I have been like the girl on Devil Wears Prada today and had to lug a million and one bags around doing more returns to all the kind places that lend to Vanessa. I can’t tell you enough how happy I was to see the back of them today. It hurt my heart a little to take the Fogal tights we used for the shoot yesterday back though. I wanted those for keeps. If you don’t know their stuff, have a goosy gander at their beautiful hosiery on: www.fogal.com. I’ve had a bit of an affair with tights since I went to Tokyo this time last year. They have the biggest selection possible and all the Japanese girl’s pins look super cool. BebaRoque is another one that seems to have gone bannana’s with fashion folk. They’re at www.bibaroque.co.uk
When I eventually caught my breath and took a second to think about what was going on around me, I thought about what the hell I was actually doing. Here I am, half way between Paris and hell and all I want to do is make everyone happy. Whether this is nipping out to do a personal favour like picking up duvets or general admin that needs and has to be done, I’m up for it all. Sometimes you’ve just got to grin and bear it and know that everything’s going to be just fine in the end cause it always is.
It got me thinking though, about things that an intern is required to be or indeed become. Top of the list is to understand that you pretty much have to do anything and everything that’s asked of you in the most efficient and quickest way possible. Whether it’s delivering 25 returns, photocopying front to back pages of a book or making the tea. The better you get at things, the more they’ll give you to do. It’s all about trust too, building up their confidence in you that you can deliver the goods and a little bit more than the norm.
My diary is glued to me, as is my dinky notepad so I’m ready to put ink to paper wherever, whenever. Post-it notes have become like my little friends and coffee is my drug. I feel exhausted tonight but I’m crossing my fingers that if I keep my socks pulled up, they might just get that I am serious about this fash business. I stayed late tonight, till ten helping Annie finish up. We had Oasis on and the inspiration files out. We’ve printed out a load of the research we’ve got together to show Vanessa in the morning. A lot of it she’s requested because it’s from a collection she’s seen, or book she’s after but some of it’s just stuff me and Annie have thought is cool.
I’ve always had a thing about mermaids and I just can’t shut up about them at the moment. I blame Splash. Anyways, Annie and I were talking about shoots she’d done previously and she told me all about working with Juergen Teller not so long ago. He sounds quite a naughty chap and I’ve loved a lot of his work but stumbled across this old book of his earlier. And oh my god I am all over it. I want all three images blown up and plastered on my walls and then I want Kate to come and scribble on it a little. That’s all. So someone please tell Juergen and Kate that they’re needed asap.
Need some kip now, I’ve got printers to go to first thing and Vanessa to meet at 9.30am.
