Fashion careers: boutique owner

Samantha Harvie, 29, owns fashion boutique Solo in Glasgow’s West End. The young entrepreneur offers some insight into running your own retail business. Tell us a bit about your company. Solo is an independent fashion boutique that has been open since 1984. We stock a wide range of designers that caters for ladies of all ages.… Continue reading Fashion careers: boutique owner

Fashion careers: social media and digital marketing assistant

Amy Priestley works for River Island, as a social media and digital marketing assistant. After doing work experience in the fashion chain’s marketing department at the age of 17, Amy knew a career in the world of fashion marketing was for her. How did you get started in marketing for a fashion brand? It all started… Continue reading Fashion careers: social media and digital marketing assistant

Fashion careers: store manager

Red dress fashion illustration, watercolor painting

Jacqueline Kilday, store manager, Vivienne Westwood Jacqueline is the manager of the Glasgow branch of luxury fashion brand Vivienne Westwood, where she’s worked for the last year and nine months. How did you get into retail? Worked my way up in retail. I started as a sales assistant when I was at uni as a… Continue reading Fashion careers: store manager

Fashion careers: fashion demand planner

Flora Bendt, fashion demand planner Flora works as a fashion demand planner for a global travel retailer – the people who run duty free shops in airports, cruise liners and beyond. Based in Switzerland, Flora’s role is very much part of the business side of fashion retail, analysing stats to make sure everything runs smoothly behind the… Continue reading Fashion careers: fashion demand planner

On trend careers

The autumn issue of Source is out THIS WEEK! Mega exciting for everyone, right? In it, we’ve got a special two-page feature looking at careers in the world of fashion – so here, to give you even more insight into how the industry works, we’ve spoken to some people making their mark on the fashion… Continue reading On trend careers

A career that’s always en vogue

Susan interviewing Donna Karan in New York

Susan Devaney, 27, has gone from working as a fashion assistant for the Herald newspaper as a student, to living the high life in Dubai where she’s now a features writer for high-end fashion title MOJEH. Susan, who studied English at Strathclyde Uni followed by a master’s in journalism from the same institution, tells Source… Continue reading A career that’s always en vogue