UMAINE STUDENT MAKES HER MARK AT NEW YORK, PARIS FASHION WEEKS

ORONO, Maine, Nov. 9 -- University of Maine issued the following news release:

Hunter Maxham was 5 years old when "Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale" sparked her dream of working in fashion.

Years later, the University of Maine junior was helping models prepare for the runway at New York Fashion Week. Three weeks later, she was in Paris, overseeing dozens of interns.

Maxham, a marketing major from Cumberland, Maine, was one of just two interns invited to join The Bureau Fashion Week's Paris event from a group of more than 150 who worked at its New York shows. The opportunity took her from backstage duties in New York to a leadership role in France.

"New York and Paris definitely taught me a lot about kind of reaching outside of your comfort z...