Fashion Entrepreneurship Mentorship - Summer 2025
This program is for students who have already started a brand business or are in the process of developing a clothing or accessory brand. Potential candidates should have an educational background in Business Management or Fashion Design and Merchandising with a focus on Entrepreneurship or a similar field and be interested in shadowing a successful Coastal Lifestyle Fashion brand.
Our flagship store located on Main Street in Chatham is the perfect incubator for learning all of the nuances of running a clothing brand and retail store from the ground level. Collectively with over 20 years in fashion design, marketing and retail management, owner Taylor Brown and business partner Andrew Sloan offer a valuable Entrepreneurship Mentorship within a fun, dynamic learning environment.
Students and recent Alumni have the opportunity engage in the following day to day activities:
- Watch the designing of new products and inventory, sourcing of raw materials to create products, visiting production facilities, inventory POS management systems, performing inventory quality control, pricing strategies, direct to consumer product feedback
- Opportunity to help onboard and train seasonal employees, assist in developing a work culture for employees through staff meetings and day to day interactions, hands on understanding of what it is like to have employees in order to understand your own employer responsibilities, learn how to run payroll, learn how to create employee work schedules
- Engage with customers, direct to consumer sales, develop a successful sales pitch with immediate consumer feedback, analyze sales trends, assist in deciding seasonal mark downs based on product sales, develop new product ideas based on customer requests and feedback of current product popularity
- Help develop content for social media and print advertising, develop in store signage for merchandising, opportunities to use your creative talent to design in store displays, style mannequins and do front window merchandising
- Observe and assist in the seasonal updates of our online web store through photoshoots, make copywriting suggestions, assist in the packing and shipping of orders generated from online web sales.
- Learn how to balance a business budget and keep ahead of unexpected business expenses, learn how to apply for and leverage lines of credit with product vendors, observe the timely ordering and reordering of products to keep up with weekly sales, understand seasonal production timelines for preordering product