Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. -Oscar Wild

Friday, October 19, 2012

Internship.

I started my internship June 4th till August 1st, more or less, at Vera Wang, Manhattan, NYC. I've been a fan of Vera Wang ever since my aunt gave me a folder with all her designs (I was about 15 years old), including a biography and a black and white picture of Vera, her self. That being said, it's been about 8 years since I've been "dreaming" of her designs. They're not like others. I mean, some are cool and all, and not precisely a known designer, but Vera makes ALL her designs desirable and all of them are made with the same fabrics. Tones vary, they go from white, ivory, vanilla, lavender (lavender is a gorgeous color!) to black or red. All dresses have at least 5 layers.

So... I thought I'd be getting coffee. Obviously I was so wrong. I did patterns, I checked if the packages that came in where all safe and sound, and with no defects (embroidery generally), if there was, we sent it back for another one. I also did inventory's, I checked receipts/invoice's. Picked up and dropped off lots of stuff and sewed labels on sashes.

It was truly an amazing experience. I got to hang out mostly with the pattern maker, so I learned a lot from her (she was awesome!); the way they made patterns was different than how we do it in Mexico, well... at least at school. You know, it's so damn hard at school, but when I was doing my intern, I thought it was the easiest thing in the world, the only hard part was waking up at 6, to get an express train at 7 (more or less) and be there at least by 8:30 to walk my way to work.

I hope I get another experience like this.



2 comments:

♥ Pia said...

Hola Megan! Me encantó leer sobre tu internship en Vera Wang, una amiga de México justamente y yo acabamos de ser aceptadas para hacer un internship ahí en verano!. Un favor ENORME, como hiciste con la visa? A qué tipo de visa tuviste que aplicar? Estamos un poco desesperadas cn ese tema, ojalá puedas ayudarnos. Mil gracias

Unknown said...

Hola, Pia. No sabría cómo ayudarte, sinceramente, yo tengo la nacionalidad Americana y Mexicana, entonces nunca he tenido ese tipo de preocupación. Lo que puedes hacer, alomejor, puedes checar ésta página https://www.inmigracionusa.com/b2-visa-de-turista.html?gclid=CNDiv7TnwLYCFQexnQod7kMACQ dónde te explican cuál es la extensión normal de la visa y cómo puedes extenderla. Ojalá te ayude :) avisame por aquí cómo te va, me encantaría saber tu transcurso ahí.