with the team on the ground: the fashion assistants. These assistants call in and organize all products that are then placed on talent for said events or cover shoots. The product — apparel, accessories, shoes, fine and costume jewelry, and extras — are housed in anear the fashion department.
To get the full scoop on life as a fashion assistant in a pandemic, I reached out to three fashion assistants: one who works at a newspaper, a fashion assistant for a men's publication, and freelance fashion assistant for men's and women's publications. All assistants have chosen to remain anonymous, so for the purpose of this story, I'll refer to the newspaper employee as Ashley, the menswear assistant as Jane, and the freelance assistant as Sebastian.
"I hate the word 'transfer.' It's the worst word in fashion" Sebastian cries."At the end of the day, you want to do a full return. Once something comes in from one photo shoot, your mentality is like, OK, this is going to leave my house, I'm not gonna have to deal with this. This is all done," he explains to me as he looks around his apartment at a large rack labeled"transfer.
"The only issue I'm having, four months in is learning how to delegate when I'm going to do something and when I'm not because there's so many samples coming in from my apartment," Sebastian explains. Like many assistants, he's inundated with product and coordinating high-volume projects. "They [cover] one way and then I cover the other way on the team's budget" Sebastian tells me as he explains the logistics of receiving and returning samples."I also had to buy a printer," he adds. To ship samples back that were sent outside of New York, he was rushing to FedEx or UPS before they closed to make sure packages made it on time.
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