Store Manager
Other Fashion Careers
Personal Stylist-
Modeling
Fashion Articles
Colleges and Universities with Fashion Majors
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
New York City
- Accessories Design AAS and BFA
- Advertising and Marketing Communications AAS and BS
- Communication Design AAS
- Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing BS
- Direct and Interactive Marketing BS
- Entrepreneurship BS
- Fabric Styling BFA
- Fashion Design AAS and BFA
- Fashion Merchandising Management AAS and BS
- Home Products Development BS
- Illustration AAS and BFA
- International Trade and Marketing for the Fashion Industries BS
- Jewelry Design AAS
- Menswear AAS
- Packaging Design BFA
- Photography AAS and BFA
- Production Management: Fashion and Related Industries AAS and BS
- Technical Design BS
- Textile Development and Marketing AAS and BS
- Textile/Surface Design AAS and BFA
- Toy Design BFA
- Visual Art Management BFA
- Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design AAS
Berkeley College
New York- NYC, White Plains, Brooklyn, New York City Midtown, Lower Manhattan Extension Center
New Jersey -Woodland Park, Paramus, Newark, Middlesex, Garret Mountain
- Fashion Marketing and Management
- International Business
- Management
- Management - Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
SUNY Cortland
New York- Cortland
•Retail Merchandising
Marist College
New York- Poughkeepsie
- Fashion Design
- Fashion Merchandising
LIM
New York- NYC (Manhattan)
• Cosmetics
• Entrepreneurship
• Event Planning
• Fashion Communications
• Fashion Merchandising
• Fashion Publishing
• International Marketing
• Retailing
• Styling
• Visual Merchandising
Parsons
New York- NYC (Manhattan)
- Fashion Business Certificate
- Fashion Design
- Fashion Design and Society
- Fashion Marketing Majors
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising(FIDM)-
California (Los Angeles)
- Fashion Merchandising
- Fashion Styling
- Fashion Buying
- Fashion Design
Art Institute of New York City
The Art Institutes are located in various states around the country
- Associate’s degree in Applied Science with a concentration in Fashion Design; also has programs in Graphic and Web Design, Video Production and Interior Design.
New York School of Design
New York- NYC
- Offers curricula in Fashion Design, Fashion Technical Design, Fashion Production, CAD for Fashion Design and Portfolio Design.
Pratt Institute
New York – Brooklyn, NYC
- Fashion Design
Wood Tobé–Coburn School
New York
- The school’s Business and Fashion program offers concentrations in Fashion Design and Merchandising, as well as in related areas including Accounting, Office Administration, and Travel and Hospitality.