A Little Bit of Display Inspiration

Meeting Follow Up...

After a very successful meeting, it looks like I have found myself the most perfect work experience, leading into a wonderfully creative and exciting permanent job! I'm being hired for paid experience on the current re-decorating and re-visualisation of Lou Lous Cafe to work alongside an experienced window dresser and gain some valuable experience. If all goes well, which I'm very confident it will, I'll be taken on as the permanent window dresser for the Cafe because the experienced window dresser will only be working with Lou Lou's for a certain amount of time. It will then potentially be my job to keep the window displays and internal decor/design up to date and new throughout the year. The meeting couldn't have gone better, I have a very exciting future ahead of me, and it is even better that it's with a company that is so up my street! My next job is, after some communication with the window dresser, to generate a range of ideas and mood/theme boards to show them at our next meeting on the 21st of May. Today is a super Saturday, now to begin cutting out my trouser fabric!

An Exciting Day

How beautiful it is outside for such an exciting day.

Today I'm meeting up with my mum and we are both going to Lou Lou's Cafe ( http://www.loulouscafe.co.uk/ ) in Sadlergate, Derby to meet with the manager to talk abut plans for window dressing their beautiful cafe.

This is potentially my first real taste of window dressing and visual merchandising, and i'm really looking forward to it. This actually came about through Twitter so it proves that it is definitely worth tweeting away to local people and businesses!

I'm really lucky to have been considered or this opportunity as Lou Lou's Cafe is somewhere I know I am going to love, it is completely my style - high end, vintage, quaint and chic, and it also sells tea, coffee, cakes and other delicious food.

I'll let you know how our meeting goes!

Once I get home my plans are to go over my trouser pocket pattern and re-shape and to then cut out my fabric ready to begin sewing my final pair of trousers ready for my photoshoot in just over a week. Today is going to be a sunny, exciting, happy and busy Saturday!

A New Year, A New Journey

Since starting up my twitter account (http://twitter.com/smileyemmarose) to gain some fashionable contacts, I decided to wipe away the cobwebs from my busiest blog and begin a new journey with you. I'm now on my last lap of my univeristy life with just a month to go until I hand in my final three projects. I'll tell you more about my final major project in my future blogs (which I promise will be soon). So in this new year, many things have changed since my last blog entry, both in my career aspirations and personal life. Last September I moved out of my parents home and into my own home with my then boyfriend, I say then because we are now engaged! And in the same way that i've grown up, faced responsibilties (bills and things eek!) and am now standing completely on my own two feet; I am growing up, and taking a real responsibilty for my future in fashion now. The career sector I have chosen is Visual Merchandising. A job I am completely and utterly inspired by, and my plan is to do anything in my power, make and take any oppurtunity I can to launch myself into this highly creative and exciting career. ....and so I continue on my very fashionable journey, taking a different direction but walking with more strength and confidence than ever. Will you join me on my adventure?

Career Information Links

I have an assessment for Professional Studies today. It's in interview form and I have to show my portfolio. I'm quite confident but nervous too because there' so much to think about, points I want to say, skills I have etc.

In preparation for this assessment I thought it would be interesting and helpful to do some research into the types of jobs I'm interested in. The pages have good information about what the job holds, and what skills a person should have to suit this job.

COSTUME DESIGNER - Very interested in

WARDROBE ASSISTANT - Very interested in

FASHION DESIGNER

ILLUSTRATOR

DRESSMAKER

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I just found another DOVE advert which would be perfect for my own individual fashion issue - Anti-Ageing.

Thankyou Dove!

Fashion Issues Presentations

Yesterday we had our group presentations on a fashion issue of our choice. My group chose Political Fashion, and I was surprisingly interested and inspired by the information we were giving each other.

We chose to all go and research a certain aspect of political fashion. We also all made a couple of slide each going along with the same look and colour. We then came back the following week to put the presentation together. It went really well and I'm very confident in writing my essay at the weekend all about Political Fashion because of the valuable information given from the people in my group.

I also really enjoyed watching everyone else's presentations. I was really surprised to find every single group out of the whole year had chosen different subjects. Which was great as there was nothing samey and there was no competition between people.

I just wanted to link this video on my blog as someone had put it on their presentation as part of their presentation about 'body issues in fashion'. It's really up-to-date and interesting, showing how images are transformed for advertising - portraying a perfect body which girls (and boys) aspire to be, but it's not real, it's completely photo-shopped. So should we want to look liek a real beautiful person, or an artist's portrayal of beauty?