Fashion Merchandising

About the Fashion Merchandising Concentration 

The Fisher College Fashion Merchandising concentration is where management meets fashion. To accomplish this, we often step outside the classroom and take you on field trips that include:

• meetings with executives in top firms,
• consultations with local entrepreneurs, and
• visits to apparel businesses and retailers that operate in Boston's fashionable Back Bay.

Students will discover and embrace creative and imaginative instincts to connect trading and enterprising skills within the apparel, textile, and home furnishings industries. Additionally, travel and study abroad programs inspire students both visually and culturally in their fashion studies and future workplace endeavors. Empty heading

Learning Outcomes

• Define product and merchandising developmental stages from design concept to end-use consumer product.
• Recognize the importance of aesthetics and principles of design to implement trend forecasting tools and adverting platforms.
• Demonstrate textile knowledge by understanding fiber properties in consumer apparel and home textiles.
• Identify recurring historical costume elements in contemporary fashion products.
• Analyze and critique the ever-changing Omni retail channels utilized by retailers and consumers for profitability.
• Prepare a buying proposal with an assortment plan, pricing strategies and proposed sales reports.
• Establish Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) plans for print, visual displays and online marketing formats to promote fashion related goods and services.
• Evaluate parameters within the global marketplace in relation to ever-changing trade, political, and technological landscapes of international business frameworks.

Fashion Merchandising Career Track

Graduates with the Bachelor of Science in Management and Fashion Merchandising Concentration can obtain positions in Assistant Buying, Visual Merchandising, and Retail Management.  The Fashion Merchandising Concentration also prepares its graduates for employment in a myriad of professional settings, including: Allocation and Planning for local corporate firms, Merchandising, Social Media Strategies, and Sales for Off-Price, Luxury, Beauty and Home Furnishing Retailers.