Inside the Fascinating Career of Kelly Harrington: Vintage Archivist, Trend Forecaster and Designer at H&M + Denim Expert

While we are all exposed to the most popular roles in the fashion industry such as the editor, stylist, designer, pr… the careers in fashion are so many and for sure not less exciting only because they are not so well known. Such as the job of Kelly Harrington that I’m excited to introduce to you today. With Glam Observer over the past 5 years, I’ve revealed many secrets and behind the scenes of fashion to inspire, inform and help you break into this industry and this new episode of The Glam Observer Podcast will cover new things and insights of the fashion industry I’ve never covered before and that you have more likely never heard about anywhere else.

Kelly Harrington has worked in the fashion industry for two decades, so thanks to all her experience she has many amazing stories and tips to share. What’s is even also impressive is the fact that she’s worked at the same brand for 20 years, something not so common nowadays and in fashion when someone on average stays in the same company for no longer than 2-3 years. She holds the title of Trend Forecaster, Vintage Archivist and Designer at the H&M group where she started 20 years ago as a print designer.

Her career is really fascinating, fun and interesting. Let me just anticipate something for you: her job includes shopping vintage to build and curate a physical archive of amazing clothes that designers and buyers look at for inspiration and trends, but she also designs prints and patterns and comes up with new trends by looking also at early adopters on Instagram as a trend forecaster.

If you have ever wondered what a trend forecaster does, how to design prints and patterns and you want to consider pursuing the role of the vintage archivist, but if you just are curious to know more about different sides of fashion and how they work, you cannot miss this episode.

In this new episode of The Glam Observer Podcast, we talk about her job split in 3, and also about her strong passion for denim which has now become like her branding and expertise area that led her to launch her own consultancy, that she manages together with her full-time job, working with brands such as Amazon Fashion, Selfridges, Gap, and many others. We also talk about what she thinks is going to be the future of fashion and her tips to break into this industry. Listen till the end, because each minute of this episode is full of industry insights and career tips!

Listen now on Apple Podcast and Spotify

Kelly was so kind to share some early adopters she looks up to on Instagram for her trend forecasting researches so you can check them out too: