Hello, my name is Laura, and my field of study is Clothing, Textiles,
Material Culture and Design. I have just transferred in to the Human Ecology program
at the University of Alberta and I am excited to get involved with the program
and the various clubs it offers. I am aware that fashion is a tough industry,
and communication is extremely important for new interns especially for contacts
and resources. In my case these contacts
are important for figuring out who I would like to work with during my
practicum. Fashion is the field I want to work in and I know I am going to have
to start at the bottom of the chain. I am not afraid of this because I love the
experience and want to grow in to myself and my own personal brand.
Luckily, I do have connections through
friends, who know local designers, photographers, stylists and fashion bloggers.
Though, these connections are not solidly established, I am keeping up to date
with their projects and reading their profiles and working on one day doing my practicum with anyone of them, hopefully. Communication for me between them
right now is mostly following them on twitter, liking them on Facebook and
commenting on their works. Mainly, it is
more about the social networking and finding out information via the internet,
I find this will help me the most for when I later communicate with them
directly. I will have the confidence to be able to talk to them whether via
email, over the phone or in person, the background knowledge, I anticipate will
help.
Communication is something I do need to step up on when it comes
to volunteering. Thus far, I have communicated with the founder and director of Edmonton Fahsion Week, Sandra
Sing Fernandes, and have asked her if I could assist with anything during
Western Canada Fashion Week, being held in March. Excitingly enough, she responded
fairly fast and is even asking if I can help out with fashion shoots this
month. I sent one simple email saying I was a student at the U of A in Clothing
and Textiles and was interested in volunteering and I had no idea I would get
such an awesome response! The next step, meeting her in person which I am hoping
will be just as pleasantly surprising and that I don’t make a fool out of myself
since she is a much respected woman in the fashion industry, especially here in
Edmonton.
http://www.fashionmagazine.com/blogs/fashion-reporters/2009/08/14/edmonton-at-the-helm-of-edmonton-fashion-week/#more-7316
For the future I need to continue to communicate with my
contacts and fellow students in my program. I need to communicate with my
student council and participate in quite a bit more activities in my future
field of work and the activities that happen on campus. I will need to have good
communication skills to let people I work with (whether in school or in the
professional field) know what I am searching to do and who or what company I
would like to work with!
Link to a girl I met the second or third day of ALES 204 class:
http://sarahjdube.blogspot.com/
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