One of the first things I did throughout October was help set up half of the scoop for the AW25 styling day meetings, I laid out all the accessories on a table to the side, placed all the footwear together at one end of the scoop, moved the rails we needed to behind the tables where the people involved in the meeting were going to sit and helped prep the styling decks where needed. The two meetings were spread across two days, the first one being for womenswear and second for menswear.  The stylists would present several different looks at a time and when everyone decided they were happy for the look to be used for campaign I would use the camera that had been set up to take a reference photo which I would then export to a specific folder, which I could access to be able to upload the image to the styling deck. I would then type the codes next to each image so we would know which samples were used.

When I was assisting with the womenswear meeting, I couldn’t find the codes for a couple of the bags, so I took photos of them instead and added them to the deck, I also helped clear the fitting area and hung the samples back on the right rails as they were organised into collections. To prepare for the menswear meeting the next day I helped tidy the scoop by putting all the women’s accessories and footwear into boxes and moving them to one side and then gathering the shoes and accessories for menswear into the same places as we had these things for the womenswear meeting. I also swapped the rails around so that the menswear samples were next to the fitting area and moved the womenswear ones out of the way. When it came to the women’s meeting, I did the same tasks as the previous day in the menswear meeting.

Throughout this month I helped prep for ecomm multiple times and helped throughout shooting where I could by clearing the fitting area and finding missing styling pieces. I spent quite a few days creating the AW25 Pre styling decks for ecomm. I would use the sample tab for AW25 Pre to see what collections there where for both men’s and womenswear and create a deck for each one, I would then go back through the sample tab and copy each code and put them onto a slide each within each deck depending on what collection they were for. When I’d added all the codes to the decks, I would go through each one and add all the mannequin photos for every sample. On a quiet day in the studio I asked Molly the photography placement student if I could assist with working on the style shoot machine to take mannequin photos, it was interesting to see what goes into them, I had a couple goes at styling the garment on the mannequin, taking the photo and then ticking the code off on the range plan to say it had been shot.

When the van got back with all the stuff from mainline as they’d been shooting the country wear collections for AW25 up in Scotland, I went through the clothing rails and organized all the samples together, took off what was styling and put it back in the styling area and put the garment bags away as well as returning some of the wax jackets to the stock room as they used some of the classic wax jackets. When it was just samples left on the rails, I labelled them up to say they needed to be returned to Holford’s and then tidied away the dog accessories and wellies back to the props room. The following day was the women’s re-engineered mainline shoot in the studio which I helped prep for by finding odd bits like sunglasses, other accessories and footwear, I cut off all the tags off the samples so they wouldn’t been seen in the photos and then re-tagged them when they’d finished shooting. On this day Kathryn also asked me to go through the AW25 Main styling deck that they were using for mainline and add images and links to anything we used in the looks that weren’t Barbour product. 

At the end of October, I assisted with a couple more campaign shoots for AW25, I steamed and took the tags off the samples before they’d start shooting and then re-tag at the end of the day or the next day. During the women’s modern heritage shoot, I was able to work with Chris Wrench who was doing videography for the accessories. I helped to style the bags on an old wooden stool that we were using as a prop, when we’d photograph the same style of bag but in different colours or tartan, I’d make sure they were all positioned the same. The following day I got to work on a task to help Milly out with her not being there, I had to cut out several pattern pieces and then use them to cut out these patterns on different tartan and wax fabrics to be used for imagery, I laid them out in different ways and took photos of ideas of how they could look as flat lays.