Contact Me

• Email: suzette.brimmer@hccs.edu
• Phone: 713.718.6158
• Office: 325A SJAC BUILDING
  

Courses

• FSHN 2307      FASHION ADVERTISING
• FSHN 2303      FASHION BUYING
• FSHN 2301      FASHION PROMOTION (Spring Only)
• FSHN 2305      FASHION  RETAIL
• FSHN 1320      FASHION SELLING
• FSHD 1308      FASHION TREND
• FSHD 1302      INTRODUCTION TO FASHION    
  

Biography or Teaching Philosophy 

Suzette Brimmer has been involved in the fashion industry for over twenty-five years. She is a graduate of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where she received her Bachelor Degree in Fashion Merchandising. While attending LSU she began her fashion career in sales for a prestigious retailer in the local Baton Rouge area. Ms. Brimmer has worked in every facet of the fashion industry. Her experience spans her start in retail sales at a prestigious department store to becoming a runway and commercial print model for several acclaimed designers. As a runway model she participated in both national and international fashion campaigns. She continued to immerse herself in the fashion industry and became a buyer, fashion coordinator, and a valuable collaborator in developing a major retailer’s private sportswear label. Ms. Brimmer’s career experiences culminate as owner, buyer, and store manager of Sports Productions, Inc., a career and school uniform and promotional product store with locations in New Orleans, and Houston. 

Ms. Brimmer is currently the Associate Chair of Fashion and Interior Design of the Houston Community College System where as key professor in the Fashion Merchandising Department she is responsible for the curriculum and instruction of Fashion Advertising, Commerce, Retail, and Psychology. Among her many responsibilities is her role of Faculty Advisor for several student organizations. She advises Houston Community College’s Fashion Club, an auxiliary that raises funds to support fashion events and scholarships. Ms. Brimmer also acts as state advisor and board member for the Delta Epsilon Chi Association, a national organization for college students, whose mission is to equip college students to make informed career choices by introducing them to the intricate world of marketing, business management, merchandising, and entrepreneurship. Ms. Brimmer embodies the role as mentor through her participation in such activities as conducting workshops, giving class lectures, serving as judge in competitions, and hosting field trips. She has developed workshops such as, Dress Like You Mean It, The Fine Art of Dining, and Is Pizza Finger Food?, to help prepare students entering the professional marketing and fashion industries. In acknowledgment of Ms. Brimmer’s drive to help others succeed she was awarded in May 2005, the NISOD Award for excellence in teaching and January 2007, Dr. Anthony Chee Teaching Award for excellence in teaching.

Suzette Brimmer continues her professional development to stay abreast of the latest changes in her chosen industry by her involvement in numerous professional associations such as Fashion Group International, the River Oaks Business Women’s Exchange Club, and Women’s Business Owners’ Roundtable. Her contributions include serving on and chairing committee boards, conducting workshops, and serving as a coach to new female small business owners. Further illustrating her commitment to excellence and industry involvement, Ms. Brimmer resumed her education by earning a Master in Business Administration in 2003 from the University of Phoenix and will become the Regional Director of Fashion Group International in January 2006.

Throughout her career Ms. Brimmer has come to regard world travel as one of the best forms of education anyone can experience. Her travels allow her to teach fashion and business from a global perspective, in keeping with her idea of travel as the best way to bring her lectures to life. She persistently encourages her students to make the most of the opportunities they encounter academically, professionally, and personally, as she has done in her past and continues to do. Despite her many business, academic, and community involvements, Suzette manages to maintain a healthy personal life, in which she and her husband, Hymes Perkins, enjoy golfing, spending time with their family, and being the proud owners of two Yorkshire Terriers.

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