Fashion Careers by Company Name
Apparel Search fashion summary — a short guide to fashion careers by company name.
Most job searching starts with a role or a place. This summary starts somewhere else: with the question of who you want to work for. In this section the type of job and the city matter less than the company — because the company you work for is important. Finding tasks you enjoy is only half the battle; the people around you and the health of the business decide the rest.
Fashion Careers by Company Name — Explore & Resources
Judging a Company Before You Join It
Before accepting an employment offer, measure a company on characteristics such as executive team effectiveness, innovation, people-focused programmes, and whether it is rated a great place to work. In a genuinely good workplace, employees typically report high levels of trust, credible and respectful leadership, pride in the work and camaraderie. There is no official fashion company rating system, but a feel for a company can be built from news coverage, interviews, and discussing its culture with other members of the fashion industry.
Business health matters as much as culture. The fashion business attracts many entrants who think becoming a famous designer is easy; emerging businesses fail often, and large clothing companies go out of business too. The practical suggestion is to favour companies that do not appear to be going out of business — not to avoid emerging businesses, but to keep paying attention to the status of the business along the way. As consumer mood changes, brand popularity falls, and revenue follows. A downward-trending company is usually a warning, though it can occasionally be an opportunity: a strong leader can turn such a company around, and careers are sometimes made by being that leader.
Best-Company Research and Job Categories
Some published research names names. In 2016 Harper's Bazaar determined the most desirable companies to work for in fashion, polling social-media followers — over 2,000 votes — and fashion students at schools including the Fashion Institute of Technology, LIM College and London College of Fashion; the top five were Chanel, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg. In 2017 the Business of Fashion surveyed over 2,600 industry professionals representing more than 190 leading fashion companies for its first annual report on the best companies to work for in fashion. Ranker maintains a ranked list of fashion design companies, and ranking websites are the place to check for current versions of all of these.
Company-first searching complements the category route. Employment categories in the apparel industry include fashion designers, retail buyers, garment technologists, fashion illustrators, merchandisers, fashion stylists, textile designers, fashion assistants and personal stylists — and each category exists inside hundreds of different companies. The fashion careers by company name directory linked below organises the search by employer, so a candidate who has picked a target company can find its openings directly.
Common Questions
Why search for fashion careers by company name?
Because the employer shapes the job: culture, leadership and business health decide whether the same role is a good career move. Searching by company lets you target employers you have judged first.
How can I tell if a fashion company is a good place to work?
Look at executive effectiveness, innovation, people-focused programmes and great-place-to-work ratings, then test them against news coverage, interviews and conversations with people in the industry. There is no official fashion rating system.
Which fashion companies are considered most desirable to work for?
Published surveys vary by year: Harper's Bazaar's 2016 research put Chanel, LVMH, Christian Dior, Alexander Wang and Diane von Furstenberg on top, and the Business of Fashion surveyed 2,600 professionals in 2017 for its best-companies report. Check ranking sites for current editions.