Model Fitting

HAPPY NEW YORK FASHION WEEK!

Today, I had my first intern opportunity at NYFW which was a model fitting for Nolcha whom I am working backstage at their show later on this week.

I can't even begin to explain how nervous I was for this before leaving this afternoon, I was going into an area of the city that I don't travel to on an every day bases this opens a set of nerves in its own because being late was not an option and I would have to rely on myself to get there. Fortunately I did get there on time and I only made about one or two wrong turns. It was a really beautiful area and I did snap a few quick pictures on my phone while walking.

Once I got to the studio I wasn't exactly sure what to expect from it. I walked in and was just kind of told to start helping unpack the shoes there was about 6 large boxes of all different color and style heels. While working on that myself and the other girls who were also there interning all introduced ourselves and got to talking. It was nice to be able to talk to the other girls, some of them had interned for the company before and they were able to tell us what to expect and a little bit more about the people who were in charge. This was comforting because we found out that it was a pretty relaxed atmosphere and there wasn't really anything to be nervous about. We then did an inventory of all the different styles, colors, sizes and finishes of the shoes nothing to difficult. 

At this point there wasn't much to be done anymore so I began to look around at the designers collections whom had been setting up. One collection caught my eye the minute she started unpacking everything so I didn't waste any time to go over and talk to her. I found out that she was Tess Johnson and she was 24 years old and she was from New York, we talked a lot and seemed to get along great. So I decided to work with her the rest of the day. This consisted of helping her try the clothing on different models and organizing everything. One of the most important things was learning how to put the clothes on the models without getting the clothes covered in make-up since is was all white and gray.

I wasn't exactly sure what to expect of the model fitting but I definitively feel like I learned a lot of the general ideas of how everything was organized from the designers to the show days. I was NOT expecting to see the amount of boobs that I had to see that day but it was something that you began to not even notice as the day went on. Working the fitting before the actual show made me so much more comfortable for what was to come later on in the week, knowing more of  how things were going to need to be done and who I would be working with. These opportunity's don't seem like much when they are on paper but once you're there and getting involved you get to learn so many new things just by communicating with the people around you.

StayClassy (: