As I reveal my experience with Olivia Black, I decide to have an interview with my colleague Faith Gwasira to have different view of point during the experience by working together. Faith Gwasira is a 3rd year fashion and textiles student, her internship with Olivia Black gains new skills. As I sat down with her to discuss her journey, no matter how many challenges she went through, she continues with astute look and encouragement along the way. She found out that Olivia was looking for interns through a friend of her and decided to work with her because as designer who is aiming on sustainability and genderless it met on her criteria when Faith will have her own brand in future.
Faith is working full time, and she is not only help us with pattern blocks and sewing, but she also works into various field such as: administration, PR, social media content and reaching people for collaborations. However, she mentioned through her journey she felt some pressure for doing task’s correctly as is someone else’s design and does not like to waste time. Therefore, she crushed by building confidence into her skills. Moreover, Faith explains by working with me she found a supportive environment were working in a team and problem-solving are important. By working with me, she understands she will be a good leader inside a team and able to work on her communication skills as Faith gives guidance to myself when I found challenges. In additionally, she mentioned by working together we be able to help each other and even on days where I came for 1-2 hours.
Furthermore, she mentions me that she develops the skills into sizing pattern to a bigger size, adjusting garments to fit in both male and female measurements, draping garments with pattern paper before to move into the fabric, handling customer’s order, social media management and collaboration by outreach sourcing, networking and business maintenance. I asked her if she has favourite moments of us working together and she told me it was during the photoshoot. Thank for my videos and few pictures she manages to work on it for post it on Olivia Black’s Instagram profile.
Faith explains me that is a person who work by taking her time, produce her works once in a year and thank for this internship she grasps her design skills. Faith told me when it comes to takes decision in a short time is not where she exceed the most. Faith learned on how to be more aware when it come on using fabrics and patterns paper when the brand is a small business and there are challenges in financial fields.
As Faith’s journey comes to an end, is very clear that working with Olivia Black has been a growth and self-discovery. By sizing pattern blocks to leadership skills, Faith gains more confidence and clarity of what she would like to do after university. With each challenge that she overcome Faith understands the realisation of her making a statement inside the fashion industry.
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