Week 7

This Wednesday of week 7 came and went so quick. When I came in Wednesday morning, for the first half hour Val basically caught me up on what our next display was going to be and which rooms/concepts we would be focusing on this last half of the week. This week we were going to work on Bespoke, our 50's and 60's girl who loves feminine, structured silhouettes with vintage inspired details. Val explained to me that for this room we would be making a impressionist inspired mural made completely from fringed and dyed jersey, which would be created on the main back wall of the room. We began by dyeing and cutting experiment strips of jersey because our district manager was expected that morning to come in for final approval. Between creating these experiment pieces, all the interns also helped Michelle clear our the room of the old concept clothing and begin rearranging and replacing the empty spaces with new clothes that fit our girl. When our district manager, Samar arrived she gave us a couple of suggestions and happily gave us the approval to continue with the project, which will be due Monday. As a group, we narrowed down our story and began mixing and perfecting our dye colors for the final display. We also had to go out to the fabric and buy 15 yards of cotton jersey to continue. We spent the rest of the afternoon cutting, dyeing and hanging the fabric for the next morning.

On Thursday, Michelle and I turned our focus to our front market facing section of the store. This section would now be turning into our concept Irina and the back of the room would now turn into our Pantone concept. After we briefly discussed what merchandise Anthro was up and down in, we began work on the front room transforming it into a glamorous and unexpected space. While Michelle focused her attention on the front of the store, she gave me the task of creating the Pantone section in the back. We would be using color blocking of merchandise to have one side of room be warm colors that slowly  and eventually turned into cool colors on the other side. I gathered samples of new and old merchandise that would fit this concept, cleared some walls and began placing outfits. Every so often Michelle would pop in to help me place clothing I was having trouble with and interject her ideas and constructive criticism. We also took some time to figure our what new narrative outfits we would dress on the mannequins after lunch. When we got back from lunch, we took the two mannequins off the floor and changed them into their new outfits. The Pantone room will still be a working in progress because we will soon get new pieces that are directly created for this concept.

This Friday was a day solely dedicated to working on our fabric project, considering we would be using 15+ yards of fabric in order to create this display. We spent our day dyeing fabric and hanging up to dry while also cutting sheets and fringing the fabric. We will begin creating the final display Monday.