Work placement

So today was my first day in the world of magazines, working in the fashion department at Women and Home magazine!

After a 6.30 wake up call(not nice!) i arrived at the ipg building at about 9.40. First off i was shown around the office-the kitchen, art departent etc etc before being taken into the fashion cuboard!! Basically there's one other placement girl whos there for 6 months and is my boss for this week, and gets to tell me what to do!

In total i think theres about 5 people on the fashion team so its rather small.

Women and home have just shot their october and November fashion storys in new york so I got to take alook at the pictures for that, they'rre just coming up witht the outfits for the shape soulutions page which have to tie in roughly with the main stories to give the magazine an overall "look".

My first task was to go through all the samples that companies have sent in that have been used already put them in bags, look up the shop/pr company adress, label up the bags, check the items off in the sample folders, and then note down the adress as well for the delivery man. Which surprisingly can take quite a long time.

Whilst this was going on we had big delivery of items from loads of different companies who the magazine have either called things in from or they've sent them because they want to get them in the magazine. So these needed hanging up ready for the fashion editor to approve.(have to say i was very tempted to accidently walk off with a pair of Cavella studded heels)

Aside from the October issue the tea are also working on the christmas issue which is the biggest issue for them so there's lots of workwear and glitzy sequin items comming in at the moment!!!

The rest of the day included sending more samples back and trying to ignore pr companies calls wanting back a dress which hasnt been shot yet!!!And trying to listen in to the Marie Claire fashion department conversations who are just next door. There was definitely something about Keira Knightly's style being discussed!!

As the cupbard had a big tidy up yesterday there wasnt much to do today and i was allowed to go early, however with two of the main fashion team away tomorrow ive been promised it will be really busy and manic!