Being a Fashion Major at Mercyhurst

Hi All,

So as many of you might know, I'm a Fashion Merchandising major at Mercyhurst.  Although the past few days my fellow fashionistas and I have been complaining about how busy we are with fashion classes, deep down we truly love our major.

The easiest way to explain what a Fashion Merchandising major learns about is we're a business major that learns all about the fashion industry.  We learn about marketing, management, and other means of promotion, but there are a variety of other things we learn about too, like textiles, apparel quality, styling, and the international fashion industry.

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Our classes are really unique too; right now, I'm currently in a class called Product Line Development where I literally create my own fashion line (it's a trendy business women's travel wear line).  So far written a research paper and created an inspiration board to illustrate the theme of my line.  Eventually, I'll actually create and manipulate clothes on the computer which I'll include in my final presentation that I'll have to pitch to my class as if it's an actual Product Line I'm presenting to a real company... it's a tremendous amount of work, but very cool and exciting at the same time!

Feel free to check out our fashion page at fashion.mercyhurst.edu but also feel free to email me at hurstblogger@yahoo.com if you have any questions for me!