Fashion Assistant Job Description
Fashion assistant
provides visual merchandising recommendations to brands in order to drive higher sales and productivity.
Fashion Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective fashion assistant job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included fashion assistant job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Producing and filing Fashion Shoot credits for Senior Style Editor and Associate Fashion Editor shoots
Keep Fashion Binders up to date – Fashion team calendar, shoots calendar, Issue Master List./Long Lead calendar
Work with copywriters to ensure that written and visual content of stories is consistent with fashion messaging/ styling
Book print and art studio appointments and attend Print Fashion Shows
Organize schedule for Milan and Paris fashion weeks
Diary management - scheduling and rescheduling meetings and appointments for Senior Style Editor and Associate Fashion Editor
Printing out of latest Boards (Fashion, mood, photographer, locations) and keeping Shoots folders up to date
Printing out of all Fashion Stories for the Edit both unpublished and published for printed visual reference
Prepare, submit and manage payment for expense reports for Senior Style Editor and Associate Fashion Editor
Assist with coordinated special events such as annual fashion show and lecture series
Fashion Assistant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Fashion Assistant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, PMC, EAC
Education for Fashion Assistant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the fashion assistant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Technical, Fashion, Education, Business, Fashion Design, Design, Merchandising, Textiles, Teaching, Marketing
Skills for Fashion Assistant
Desired skills for fashion assistant include:
Designers and brands
Fashion
Designers
Merchandising and technical aspects of merchandising
Ross Systems and reports
Trends
Brands
Brands and influencers
Contemporary American brands and create resources for the US and UK teams to use to access this digitally and in print form
Designers and collections
Desired experience for fashion assistant includes:
Track record of successful results, for example, strong productivity, personal trade
BFA or BA preferred
Must have at least 1 year of exposure in a specialty retail environment
Knowledge of Web PDM preferred
Must be proactive, detail oriented, and possess the ability to meet tight deadlines
Must possess basic Microsoft Word and Excel skills
Fashion Assistant Examples
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Fashion Assistant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a fashion assistant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for fashion assistant
- Assist design team with sketching the men’s, women’s fashion accessories
- Execute the efficient organization of the fashion & textile laboratories with a specific focus on textile dyeing
- Select product for all creative marketing content including e-mails, website promotions, direct mail promotions, advertising campaigns and the homepage
- Source appropriate, on brand and inspiring imagery to hold all stories
- Provide written and verbal briefs for product pages that sit behind weekly e-mails and homepage content and to check product shopping pages once lists have been created and before going live
- To assist with still life shoots for use across e-mail, homepage and the website
- Assist the Shopping editor with planning content ideas at the beginning of each season
- Support store operations by acting as a resource for customers and employees
- Respond to customer letters on behalf of the store manager
- Create, maintain and analyze store sales and budget reports and spreadsheets
Qualifications for fashion assistant
- Interacts with District Manager and other Business Partners
- At least 1 year of administrative support experience required
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint needed
- Dedication to responsibilities
- Incredibly tech and computer savvy
- Polished, poised and professional in both mindset and manor
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a fashion assistant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for fashion assistant
- Co-manage the schedule of classes in the fashion department
- Establish links to professional organizations and leading practitioners in the field of fashion design
- Initiate and/or carry out special projects to enhance and improve the fashion design program
- Assist in web content management for fashion design pages
- Partner with store manager to review budget and manage expenses
- Organize Outlook calendars for store manager
- Manage travel arrangements and corporate expense reconciliation
- Assist in the execution of visual materials from design department specific to the design process
- Oversee the preparation of presentation concept boards and tableaus for design meetings
- Organize and oversee all print artwork to art studios and graphic artists
Qualifications for fashion assistant
- Attending designer clinics - where the PR or designer will talk through their new collection
- Must be reliable with outstanding organisational skills and attention to detail
- Must be comfortable with people
- Must have a laptop
- Must be a fast learner, and tech savvy
- Prior experience in Accounts Payable required
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a fashion assistant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for fashion assistant
- Manage RTW requests and sample traffic
- Create and update story boards and seasonal trend boards
- Maintain PR database
- Assist in organization of the closet for run throughs
- Create front of book memos and liaise with photo studio regarding shooting of
- Oversee department office to ensure smooth and responsive operation (i.e., answer phones, take and route messages, assist students, deliver and pick up paperwork, distribute mail, monitor inventory)
- Prepare, process and maintain appointments for the chairperson
- Maintain studio facilities (report needs for repair, organize improvement projects, track condition of sewing machinery)
- Manage operations budget, track expenses, and process payments
- Manage department-wide communications to students and faculty
Qualifications for fashion assistant
- Must have detailed knowledge of accounting principles
- Must have strong office computer knowledge and skills
- This position requires attention to detail and good follow up skills
- Minimum commitment of two full days a week
- Exceptional creative mind
- Must have detailed knowledge of Administrative principles
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a fashion assistant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for fashion assistant
- Hire and supervise work-study students
- Integrate diversity and related principles into all aspects of staff engagement, as appropriate, and foster development of positive environment for diversity and inclusion
- Assist the Shopping editor with planning content ideas
- Responsible for opening and closing the store on designated shifts
- Ensure monitoring and execution of daily payroll goals
- Assume Store Manager responsibilities in his or her absence
- Organize schedules for Assistant, Managers-in-Training, and Stylists
- Organisation and coordination of all runway show tickets prior / during the show season (London, Paris, Milan and New York)
- Work with travel team to organise and book all travel and accommodation for directors
- Responsible for assisting colleagues with a range of administrative tasks
Qualifications for fashion assistant
- Great, positive, can-do attitude
- Proven ability to be adaptable and flexible - this role will require the right candidate to swiftly move for one task to other at short notice
- Ability to develop and nurture individual student’s design abilities and a strong commitment to progressive design education
- Current knowledge and experience in the field or industry in his/her area of expertise
- Working knowledge of apparel software desired
- Strong interest in working collaboratively across Parsons and the University, and with external partners towards the development of shared projects and initiatives
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of fashion assistant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for fashion assistant
- Review concept and model selections with Fashion Director
- Screening phone calls, enquiries and requests, and handling them in a professional manner and with discretion if needed
- Sort incoming mail and e-mails - log, forward, prioritise, respond as appropriate
- Liaising with external parties and vendors to organise appointments
- Booking couriers and responsible for the up keep of our data base
- Setting up meeting rooms with beverages before meetings
- Some personal duties for directors
- Ad-hoc duties as and when they arise
- Assist design team in the conception of seasonal mood/direction boards
- Render sketches in materials and color detailing digitally
Qualifications for fashion assistant
- Degree education and previous work experience within a support role in a magazine and experience with calling in products for photo shoots
- Have a keen desire to understand analysis and feedback from the retail team to help plan sales driving content
- Must have at least 2 to 3 years of retail visual styling experience with prior supervisory or management experience
- Some previous experience within an administrative capacity
- Strong MS office skills, particularly Power point, Excel and Word
- Hardware design/development follow up with developer in NY / China