Internship

I wanted to dedicate this post to all of my fellow interns that I've worked with every day in the Zac Posen atelier.  Since everyone that I started my first day with is starting to leave as well, I figured I'd write about my experience with them.  For the majority of the summer, I was working with about 4-8 other interns every day.  We were all working in the design department and set up shop every morning in the atelier kitchen, which quickly became our home base.  Most of the other interns were similar to me- about my age, in college, and wanting to get experience in fashion design.  However, they were also different than me because I was the only one who wasn't majoring in fashion or apparel design- I'm a fashion merchandising major.  This quick realization made me recognize how happy I was to go to a school where I had already gotten the whole "college experience" and also how unfortunate it is that my school doesn't offer design as a major OR a minor.  I couldn't even minor in art.  I immediately began to notice how advanced everyone else was compared to me in design, especially in construction and dyeing.  However, my fellow interns were more than helpful to me and actually taught me more than any of the professionals at Zac Posen did.  They, of course, were interacting with me more often and were also just genuinely happy to help and offer advice on anything from sewing on industrial machines to draping on the mannequins.  I really feel grateful that I was chosen for this internship among all of these incredibly talented art school students and am glad that I was able to learn so much from them.  It's been sad seeing them go and I will definitely be sad to leave the rest behind when I leave next week.  Thankfully, I will join most of them again in September to work the Zac Posen show at Fashion Week! Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo of everyone since pictures aren't allowed in the studios, but I do have a picture of us during lunch on the steps at our internship.  I stole this picture (below) from one of my fellow interns' instagram, of course!