Virtual Career Panel - "Merchandising & Design: Welcome to Vertical Retail"
Fashion Business Management
About
- Title
- Virtual Career Panel - "Merchandising & Design: Welcome to Vertical Retail"
- Contributor Names
- Geib, Catherine (Moderator)
- Davis, Cori (Panelist)
- Koger, Sue (Panelist)
- Tsai, Chieh (Panelist)
- Date
- 2024-04-26
- Description
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Dive into the unique world of vertical retail through a conversation among seasoned professionals. The conversation with be moderated by Catherine Geib, Assistant Chair of Fashion Business Management, and will be followed by a Q&A session with the panelists.
Moderated by Catherine Geib, FIT - Catherine Geib is an Associate Professor and the Assistant Chair of Fashion Business Management at FIT. She is the Faculty Advisor of the Merchandising Society, the largest student club on campus, and The Style Shop, a boutique where students get hands-on experience with retail and merchandising. She also manages both the FBM Associates and Bachelor degree capstone classes. She is an expert in buying, planning and merchandising with over 20 years of experience working in the industry, including positions as senior merchant at Macy's, and as a consultant for fashion brands at both wholesale and retail. Geib has been a faculty member for over 16 years and has held the position of Assistant chair of the Fashion Business Management department since 2022.
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Panelists:
Cori Davis is a Divisional Merchandise Manager at White House Black Market. She started her career with Express, where she worked for 20+ years, building her expertise in merchandising for retail stores. Cori graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in Fashion Merchandising. - Sue Koger is the Divisional Merchandise Manager of sleep and apparel for the Soma brand. She has over 30 years of experience in women’s apparel, intimates, and accessories. Before joining Soma in 2022, Koger spent 20 years building her career at JCPenney.
- Chieh Tsai, Vice President of Design & Product Development at Chico's, has over 20 years of experience leading design and product development; she has led product teams at Lands’ End, design at Ann Taylor, and relaunched cK/Calvin Klein as Design Director. Tsai earned her Associate's degree at FIT and received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Boston College.
- Rights
- In Copyright
- This video was produced by the Fashion Institute of Technology ("FIT") and is the property of FIT. FIT expressly prohibits the copying, displaying, or uploading to a website of any portion of this video, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws, without express written permission from FIT. This video has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for content in this video and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: aod_001074
Citation
Fashion Institute of Technology. (2024, April 26). Virtual Career Panel - "Merchandising & Design: Welcome to Vertical Retail" [Video]. Archive on Demand. https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/424391
Fashion Institute of Technology. "Virtual Career Panel - "Merchandising & Design: Welcome to Vertical Retail"." Archive on Demand, 26 Apr. 2024, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/424391
Fashion Institute of Technology, "Virtual Career Panel - "Merchandising & Design: Welcome to Vertical Retail"," Archive on Demand, April 26, 2024, video, https://archiveondemand.fitnyc.edu/item/424391