Flashbacks part 2

Besides constant money issues I happily graduated and obtained MSc in Fashion Management. My thesis completed in luxury consumption in China made me fall in love with Chinese culture and luxury goods even more. Full of faith for better tomorrow I have started to look for first work experience in fashion. It would seem that for a person with such broad international experience ( I've been living abroad 4 times already) it will be so easy. Well, not in this industry. I have been sending millions of applications to different countries, mainly to France to get at least an internship. My determination reached desperation. I've been sending like 10 up to 20 applications per day for couples of months to whatever company in fashion and I didn't hear from any of them. I have applied million times to magazines and companies in my home country asking for unpaid internship, and guess what nobody give a fuck to answer. Basically, fashion very often is not about the skills, but about the connections, unless you are second Alexander McQueen. Realise how happy I have been when one of the most recognized international magazine called me and asked whether I can start a month internship with them, of course unpaid as everything in fashion.  I was jumping to the ceiling from the happiness. It took me one day to pack my stuff and move  to the capital of my country. I have few friends there so I stayed with one of them at the beginning. Everything looks good you may say, well not really.  Working in fashion you can never be certain of tomorrow....

Flashbacks

As I mentioned in the previous post I have Master degree in Fashion Management. It wasn't that easy to obtain this degree in my case, because of unfavorable financial situation. During my last year of bachelors studies I have decided to follow my dream and true passion and study fashion. Encouraged by glamour of fashion business I decided to apply for Fashion Management studies abroad, specifically in Sweden. Why Sweden you may ask?! Nordic countries have very good level of education, innovative learning methods, offer Master programmes in English and if you come from EU countries totally for free. However, cost of living in those countries is pretty much more than you would have expected. I am in nature very brave girl and trying to live with a motto "who don't risk, don't drink champagne" I decided to give it a shot. However, studying in Sweden with almost empty wallet, turned out to be not that easy in practice. I loved my university and people from the very beginning. Lectures and classes have been very creative and business-oriented at the same time. However, money issues have been killing me from the start. The city where I studied has been very small, and as non-Swedish speaker I couldn't find any job. I still remember travellling from home country with 16kg of food in my luggages just to be able to survive another month. My parents minimal wages workers weren't really able to help me, especially that conversion of my national currency into Swedish one has been very cruel. In the end I had to borrow money from my friend and take a bank loan, which allowed me to finish my studies. To write my thesis I moved back home, to avoid additional expenses. And it is like almost one year passing and I am still in debts and still with my fashion dreams....

Just to start...

Hi guys,

In a nutshell, I am 25 years old graduate in Fashion Management who tries to find her place in the fashion industry. It's not going to be another fashion blog. I am not aiming to post any photos related to my personal style here, either co-operate with any fashion brands. I just want to share with you my story. Story about a girl who has pretty dreams about succeeding in not that pretty fashion industry. As the title of my blog suggests, find what you love and let it kill you...