The past three weeks I have been spending my summer in NYC interning with the Visual team at Club Monaco. My internship consists of concepting each month’s new clothing line in the corporate showroom (this week we worked with the February 2011 collection) and also flipping flagship stores every three weeks. During “flip” we create the visual atmosphere with each month’s collection in two Club Monaco stores that is then signed off by the corporate merchants and finally the CEO, John Mehas. I have been involved with the process once already and will be doing it for the second time next week for the brand new July collection. I was not expecting as much manual labor as I participate in but now fully appreciate the essence of wonderful NY windows and stores and their over-the-top visual techniques.
In my personal life, I have already met with the CEO of Collective Brands, Matt Rubel, spent a day at Long Beach, agreed to participate in market week for Avon cosmetics with the PR department and spent multiple nights out on the town with my fellow UA interns and students!
