First Day? Owned.

This morning, 1000: absolutely crapping my pants as I travel via train to London*.
Arrive 1 hour early & find my way to the studio. Best attempts to prevent jelly legs from crumbling underneath me.
The closer I get to the studio the more the hipsters come out of the woodwork. Intimidatingly fashionable girls walk by and I get more and more nervous.. whilst wondering 'will she be working with me.. what about her.. or her.. ahhh!?'
So I get inside and an effortlessly cool lady with a short floral dress & black crushed velvet jacket greets me and takes me inside.. Where I meet the designer**. Who proceeds to hand me a list, email me templates and tells me I need to get sponsors for the fashion week exhibition we're having in September..

She asked me to cc her into all the emails I sent, and as I sent them (having no clue how to format them or use 'fashion etiquette') she gave me some 'pointers'..

'..You should have just left that other paragraph in the email..
.. You forgot to attach the file you emailed about' (oopss..!)

This is in a studio with 5 other people, which in writing, doesn't sound intimidating. But the environment gets scary pretty fast.
I took everything in, told myself to learn from it rather than take it personally, and kept going.
As the day progressed I became less and less scared of her, she's the n i c e s t girl, love her. Epitome of a designer. She's amazing - incredibly scatty, and incredibly creative. The studio is so chilled out, she wore huge stacked heels with denim shorts and a baggy jumper, her 3 little dogs chill out right there with us. It's pretty great.

Lunchtime - 'What time do you want us back?' '.. Uhh.. Like.. Whenever..?'
Sweet.

A fellow intern and I went to a cute little cafe for lunch, had about an hour and a half out - rolled back in around 3ish - no one batted an eyelid.

I got quite a lot done the rest of the day, and then when 6 o clock came around, (after taking her dog to the vet to get the morning after pill - yes, the dog) designer lady said she'd see us all tomorrow.

I was pretty happy with that as it meant I got to go back, kind of assumed that she just hadn't thought about the possibility of not having me back. So it was just like, luck that I was staying, you know?
However, as usual, I did my research.
I spoke to an intern who'd been there for a month. She said she'd seen other PR girls come in for trials days and 'never saw them again'. Same for an illustrator, some pattern cutters and various other wannabe interns.
So I did something right!! She likes me, she really likes me!!

I'm back in tomorrow, when I will meet the managing director, the designer's business partner - eeeeee!!!



*I have painstakingly located everything online that I wore today to provide you, my beautiful reader, with a perfect mental image. You're welcome.
**In 'Kell on Earth', one intern blogged about her interview with a designer and got fired due to of breaches of privacy. Yes it was a tv show but no, not taking chances so shan't be naming names.(obviously though if you ask me in person I'll tell you)