Major: Fashion Retail Studies
Year: Junior
For this week’s Campus Celebrity, Elizabeth Sensky, the future is exciting and unknown. With interests in numerous fields across the fashion industry, she hopes to begin a career in trend forecasting with future goals of owning her own unique clothing, coffee and dancing boutique.
“Ultimately, I would love to work for myself and open my own vintage clothing/bakery/ art boutique,” she said. “The idea of a boutique/bakery came about as a musing, nothing serious. However, the more I think about it, the more I see the validity in this idea. I would like to sell vintage and new clothing/accessories and have a bakery/coffee shop attached to the main shopping area. At night, I want to turn it into a disco, complete with a light-up floor.”
Besides her ambitious dreams of owning her own business, Sensky hopes to begin her career in trend forecasting by researching emerging fashions across the world to gather data that would eventually be sold to designers, retailers and manufacturers so they can stay ahead of the design curve.
“I think it is exciting to be at the forefront of what is to come and look for influences outside of fashion that may impact future trends,” she said. She would love to work for a reporting company like StyleSight, WGSN or The Doneger Group.
As one of five style gurus for the website College Fashionista, Sensky is already training her eye to identify emerging fashions. In charge of reporting unique style on campus, she photographs and writes about a stylish Ohio State student each week. “As OSU’s Style Guru, my favorite hobby of people watching comes in handy,” she said. “Each week, I scoop out a unique individual with striking style.”
She has been writing for the website since spring 2010 as a student at Indiana University, and after transferring to Ohio State in the winter of 2011, she has continued writing ever since. College Fashionista has around 500 student writers (called style gurus) at more than 200 universities worldwide.
“It can be a challenge to find a unique Fashionista/o on campus sometimes because the majority of students on this Big 10 campus follow the “college uniform” of jeans, tshirts, and sweatpants,” she shares. “That’s not to say that there aren’t many stylish fashion leaders on campus but especially during the winter, it seems as if many students have given up or match their wardrobe to the “blah” weather around them. At times like these, finding a truly unique individual can become a search.”
After growing up in Ohio, Sensky struggled with what university to attend. After being accepted to FIT, SCAD, Ohio University and Indiana University, she began her college career at Indiana University because of its reputation for its Apparel Merchandising and Journalism departments. After transferring to Ohio State University (in hopes of getting back to the city atmosphere and closer to home), she began taking classes in Fashion Retail Studies.
An ambitious student (with writing, photography, clothing design and styling skills), Sensky will go far in the fashion industry. Her passion will carry her well—far beyond the walls of her fashion classes in Campbell Hall!
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at OSU chapter.
