Curriculum Vitae
Miss Hayleigh Jayne Dalton
Personal Details
D.O.B 16/07/1990
Address 1 Towers Way
Corfe Mullen
Wimborne
Dorset
BH213UA
Tel: 07515865909
E-mail: hayleighdalton@hotmail.co.uk
Blog: hayleigh-dalts.blogspot.com
Personal Profile
Qualifications
Higher Education
Fda Degree in Fashion Studies (Arts University College of Bournemouth)
A-Levels
Textiles B
History D
Spanish C
French D
GCSE’s
Textiles A
Spanish A
French A
English Literature A
English Language B
Double Science BB
RPSE B
History B
Mathematics C
Employment History
Part-Time Store Supervisor Oct 2006-present day
Primark Stores Ltd (Poole)
General running of the shop floor, organising up to twenty-five retail operatives per day.
Dealing with customer complaints and enquiries.
Working closely with the management team on visual merchandising styles.
Identifying best sellers and poor achievers in terms of stock.
Managing stock levels in store.
Relaying feedback back to management regarding staff and customers.
Tesco Buying Offices May 2009
I completed a four week work experience placement in the buying offices, focusing on Boyswear. I worked closely with the trainee buyers and the assistant buyers and merchandisers, going to range meetings, supplier meetings and Monday morning review meetings. I also spent some time in fit sessions and organising the fit samples from the suppliers. This was an invaluable experience in getting to know a busy buying office and conversing with buyers and merchandisers on all levels.
Skills
Hobbies
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Obesity is one of the most pressing health problems facing Great Britian. Over the past twenty years, obesity has doubled in adults and children and tripled in teens. Two-thirds of Americans are now overweight or obese.
Chanel legend Karl Lagerfeld said that, “Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.” While maybe not the healthiest motivation, fashion is still a strong motivation for dieting. However, with the recent plus-size clothing launches, that motivation may be slipping away.
Many critics are asking the same question: Do plus-sized lines promote obesity? MeMe Roth, president of the organization National Action Against Obesity seems to thinks so: “When you look at the human cost, what we’re doing is we’re on the Titanic and rather than forcing our children into the lifeboat, we’re telling them to join the band.”
Stacey London told the Washington Post that “she’d like fashion designers and retailers to broaden their scope to include women from all points on the weight spectrum.”
" XL sizes would sell out of them so quickly,” Heidi Canalizo, a regional manager at Forever 21 told CNN. “Our customers have been asking for this for so long and in the past few years we’ve really decided it’s time to get into it. Not everyone is a size 2.”
Forever 21’s plus-size line, Faith 21, launched last week, yet some obese shoppers are still not pleased:
Jai, of fashion blog The Fat & Skinny wrote, “I am so not amused. They still alienated a whole bunch of people, my size 18/20 self included. I can’t wait for Target’s new plus size line to come out. It is supposed to go up to at least a 30. Even Wet Seal’s plus size line goes higher than Phony 21’s. Some shirts go up to a 3X, but the pants go up to a 24.”
“These brands don’t want the consumer to aspire to be a plus-size, they want them to aspire to be that mini-consumer, that slim model that walks down the runway, that’s a size 0.”
Roth warns “worrying about fashion rather than worrying about the food is a horrible message that we’re sending these kids.”
It is fair to say that as a consumer, and a constant consumer at that, the desire to drop a dress size is prominent everyday. Everyone is on fad diets and super fitness schemes in order to shed those bellies. we are all in this pressurising environment, however I don't feel amongst my fellow students that I am being targeted as a bit 'chubby'. I think it is lucky that we don't experience this at Fda as I'm sure many other university students do.
I think that companies that cater for plus sized lovelies are not adding to the problem at all. They are a business after all trying to broaden their clientelle and their profits. Why should larger people not have access to a stylish wardrobe? The disregard of plus sized fashion is some berserk, communist-esque sort of regime for goodness sake.
Fashion IS an incentive to live a healthier lifestyle, it is the 'role models' within the fashion industry that have the negative effects on body image.
On Fashion Blogs from Mary Scherpe on Vimeo.
One of my 'most viewed' videos this year, this one.
The future of British fashion, I believe centres around blogging. I have been fascinated with fashion blogging since starting mine back in 2008. Blogging has revolutionised how we evaluate the fashion around us.The appeal of a fashion blog is that it can be accessed by anyone, at any time. It allows people to get their voices heard and eliminates the popularity of the ‘fashion elite’ and celebrity.
For example, designers like Mark Fast have introduced his front row seats to fashion bloggers in order to relate to consumers from all around the world. By having a successful blogger such as Tavi Gevinson, who writes the Style Rookie blog, at the forefront of a fashion show, not only can the designer promote themselves by guaranteeing a post about their show on a popular blog, but they can also receive feedback from real people and how they feel about their clothes.
Blogging is rapidly becoming the custom format of discussions within the fashion industry. The impact that this form of new media technology has had on the fashion world, I consider, has bettered the way that we become aware of major events and trends and in effect, has given every fashion enthusiast a voice. Better still, this voice can be the editor of American Vogue, blogging about catwalk articles coming up in the next issue, to a teenager living in Wales, blogging about a her favourite new jumper and how she wears it. And she can do so with no restrictions or word limits. Fashion has now been handed in the hands of the people, rather than an elite few filtering the information as they wish. The phenomenon of blogging is here to stay and it is unarguably a more effective way of learning from each other to create fashion masterpieces of any form.
Notoriously private business man, and founder of Primark Stores Ltd, Arthur Ryan was presented with an Outstanding Achievement Award for his contributions to Retail in a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel.
His friend Sir Philip Green, owner of Arcadia, presenting the award via a video, said: “This is a man who richly deserves this award. He’s tirelessly developed and built one of the UK’s great businesses.”
Primark also won Oracle Retailer of the Year.
The low cost, high volume business model has changed retailing (and the High Street) forever. Sales from 196 Primark and Penneys stores across Ireland, the UK and Spain now top £2bn.
Yet despite working in the ego driven world of retailing, Ryan has remained firmly in the background tirelessly building – in the words of Sir Philip Green – one of the UK's great businesses.
Ryan has never been photographed until the ceremony! Weird or wonderful?
