Victoria Smith
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7,704 appearances
37 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 31 Aug
Victoria Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So listen to that one.
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For a line, Jenny, the CEO and founder, talks about how when she just started out in fashion, the execs at SACS talked at how they didn't
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Hire anyone for this program with a fashion degree because they wanted different types of thinking and how that plays into how she hires for align as well.
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And then Cynthia Rowley, a designer, she's been showing at New York Fashion Week for decades.
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She was on the podcast and talked about what she looks for when hiring and specifically talks about how most people don't have fashion degrees because I think a lot
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Of schools don't even offer them, honestly, unless you're going to specific like FIT or Parsons or art school.
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And then Sarah Walker as well.
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She came on.
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She's now a content creator, but before that, she worked at Revolve as a buyer and talked about how she studied communications and marketing.
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And essentially, like her school just didn't have a fashion program.
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And she's so she did like adjacent.
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decent degrees and still was able to work out Revolve by being in a ton of extracurriculars.
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So just all that goes to say whether it's polici or biology or accounting, absolutely.
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And in my case, I did study government.
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I was poli sci.
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And I do think my master's, like not to discredit fashion school at all, it helped me a lot in terms of networking and just putting me in the right spaces and making it my absolute focus.
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But I think, and I've seen it for so many other people, it won't stop you.
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It just won't be as much of a barrier as I think people feel it might be.
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So
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Definitely don't be discouraged by whatever degree you have.
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