PR beginner
The one thing I have mostly been looking forward to this year has been my much anticipated move to London to start work at Edelman.
Applying for graduate jobs takes some blood, sweat and tears, but applying for PR jobs takes…. well a little bit more.
Firstly, it is insanely competitive. From 500-1000 people apply for schemes that will only take up to 5-8 people if even that many.
Secondly, the skills needed are of a person who in a sense is a social miracle worker, a multi-tasking brilliant middle-man and of course also an excellent and quick writer, speller, bursting with ideas.
Third, despite the stiff competition, the initial (let’s hope) pay is not very stiff itself.
Some people say it is only glamorous, that two days never are the same and that you mingle until you need vaseline inside your mouth to keep your smile from drying. This is why work experience is crucial so someone can burst the bubble for you - PR is also hard work, dedication, if you need to stay past 5 you will stay and you won’t be a moaner but always a teamplayer.
I have no doubt it will be tough but what I am mostly looking forward to is continuing to develop all the skills that are needed to stay in play.
My impression is that PR teaches you to be firm with people, to dazzle them with your passion and interest for their account, to deal with a lot of different people at once and to pretty much always get what you want.
Many people (perhaps mostly men) easily write off Sex and the City as some sort of chick-flick phenomenon which is just about four girls having fun in New York, sleeping around, shopping and talking about men all the time. I don’t remember the precise moment I fell for SATC but when I did, I fell hard! And now when the film has come out I feel like SATC has brought with it, as silly as it may sound, something that is really strong and has impacted a lot of girls and women all over the world.
I think my generation is definitely part of the whole women empowerment movement which we have seen in so many different and colourful ways, from the Spice Girls, to our university education, our mothers, divorce, marriage, boyfriends and contemporary society. If you dig deep you will always find something and perhaps it is a long shot to draw something out of SATC.
But nevertheless, I do believe that behind all of our dreams, expectations, requirements, hopes, fears and pure reality, SATC can teach all of us a little bit about life and love.
Yves Saint Laurent passed away on June 1st, 71 years old after a battle with cancer.
This legendary designer retired in 2002 after YSL was sold and it can be argued the magic of what truly used to constitute Yves Saint Laurent, disappeared never to truly return.
Luella Bartley’s Geek bag is my dream at the moment. Probably because I didn’t like it before but do now when it’s sold out literally everywhere… It’s not even on ebay, that’s how bad it is.
Ps. Did you know Luella actually is a Leamington Spa local…? Makes me feel so much better when I spot all the chavs walking around.
Miu miu nappa bowling bag.
Ideal birthday present. For me.
580 pounds.
Actor/director Sydney Pollack passed away today in his LA home.
He is perhaps most famous for “Out of Africa” with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford which won 7 Oscars in 1985. He has also had memorable roles in “Tootsie” and “Eyes Wide Shut” and did a cameo in “Entourage”.
This actually makes me feel like less of a fashion victim.
Martin Margiela has copied this 1998 print by David Penfound from his t-shirt “Summoning the Storm” as seen above, presumably for reasons precisely to do with fashion addicts buying anything with a triple zero pricetag.
The original can be bought on ebay for like 14 dollars and the copy can be purchased at net-a-porter.com for 695 pounds. Go fetch! Or not.
Coco Chanel designed the 2.55 classic, created in 1955 and it is not just a handbag but a biographical story of the woman behind it and her aims in fashion.
It created a stir when released because it had a strap so women could have their hands free to drink champagne, eat canapeés and read theathre progammes - simply being able to enjoy life as they wanted. The lining of the bag, the brown/red colour represents the colour of the uniform Coco Chanel wore whilst living in an orphanage after her mother died in a boating accident and her father committed suicide.
The double chain design of the shoulder strap strap was inspired by her memories of the children’s’ caretakers in the orphanage who would dangle keys from their waists.
The 2.55 also has an secret compartment in the inside of the front flap and this is rumoured to be where Coco would keep her love letters during an affair she had with Nazi spy, Hans Gunther von Dincklage.
Another secret pocket is featured in the outside flap at the back of the bag. This is where Coco would keep a little bit of extra money she wanted to stash away.
The quilted material from which the bag was made was based on the coats worn by jockeys. It was believed that Coco was fascinated by horse racing and wanted to pay tribute to that in the very personal design of the 2.55 bag.
