45-million-year-old fossilized Amber.
Fashion merchandisers are often called upon to pick fabrics and textiles, which could mean anything from silk, ceramics, shells, beads, sack cloth or some obscure piece of fossilized amber from a basin somewhere in France.
Silk from India gold-wrapped with weft brocade.
Recognizing immediately what region of the world a piece of clothing, jewelry or furniture came from is critical to fashion merchandising. Knowing what period of history the piece is from or inspired by is just as important.
Vitruvian Man measurements
Often it is the fashion merchandiser who begins negotiations on the purchase of textiles and fabrics. For this reason, accounting skills plus the ability to convert weights, yardage and currencies rapidly is a must.
Love what you do.Fashion is an ever-fluctuating seemingly living organism that can morph overnight. A fashion merchandiser needs to know trends and where they fall on the bell curve.
