4-5 years ago i was unemployed, i made myself unemployed – i was forced out of a job i was working, i won’t say where i was working as i don’t want to get into trouble. I was having problem with the managers and because my partner works there as well, it became an unhealthy environment. I didn’t have a job to fall back on but i couldn’t keep working there, i was very unhappy.

My parents and partner wasn’t exactly supported it but i was determined and stubborn and they eventually gave in, i was still living at home with my parents. I wanted an entire new direction and i knew i wanted to work in fashion, even if it was admin. I signed up on the job seeking benefits and had to go to the job center every week to report my status.

My routine would be wake up early log into vary job hunting website such as monsters and any other job seeking website, then read the paper scanning for any job. If i saw one i would applied immediately  and would wait. In the mean time i did an evening class doing a City & Guild qualification in MS applications to bulk up my skills.

When you received a letter saying ‘wish to meet up for an interview’ – your heart beat and you get a sense of woohoo to put it bluntly. The moment you received the ‘thanks but no thanks’ rejection letter it when your heart start to sink.

I was unemployed for a year and during that time i was rejected for over hundreds of jobs – it heart wreaking and soul destroying.  I always consider myself to be properly qualified to take on a simple admin job, i always works hard in school and made sure i passed all my grade.

To finish my side of the story, i eventually took up a job for my local Waitrose and i ended up liking it but felt in side of me there was so much more within me i need to prove to people. That why i took myself off to university – i wanted to expand my horizon and to get a better job so i can have a better life prospect.

This issue of being unemployed and being rejected for job is a serious issue in which the government seriously need to take notice off. Now we have a con-lib government will they take notice and address this issue? Only time will tell, but in the mean time we are tell our children that uni is the path to take – while on the other end of the spectrum graduate are focus into a job market where it bleak.  Unemployment is at higher at the height of the recession and many of then was young graduate. This is a prospect that i will also faced in 2-3 years time, i have no idea is the market will be in a better shape than it in now.

I feel for the young girl and understand how she must have been feeling.  The job market does need a re-vamp so this incident can never be repeated. One person alone cannot act – everyone need to act and get the government to take full responsibility and to act now.

I also been working on a little side-line project which will all be reveled very shortly. I also want to do something with this blog, I’m waiting for my last student loans to come through which will be at the end of this week. So i can buy myself a new computer and the student version of Adobe Creative Suite. My original plans was to work my arse off so i can afford to buy all  this but work hasn’t exactly been very helpful (in the sense i can’t get any extra hours), so instead I’m going to use my student loan. i want to buy this before the summer and before my year finished so i can start working from home and work for myself. I’m falling in love with desktop publishing!

Ahhhh the lack of money at the moment is driving me crazy!! I would rather not use my student loan to buy and instead use to live on but i do actually need it!! For not only uni stuff but once i leave professionalism as well. I’m applying for interns and work-experience right now, most of what of what I’m applying for say they pay for travel expenses which is always a good thing as travelling in expensive!

I also been e-mailing pr company asking for a interviews with so and so, i’m still waiting for reply but i got a deadline in two week time and i still hasn’t heard from anyone.

Grrrr….

On the plus side i been mastering on how to bake cupcakes which i will revel soon.

So please tell me about yourself, how it been with you?

When i applied to UCA, we was asked to write your reponse and why, it was part of the portfolio assesme.nt This is my answer:

I would choose Vogue because I believe in the words:

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

Coco Chanel

Vogue encompasses the fantasy of fashion – how by reading an article or looking at a page on clothes can whisk you away from whatever situation you are in, and you can imagine wearing the clothes and feeling beautiful about yourself. I myself know that I can’t wear the clothes but I can imagine how they would look on me and how they would feel. In the October 2008 issue of vogue, ‘Fantastic Fantasy Fashion’ was the theme throughout the special edition, it had Kate Moss on the cover covered in warm green fur. Throughout the issue was certain aspects of ‘fantasy fashion’, like a fashion fairy tales and costume balls fantasy photo shoot, articles on how to feel special and glamorous. That edition of Vogue to me encompassed a fantasy about fashion, you can read a fairy tales on a fashion brand and immediately get swept in it. It can make you feel glamorous about yourself (even if you stuck on a desert island) and lighten up how you feel about yourself.

Now being stuck on a desert island, I imagine myself to be very lonely and to be completely isolated from western civilization (how will I cope without Starbucks?). To have a pigeon post as my only form of communication with the outside world is a very lonely experience, I imagine this being like the world of Harry Potter where on summer holiday when Harry would return to his muggle (non-magical) guardian and his only link to his ‘magical life’ would be his devoted owl sending his parcels and letters from his school friends.

I would have a camp fire burning and I see the endless sea wave crashing with no land or anything else in sight, then out of the blue in the distance I see my pigeon post flying toward me. Suddenly I wouldn’t feel so alone anymore and for the first time in a while as the bird brings me my publication, something that will feel my heart with joy and my mind with fantasy. Turning once again to the words of Coco Chanel; ‘A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.’ With a copy of Vogue, I am both.

I would choose Vogue because I believe in the words:

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

Coco Chanel

Vogue encompasses the fantasy of fashion – how by reading an article or looking at a page on clothes can whisk you away from whatever situation you are in, and you can imagine wearing the clothes and feeling beautiful about yourself. I myself know that I can’t wear the clothes but I can imagine how they would look on me and how they would feel. In the October 2008 issue of vogue, ‘Fantastic Fantasy Fashion’ was the theme throughout the special edition, it had Kate Moss on the cover covered in warm green fur. Throughout the issue was certain aspects of ‘fantasy fashion’, like a fashion fairy tales and costume balls fantasy photo shoot, articles on how to feel special and glamorous. That edition of Vogue to me encompassed a fantasy about fashion, you can read a fairy tales on a fashion brand and immediately get swept in it. It can make you feel glamorous about yourself (even if you stuck on a desert island) and lighten up how you feel about yourself.

Now being stuck on a desert island, I imagine myself to be very lonely and to be completely isolated from western civilization (how will I cope without Starbucks?). To have a pigeon post as my only form of communication with the outside world is a very lonely experience, I imagine this being like the world of Harry Potter where on summer holiday when Harry would return to his muggle (non-magical) guardian and his only link to his ‘magical life’ would be his devoted owl sending his parcels and letters from his school friends.

I would have a camp fire burning and I see the endless sea wave crashing with no land or anything else in sight, then out of the blue in the distance I see my pigeon post flying toward me. Suddenly I wouldn’t feel so alone anymore and for the first time in a while as the bird brings me my publication, something that will feel my heart with joy and my mind with fantasy. Turning once again to the words of Coco Chanel; ‘A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.’ With a copy of Vogue, I am both.

Denim is the uniform of rock stars and cowboys, everyday on the high street we see ordinary peoples wearing denim jeans. It was in 1967 an American Fabric writer declared “Denim is one of the world’s oldest fabrics, yet it remains eternally young.”
The origin of the name itself is hidden in mystery as scholar to this day cannot agree on the original name. It was in the 19th century during the gold rush, miners wanted fabric materials that wouldn’t tear easily and sustained underground condition, and in 1853 Leob Strauss started a business supplying clothes Leob eventually changed his name to Levi. The material of denim is a rugged cotton textile that the weft passes under two or more warp fibres, this method produced the diagonal ribbing effect which is seen on the reverse of the fabrics, it distinguish the denim from the cotton duck. Designers such a Levi, Calvin Klein and Diesels design denim jeans to be practical, comfortable and universal for all ages. It was in the 90s that denim fashion was giving the grungy Brit pop look popular with bands such Nirvana and Oasis and would be worn baggy and very loose. Now in the Noughties denim jeans are cut to fit the figure and to be more tight-fitting.

Secondly I felt really smug in yesterday lecture, we had a full 2 hours lecture on blog. I was in my perfect element! I consider myself to be the first generation of blogger – let me explains. I’m 26 years old and about ten years ago – 1999 the internet was still in it early development, at this time window xp wasn’t even released, we had no YouTube, we had Google but yahoo was very much king and oh no iTunes either. One day when I was bored of looking at pop idols website – I stumbled across a personal website written by someone ordinary, she was from Australia and merely had a site devoted on herself, wow this opened a whole new world for me. She had a journal – an opened journal for everyone to read.This was a strange concept as I thought journal you write was suppose to private, she would write about her friends,her work and even post pictures of herself. I clicked on links she had and found another bunches of people doing the same thing, then a thought come into my head – I’m going to do that, I’m going to write a journal so everyone can read. So that was 10 years ago before the word ‘journal’ got tuned into ‘blog’ (short for weblog) and I have been doing it ever since. At 18 I got my first domain and set that up (but it didn’t last long) and gone from blogger to wordpress to everything in between. I consider myself the first person generation to fully gasp this blogging phenomenon and watch it grow to a big industry-related structure of journalism.
Everything the lecture guy was saying yesterday I felt like I already knew – I was there at it birth, the girl ‘blog’ was the same age as me and we both gasp this new technology together.