H and M

Me and a few others went to an H and M recruitment talk a couple of days ago; (this one being the real recruitment talk, as me and Sam turned up to a instore recuitment day at HH mistakenly – where we were asked what kind of sales assistant experience we had! Haha felt so stupid, oh well at least we got a free bag!). Anyway went to the proper recruitment talk and was really inspired. One of my best friends moved over there to design for the childrenswear dept. and is absolutely loving it! I have always loved Sweden and this would be the perfect opportunity. HOWEVER, when we asked about footwear design positions, they said that the dept. has only really just been set up, as previously it was all bought it, so there aren’t any opportunities at the moment, but possibly in the future…. : (

Also this week, had to present our work to the external examiner, which was scary! Actually she seemed really nice and asked us questions about how to improve the course etc, which was good.

Continuing with making mock ups at the moment but hopefully ready to start on the final ones sooooon!

Guild of Cordwainers!

Another busy week! Was at Michael Lewis on Tuesday and single-handedly had to put together a big presentation for John Lewis, which was a bit scary but Michael just emailed me today saying that he loved the presentation and it was well received by JL! Could’ve really done without going to the studio as I have so much to do at uni and cant afford to be missing days! So that’s good! ALSO just done a different sort of presentation to the Guild of Cordwainers! None of us really knew what we were doing, but we each sat at tables and presented our work to about 3 or 4 people from the Guild. Met some really interesting people there, my favourite being Christopher King, who seemed genuinely interested in what we were doing and we swapped email addresses. Didn’t like so much the secretary guy, who was patronising and a little obnoxious… oh well! Hopefully they’ll come to the exhibition, which might increase funding in the future!

Range Selection

Today I had my range selection tutorial with Sue which I think went well, she liked the ones I’d chosen and also my latexing samples! Pleased with the selected range, but now have to work on other colourway options, but she liked the leathers I got from Northampton so that was good. Going to look at ways of incorporating rubber onto a leather sole too, as I like the way leather soles look but I think they are SO stupid! They are so impractical! After deciding the two final ones, I decided that it would be best to get my wedge made by someone else as I wanted a really high quality finish and also in my design there is a platform as well that needs to fit to the wedge, and Im not confident I can achieve it myself. Sent off a spec. last week to Springline so looking forward to getting that!!

Exhibition Meeting!

WOO!!! So pleased!!! After weeks of negotiating about organising our own exhibition, today was the day when we found out how many people wanted to be involved. We’d booked out the main lecture theatre at High Holborn and were terrified that no one would turn up! We spent ages trying to get this exhibition to go ahead, and putting posters up advertising this meeting. When we first got there, there weren’t that many people there, but after about 15 mins, loads of people turned up and we had, I think over 80 people there in the end which was awesome!! Had to talk to everyone which was a bit nerve-wracking, but really good presentation practice!! So me and Sam are super happy now!!! Our hard work paid off! Now we’ve got to organise the bloody exhibition! The next stage will be to get everyone to pay some money…

In other news, sent off my Inditex application with my CV and cover letter, however I didn’t send any of my work, as I haven’t really done any projects I have been proud of to date, so hopefully that wont affect my chances too much…

Also been doing more rubberisng ssamples and getting some really cool results, tried different colours, inspired by some pictures I took in Whitstable, pinks, whites, blacks etc. And been doing pattern cutting, after having just about chosen the two final shoes Im going to make EEKK! Such a big decision!!