Hello dear readers, my name is Chelsey and let me welcome you to my blogpost!
One year ago I started as an intern at So PR, yet within my time as an intern I was already offered a job. Lucky me! In the meanwhile I’ve been promoted to showroom manager, something I’m truly proud of!!
In my job I love to organize, make the showroom look as beautiful as it can be and in particulair: I <3 to work with the stylists. That’s why I call the showroom my playground!
When our clients offer their new collections, I’m the one – together with one of my colleagues who is the PR Manager of that brand – who makes a selection of the items that we are going to represent in the showroom. It’s a girl’s dreamjob, as I simply work in a fashion candy store on a daily basis. And on top I get to see all the collections at first hand….
My life motto?
Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be… your life is your own movie and you're the producer!
Yes, success is all about hard work, focus and learning… you have to sacrifice a lot and most of all love what you are doing, or what you’re learning to do.
Don't let my cuteness mislead you.... that's what they say about me here at the office. Why? Well let your imagimation flow, but you might suggest they actually mean to say: ‘looks cute but a devil insight’. I absolutely have no clue :-)
Bonjour, I am Simone Everout and today it's my turn to introduce myself. While I was still taking care of my studies(AMFI) I started to work as a part-timer at So PR. We started out back then with the five of us in a very cool, yet small showroom. And now six years later I’m still here.... Working in a huge showroom taking care of -as I like to say- the coolest brands and I meet fantastic people while working with them.
Enough about work, it’s time to give you a short and easy way impression of me. Are you ready? I sure am!
10 Things that make me smile:
1. Fashion (duh ;-))
2. Romantic home decoration
3. Funny jokes & sarcasm
4. Lovely animals
5. My best friends
6. Reading interesting books
7. Beautiful nature
8. Drinking a good glass of something
9. Having a spiritual moment once in a while
10. Relaxing and peaceful holidays
Enjoy and love life!
I hope this blog gave you some idea about me.
You’ll find more pictures and words later. Looking forward to see you again soon…
Love,
Simone
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When I walk through the So HQ I shine, that is why I call the showroom my catwalk.
While reading this statement, you might think it’s slightly shallow and yet it is totally the opposite!
Because if you take fashion too serious, you automatically shut down your creativity, curiosity and confidence. And those three C's you definitely need in the Fashion & PR industry!
So for all readers who are curious after my creativity and most importantly my curiosity, keep following me on this blog!
Work hard, play hard!
Peace & blessings,
Bradley Miles
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I think I was 6 years old when my mother introduced me to Vogue magazine.
I think I was 7 when she showed me the fashion shows on tv, which we taped on VHS video and constantly replayed them.
I think I was 8 that she asked me to go shopping with her……….
That’s what where it all started: my fascination for the fashion world.. and everything that comes with it! From designers to models, stylists, make-up artists , hair-guru’s, celebrities , the glamour and last but not least the music!
I think I was 19 when I was featured on the cover of a serious fashion magazine in the 90’s called AVENUE. That’s the reason why some people still call me Covergirl Sunny!
Public Relations in Fashion, Lifestyle and Beauty is a world I am discovering since a short while now as a Creative Brand Manager at So PR...
“Why do I always have the feeling I can completely trust you with everything?”, my friend Anna asked me the other day. I started joking, telling her that it’s all because I call her Anna in these blog posts, so at least I don’t share her every move openly with the rest of the world. She laughed, however forced me in a friendly way to take the conversation seriously. I did. Yet how could she expect me to explain this? It took a while until I managed to respond. “Well, Shirley Temple (yep, for the newbie’s amongst my readers: I give all of my friends nicknames) stated a while ago that she finds it highly unusual that I don’t judge, maybe that’s a clue.” Within seconds Anna shouted out pretty loud: “That’s it, that’s it! That makes me feel so safe!” I felt a slight shock. Is it really that exceptional?
From that point on, she couldn’t stop talking about how different that is. As everybody always tries to shuffle you up with their so called great advices, while in reality they just want to push their own opinions, ideas, wishes, demands, expectations etc. into your mind. Now what do I do differently according to Anna? We started analyzing and came up with answers that made perfect sense. Somehow I manage to listen, absorb and give advice based upon her very own thoughts. As she would say ‘I guided her to her inner voice’. And even if that inner voice would say she needs to move to Alaska, live with 3 guys, dance naked in the snow and have a whale as a pet, I – according to Anna-, would even encourage that, as long as it makes her happy. Wow, eye-opener! As I knew she was right. Now here’s where it actually struck me… Somehow along the road I had concluded, that caring & loving others means letting them completely free. Free to be who they are, free to find out what makes them happy, not what I think that would be right, good or whatever emotion involved.
Yep, this is a tricky one, I agree! Because there are two ways of doing this, yet it takes a full strip down of the ‘ego’ to do it in a genuine, honest way. Let’s be fully honest here: what is your true reason to tell someone how he or she should handle things? Advice is good, but where do we cross the border of shuffling up our opinions, even up to the point that we get upset when they don’t listen? Even worse, waiting for the perfect moment to see them make a ‘mistake’ just so we can say, “You see, I told you so!”
Now in my opinion, but please correct me if I’m wrong, it’s all about learning how to love others unconditionally. Let them make their own choices, even mistakes if you like to see it that way and don’t force them to do anything your way, unless of course they are truly harming themselves or others with ‘dangerous’ actions (such as drug/alcohol abuse and so on). As none of us have any other good reason to try to control somebody life, just because we enjoy that.
Well how do you give advises in a ‘good’ way? For me it works best to listen carefully, ask the right questions, so the friend involved can dig a bit deeper into him or herself and draw conclusions from there on. Switch off your own personal emotions and help them ‘peel off’ the layers that cover the genuine emotions attached to the subject they are dealing with. Of course you can tell them how you would do things, yet it feels so much better if you are able to leave them figure out what parts of that strategy works best for them…One thing I always do is truly put myself in the other person’s shoes and it only takes me a few minutes to conclude that I wouldn’t want to be stuffed up with talks starting with “You should”. Personally I prefer “You might want to look at this situation from this and this point…” But hey, this post wouldn’t be what it should be if I told you what to do, so it’s all up to you ;-)!
C’est tout! Promise to see you back sooner for another joy-ride, as I’ve been absent for a little to long due to busy business…More about that in the next post.
For now, remember just one more thing:
“Unconditional love for others is love without rules or regulations, it goes way beyond the ego, as it derives from the soul.”
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