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2. Introduction
Laura Dudney is the Product Coordinator for Fossil Men’s eyewear and for their other
brand, Relic. Fossil corporate is located on 2280 N. Greenville Avenue in Richardson, TX
75082. Their phone number is (972) 699-2280 and Laura’s email address is
ldudney@Fossil.com.
Fossil has always been an influential fashionable company, and when I called around to
find connections, Laura Dudney, the product coordinator for Fossil, was the first person I
thought of, since she was a close friend of my future sister-in-law and my brother at the
University of Texas at Austin. My brother had always talked to her about how her and I were
working towards the same degree and would tell me all of the opportunities that she obtained. I
knew instantly that I wanted to know what it was like to be in her shoes, especially after she got
her dream job shortly after graduation. Fossil has also always been one of my favorite stores,
since I love their style and their products. “Fossil is modern vintage,” which is exactly what my
style is and one of the reasons I chose to do my career connection there. Working with
merchandise that I find interesting will provoke my creative aspirations and I wanted to see
3. firsthand how the Fossil Company works. The company is exactly where I would love to work,
which I found out after research that was done on the company background before going in to
shadow Laura. The atmosphere is very relaxed with creativity being a necessity with excellent
benefits and reasonable requirements.
Fossil started out as a fashionable watch company and eventually grew into an
accessories and apparel store, along with the watches. Their target market is between the ages of
25 and35, and is illustrated through their core customers “Mark and Julie”. They are young at
heart and fashionably trendy with an appreciation for the past. The price point is about $20 to
$300, depending on the merchandise being purchased.
Description
The responsibilities of the position of product coordinator is involved with product
development, including researching trends and creating trend boards to illustrate the direction the
current line should go in. Product coordinators get to work closely with other countries,
especially for overseas production, such as China, primarily Hong Kong. In this particular case,
Laura is a part of a team called the “warriors of weather” meaning that they work with products
like sunglasses, soft leathers, and accessories pertaining to different seasons. As product
coordinator, Ms. Dudney’s job was to send ideas in terms of color and shape of men’s eyewear
to China in order for them to send her a sample back. She would then re-sketch the sunglasses
and change the label or any other aspect of the glasses that she believes could be improved and
sends them back to production.
According to Ms. Dudney, in order to work in this field a potential employee needs to be
able to work with people and be a team player due to much collaboration with production in
4. China and the design team. Also, one needs to have strong opinions and be able to back up their
designs. Rejection of a design may be relatively common, so someone that wants to work in the
field needs to be able to take criticism and not let it affect them personally. Being hardworking,
creative, and resilient are also good qualities to have. She highly recommends retail experience,
because it is necessary to gain skills such as knowledge about the product, point of sale,
inventory, connecting with customers and management, learning sales plans, and how to know if
sales are behind or ahead of the sales from the year before. This will help to develop products in
ways that will satisfy customers because of the understanding of how sales works.
Ms. Dudney’s career path was different than most college graduates, in the sense that it
was much easier. She attended the University of Texas at Austin and obtained her bachelor’s
degree in Fashion Merchandising. While in college, she did an internship with Stanley Korshak
in Dallas. The internship taught her what it was really like to work in the fashion industry,
including getting to know the core customer and the image of the company and how it operates.
What she really stressed as being important to her career path was her job in retail when she was
in high school and college. She worked for BCBG for two years, an experience that she claimed
to greatly help her in being successful in her current position. Working in retail truly helped her
to understand the customer’s needs and wants along with teaching her how to work in the
employee’s position, learning what sells and how to sell it.
When it comes to Ms. Dudney’s most and least liked aspects of the job, getting to
collaborate in a team environment and see her creativity come to life is high on her list. Since her
responsibilities are never the same from day to day, so it is difficult to become bored. Getting to
work on the spring line, the most important line for Fossil, is also one of her favorite projects to
work on. Her least liked aspect is the stress that comes along with deadlines and having to keep
5. the lines up when they are having problems. For example, Fossil’s line Relic is not catching on
as well with customers, so Ms. Dudney’s job is to reinvent it to try and make it more popular.
The advantages of the position are a good discount in all Fossil stores, freedom to pursue
creativity, a big responsibility, and great benefits. Benefits include a 401 K plan, medical, dental,
and vision insurance, tuition reimbursement, a casual work environment, flexible spending
account, employee assistant program, discount on licensed and fossil brands, paid time off and
holidays, as well as life and AD&D insurance, a discounted gym membership and even a free
watch for new employees. The disadvantages are once again the stress and the criticism that
comes along with creating your own designs.
Personal Analysis
When I first walked into the Fossil corporate office, I was thoroughly impressed with
lobby and the way it was decorated and exactly how “Fossil” it was. Shortly after, I met Laura
Dudney, a friend of my future sister-in-law and my brother from college that got a job as a
product coordinator at Fossil a mere five months earlier. As she was answering my questions and
leading me around the entire office I was in awe of what I was hearing and seeing, mainly
because it is the job I have dreamed of. Travel is involved, although not as much now because of
the economy, and it is a mixture of design and merchandising, basically the job I have been
hoping to find ever since I decided to work for a dual-degree between both majors. Ms. Dudney
showed me her trend boards, there were two in her cubicle, and I got to see the ideas behind
Fossil men’s eyewear. Ms. Dudney gets the samples of men’s sunglasses that come in in a very
basic form from China, and then she sketches up her ideas to make them more “Fossil.” This
normally involves her first sending them pictures of her trend board and of the shapes that she
believes will be big for the upcoming season, and when she receives the prototypes back she
6. looks them over and sketches out her ideas for improving the color and the logo and even the
types of lenses and sends them back for full production. This career would be perfect for me due
to the creativity that is directly involved as an everyday aspect along with the actual
merchandising involved. Travel is an added bonus, to get to see production in China along with
New York and other fashion capitals would be amazing.
I would be successful in this career due to my skills in design and in merchandising,
along with my passion for fashion. I work well in a team environment, can work independently,
and can also take direction if needed. This career surprised me because I never expected there to
be design involved, since I always considered merchandising and design careers to be relatively
separated when primarily in the merchandising side of it. This is truly the career I have always
been dreaming about, and Ms. Dudney was the person to show me. I never knew what product
development was about before shadowing her and she really opened my eyes to a new
possibility.
Picture of Laura (on the right) and I (on the left)
7. Laura Dudney’s Business Card
Questions
1. Are you able to sketch and actually design in this position?
2. I read that fossil collaborates with other countries; does that mean that traveling is a main
aspect of your career?
8. 3. After you graduated college, how many jobs did you apply for before getting this one?
4. What internships did you do while in college and how did they help you?
5. I read that Fossil collaborates with some prestigious brands such as marc by marc Jacobs,
Diesel, DKNY, and Michael Kors. Do you get to work for them in your position?
EmilyWiley
1621 Maple Street
Denton,TX76205
November18,2008
Ms. Laura Dudney,ProductCoordinator
Fossil
2280 N. Greenville Ave.
Richardson,TX75082
Dear Laura,
Thank youfor the opportunityyouprovidedme toshadow youfor the afternoon!Igainedalot of
insightintowhatyoudo foryour careerand it made me lookforwardto hopefullybeinginyour
shoesone day!I lovedlearningabouthow yougettostill getto designinyourfield.
The nexttime I visitfossil Iwill have agreaterappreciationforthe workthatgoesinbehindthe
scenesof the Fossil products.Thankyoufor sharingyourtime andknowledge of the fieldwithme!
Sincerely,