Internship at Acne Studios

Hi all

I'm Myle and I'm doing my internship at Acne Studios. I am at Fabrics, Trims and Prints department and working as an assistant to the trims developer. For you who doesn't know what trims are, it's all the details in a garment like buttons and zippers.

What I do most days is sourcing for trims accordingly to the designers request, it can be all from finding the right shape of a horn button or right finish of a zipper to a jacket. The trim developer (my boss) also develops special trims according to the designers request, so they are special made only for Acne Studios. It may seem easy sourcing for trims like buttons and zippers, but it is the same for sourcing for fabric and finding the right fabric for the designers. We work towards men's wear and women's wear so we always working with at least two collections at the same time.

We are finishing up Men's wear SS16 Wardrobe collection, and starting with launching the trims for Men's wear SS15 Looks Collection. That means that we send our request and orders to the suppliers that we are working with so they can produce trims for sample's to be made. This always includes the product developer and the production since they are the one's that's going to place the final orders of everything to be produced. After the sample's being made and are in house, that's when the designers chose wether they want to proceed with the specifik black horn button or if they want to change into a brown horn button. We are alos finishing the Women's wear Pre SS16 collection, with the same process.

So, briefly, this is what I do during my days from 9 am to 8 pm at Acne Studios.

Cheers,
Myle