Professional industry habits are stressed from research, sourcing of fabrics and trims, accessories, to final styling. Collections will be presented at the annual Silver Needle Awards and Fashion Show. This course explores the global aspects of fashion production and retailing, taking into account the cost effectiveness of foreign fabrication and foreign sourcing. Topics involve methods, practices, and reasons for importation and exportation, U.S. retail expansion in foreign markets. Foreign countries and markets are analyzed.
Students also learn about political terms and how they affect U.S. markets.
This elective course gives the student the opportunity to analyze, through the case method of study, the decision-making processes in arriving at independent solutions to typical retail merchandising problems. Student analysis and presentation of actual cases are evaluated for weighing of factual data, disciplined thinking, and arrival at rational conclusions. Permission of Director required.