Hi, welcome to my blog. I’m new to this and not quite sure what I’m doing. To start I’d like to tell you a bit about myself and my goals for this blog. I’m a 27 year old NY native. I currently live in Queens, NY with my boyfriend and my 1 year old Samoyed dog named Ghost. I work in the fashion industry at a social occasion dress company. I’m a coffee lover, shopaholic, and Netflix binge watcher.

For this blog I will be sharing what it’s like to work in the fashion industry, and how working is different from what you do in fashion school (I attended FIT). I will talk about my experience interning with high end designers as well as my experience in finding a full time paid job out of school. Besides fashion I will be talking about my 50 pound floofy best friend, Ghost. I’d like to talk about my experience training her, how to handle a high energy level dog and in general what being a Samoyed owner is like.

Stay tuned 🙂

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