I can verify...

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article7116036.ece

This article should form part of the the prospectus for fashion courses across the world. I for one would still have taken my course had I read it in advance of applying. I feel, however, that many of my classmates (who struggled to know what to do with themselves post-graduation in order to remain financially afloat) would have chosen an alternative path. I have pretty much always know that living the fashion dream could involve living like a bit of a povo (a high heel wearing povo but still)until I was experienced enough to reach the holy grail (a paying job in a high end fashion house). I however didnt know it would take quite so long...

Interning again:

Filing, stocktaking haberdashery, the odd errand to buy emergency printer cartridges, too much tea, emailing, rooting through archive boxes taking 5 times as long as it should because you keep coming across favourite pieces from past collections, constant desk snacking, admiring fellow interns outfits, guiltily holding samples up to me and realising that not in a million years would I get into it, wine o'clock, figuring out the hierarchy among the group, photoshopping, colourways, pattern search, too many stairs in heels, fending off desperate callers begging to speak to the head designer, never having a day off, buying lunch every day because you have no time for brown bagging- while complaining about having no money, trying to look fabulous while having no money, contemplating the 'personal order' the head designer stealing your food, lapping up complementary comments about your work, envying the people who were in the right place at the right time, laughing at some would be intern applicants examples of work and then being horribly intimidated by the cv's of others, design meetings, photographing fittings, comparing experiences, networking, inspiration, finally beginning to understand the marriage of creativity and commerciality.


Living the dream and loving every minute of it.

Lyndsey WIxson Looking Rocking...

...In Prada's SS10 Lookbook.







Red pout and pigtails anyone?? Only if you are wearing badass shades please.