STORAGE + SAMPLES + SPACE

Back in November, a colleague and I spent the day out of the office sorting through the Zoë Jordan studios storage unit. The reason for going was to organise what we wanted to sell, keep and bin. Most of the unit was filled with boxes of archives dating back to collections in 2009. One of my continuous jobs on my internship, has been ensuring that the studio is tidy, which means having to declutter, sell and make space for future collections. It makes it simpler for everyone on the team to know that everything has a home and it isn't crammed in. One of the tasks I was asked to do was to make sure the showroom had an area which could be used to take photos for social media. This is the end result:

Showroom Image - Ali Wylie

We made the storage unit much more accessible and easier for us to identify what is what, using an excel sheet which we had pre-planned. It may seem rather OCD to have an excel sheet for a storage unit, but it made the day go so much quicker by labelling every product using their storage codes and knowing what that number was. This was extremely handy when organising the

storage unit company to deliver the sample boxes to the studio.

Zoë Jordan Storage Unit - Image - Ali Wylie

On the 11th December, Zoë Jordan products were in a sample sale for In+addition. A few weeks before the event and after visiting the storage unit, we organised for all the boxes of clothes to be delivered to the studio. This has allowed us to sort through what products we wanted to be sold at the sample sale and for future events.

In+Addition Sample Sale Poster

For the event, we had a limit for how many products we could send and we sent around 140 pieces. Every item had to be sorted to decide how much it would be sold for, depending on what will be most popular for the customer. I took photos of the products which I thought could sell the most and sent to Zoë, for her to give me a price for certain products. The clothes were split into £20, £50, £70, £90 and then the rest were labelled separately, as they were of higher quality.

We have more sample sales planned for the beginning of the year, so I will be doing a similar process for each. In the future, this pricing procedure will help me to determine how much I could sell my products for. So far I have had a great insight as a fashion intern, into how pricing is made depending on production and quality.

Ali xox