Stuyvesant Fashion Personal Statement

While New York City’s zeitgeist instilled an appreciation for high-end fashion’s influence on the world’s perceptions of individuals, it was the Fashion Institute of Technology’s cutting-edge classes that turned my junior year entrepreneurial interests into a school based philanthropic business: Stuyvesant Fashion (SF) - a rapidly developed, school-wide enterprise that markets and sells exclusive student-designed clothing with profits directly transferred to a Stuyvesant fund for individual student’s needs (books, gear, fees, etc.).

SF’s mission is twofold. First, to enable students to both acquire practical entrepreneurial experience while creating a college art portfolio by designing saleable Stuyvesant seasonal clothing exclusively for students/alumni and their activities. Secondly, earmarked profits sustain a students’ needs fund as close to 50% of the student body lives at or below the NYC poverty level. While a sustainable fundraising entity had been my goal, SF has provided a realistic platform to practice what I learned in Babson College’s entrepreneurial training program.
Truthfully, exploring design idea flashes staved off the demands of many senior year realities. Fabricating products with friends, I willingly took on daunting business commitments and responsibilities, enjoying concentrating on formidable tasks, oblivious of issue ramifications, dreaming I knew what I was doing. I learned practical life lessons galore as sales soared and clients’ satisfaction brought sales. Greater profits than expected provided for more money for disadvantaged students than