Author: Rebecca Clarke

This week we were starting to get ready to do a new batch of designs that we could send off before the Christmas break so that we would have new swatches to add to collection in the new year ready to sell. To help with this Julinka asked me to have a look back into… Continue reading Story Designs Week 11

My time at Story always seemed to be passing by so fast! And the fact that this week we were starting to work on a little Christmas gift for all of the clients just emphasised this even more for me! I had really been enjoying my time at Story, im not sure it was quite… Continue reading Story Designs Week 10

This week was the week of halloween and we were working on making a newsletter for the holiday. Newsletters were something that the company did to try stay in touch and relevant with all of its clients. It was an opportunity to showcase some of the work that we had been doing in the studio… Continue reading Story Designs Week 9

This week I was really starting to feel like I was getting to grips with the company and all of the tasks. I was starting to focus on lots of different things at the same time and getting better at previous tasks that I had been tackling like placing designs on garments and uploading designs… Continue reading Story Designs Week 8

Having spent the previous week starting to work on designs for Story I had started to get the buzz for it. Myself and Julinka started to brain storm ideas for what she was needing for the collection and what was exciting us at the time after looking into the most recent shows. We did a… Continue reading Week 7 Story Designs

Having worked on the placement piece with Julinka we started talking about translating some of the 20s inspired looks that we were seeing on the catwalks during fashion week to a story design sample. This was the first design where I was being allowed to go off on my own a bit more with what… Continue reading Story Designs Week 6

When I started my internship at Story I had mentioned to Julinka that I was really looking for a hands-on placement. I told her I wanted to be involved in as much making as I could so that I could pick up new skills. My fellow dps student that was joining me at Story was… Continue reading Story Designs Week 5

Something very exciting that came from the Oasis meeting this week was the fact that one of the designs that they bought had a stock print on it. This is where Story used a print that belonged to the artelier that they use in India and it had already been purchased previously. This meant Julinka… Continue reading Story Designs Week Four pt 2.

This week I was doing some of the same work as the previous weeks, ie. putting the photos of the samples onto garments and doing some more trend research from the most recent shows. However, something that was really exciting that we did this week was go to a sales appointment. This was my first… Continue reading Story Designs: Week Four pt.1

Something that we really focused in on in my third week here was getting inspiration from the shows that were taking place. At this point in my internship all of the fashion weeks were taking place, so it was very important to keep up to date with these so that we could analyse the trends… Continue reading Story Designs Week 3