hello friends
how are you? what is new? i am well. i started my internship with r n yesterday [thank you, juliet!]. my first day was very tough. i forgot what it was like to do work experience and i did not like it. it is so strange to go from being a big fish [as big a fish can be being a design assistant bossing work experience people around] to a little fish being bossed around. i guess i felt i was too good for this when, really, this is the path i chose for myself moving to london. fashion week is in two weeks time, i hope to make more contacts then. this move has made me question whether or not i want to pursue a career in fashion. maybe it is better to be open to multiple design disciplines? fashion is narrow in that respect.
realisation number two, i cannot wait to work for myself even if it means making fat owls with bells inside [which my landlady has agreed to sell in her toy shop] all day, it is so much more satisfying that slaving away for someone else. there are lots of kids doing unpaid work here. it is definitely a cut-throat industry.
three, the fashion industry here works the same as in sydney. why did i think it would be any different? i almost want to come home just to work on my own projects.
enough doom and gloom! i treated myself with a trip to ikea the other day and kitted my room out with a new rug, bed covers, and table cloth for my studio space, and all under budget yay! after tesco [cheap supermarket chain, like franklins], ikea is my next favourite shop.
i went to the martin margiela store on wednesday and it is definitely a winner in my books. i do not necessarily like the clothes and i sort of poo-pooed it before i went but i did go and i am in love! the shop has wooden surfaces painted white, the whole fit-out is white. the ground floor houses womenswear, there are staircases on both ends of the shop that take you upstairs to menswear, and there is a little hothouse for shoes and bags. the layout is very humourous but the funniest thing is the shop staff wear white lab coats. when i went upstairs a shop person was telling two fashion students [complete with pens and notepads] about martin margiela and his design philosophy. it was such a funny little scene. it looked like a bespectacled scientist explaining something complex to two very interested students. i handed in my resume straight away. if i do not get to work in that shop, i will cry! i also like browns focus, but only because the high-end labels and the snooty sales staff kind of appeal to the very superficial fashionista in me. their sense of cool was very intimidating, like they were part of an exclusive club.
tomorrow i am going away for the weekend to brighton [with my friend, jon, to visit his boyfriend]. i am going to help neel make a costume for a music festival called bestival [funny!] and he will cut my hair in exchange. i am thinking i will go boy short again. i cannot wait! brighton has a trash and treasure market on sundays, i think that will make me stop missing rozelle markets for a bit.
i miss you! a lot!
love
olivia
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