The verdict is in: Fashion Merchandising Management students have all the fun.
Earlier this summer, Professor Jane Werner and the 16 students in her FM 226 class crossed the pond and spent almost a month soaking up the sights of London, Paris, Barcelona, and Florence.
Their drool-worthy itinerary could not have been more glamorous. They met with Topshop’s designers; toured a distribution plant run by robots; met fashion forecasters from Stylesight and WGSN; presented marketing and merchandising plans to Spanish women’s wear company Encuentro; explored Pitti Uomo, a massive menswear trade show in Florence; watched leather workers and silk weavers make their product; and cooked with an Italian chef. Among many other equally impressive activities.
“The students finally got to see things they studied in class,” Professor Werner said. “And they learned not to be afraid of a place where they don’t speak the language.”
Behold, the slideshow.
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- The gals riding the London Eye immediately after their flight landed.
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- Eggs at a market in Barcelona.
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- Color forecasting by WGSN in Barcelona.
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- Weaving silk at Lisio, a company that supplies fabric to the Pope and Fendi.
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- A leather worker’s tools.
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- Touching a crocodile skin at an Italian leather school. “It was softer than I was expecting,” Nicole Morrongiello ’13 said.
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- The clothes at Pitti Uomo, the men’s fashion trade show in Florence, are lots brighter than the drabbery that most American men wear.
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- The booths at Pitti Uomo were maximo fantastico!
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- Shoes at Pitti Uomo
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- The students took a cooking class in Italy (and mixed ravioli filling the old way).
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- A student presentation about social media for Encuentro, a Spanish clothing company. “We came up with research specifically for Spanish women, their target customer,” Morrongiello said. “They were very impressed.”
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