Fueled by her keen fashion sense, Cassandra plans to investigate the field of fashion journalism with the hopes of one day working for E TV. Cassandra got the chance to interview Nina Garcia, her favorite fashion journalist, and asked her a questions about her career choice. She asked her about how she got into fashion, what her dream job was, how much internships she had, and much more. Nina Garcia is a fashion journalist from Columbia and has appeared on many television shows and magazines.
To start off the interview Cassandra asked Nina a basic question; ‘What was your dream job as a child?’ Nina said she loved fashion from the start and spent hours sketching. She told us that she never knew there were other type of jobs in fashion other
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than designing ‘I grew up in Colombia, in Barranquilla, Colombia, which is an industrial port in the Northwestern tip of South America, and there, to me, fashion was really only being a designer. I didn’t know that fashion could be all these other jobs’. From that question Cassandra asked; ‘How did you find fashion?’ and Nina said that she would get this foreign magazine all the time called Vanidades and she would look at it every time. Another thing she told Cassandra was ‘my dad really loved to travel so he would pull me out of school for two months and we would go to Europe and we would come here (New York). So here is where I would see it all: I would see the magazines, I would see the fashion.’ The questions kept rolling in and Cassandra decided to ask some questions about internships. Considering she was going to use this interview as a huge tip to start off her career she wanted to know how much experience she would need to become as successful as Nina. ‘My first internship was not very glamorous at all. It was at a place called Simplicity Patterns. I don’t know if you know what that is, but many years ago there were magazines that would sell you patterns. It makes me sound like I’m ancient’. She told us that before she got into the real internships she had to start small. ‘And then my second internship was the pivotal internship, and I got an internship at Perry Ellis, and that was Marc Jacobs’ grunge collection’. Nina said that she started working with Marc at the peak of his career. Cassandra asked ‘what did you do as an intern there?’ and Nina said she was in the closet. ‘I was checking the bags and I was putting the tags and I was counting the socks from the Birkenstocks, and making sure everything had a sock, and the thousands of little chains. So I had to make sure that when it went to Vogue, there were five chains… You know, packing and unpacking things. The closet!’ Nina also said that she would greet the editors, see the editors, and would offer them something to drink. ‘I was really an intern. And, I mean life is a circle’ ‘Did you study fashion at school?’ is another question Cassandra asked to get more background information.
Nina said at first she didn’t attend a school for fashion but she did eventually. ‘I went to Boston University. My father was very adamant that I needed a career that was not just fashion design. In a way, he was right. So I went to University, and I did liberal arts, and then after I finished I moved to New York, and I went to the Fashion Institute of Technology (one of the biggest fashion schools in New York). I studied fashion and fashion merchandising. By then, I realized that I wasn’t cut out to be a designer.’ A follow up question Cassandra asked her was ‘Did your parents like fashion as much as you?’ and she said that her dad didn’t but her mom loved fashion just as much as her, if not more. She loved fashion and her closet was this oasis of color and shapes and prints and high-heeled shoes that I was dying to wear, and it was all in a walk in closet that I had no access to. So I think that that also peaked my interest, like when you can’t get in somewhere. I remember it was like Ali Baba’s cave! There was jewelry, and there were colors, and there were clothes, and heels, and all you want to do is go in
there.’ All in all Cassandra got a great interview from Nina and thanked her for her time and advice/answers. With all that information Nina has given her, Cassandra knows what to do to be able to work for E TV. Become an intern for as many places she can and go to school for journalism and fashion.
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