What Do People Misunderstand About Working In Fashion?

People think fashion is all champagne, runway shows, models, and trips to Paris. Those things are the 0.00001% – the cherry on top, the reward for the other 99% of hard work. It is a big business – one of the biggest in NYC and Paris. Huge revenue (a lot of budgeting and P&L math).

When you become an entrepreneur in fashion, you’re using your right and left brain. You’re doing budgets and carefully projecting sales targets. You’re also being creative, curating collections, doing photoshoots, and ad campaigns. A good entrepreneur can do and manage all of that.

Maybe you’re not doing the spreadsheets but you have to know enough to be able to work with your accountant and bookkeeper, and understand those numbers. Fashion is not a frivolous thing at all.