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In 2018, Ella Ramirez, then a high school student and aspiring fashion designer, was thrilled to have landed a “stylist” gig at a clothing store near her home in Princeton, New Jersey.
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High-end brands are counting on brick-and-mortar retail to deliver the sort of personalised shopping experiences that can’t be replicated online. But hiring and training employees to pull that off can be a challenge.
Indie brands that used to rely on Instagram ads and TikTok influencers to spread the word are hiring traditional sales reps who trek from store to store promoting their wares.
SMCP Group, the french parent of accessible luxury labels Sandro, Maje, Claudie Pierlot & De Fursac, is launching an academy to make the store associate role more modern and exciting.
Sheena Butler-Young is Senior Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers workplace, talent and issues surrounding diversity and inclusion.
Industry insiders share advice on how employees in notoriously competitive fields like fashion and beauty can protect their working hours and set professional boundaries while achieving career goals.
As insurgent brands gain ground in fashion and beauty, their leaders are developing distinct approaches to hiring talent, sustaining momentum and scaling beyond the underdog phase.
Check out this week’s new partner and job openings on BoF Careers, the global marketplace for fashion and beauty talent.
Hefty tuition prices, unclear career pathways and new routes into the industry are reshaping how young people invest in education.
Small fashion labels have always been shortchanged by their wholesale partners. A wave of high-profile bankruptcies has turned a structural injustice into an existential crisis. There is a better way to do business, writes Imran Amed.
Fashion’s enfant terrible is trading exclusivity for the mass market. Is it the ultimate fashion coup, or the final surrender of prestige?
Textile hubs are already feeling the cascading risks of the conflict in Iran as Washington ramps up forced labour probes to revive tariffs, while decarbonisation in fashion’s factories might finally have a standard to go off of.
The designer and podcaster joins Imran Amed to reflect on the emotional power of clothes, what Vivienne Westwood taught her about rebellion and how Fashion Neurosis has unlocked a new chapter in her creative life.
