If you are interested in fashion marketing, the Fashion Club here at Sacred Heart is for you. The SHU Fashion Club seeks to showcase the creative side of fashion through different events and fundraisers.
“The main goal of Sacred Heart Fashion Club is to really get students involved and excited about what they are learning,” said junior Kara Cooney. “The industry is so vast, with so many opportunities that are not widely known/talked about. We use the Fashion Club as a way to promote more valuable and amazing opportunities to students in the major.”
Around campus, the Fashion Club has hosted fashion shows, workshops, and other networking events, each designed to give members experience and opportunities to learn about the fashion industry.
Prof. Gang demonstrating draping fabrics properly for the Fashion Club.
Instagram, @fasionclub_shu
“The main goal of the fashion club is to have other resources for fashion majors,“ said senior Josephine Derosa, Vice President of Fashion Club. “We offer a lot of networking opportunities from past alumni that were fashion majors and now in the industry, to have networks for when you graduate, people to connect with and talk about future careers with, and to meet different people within the major. ”
On Oct. 2, the Fashion Club hosted guest speaker, Kaitlyn Melino, a CRM for E.L.F Cosmetics, who came and spoke about her career. On Oct. 21, Laurie Lynch, a recruiter for T.J.Maxx, will be coming to speak in Martire E105 at 7 p.m.
“We do an internship panel too,” said Derosa. “Professors will come and people who have had internships already, and they will talk about their experience.”
In addition to guest speakers, the club also offers students scholarship opportunities.
Freshmen and sophomores can now apply to the Rising Star Scholarship, a scholarship sponsored by the National Retail Federation (NRF) that will allow them to attend the 2025 NRF Foundation Student Program in New York. Applications are due Nov. 8.
Along with events around campus, the Fashion Club also tries to give back to the Bridgeport community. Each semester the drive is hosted, where they have donated hundreds of clothes to the Bridgeport community closet.
“I joined the Fashion Club because it seemed like the most interesting thing to me, and it has genuinely changed my life,” said Cooney. “I have met so many people. I have been involved in so many cool events. I’ve been able to learn, grow, and experience so many opportunities. It was the best thing I have done at SHU.”
While the club consists of mostly fashion majors, all are welcome. The club meets on Mondays from 7:30-8:30 p.m., and Wednesdays 8:15-9:15 p.m.
To stay up to date with the Fashion Club, follow @shufashionclub on Instagram.
