Guess what Travelers? I’m headed to Las Vegas right now to attend the MAGIC Trade Show! The Product Development dept sent out an email asking who would like to attend and I was chosen! But I almost bowed out of the spot. Let me tell you something in these last few days I have learned three very valuable lessons just in receiving this...

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Happy hump day to you Travelers! It's the 7th week of school and officially the time that I warn my residents about concerning stress and overload. Well, I should have been warning myself as I found myself crying in class over frustration of a project. I will talk about it more in a later post but for now I want to focus on...

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Happy Monday Travelers! Over the weekend I came across this article via the Business of Fashion originally posted at Retail Week. The article touches on how more Fashion Design students are seeking out formal education of the business side of the industry to make themselves better prepared for the market and more competitive against their classmates.A heavy promotion for the English program Fashion...

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It is naive to believe that we learn all there is to know about our respective industries through school alone, but it is in networking and first-hand experience (and a little help from Google). As you know it's Market Week here in Los Angeles and I kept seeing people walking around with these red bags with the initials ENK on them. I kept...

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Yesterday on Twitter I came across this article in the New York Times originally tweeted by Urban Interns. The article discusses how students, more like their parents, are paying very large amounts of money for consideration of an internship for "a more competitive entry level resume". Many are hiring services used to search and land coveted unpaid positions.Two of the top companies listed...

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Travelers, I am now half way into my last quarter here at FIDM and have confirmed moving on from my RA position, leaving me homeless (retrospectively), which has me reexamining my raison d'etre. In English it literally translates into "Reason of Being" or my Purpose.When looking up the definition of "Purpose" it's defined in two words "reason" and "drive"...interesting. So I decided to...

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It's Market Week here in LA and that means that all the buyers come to the different showrooms to purchase product for their respective stores. I'm presently waiting on our fit model to arrive as we have a meeting with Nordstrom right now. I must tell you between all the printing, running to the fabric store and pattern makers (sometimes 3x's in one...

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