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Educators Gather to Discuss Developments in Marketing and Advertising
I was recently one of roughly 30 marketing and communications professors from around the country selected to participate in the 2019 Visiting Professor Program, held by the Advertising Educational Foundation. The goal of this annual program is to ...
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Gbenga Akinnagbe: Using Fashion as a Social Justice Platform
Gbenga Akinnagbe left his job as a legislative assistant for a federal agency the same day he was offered a full-time position at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. It also happened to be the same day his father passed away. And ...
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Visiting M&S Schmalberg, A Generations-Old Family Business in NYC
Before our LIM College class walked into M&S Schmalberg, we envisioned a huge factory with several workers, all doing the same task, in a huge warehouse-looking room. M&S Schmalberg is anything but that.
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Second Annual Fashion and Sustainability Summit Shows Double the Impact
The second annual Fashion and Sustainability Summit, sponsored by LIM College and Fashiondex, took place on LIM's campus on Friday, April 12. The summit was filled with industry professionals from all backgrounds with one common interest in mind: ...
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Remote Internships: A Look Inside
The following interview was conducted with with LIM alumna Sze Qi Tan, Bachelor of Business Administration in Fashion Merchandising, Class of 2018.The shifting global business landscape, from an increase in professionals working remotely to ...
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How to Succeed in Skincare (Even if You Don’t Wear Makeup)
On March 28, LIM’s Experiential Education and Career Management Department, in collaboration with the Cosmetics Club, hosted a Beauty and Skincare Panel in Maxwell Hall. Industry professionals, including a current LIM student, discussed their ...
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Visual Studies: More than Just Window Displays
When I hear the words “visual merchandising,” my first thought is window displays, which is why I assumed Visual Studies majors aspire to create window displays and plan store layouts. But after sitting down with LIM’s Chair of Visual ...
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Gleaming Wilderness: Metallics, Furs and Animal Prints
As part of my Introduction to the Fashion Business class at LIM College, I had the fortunate opportunity on a class trip to attend Coterie at the Javits Center, where I observed how brand representatives negotiated with potential buyers in a ...
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The Journey That Led to My Internship at Tory Burch
When making the decision to transfer colleges, LIM was my first pick because I had attended LIM’s High School Summer Program and was impressed. So I transferred and moved to NYC in January 2016.
I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, so it was my ...