The Truth About Working In Fashion (+Nepo Babies)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- In today's video I wanted to give some insight on what it's like to work in the fashion industry and what people won't tell you before working in the industry. There are so many people in the fashion industry that don't go far because of the hoops they have to jump through.
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My ex partner completed two Fine Art degrees at UAL and he said the vast majority of his class were wealthy international students who had already established an art career in their home countries and just needed a degree from a reputable arts university to add to their resume to further their success. They were very talented, but it was never a matter of survival for them.
Well ain't that fine and dandy for them! 😂 Haha, jk! (I'm just salty because I'm jelly, that's a nice set up they've got! 🥲) Your comment was very interesting because I honestly wouldn't have guessed that. I know nothing about fashion design school besides watching The Hills years ago, bahaha.
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It’s so frustrating being an intern/ entry level and you’re expected to do everything because the higher ups barely know how to turn on a computer. But some how expect everything to be done quickly and get mad that it takes longer than they expected.
Also I wish nepo babies would just own it. I feel like people would care less if the nepos stop trying to pull the “I’m just like you” card.
That’s another thing I didn’t mention but it’s such a good point.
My managers would expect me to do things faster than physically possible but they had no understanding of how long things would actually take because they’ve never done it themselves. That was a really frustrating thing that always happened.
looool, its kinda funny how many parallels there are between fashion and politics as an industry. whenever u clearly have a dream, some people seem to exploit it to your disadvantage. and with nepotism being almost taken for granted in both instances, its annoying bc there are no clear qualifications for success, yet in their success, they take so much for granted.
but why should they? to make others happier? An intern role for me is one of the luckiest roles you can get if you get it in the right company. The intern is the one who can go into all the meetings and events without the big guns feeling threatened. Let them get mad, just make sure everyone knows your name and you know their own name. Be the silent wolf and strategize your way to success.
right, I agree but they should still know how to do the job and what it is about. for example the new CEO of the brand I'm interning at is the husband of the designer and owner but still he studied a lot in both his country and abroad, meanwhile there's the Sales manager who's just a good friend of the owner and that's why he got the job but has not a single clue how sales in the various showrooms work, what big customers are like, what it's like to have to work with them and arrive to the right budget but still thinks he can scream on the phone to his employees and judge their work.. like who do you think you are?!
Congratulations on Your Graduation....
Thanks! 🙏🏿
I’m in South Africa & worked in the fashion industry via styling and academically as a Sustainable fashion Anthropologist. And let me tell you, if you don’t have connections or well known friends in the industry, are rich, went to a fancy fashion school (extremely expensive) there’s a low chance you’ll make it. I’ve moved to UX/UI design In corporate and couldn’t be happier.
mm I graduated B.S. Engineering in Product Design and yeah I am getting my portfolio ready for a day job where there is strong accountability systems and more clearly defined metrics for performance outside of subjective things. I'm glad you found something that's working for you right now
@@adri.progression congrats, mate its a very good field , precision and creativity at the same time. could you share a video with the tight portfolio you put together so we can see
Hi ! I have just discovered your channel. Love fashion and i am an interior architect. Nepo babies have been around forever. I moved to Barcelona in 2005 aiming to work in architecture.
I was 24 at the time. I contacted many architecture studios and the top ones had policies to work for 1 year for free and then they may consider you to work with a wage.
I met graduate architects from Cambridge and the Bartlett all working there ( for free of course) and mum and dad paying for the lot ( lifestyle etc) it was impossible for me to compete. I ended up moving to London and got a job the second day I arrived. As I already had 2 years experience. I now run my own company, and I have EARNT respect. It’s been nearly 15 years. I am known for my detail, hard work and output- I am hands on and use all the software, hand skills ( drawing) etc. and have the technical skills for site.
Hang in there guys! Nothing beats integrity, passion, hard work and commitment! ❤
I feel like there should be some outlet like Yelp where interns and other workers could write their experience with the company so that in the future others would know if they should step their foot in that company. Best part? Those who wronged them had to read about what they’ve done 😅😂
Congratulations on the graduation! 🎉 you deserve it ❤
I'm actually thinking of creating something like this but for stylists (as that's my field) - i think it would help with making stylists more accountable, people getting credited for work, and transparency over pay and nature of the job, whilst also regulating people's expectations of what they will/wont get out of assisting stylists. I also think a huge huge issue is someone can be a great stylist but a terrible mentor (and this applies to any creative field where you have the lead and the intern/assistant who is trying to learn). Def feel like many creatives require/love assistance (they wouldn't be able to run their business without interns/assistants) but they operate on a race to the bottom in terms of labour (who can do it for cheapest/free/unhealthy hours) because it's also how they worked their way up - not realising that they become the very thing/person that exploited them... anyway i digress! A lot needs to change but many love the status quo sadly
@@Quicheuhhh that sounds very cool and strong goal! Hope you succeed! it's true, why change the system when it's so much easier to exploit the ones on the bottom 😣
Glassdoor has that kind of feedback.
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Honestly everything you spoke about isn’t only applicable to fashion, it can be applied to the corporate world as well. One of my previous jobs, the manager was the same way, he delegated all his work onto the team and was so checked out we would often joke about it. But he would also protect his team if need be and didn’t throw any of us under the bus, so that was a positive. A colleague told us his nickname was recession proof because he would always make sure to befriend the incoming VP and be on a friends basis with them and would always avoid getting let go even when people weren’t sure what he even did. Not sure I would recreate all that to the same degree but I learned that being friends with your superiors and those in other departments really pays off.
omg i used to manage the designers son when i was art director at a fashion brand and he literally did zero work no matter how hard i tried to get him to!! and there was no world in which he could have been fired either. if i were him in that position i would have worked so hard to help my moms brand, i’ll never understand. the nepo baby thing is so true!
i think if you'd crossed him. he woulda told his Mamma and she would have catwalked to your desk with the wickedest grimace and frown ever. its hard to be polite in this case but you did good avoiding escalation . Even though in the best of scenarios it would have been ok to tell him "sit your tail down Mr Caviar prince and do some work"
not in the fashion industry but as an accountant i deal with Nepo princelings . the same ones that do have a degree but are "spooked" when new data needs to be parsed and analysed .
I came to the same realisation once I graduated too. Fashion is basically ego and you having the confidence to convince other people that you’re basically it
*cough* Tom Ford *cough*
Congratulations, you've done so much already while still in school the sky is the limit now. xxx
Thanks so much Diane! Always appreciate your support ❤️
yeah fashion school is also like this u have the students who have to work to keep up with buying all the fabric and the ones who get appartments and hired seamstress from their parents, those are also the ones who have job offers waiting for them as soon as they graduate
100% facts. It really isn’t a level playing field - I know students that had all of their stuff sewn by professionals and their work is marked alongside other people who had to sew everything themselves. The fabric point is so true as well - the rich kids can dedicate more time to designing because they don’t need to work odd jobs just to try and afford the cost of materials needed to design
@@FashionRoadman yes so spot on it's so crazy and no one does nothing about it because they know once u go to work somewhere its gonna be exactly the same
You had me at nepotism….congratulations on your graduation 🎉
Thanks!
9:50 this is an incredible type of internet community to have. Critical but not aggressive or over corrective discussions are so good, and sometimes hard to come by in industries that can be judgmental.
Lol your story about working as an intern is so hilarious. It‘s just insane people live this way. Incompetent people at their jobs is also what i have been baffled by many times. I can relate so well to this.
hello! i’m a student for journalism and really want to get into fashion as a writer/journalist. i’ve been following you for a while and really thank you for making this video.
Thanks a lot for watching, always here to help if you need tips
Congrats on graduating! You deserve it
Thanks! 🙏🏿
Congrats 🎉! Ive been keeping up with your channel since forever and am so happy/proud of you! Really glad to hear that BoF is a good place to work for, I really enjoy the content from there.
Bro the fashion industry seems to mirror the film and TV industry
Big congratulations on your graduation. I’m not in fashion but it’s sadly the same thing in the theatre. It’s annoying to see my wealthy colleagues be able to make all sorts of plays and performances on shoe string budgets because they don’t have to worry about paying rent. But I choose to not linger in that space because it’s too time consuming and it takes away time and energy from me making my own art. At the end of the day, I think the hardest pill one has to swallow if we’re poor, grew up poor and we go into the arts… the hardest pill to swallow is that nobody cares about that. In the late capitalist system we live under, no producer or director or audience member cares about your struggle, they only care about what you produce. And so, because of this, I think us peeps who come from nothing we need to just show up and show out and outshine everyone in whatever way we can AND our struggle isn’t for everyone to hear, not everyone is deserving of knowing about our vulnerability and strife - so be careful who you choose to tell. I also find solace in artists that I admire and that I find out grew up rough and with no money and still managed to shake the world up even when they had no connections or a mom and dad to pay their rent. ❤
I recently finished reading David Balzar's 'Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else' which focuses on the history of traditional curatorial work and how it has evolved. I found that a lot of the toxic facets of the art world he describes are applicable to the fashion industry as well. In the second half of the book centered on defining creative work and analyzing how this definition fits into the mechanism of art production, Balzar deconstructs the concept of the 'gallerina': a young, wealthy, female, art student who exists in a unique position to accept non/underpaid internships with the hope of someday owning (or at least persuading her parents to buy her) a gallery of her own. He delves into this complex web of governments cutting funding to art programs, the creation of 'deskilled work'--work in which conceptual work is valued on par with physical labor to its detriment, the introduction of "professional" humanities degrees that sought to deprofessionalize creative work in the vein of poststructuralist critical theory, but just ended up reprofessionalizing it and to an even worse degree, and finally culminating with a discussion of how curators like HUO operate in a new-age feudalist regime wherein a few tenured creatives maintain their illustrious positions that are unachievable to obtain by the average creative nowadays, leaving only a few highly coveted positions open for those with the most privilege to sweep up. Enter: The Gallerinas.
This is too fuckin long now lmao but this book made me rethink the way I want to navigate the fashion industry and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who's an entry-level creative in any field.
Please do! I understand I went to both fashion school and art history! Such overlap in theory but also discrete and distinct laughable differences in the visual sense lol!
Need to buy this book
Now I really need to read this book! Thank you
Thank you for the recommendation
Interesting but, no “gallerinos”? Why?
Not a single lie was told, your dedication and perseverance during your internship blows my mind. I don't think I'd ever cycle 2 hours for anything. Also, congratulations on obtaining your qualification!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I don't think I have 2 hours cycling in me anymore haha but back then I was willing to do anything to work in fashion
@@FashionRoadmanunpaid internships are modern day slavery.
There needs to be some serious regulations placed in the fashion industry to prevent that.
Thank you for all the great content you produce, I'm looking forward to binging more content from you!
I was in school for fashion and had a few internships in NYC in the early 2000s. They were all unpaid, and I was frequently the only minority around. For one co, the CEO was the grandson of the founder and all the employees were his school mates. Never seen someone work less in my life, he would spend DAYS crafting singular emails to celebrities, blasting their music/movies in the office while "working"😂😂😂
I don't know why this video was recommended to me since I'm not into fashion, but I ended up watching the whole thing, it was interesting to hear your perspective. Congratulations on graduating and good luck in the future!
Thank you for this video, trying to go into the fashion industry as a management with marketing student in my first year. Thank you for the heads up.
My boy is going to be active and the channel is going to get even more exposure 🔥
Congrats on Graduating!!! And yes, unqualified people are soo irritating. Glad you spoke to Accountability regarding your RUclips channel.
After having worked a few internships and graduating in business rather than fashion I can confirm these things. I was already at a disadvantage and I assumed people would be happy to teach me. But the gate keeping of knowledge I have come to find is ridiculous, I now work in watches which is my secondary passion. Despite both being luxury industries, this industry is far more welcoming and people are so passionate to share knowledge and opportunities. It breaks my heart that I love the product of fashion but I love the people of watches far more. I would love to return to fashion but as a south Londoner I couldn't play all the little bitchy games that I experienced, especially having now been treated and respected as a real person.
One of your best ever videos. Congratulations on graduating 💫
Jon, its been "cooking" for a long time. post graduation was the best time to release it. cos the smoke that woulda come from it if done a second sooner. Chiiiiiile !
Gone head black man! Appreciate your existence in this space. Keep going 🫡❤️
I'm tired of all this attitude that is connected to fashion industry. Fashion industry needs a revolution!
Needs to come from the consumer. Not a thing will change til we decide how we spend our very hard earned cash.
@@kateaye3506 Well said, that is true!
Let's be honest, I think every single nepo baby got into the position where they are because of their contacts. There is always someone who is better suited or has the same skills. And if other applicants have the same qualifications, the Nepo baby will still be accepted. Maybe there are a few exceptions. But if a Nepo baby is preferred even though others have the same skills, then you can't say that the Nepo baby made it on its own!
i have little intent to actually work in fashion, but good video! watched it all
Congrats on graduating!
I used to love fashion.
But I am questioning that these days.
I can say I like STYLE and ART!
Congratulations on your graduation! And thanks for sharing. Everything would be better if people told their real truth instead of acting they are self made. And that goes for successful business people too
Congratulations on graduating! All takes are now accredited and certified. 😤
*CONGRATULATIONS* 🎇🎉🥳
Thanks!!
This video was quite revealing about the sheer amount of uncritical opinion on anybody who is well-connected in the fashion industry. Anna Wintour is always without blemish and has a flock of adoring fans (and fan accounts) despite her very real flaws (the way she treats her interns like trash and her lack of actions when it comes to body diversity in high fashion) and lackluster vogue issues.
If we want to move fashion forwards, it had better start with removing complete flattery and hard sells articles and moving onto a critical and nuanced perspective on fashion which I see more on RUclips and Reddit than I ever did on traditional media outlets.
Let the heads roll and let's start with nepo-infested Vogue first.
Nothing is for free and endurance is priceless;)
Relevant, I love your content. It’s realistic and helpful ❤
so much truth spoken here. also, great shoutout to imran ahmed and BoF. i listen to him on the BoF podcast weekly.
Congrats dude! Be someone who actually pushes fashion forward and doesn’t just take up space. 🎉⚙️
Congratulations on your graduation and all the best to you going forward! 🎉
You know what´s funny about the Nepo Baby in engineering and them needing them same qualification as every other engineer and this not quiet being the case in Fashion? I´m studying to become a Fashion Design Engineer. 😂
Fantastic! Congratulations! Keep going and keep growing in your fields 🙌👍✨
Thanks!
Those biceps bro! Fire!
Thank you so much for this
Thank you for this video
Like you,I have a love for fashion and had bad experience recently with this sort of thing
I feel like the advice you have in the end of the vid is definitely the best course of action
Congrats on the graduation
Congrats on graduating Ayo!
Thanks! 🙏🏿
I needed this as a Fashion Journalist I am still broke I been working for a small fashion magazine and I am thinking of leaving because of the judgment of my family 😭
Huge congrats!
Thank you for sharing your Journey. I hope that other People on the creative fields can learn from it.
congrats on your graduation 🎓🎉
Thanks! 🙏🏿
Congrats on graduating! Keep it up
Thanks! 🙏🏿
Well done graduating, fine achievement
Brilliant . Congrats on graduating. Well done 🫶🏾🙏🏾👏🏾
Reminds me of when I was an apprentice hairdresser in a high end salon 1950s and hoped someone would give sixpence so I could take the train home.
When I hear the NEPO WORD, I get images of Bella Hadid, Kendal Jenner
Julia Roberts, Lily Rose Depp, Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Marcos family, Kennedy family. Plenty of them.
Hahaha so true a coworker was the head of marketing of another brand within the group and she did not know what a jpeg was 😅 then there was the visual merchandiser that did not know how to use in design or photoshop. Oh there was also the brand manager who never managed to raise the brand from the red but went on to a better job/pay. None of them were what I consider nepo babies but they certainly benefited from having worked at “big brands” and friends in places for introductions.
I feel like you've had a pretty bad experience with that internship and don't think its fair to say that all companies function in the way of just giving higher up jobs to their friends/ kids even if they aren't capable of such a role. Unfortunately, yes it does happen. But there are also loads of brands who's teams are full of incrediblyyy talented people who have so much knowledge and expertise to share.
That said, I definitely do find that the internships I did do, ALL utilised every single one of my skills no matter what my ''role'' was, but I kind of saw this as a positive personally because it meant I was able to get even more experience doing even more things which then fed into my portfolio and I have now used as a freelancer. But that said I am a very multi-disciplinary person, and still work in a broad range of fields, although styling is my main focus (I also do photography, marketing, copy writing, creative direction, and more hahaha). So to conclude I guess everyone's experiences are going to be very different. The thing I recommend the most is if you're going into the industry without any connections- go out and MAKE those connections!
congrats on your graduation !!
Basically it’s like working for Daniel Meade in Ugly Betty.
In summary , you had a bad leadership/ management experience. As have I , so it’s true that can be reality . A reality that I won’t accept . I am all about alignment and having expectations.
There are great leaders out here . Bc overall it was a defeated tone. I hope you have a better work experience. Give us an updateeee
Congratulations on graduating!!
This was some video ty for the insight
thanks for watching
Real spill.
Youre videos are so info! So please get it coming! And you are handsome!
Congrats on graduating!!!❤
bro got the human by nature on
Yup!
I'm studying Marketing who wants to work in fashion or luxury, more on the PR side or maybe Consumer insights.
You’re real af
That’s why when people find out someone talented they take advantage
ahhhh so true. internships are just another beast- most of the time theyre unpaid
Bwwwahahaha very true. Seriously, even in government or regular jobs, I’ve worked in shit roles - had to do 3 people’s worth of duties and my boss was having a manic episodes, over eating at her desk because she’s trying to quit smoking and being on facebook all day. LOL I can very much relate.
I’ve started out as an engineer, then moved over to multiple BFAs in design and an MFA, and I just see the same bullshit over and over.. only a small amount of people doing most of the grunt work and the higher ups, not really doing much other than get on ur case when something is incorrect, but will surely, accept praise for your work. It’s everywhere. I worked for a couple designers in the interior design realm.. and traveled 2 hours to get to work, take 3 trains, then run to catch a bus to get to work… I would leave my apt at 345am to be there at 7. It was the worst. LOL ( I was paying $260 a month just for public transportation and my checks were like 400…. I could have just rented or leased a car ).
I seriously don’t know how i fed myself during those times.. my shekels all went to rent.. and there was a amount of time where I was homeless.. and luckily got to house sit for a person i didn’t know personally, and she was just such an angel to meet at the moment.. and she didn’t charge me to take care of her apt while she was sent to work in Shanghai for a month… then thankfully I ended up getting an ADU apt where I could pay less rent, based more on my income.
I really wish I could get in with a great label and do work that is valued and paid well, I just live in the middle of nowhere. It’s just so hard to get in without knowing ‘people’ to get your foot in the door.
*Le sigh Rick Owens is my dream job - it really seems like he’s a great employer, calm, and measured and has the same dark sense of humor that I love. I can only dream.
I have worked as a fashion writer for many years and I fully agree with everything you say here. Sometimes I wonder why I am so in love with fashion because the business can be very ugly and not to mention conservative in thr worst possible way. You being young and those just starting in this business should really pay what FR says in this video, because it is sadly so very true.
Here to boost❤
im planning to work in the business side of fashion which i suppose is less creative and requires BBA/MBA degrees n stuff so im wondering are those jobs paid less too or would it be similar to say a marketing head in a non fashion company gets paid
Business jobs in fashion are paid really well at least from what I’ve seen so you’ll be fine. The business side of things tends to have less nepotism minus the executive level (e.g Arnaults being the CEOS of a lot of LVMH brands). I have friends that work for LVMH in Paris and they make a really good living
@@FashionRoadman thank u sm!
Congratulations!
Thanks!
Im more bothered that people keep buying up the stuff just csuse they're nepo babies. Yes yheres not much qualification other than taste but realy... also, how many underpaid people are they taking credit for?
Currently dealing with issues in the industry with people rather get collage students even for more sr. positions just to not pay much to anyone.
But going it alone takes a lot but at this point...
(Im an illustrator for surface and textiles).
word my man
Hey I just got accepted into menswear at csm, anyone got any advice on how to take action now which will help me avoid some of these issues in the future?
I am planning to work in the design or practical making side of the fashion industry, would you say these are paid well? Like being a design assistant or product developer?
How was it working as a photographer?
It was fun - I did weddings and sports events mainly. I think I just wanted to do something else because I wasn’t that passionate about it and I met photographers that are way better than I’ll ever be
@@FashionRoadman youre probably underestimating photos, whats your take on Ai on this and fashion?
Congrats on graduating, do u think the diploma helped u get into certain jobs or do u think it was more of your skulls
I want to know the answer to this too
It’s hard for me to tell because all the jobs I’ve gotten have been before or during the time I was at CSM but I think that the prestige of being at CSM definitely helped and it made people in the industry take what I was doing more seriously.
All due congratulations to the person who shot your graduation video in WIDE SCREEN - that's 16X9 - most people make the mistake of shooting footage in portrait mode essential 4X3 which looks amateur and uninspired.
Congrats on getting that degree, but Ayo your the fashion journalist, so the world needs you to find out what demon is controlling the design process at Amiri. those jeans are made by dark forces
Loool dark forces you know 😂
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She… She Didn’t Know How To Use PS? Wtf
Congraduations! Remember to copyright your portmanteau words.🤣
😂😂😂
Be Sassy.
Tbh you won’t make any real money unless you work mass market. Especially the New York job market for fashion is Pennie’s in relationship to the role you take in the industry. I personally could never find a proper salary job in fashion for years after post grad spiraling jnto freelancing but never getting a salary job.
I think a lot of nepo babies end up in creative fields because it takes less effort to jump the queue. As you said, the qualification barrier to practice medicine for example don't necessarily apply in the arts. Obviously education in the arts is just as important but with the right connections it's a lot easier to circumvent these...
PS Congrats on graduating!
I work in the fashion industry here in Lagos Nigeria and honestly it's basically the same experience here if not worse. Although I was quite lucky when I was started out as an intern for a fashion house here in Lagos, I was being paid from the start(mostly because I already taught myself, gained skills and knowledge) and gained experience until I stopped being paid for literally no reason in my 5th month working for the company and was owed for 2 months. And Nepotism is a thing here as well, you see cases of young talented and skill designers being ignored, to favor some kid with well known and connected parents having access to opportunities that they've never worked a day in their life for, in an industry they basically do not understand.
All I could do was laugh as you hit point after point. You told not one lie! I walked away from the industry over 10 yrs ago because of these exact reasons. But the fact that young professionals like yourself are speaking about it more transparently gives me hope that change is finally coming
Congratulations on your graduation and I wish you and all the other fashion underdogs the best of luck. Never forget that talent and integrity always win in the end
so F*king TRUE! I work with a very closed minded boss, who is never open to change and if her way of doing things (which are 99% a guessing game) did not work out then i get the blame. TOXIC. Its unfortunate that so many highly skilled artisans are not being valued of their worth because of nepotism. There should be an end to this cycle!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and content.
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I share my office with a nepobaby.i feel like I'm babysitting.she comes from money and again she likes to pretend that she got her position thru hard work.she is 22yrs old.i am 50 yrs and had to work my way up to where she is now in her 20s.
Congrats on graduating!!!
About the video specifically, I feel you. I’m just starting out in the fashion industry and it’s really hard not knowing people and having no real connections in it. I love fashion but it’s hard to connect and see myself staying in it for long
100% it’s really hard, luckily I was able to find people that were on the same wavelength online and I eventually met a lot of them in person. I also have the added advantage of living in a fashion capital which is something not everyone has.
The problem with fashion journalism is there is a lack of depth in knowledge. American Vogue has become dull; its obvious Grace Coddington is no longer there. I will say Coddington made that magazine, not Anna Wintour.
Definitely agree with this here. I mean Anna is the definition of getting your career fast tracked because of who your dad is. She was in positions of power before she even had the experience or skills to know what she was doing. I will say that she has done some revolutionary things at Vogue in her defence. It's just clear that without certain figures around her like Grace Coddington, Andre Leon Talley etc - things start to fall very flat.
@@FashionRoadman I'm glad you pointed out Andre Leon Talley. I am listening to his autobiography "The Chiffon Trenches" on Audible. He had expressed the importance of doing ones homework. He lived and breathed fashion. Plus he had a significant liberal arts background. He completed a Masters degree at Brown University. That gave him the creativity needed to be successful in high fashion. Unfortunately, there aren't any Coddington or Leon Talley clones in the wings.
Extremely important reality check to put out there. Congrats on graduation!
Thanks! 🙏🏿 and yes I feel the need not to sugarcoat the industry because it’s good for people to know what they are getting into
congrats on graduating! along the lines of nepotism, yeah its quite unfortunate how it happens across all industries. I come from an engineering background and in my previous job I remember an intern joining and in a matter of a year or so the person became director of product management. I eventually learned that the intern was related to the CFO, but it baffled me how comfortable they were putting the intern in a position like that.
the company is doing quite poorly now but I still wonder what reasons upper executives have to make decisions like that especially when they know they aren't too big to fail.
I don’t even understand the logic of it because in some cases, hiring based on nepotism and not based on merit will be a detriment to the company itself. Quite a few companies that have folded because of this.