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...Perhaps it’s that as soon as Janet L. Kim ’04 was offered a job at the esteemed French atelier Rochas in July of 2006, the company quickly folded and closed its doors for good...
...Perhaps it’s that despite a degree from Harvard (in Visual and Environmental Studies, no less), Kim hardly had the skill sets and knowledge of design necessary to make it in the industry—a problem she sought to solve at at La Chambre Syndicale, the last of the couture schools in Paris...
...perhaps, even, it was internships at Marc Jacobs and Dior Couture notwithstanding, Kim still failed to get a job offer from Polo Ralph Lauren, one of the few fashion companies that recruits at Harvard...
...gives off the impression of largely being inexplicable. With trends changing faster than the custody of Britney Spears’ children, the largest threat to designer-alums is that nothing in fashion is ever certain. “In this industry, uncertainty is everything,” says Kim. And getting over that fact is the first cut-and-sew these designers have to make in their careers...
...After graduating in 2004, Janet Kim spent a year on the production team for the design label Proenza Schouler—a door- opening opportunity for which she can only account for by her “faith in God”—and found that if she wanted to launch a career in the fashion world, she was going to have to do it right. That meant going back to school to study couture, and starting from the ground floor up. But not without a few moments of uncertainty...