FROSTY GREENS

Denna vecka ska jag göra praktik på the Southern Daily Echo. Jag var stirrig mest hela natten och vaknade minst en fem gånger. Sedan blev klockan äntligen 06.30 och jag flög upp ur sängen tacksam för att jag inte försovit mig.

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I commence my one week work experience at the Southern Daily Echo today. I was chafing most of the night and woke up at least five times. When the alarm finally went off, at 6.30, I flew out of bed gratified I hadn´t over slept.

Då jag stigit av bussen och var på väg mot huvudkontoret kunde jag inte låta bli att undra var i hela fridens namn jag var.

Frosten hade lagt sig som ett täcke över bäck och myr och jag tänkte att man borde ha mer plagg i just kulören frostgrönt. Frasiga sidenklänningar, ett par klackar, en väska och smycken.

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After I got off the bus and was heading towards the main office I couldn´t help but wonder where on earth I was.

The cold weather resulted in a white crispy frost duvet covering the land. I thought that one should really have more garments of the colour frost green. Like crispy dresses, a pair of heels, a bag and some jewelry.

WET LOOK

Just came out of the shower after a long days work, but it has been really really fun!!

The team of seven dwarfs (one photographer, photographer assistant, stylist, fashion assistant, me, hair & make up woman and model)left at 6.30 this morning. After a half hours drive we took a taxi boat for another half an hour. When we arrived at one, among the other thousand islands, in Stockholm´s archipelago a little walk felt tempting.

Side by side we carried the luggage through the terrain of mountains under the sky that looked alarming cloudy. Since there was no road, or even a path, we lost the track but the photographer who knew where the house we were supposed to hold court ran in front to find, and lucky did he got!

We hanged the clothes up, make up suitcase was spread over the table and then we all sat down for breakfast before we started the process of shooting Summer'10 fashion.

The clouds disappeared and the sky turned beautiful blue, the light was great and it was a might fine day. I got to learn a lot about different lights and that dark green converse look nice with beige chinos.

After shooting ten pictures, one cover, laughing our heads off and I had been eating hazelnut cookies from Lidl the clock was 17.30 and we left for home. Everything went so smooth that we all where amazed. Didn´t got home until 20.30 since I was walking the streets thinking about how much I will miss everything when I leave in one week. But now, bed and tomorrow another shoot.

"Can you please catch the light?"

"Walk towards me, look flirty! Just like that, yes! Yes!"

"The light is so hard right now."

Quotes from a photo shoot, maybe should make a dictionary.
TATA!

START ME UP

Every morning for the last four weeks(except for in the weekends) I have risen and shine at 6.45, yes that´s a.m, to put my face on, rumbling through my suitcase (I almost lived in one for the last years) for clothes to wear, had a sandwich and a cup of tea and forgot my lunchbox in the fridge before I have to run to the bus that leaves at 7.32.

On my way t work, always make the mistake to wear dress when it´s raining and bring a umbrella when it´s not

After travelling with the bus and metro, three changes total, I will be at the place where I do my work experience ( six weeks)which is at a Swedish fashion magazine in the style department. I have a cup of coffee, people drop in at the office and then another wonderful day really begins.

Since I´m just a trainee I have to start from zero, which includes the necessary work of writing returns to different press offices. And the returns are endless piles of clothes tucked in a zillion bags in a small room. It takes up a lot of time!

I also assort clothes that have been used at shoots in bags to the different press offices. If we borrow from a store that do not have a press office or if it´s very very expensive jewelery (last week I walked around town with a ring worth 35 000SEK) I will carry a lot of heavy and valuable bags mostly to different areas in the city. Also is very time consuming.

I tag along to different photo shoots where I and often a fashion assistant assist the stylist. I get to buy the food, write the clothes and accessories down that been used in the different outfits, corrects clothes on the model, iron the garments if we are inside.

We were shooting an mc brud last week. Came home eleven hours later covered in dust.

And I might be able to go to a fashion event/ party sometime, but that´s not happening very often. And I do get a massage every other week.

It´s not glamorous at all, if we are doing a shoot I might work from 8 a.m an twelve hours onwards, if it´s a lot to do in the office I will do over time (I don´t get paid a single penny/dime/ krona), there´s a lot of running and the one hour lunchtime in the day will probably be shorter, the coffee in the coffee machine taste like shit. But it´s worth every minute, cause I´m passionate about it, get to see amazing clothes and get a very good idea about what my future (hopefully!!!) will look like, and I love it!

DOING WORK EXPERIENCE

Today I felt a bit like Anne Hathaway´s character Andrea who is a second assistant at Runway magazine in The Devil wears Prada. I was literally running around in a very hot city where I don´t know the names of the streets and is unfortunately not gifted with a sixth sense telling me if I went North, East or just around in a circle. Though I always find where I´m going in some mysterious way, without using maps and all that crap.

Anyhow, there I was with this bags crammed with clothes and clothes which we were going to use for a job in the magazine, and I had to find a hotel which has a very fancy store inside. Well it seemed to rather has disappeared from the earth. So kind of hot like a chili, I went up to a builder guy and asked for the hotel. He didn´t seemed to know, just pointed to the opposite street and some other lads. I asked them, and I hoped they like to have a good laugh, since I was standin in front of that hotel, oh dear!

Well, I got the jewellery and headed back to the office with the metro.