Noteworthy #3
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year’s Eve with family and/or friends. I’m excited to start the new year! So far I already know that in April I will get a permanent position at the museum which means we can start to look for a house. The process of buying a house seems quite overwhelming but I’m sure it will all work out when we find our dream house. But anyway, for those of you who are taking it easy today, check out the links below while I work on my wardrobe dissection of 2015.
I recently posted a picture of one of Viktor&Rolf’s Van Gogh girls from their SS15 collection on Instagram. We’re currently showing three designs in the museum where I work and they’re even more gorgeous in real life. It’s always a bit hard to define Viktor&Rolf who’s runway shows often resemble a performance piece such as their recent Fall 2015 collection titled Wearable Art. I love how they transform the outfits into actual artworks by unfastening the works from the models and carefully hanging them on a white museum-like wall. One of the designs has already been donated to the museum. You can watch both shows here and here.
The 2012 documentary ‘In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye‘ is also a fun and entertaining watch if you haven’t seen it yet. It focuses on some of the world’s most influential fashion images as conceived by the magazine’s iconic fashion editors. The film features behind-the-scenes interviews with editors who have contributed to the magazine’s legacy, including current editor-in-chief Anna Wintour; fashion editors such as Grace Coddington and Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele (the latter is quite hysterical actually) and fashion designers such as Marc Jacobs, Alber Elbaz and Nicolas Ghesquière. You can watch it here.
Congratulations on the position! 🙂 I’m also looking into buying a house here but haven’t really started the process on actually looking for a house, talk to a mortgage advisor, etc. I’m not sure what should I do first honestly. I think turning into an adult needs to come with a manual or something so I can be prepared for things like this :p
Thanks! Definitely meet with a mortgage advisor first! So you know in what price range to look. Funda is a really good website, also in English. They let you sign up and specify what you are looking for so you get emails with houses that meet your requirements.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! I’m so excited to hear that you’ve been offered a permanent position. The house buying experience is definitely something else, but hopefully you’ll enjoy it. What a way to ring in the new year 😀
Thanks so much! I’m mostly excited about the search itself, not so much the paperwork haha. But unfortunately there’s no way around it 🙂
Congratulations on getting a permanent position! Good luck with the house-hunting process. I can’t even imagine going through that myself anytime soon, and I imagine that there must be a lot of details to think about. Sounds like 2016 is already shaping up to be an exciting year for you.
Thanks! You just moved right? So I can imagine you’re not planning on moving any time soon again, haha. Thank god for internet checklists! Those have been really helpful already because we had no idea where to start :s
Congrats Jessica! Working at a museum sounds like a dream. What kind of position do you have there and how did you get it? Maybe you could write a blog about it, I’m sure other readers would like to hear it as well! 🙂
Thanks Eve! In short, I work for the education department and part of my job is to coordinate our volunteers and guides amongst many other things. For instance, I wrote a new museum lesson for students aged 12 to 16 for our current exhibition. I have a teachers degree and studied modern and contemporary art at university.