Working in an LA fashion show!

Just came home. It’s 1pm now and I won’t have class till 3pm so I’m just gonna write about what happened this morning

So basically, my school has this wonderful student portal where all the job listings are posted. I found this job opening in a fashion show that was being held here in downtown LA, and it was perfect since I don’t drive yet at the moment. It was the Directives West Fall’10 fashion show which was a combination of different brands.

The call time was 7:30am, but I really don’t mind waking up at 5:30am since it was my first time to work in a real fashion show and I was excited. Yay

Basically I was a dresser. I was assigned a model and a rack of clothes with around 6 looks. The rack has a huge board which states the description and the order of each garment and accessory for each look. So my job was to help the model get dressed in between her walks and to make sure that her looks are in order.

I was told that it was a pretty relaxed fashion show. The looks were pretty far apart (my model’s 1st look was number 22, and her second look was number 57…) and there were only few people screaming. Still, it was my 1st time so I found it kind of chaotic but exciting at the same time. I had to rush everytime I dressed my model since the looks had lots of layers (dress, vest, scarf, leggings, socks, shoes, necklace, earrings, hat). And I had to make sure that the shoes were buckled properly or else they will come off while the model is walking on stage.

Overall, it was a really really great experience! All the people were suprisingly nice! I told my model, Kira, that it was my first time doing this and she said that I did a great job. Haha well she was really nice and modest I also met a few people from my school and most importantly, learned a lot and gained work experience (no matter how short). I will definitely do this again soon

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