Fashion Your Future: Advice!

Bath In Fashion
Fashion Your Future
Saturday 20th April

As part of the week long events that made up this years exciting Bath In Fashion I attended the industry insights talk Fashion Your Future. This offered students and members of the fashion world an indepth look at the many different roles that a career in fashion can bring, from an Assistant Buyer at Liberty, Fashion Features Assistant at Vogue to Product Development and Designer at Ben Sherman and Tom Ford. It was excellent to hear first-hand the demands of each sector, and interestingly how they constantly intertwine to continue the constantly moving fashion cycle. I think all those who attended the event left with a fashion buzz, especially as the panellists took time afterwards to discuss questions individually.

Amongst all the great advice they offered there were however two pieces of advice which all fashion/textiles folk should remember, (no matter how much those deadlines are piling up!)

1. Experience is worth its weight in gold. Naomi Smart.
and
2. At the end of the day... its just clothes! We aren't doctors saving lives, if you're interning and there's pressure from the top on you just remember its just clothes.
Marie Baluti.

I quite like this new mantra, 3 weeks of Final Major Project left, lets get it done!

Andrew B. Myers
Bernoulli’s Principle
http://www.andrewbmyers.com/

Nice bit of aeroplane fun to start the day!