Internship

Fall 2012 Trends

Last night was the first time I slept with a blanket, Fall is finally here! And with the new season, we pack away our bathing suits and start to pull out our Fall clothes. There is nothing more delicious than September issues, quilted coats, velvety slacks and oxford shoes. Along with the new trends, there are also colors that come out for the new season.

When looking into your Fall wardrobe, focus on the colors– Cranberry, Mustard, Jade, Plum, Gold, and Forest Green.

Now let’s get to the trends…

GOLD: The shimmery color can be used for the majority of the outfit or just as accent.

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Giambattista Valli

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Micheal Kors

LAMINATED: Wax or plastic finish

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Jil Sander

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Fendi

“FENCED:” Detailed latticework usually shown as pattern, print or embroidery

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Rodarte

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Balmain

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Rue Du Mail

MILITARY: This trend is back because it’s obviously a classic. It can be worn as a full suit or just pair a military jacket with a pair of jeans.

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Burberry

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Altuzarra

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Max Mara

RENAISSANCE: Romantic textures and embroidery, just think WWSW? (What would Shakespeare Wear?)

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Giles

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Dolce & Gabbana

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Balmain

VELVET: This soft fabric is seen throughout designers collections

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Kenzo

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Emporio Armani

*All photos provided by Elle.com

Marc Jacobs, Juicy Couture & a Wedding

What a lovely summer night! Fiance tried to clean (fix) my fan and ended up breaking it. So now we’re sweating buckets while watching a movie and eating dinner.

I made us a succulent dinner consisting of lasagna hamburger helper and flavorful spicy western chicken ceaser salad tonight. A culinary masterpiece, don’t you you think?! I’m so excited for the times to come after our wedding, where we can host dinner parties. Secretly I want to be a 50’s house wife, wearing the pearls while creating amazing meals for friends and family.

We are THREE WEEKS away from our wedding! Can you believe it???? It’s such an exciting, overwhelming, stressful, happy, anxious, ecstatic time in my life! I have like 3487482348903 things to do before the wedding (or at least it feels that way.) I can’t wait to post pictures of the wedding! Speaking of, I never shared our engagement pics, here we go… Image

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Let me catch you up on what’s been going on in the fantastic world of internships:

1. Barbara Fields Buying Office was a wonderful experience this past Spring/Summer 2012 semesters. Working in a trend and color forecasting firm has been so fulfilling and I’ve learned so much.

2. Since we’re getting married, I’ve been in the search for a paid internship… I’ll let you know when I find one.

3. Last week, I randomly thought it would be fun to send my resume to EVERYONE at Marc Jacobs. Under their Internship page on the company website, there was a lot of contacts that I used. Surprisingly, they responded! I honestly wasn’t expecting anything. But they contacted ME! A woman in the accessories department of the Marc Jacobs collection, contacted me wanting me to be an intern. Some facts about the internship is, it’s in NYC (totally awesome, but kinda far away from LA), it’s unpaid… yeah, those are really the only facts that matter. When I found out that Marc Jacobs was even a possibility, I cried. I don’t mean a little boo-hoo, but balling my eyes out to the point my fiance had no idea what I was saying. I got really really depressed, because it would mean being away from my new husband (internship would start right after wedding) and it’s unpaid, so it would be hard to support myself. But my fiance was a saint and blessed this adventure. Through many days of going back and forth between decisions, I made the mature decision to stay here in LA with my fiance.

During this time though, I had been in contact with Juicy Couture. I have always admired the brand and working for them would really be awesome. Yesterday, I went to one of their showrooms in Downtown LA. The showroom was absolutely glorious. So colorful, so creative… so magical. To put it in a nutshell, I got the internship and I’ll start work soon. YAY!

New internship! (WOO-HOO!) Wedding in 3 weeks! (WOO-HOO!)

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Internship Week 1

Like a month ago, I had a meeting with my Fashion Merchandising teacher. She and I discussed my goals and ambitions, and she happened to mention that she had connections in Downtown LA in the fashion district. My goal is to be a Buyer and she happened to know some people in the field. Of course I jump on that the moment I hear. Christmas break rolls around, I e-mailed my instructor to please give me some names and numbers to call. She replied and told me Ed at this Buying Office was expecting my call. To say the least, I got excited! I called Ed, he wanted an interview, I went to the interview… and I got the internship!

I am an intern for a trend and color forecasting firm. WOO-HOO! BRING OUT THE BUBBLY!

This past Monday was my first day at this said internship. I was super early, like incredibly early, like only homeless people were on the streets at that hour early. I had to wait in the lobby for a while. Obviously, I’m anal about being punctual.

At 8:15 sharp, I went up to the office and waited for them to open up. This small old asian lady open the doors and then told me to sit on the cheetah print couch. Incredibly nervous, I obeyed. So I sat there, in my very professional outfit, clutching my blue cheetah print Betsey Johnson purse, waiting for someone to tell me to do something.

Fifteen minutes later, another small asain lady comes in. Imediately I fell in love with her outfit, Jefferey Campbell heels, fur vest, skinny jeans, and uber chic jewlery. We introduced each other and she ends up being the assistant to the CEO. She told me to go ahead and wait for Ed (the guy who hired me) because he’s going to be my mentor.

Ed comes in and he brings me into the main part of the office. He gives me a desk. (AHH! I HAVE A DESK!) And he puts me to work. The office is very cute, chic furniture, nice little kitchen, and an AMAZING view of Downtown LA. So from 8:30ish-4pm, I did various jobs for Ed and his colleges. Overall, it was a good first day.

Day 2: Again I was super early. My job for the day was to put together collages on Ployvore. I did that from 8:30-4:30. I was mentally exhausted!!!!!!!

 

Waldo? More like, “Where’s Lauren?”

Wow, where have I been? My blog feels like a child that’s been neglected. So sorry.

Well, where do I begin? A lot of things have happened. A lot of good stuff and not so great stuff. There is one particular thing that I can’t tell until the times right. And trust me, it’s worth the wait, because it’s amazing.

Hmm… So let’s see, last time I posted I was working at Disneyland. Well, now I’m working at Macy’s and still employed by Disneyland. Disneyland was an amazing, I got to see numerous celebrities. I had panic attacks on a daily basis because I would get so star struck. My co-workers would usher me to the back room before a celebrity would come in, because they knew I would make a scene. Ha, wimps. Oh, I forgot to tell you what I did there. I was a hostess for one of the restaurants for one of the hotels. Anyways, working at Disneyland was awesome.

Now I’m working at Macy’s. I worked there when I was 16, so it kinda was like riding a bike. To tell you the truth, I find the job incredibly boring and I need more of a challenge. I’ll be sending my resume out soon.

Things with my boyfriend are… just amazing. He’s my best friend and partner in life. I love him so very much.

He’s a keeper.

So since this blog is supposed to be about fashion, I might as well talk about what I’ve been learning in school. The fashion class I’m taking this semester is Fashion Buying (Goal is to be a Buyer.)

[Hold on a second… sorry, the song playing on Spotify was bugging me]

Fashion Buying has been an interesting class. Up until about… now, I’ve been enjoying the class. Just last week, we started getting into the math part of the class. [Insert barfing noise] I know math is involved, but I’m horrible at it and I’m in denial that it’s important. But anyways, it is an interesting class, and I do want to pursue Fashion Buying as a career. I’ll share a few things I’ve learned this semester. [I’ll make it simple, for those of you who are not familiar with retail/fashion.]

What is Inventory?

  1. Represents the amount of money a retailer has invested in stock; all sales come from inventory
  2. Inventory as an asset has an impact on net wort
  3. To prepare financial statements retailers need to know the value of their inventory
  4. Most reliable method of finding worth: a physical inventory, actually counting
  5. To avoid many costly counts, perpetual inventory adjusts purchases and physical
  6. In theory, book inventory should always equal physical inventory
  7. Running inventory- what you think you have is reality

 

I need to get to class, so I’ll teach you more about inventory later.

Howdy partner.

Whoaaaaaa. I’m sorry it’s been a while since I’ve been on here. So I started the spring semester, the week isn’t even over and I feel like I’m drowning. Here are the classes I’m taking: Psychology, Math, History of Fashion, Merchandising for a Profit I & II. Oh boy… so stressful.

Last night as I was sitting in my Merchandising for a Profit I class, I noticed that the teacher kept looking at me with this worried confused look. I then noticed that during her whole lecture I had this “I have just been stabbed and I’m dying” look on my face, which tends to happen when I feel stressed and I’m trying to understand the lecture. So that explains the teachers worried look. For those of you who don’t know me, I hate math and math hates me. And last night in this class, I found out it was a math class… for retail.

I’m screwed.

[Starts to get overwhelmed and chugs the rest of her Starbucks Caramel Macciato]

I need to calm down.

To get my mind off of things, let me update you on other things and talk about what’s on my mind.

1. I have a wonderful boyfriend! I know my past posts have been about the search of a worthy guy. And I found him! And the best thing is… We’re in love!

2. That Caramel Macciato was incredibly delish. I want another, but Starbucks in annoyingly expensive. I might buy a crossaint later.

3. I’m excited that my boyfriend is meeting me here [Starbucks] soon. I’ve missed him.

4. Hey… does anyone know of any fashion/retail jobs that are hiring? Because I’m in desperate need of money. I can show you my bank statement to prove it.

5. I have had a cold and sinus infection for the past month and a half. I am sick of being sick. And I think the people sitting around me, hearing me cough up God knows what, are sick of it too. If only I had medical insurance, I would be downing antibiotics as we speak.

6. We’re interviewing people to be my new roommate. My other roommate was on my case to clean my room and the bathroom. Did I mention that I’m an adult? And I don’t need someone to pretend to be my mother. She then goes ahead to clean my bathroom, when I was right about to do it myself! Does she think I’m incompetent or something? Ugh.

7. I have a problem with sweets. My New Years resolution should be to cut our sweet all together or at least decrease my intake by a lot.

8. I applied for a casting call for a new show MTV is going to do with Kelly Cutrone. It should be interesting.

9. I really should post something related to fashion, since this is supposed to be a fashion blog.

10. But I’m inpatient and in a weird mood, so I’ll do it later.

Emmys, Nordstrom and Fashion Shows

Let me update on what’s been going on lately. First let’s start with the fashion show that I volunteered for. It was very different, because I thought it was going to be a traditional fashion show. But no, it was a type of “platform modeling,” where the models had to be on platforms and pretend they were mannequins. It was very interesting to say the least. I was in charge of styling and dressing two models, a women and a little kid. It was a fun experience!

The Emmys just happened last night and everyone looked beautiful, here are some of my favorites…

Eva Longoria Parker in Robert Rodriguez

Tina Fey in Oscar de la Renta

Heidi Klum (My personal favorite)

 

And last but not least… I just found out that I got the job for Nordstrom! They said that they enjoyed my enthusiam and excitement and they would love to have me work in the Shoe Department. YAY! [Insert happy dance] 

Internship Please!

Ok, so I found this fab internship opportunity on Craigslist. The job is located in Downtown Los Angeles (I would be there in a heart beat if I could).

Here’s an excerpt from the job description (It sounds wonderful!)

Design – Production Internship::
You will be assisting the production coordinator in the design, manufacturing, sourcing and shipping of high end handbags, jewelry and accessories. Opportunities to help with sampling new designs, participate in design meetings, attend manufacturing sessions, learn to source new materials, learn to work with high end buyers, invites to fashion functions. Day to day activities include filing orders, contacting buyers, helping with shipping, sourcing materials, watching the market for trends and brand expansion, office upkeep and errands. Opportunity for growth.

Here’s the link… so you can see how fab it sounds…  1345872380.html

I would love ANY job that introduces me to the fashion industry… Did you hear me?! I would LOVE anything you hand me. And that’s a promise.