I am so sorry how long it has been since I last updated my blog but as you can tell I have been extremely busy! As most of you know I got an internship with the retail store, Anthropologie for this past semester. It has been such an amazing experience and I have learned so much. The two windows that we recently did that you see below were featured in the highlight reel for the entire Anthropologie Corporation. This is a section in the Anthropolgie newsletter and what they do is Corporate looks at pictures from each and every store and they then have and pick out their favorite windows. So our windows were picked out of numerous stores! To construct these windows, first we had to plaster and paint the backdrop. Then we had to hand dip-dye hangers and come up with some sort of unique shape. It was not an easy task, it took a few trial and errors before we were satisfied with the result but I am very proud of what we came up with. The other pictures are of some displays we did inside of the store and some merchandising experience they gave us as well. I was also invited to go with the Visual Team to the Anthropologie work shop last week which was a really exciting experience. They took us about an hour away to a flagship store and all of the surrounding stores gathered together and did what they call a prototype for the whole week. This is where we come up with inspiration and gather resources then come together as a team and completely transform the displays and windows for the upcoming season. They do this so that we all learn new skills and work on team building and therefore we all walk away with a vision and ideas for our own stores. I have not had a chance to take pictures of this yet but we will be doing similar things to our store for next season as well.
School is also going well, very very busy though. I have one quarter left before graduation and a lot of work is left to be done. This past quarter, I've been attending a class called Visual Presentation. Here we also construct window displays with a group and they are installed in the windows that we have around campus. I have attached pictures of this window too. We just started our next window for this class and it is themed off of the movie "Cotton Club". I will post pictures of this once were done. I was named manager of this window so hopefully it will be awesome!
Other than school and interning I have been having a good time as well! I am still babysitting and walking dogs every chance I get and that is going really well. I walk these two dogs named Lizzy & Marley and their owner happens to be a pretty big actress named Vicki Lewis. You can look her up on imdb.com, but anyway.. she is an actress and her husband is a soundscaping planner for a lot of broadway shows and movies. Lucky for me they have decided to give my information to a set decorator that they know and said that she will be contacting me within the next couple weeks in hope of offering me an internship with their company! I was also lucky enough to have the opportunity of going to a pre-grammy party at the Beverly Hills Hotel. That was a lot of fun and I got to see the Dixie Chicks! Also this month, Aunt Peggy visited California and I was able to travel to her son Chris's house for Henry's birthday party! It was a lot of fun and so nice to see Aunt Peggy, her grandkids are beautiful! In a couple weeks my semester ends and two of my best friends, Katie and Julie are coming out for a week. I am so excited! Then I will be heading home for a couple weeks which will be a nice little break.
I hope all is well with everyone and sorry that this was such a lengthy post, I will try to update this sooner than later next time. Enjoy the pictures and let me know what you think!
Love Always,
Mandi xoxo
I constructed this wood structure and then weaved the ropes through it.
This wall was diagonal from the one above, I am in love with the elephant flower pot! :)
In this picture, I constructed the big pot and styled the mannequins.
These flowers were really fun to make, we used wax paper and layered the pieces into flower shapes.
Close-up of the flowers.
This is the 70's inspired window I did for school.
The quote we used was "Intellectuals are a bore." -Andy Warhol
Thought I would show you some pictures of the windows in the daylight too.
Hope you enjoyed everything!!
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