Fordham senior Jane Marchetti is not your typical college student. Sure, like other business administration majors in the Gabelli School of Business, she’s taking a hefty course load of six classes. Like many other seniors, she just returned from studying abroad; Jane spent the spring semester and the summer in Paris and then Germany, working on her two minors, French and economics. And like most other Fordham students, she loves spending time with friends and exploring New York City. However, while other students’ twitter feeds feature tweets about Fordham’s last-second win over Temple on Saturday or the massive amount of homework they already find themselves facing, a recent tweet from Jane carries slightly more weight: “Just carried a $5000 dress down Fifth Ave.”
Jane interns three days a week, for a total of 27 hours, in the Commerce and Wholesale division of Dolce & Gabbana. Many students only ever dream of working for such a high-profile fashion designer, so I jumped at the opportunity to interview Jane about her first few weeks on the job. Read on to find out more!
Q: Did being a Fordham student help you get an interview?
A: I definitely think it did
because they obviously were interested [in my education]. They asked a lot of
questions about Fordham. They actually asked why I chose to go there, and just
about the campus culture. They were interested in my extracurriculars…so it was
definitely important, I think.
Q: Why did you want to work at Dolce & Gabbana?
A: Just to see if it was a field
that I might be interested in and to just get the experience…because I don’t
know what I want to do, so why not try it?
Q: Do you think your internship could turn into a job following
graduation?
A: I mean, obviously if I were to
get an offer from them, I would probably take it. I actually really like it so
far, so it could be a possibility, but just being employed in New York in
general would be…[a plus].
Q: Can you describe what a typical day at the office entails?
A: Well, it’s different depending
on the day of the week. At the beginning of the week, we do selling reports from
the previous week…we work with the relationship between the company and
department stores, which is what wholesale is. So, we get selling reports from
each of the department stores, and we have to, you know, make records of how
much we’ve sold of what, what the selling trends are for certain items, and put
it all into a nice spreadsheet so we can kind of keep track of what’s doing
well and what isn’t. So that would be the beginning of the week, and then the
other big part of my job is keeping track of the samples that go out to the
stores. The reason we send samples out is if they’ve bought the item, then they
need to shoot it for their catalogue or online or whatever, so [I'm the one who is]
keeping track of the samples that come in and out and following up to make sure
that they’re coming back in on time.
Q: What is your favorite part of the job?
A: Just being among the
clothes…another part of my job is organizing the show room, so just being in
there, and they have all their vintage gowns – I mean, just the beautiful
merchandise. It sounds so cheesy, but it’s just beautiful. And being able to
work with people who are so interesting. It’s such an international company, so
many of the people working there are actually from Italy and speak Italian, and
it’s cool just to be able to learn from them.
Q: What is the coolest thing that you’ve done as a Dolce intern?
A: Being able to see what’s coming
for the spring and summer is really cool. They’re focused on what’s so far
ahead that you can start to identify the trends for next year.
Fordham students are doing amazing things...look for another student spotlight next month!
Fordham students are doing amazing things...look for another student spotlight next month!
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