December 29th- Wednesday
Yesterday was a Extremely busy day!
A few days ago I had said that I was alphabetizing all of the clothes on the return racks in order for them to be shipped out later.
Well that day came... yesterday we did returns from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm
The job of returning clothes can be pretty repetitive. The process goes like so:
1. Go to the return rack and grab a piece of clothing.
2. look at the label and see who the designer is
3. Go to a website called thelookbook.com (a huge database that contains addresses to pr offices, fashion designers, stylist, etc. It is basically the yellow pages for the fashion industry).
On the website you type in the designer name and find out where the garment needs to be shipped to.
4. create a shipping label using the contact info through ups or the messenger service.
5. Take pictures of each garment
6. pack up garment in box or envelope
As you can see it is a long process! Between the interns and the fashion assistants we must have done this at least 150 times! I wish I could have taken a picture of all the UPS envelops and boxes waiting in the hallway to be picked up it was INSANE!
At the end of the day I was really tired and was ready to pretty much pass out for the night.
Here is the outfit I wore that day....
After doing returns I have to say that I have definitely learned a lot about the industry. I have learned about different PR companies and different brands that are out there.
I was even able to call the famous PR office -- Peoples Revolution (the PR company that is featured on "The City" with Whitney Port).
:)
BTW:
I got my first free swag item. It is only a Forever21 skirt but hey at least it is something. When I got it I found out that it was not a small but an extra small. It is a little tight so maybe I might give it away or something.
December 30th- Thursday
Today was a less stressful day...
We had finished up most of the returns and the closet was starting to look in better shape.
This morning I had to organize the collection of tights by knits, prints, etc. The task seemed pretty easy. I was able to get it done in a timely manner and was able to put them away. But when my supervisor came to check my work she said that some things were not correct and that it needed to be fixed. I felt a little bad because I thought I had done a good job. I was worried that maybe my boss was annoyed at the fact that she had to pick up after me.
I really just want to make the best impression and do a good job in the short time that I'm here. But I shouldn't worry too much, we all make mistakes and we just have to learn from them!
I got to talk to one of my other supervisors, a fashion assistant and she was telling me and another intern about how she got to where she was.
She majored in Graphic Design and found her way to magazines. She interned a various large magazines and was lucky enough to find a job right out of college in her current position!
Her story has reinforced my knowledge of the power of connections in the fashion/publishing industry. This particular fashion assistant found her job through a mentor who worked at one of the publications she used to intern for. Her mentor heard about an opening and passed along her information.
Every person who I have talked to seems to always get their positions in this manner. It is all in the power of NETWORKING!
The other half of the day was spent helping out one of the fashion assistants with the models and pictures....
The magazine often has open model castings where people come in and auditon to be in the magazine, or the modeling agency sends a few model pictures to the magazine.
All of these pictures get filed away in large closets.
Since we were kind of doing some spring cleaning me and a fellow intern had to go through all of these pictures and decide which to keep and which to throw out!
This was a very eye opening assignment because we had to just use our best judgement to decide which models would make the cut.
whether they were too fat or too skinny
Not pretty enough
Not the right look for the mag.
at first it was a bit hard to have someone's fate in your hands so to speak. but after about an hour honestly every model starts to look the same. I don't think I could ever be a model, that industry is WAY to critical.
Some of the pictures even had notes on them from editors that would say "nose too big" "bad teeth" "Not pretty"
But it was nice to know that the magazine also takes into account weight. We didn't keep models who were too skinny!
Today was a short day because it was the day before NYE so we got out around 2:30ish :)
Ill end with some pics...
(No outfit post today. I got lazy, and I wasn't really wearing anything special anyway)
These are pictures of the amazing view from the office. The entire office has glass windows as walls so they offer spectacular views of NYC
*These are just pictures from the morning time but you should see it at night when everything is lit up, you would just DIE
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