Fashion as a Career

Why Choose Fashion? When explaining to people that fashion is the sector I want to pursue a career in, I usually get the response that people aren’t very impressed and instantly think that I will solely be learning about clothes and go on shopping trips. This perception is very wrong; there are a huge number of amazing jobs within the fashion industry. For example, most companies currently have a ‘social media manager’ which highlights how social media is becoming a massive part of our daily life. Fast fashion is all we know and the children/teens of our generation are brought up with immediate access to social media platforms. Fashion enables you to find more about culture and travelling, with countries having traditional dress and many having interesting rules about fashion and what is deemed appropriate and unacceptable. Also, if you claim to be disinterested in fashion and/or degrade the subject, it is part of everyday life, you are constantly embracing it, whether you are aware or not. Visually, fashion is an exciting world and jobs such as a visual merchandiser, photographer and stylists act as a platform for your individual creativity. These are just a few jobs within the fashion industry and as you can see, they are all very different and interesting.

Careers in fashion are not just jobs, they are hobbies too!

Treasure Hunt

The first task was to walk around Nottingham and solve the riddles that we were given by the lecturers, along with each riddle was a number that matched a star on the map. Whilst completing the challenge we had to photograph any interesting shops or parts of Nottingham that we found visually attractive. Below are some photographs that I captured:

This task was really fun and it made me think about the different techniques each shop used to promote their items. The decor, shop names and buildings gave away the type of products sold within them. I really enjoyed looking in the vintage/antique shops, they had such a range of things to sell and I would definitely recommend having a look -  Hopkinson was the biggest.

Photo Credit - Chloe Ferdinand