After a first week of mundane, tedious and repetitive tasks I finally feel as if I've arrived. I'm into the groove of things and at the top of my game among a sea of my competitive fashion hungry peers. Working Monday through Friday 9AM-9PM doesn't even have a negative connotation, I love fashion and I love being surrounded by it on a daily basis.
Although I still continue with the day to day chores of receiving and filing invoices and returns, packing/unpacking trunks for photoshoots and organizing couture, I've reached a level of maturity at the publication and in turn I've been rewarded with minor perks and added responsibilities- the only direction to go from here is up. Not to mention the fact that on one of my runs the other day I gave directions to someone, which leads me to question, am I finally a real New Yorker?
Yesterday there was a photo shoot occurring at SunWest Studios and today there was another at Milk Studios. A crisis arrived on the set of the Menswear shoot yesterday where the preordered suits didn't fit the male models as planned. I was immediately sent to Brooks Brothers with the company credit card with a list of colors and model sizes, where I then picked out suit styles to take to the photo shoot. The set was surreal and exactly as I had imagined. Fresh, crisp settings with fancy photographers and insanely skinny women, endless hor d'ourves and various choices of sparkling sodas and bottled waters. Among the most glorious items I spotted on set were a pair of teal suede Christian Louboutin scaled pumps and a seventy-nine thousand dollar canary diamond Tiffany's ring. I was in awe simply being in the same room with this art.
Today at Heart Towers Seventeen Magazine was hosting an PR event in relation to the "Got Milk" campaign. In a matter of an hour the entire second floor lobby area by the elevators was transformed into the likeness of a small Hollywood premier. Photographers everywhere, people lined up outside the doors and press wistfully documenting every moment of the evening's events. Julianne Hough, the current cover model of Seventeen Magazine and new face of "Got Milk" was present.
I was also sent in a cab to pick up a cuff that had been shot in studio D for the magazine and a watch that was a personal item of JC. I couldn't help but feel important transporting items of such significance to someone so high up in the publication world.
I was also one of two interns able to stay in the closet during a pod cast shoot of one of the fashion editors, ZR, which is then distributed throughout the fashion community and featured online through Marie Claire's website.
To top these past few work days off, I ended today sitting at the desk of another fashion editor, CW, and working to complete returns from a photoshoot on her computer. Of course I sat back, relaxed, looked around and couldn't help but dream that one day this would be me, a real fashion editor- choosing models, designing fashion editorials, styling photoshoots and dictating the future tastes and styles of thousands and thousands of hopeful girls...
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