Fashion Your Future

Fashion Your Future puts careers in fashion centre stage at Bath in Fashion 2016.

Bath in Fashion has announced the line-up for Fashion Your Future, a free career forum for young people interested in pursuing a career in fashion. The panel will share their experience and opportunities in the world of fashion from buying and merchandising to styling to pattern cutting and fashion design.

Chaired by Louise Pickles, who heads up the successful Fashion Design Course at Bath Spa University this event is back by popular demand. Louise explains “Fashion Your Future has been an important part of the 'Bath in Fashion' programme since the event started seven years ago. It gives young people, and anyone interested in fashion, the chance to hear first-hand about an array of different roles within the fashion industry from industry professionals, and gives the audience an idea of what it takes to work in this extremely exciting, competitive and fast paced industry.”

Bath in Fashion is managed and funded by the Bath Business Improvement District supported by SouthGate Bath and more than 120 Bath businesses to put the city in the fashion spotlight. SouthGate Student Night will also be popular with students and there are £5 student tickets available for every event in the Bath in Fashion week-long programme which runs 18th to 24th April. See bathinfashion.co.uk for details (subject to availability). Bath Spa University is running a series of four talks at the Bath School of Art Design celebrating Pattern including “Eley Kishimoto; The Patron Saint of Print”; “Paternity”, Pattern at the Fashion Museum and “Discover Darkroom”.

The Fashion Your Future event takes place on Saturday 23rd April at 11am at Komedia and the event is free to attend but to register please e-mail: [email protected].

The panel of speakers includes:

Monica Ross: MD luxury knitwear label Chinti & Parker

Monica has many years of experience, and is highly respected within the luxury sector of fashion, working in the Buying and Merchandising side of fashion.

Previous roles include: Director of Accessories, Head of Childrenswear & Shoes, Vice President of Digital Commerce at Burberry: Buying & Merchandising Director Womenswear, Accessories and Childrenswear and the same role for Menswear for Selfridges: Director of Planning: Home & Accessories, and Concessions Director for House of Fraser.

Chloe Jones: River Island. As one of the successful graduates from Bath Spa University, Chloe Jones won the Graduate Fashion Week Gold & Womenswear awards in 2012. She is currently Junior Designer Womenswear Special Projects: Premium line 'River Island Studio' and top store ranges 'River Island Black'. Previously, Chloe worked with Matthew Williamson and Tom Ford womenswear as an intern.

Mouchette Bell: Freelance Fashion Stylist. Former model Mouchette Bell worked as a fashion stylist for British Vogue with Anna Wintour in the 1980's, Fashion Editor for Mademoiselle Magazine in New York, Fashion Editor-at-Large for Elle, and currently works as a freelance stylist for magazines including Elle and Tatler.

Kathryn Roberts graduated from Bath Spa in 2014 with a love of creative pattern cutting. She is currently Junior Pattern Cutter for Peter Pilotto and was lucky enough to get some of her styles in the show at Fashion Week "I was completely exhausted after fashion week but it was incredible and totally worth it!" On graduating Kathryn worked for Karen Millen as the Pattern Room Assistant, and interned in the pattern room at Roland Mouret.

Sarah Dallas: Knitwear Designer & Senior Tutor in Fashion & Textiles at the Royal College of Art. Sarah established her own company designing and producing knitwear under the Sarah Dallas label and was awarded the British Design Award for Excellence in 1987. She has undertaken extensive consultancy work since this time and established the Fashion Knitwear course at the Royal College of Art in 1989, she has been senior tutor in Fashion and Textiles since 1992.

Tickets are still available for events throughout the week (18th to 24th April).  For further information please visit bathinfashion.co.uk.

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