Fashion

Fashion is art! Fashion designers are the heart and vision behind dresses, suits, shoes, and accessories that you see on the street and in the stores. Fashion designers can work for one fashion company as in-house designers, for themselves as a freelance designer, for individual clients, or for a specific boutique or department store. Other sectors of the industry include fashion journalism, and fashion merchandising, marketing, production, and other aspects of the fashion business.

Fashion merchandising is the business of buying, promoting, and selling fashion items, including clothing, jewelry, and accessories. Buyers decide what items will be purchased for a given store on the basis of trends and demographics. Professionals in the industry visit trade fairs, showrooms, and fashion shows. Buyers work for both large department stores and small boutiques. 

As a CE fashion intern you could work with fashion designers who create sketches, use advanced graphics software to finalize their vision for a dress, and finally select fabrics and materials. You could learn about production, promotion, inventory management, and other aspects of the fashion business. You might sit in on meetings with designers and clients, put together press books, or attend photo shoots or fashion shows. You could interact with buyers, designers, public relations agents, photographers, and stylists.  Interns have put together “look books” or presented samples to clients. You could also spend time learning about textiles, fashion marketing, journalism and many other aspects of the exciting fashion industry! 

Past CE fashion interns have:

• Learned about clothing and accessory lines and the latest trends in the industry
  
• Created original designs and explored the creative process from sketch to finished product
  
• Selected fabric swatches, buttons, and sequins for designs
• Visited production factories
• Learned about the business and marketing side of the fashion industry
• Worked in showrooms featuring designer clothing lines and accessories sold to department stores, boutiques, and online
• Assisted with magazine photo shoots, fashion shows, industry events and fashion line launches with PR campaigns
• And much, much more...

Testimonials

I worked for an up-and-coming fashion designer and showroom. I learned a lot about the designing process of clothing, as well as the creation of it, and what it takes to have your own clothing line. I worked one-on-one with my mentor everyday, which made it easy to learn more about the industry

I worked with a fashion design line. I was responsible for delivering dresses and helping find boutiques interested in the line. The highlight was that I got to submit designs that will possibly be put into production. I realize this is for sure what I want to do with my future!

I worked with a major fashion line. I came to Career Explorations because I needed experience in the fashion industry. I couldn’t have done it alone. My highlight was definitely going to fashion week. I have learned all about fashion and now I have to decide which direction in the industry I want to go. Fashion is no longer just a passion, it is a career reality!

I wanted to explore the fashion industry and get real-world experience to decide if fashion is the direction I want to go with my career and I did just that at the fashion design company. I got to design a photo shoot set, select props, and even designed a t-shirt inspired by Michael Jackson for the line.

I worked with a fashion designer, working on design, merchandising, and PR projects. The highlight of my internship was being given the responsibility to call modeling agencies and to set up go sees for the company’s photo shoot

I worked in a fashion merchandising showroom. Now I have an idea of all of the behind the scenes in the fashion industry. The internship was a great way to gain insight into different aspects of the career field

I worked in a fashion showroom. I did CE last year and I loved my internship in fashion so much that I wanted to continue this summer. I really love my mentors. They taught me the business of working in a fashion showroom as well as the buyer side of the industry