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Moving To Brooklyn, Fashion Design Job Hunting, and Returning to Parsons

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In this video, I discuss my experience in moving to Brooklyn and pursuing a fashion design career, what it’s like apartment and job hunting, and my return to studying at Parsons following my certification from the Parsons X Teen Vogue Fashion Industry Essentials program, for which I was the Ambassador, as well as two certifications I’ve earned since then in Industrial Sewing and Fashion Design.

What’s it like moving to Brooklyn?

  1. Scary: crime, crazy people, etc.
  2. Exciting: job opportunity, lots to do.
  3. Noisy: people just scream here- in conversation, on their phones…yelling at the bus at 4am!
  4. Difficult: it’s hard to find an apartment, you need crazy credit scores and proof of income.
  5. A Culture Shock: it’s highly populated, it’s so urban and it takes getting used to- I can only compare it to living in South Beach.
  6. Dirty- rats, garbage in streets- it’s what you’ve heard and expected.
  7. Commuting and Traveling: Accessibility to the subway makes getting nearly everywhere easy, but parking and driving are rather difficult- there are double parked cars everywhere, and NY’ers arent the exert drivers they claim to be. Someone decided it was a genius idea to devote half of the lanes in the city to buses, parking tickets are unreasonably expensive…
  8. It’s full of trees, parks, wide open spaces in comparison to Manhattan, for example, and I do think I prefer it to living on a block of scyscrapers.

Pursuing My Dream Job: A Career in Fashion Design in New York City

I got job interviews my very first week here- so it’s definitely more promising than any place I’ve lived, and that makes sense given it’s the fashion capital of the world. I will say that people are still trying to pay you nothing with no benefits and that’s crazy considering the cost of living in NYC. Ah…corporate greed and the state of capitalism in the US.

I’m returning to Parsons aka The New School for night classes in technical design, just to round out my technical competency in pattern drafting, which I can do but want a proper education in it. i know how to draft a sleeve, bodice, pants, etc., but being self-taught everything I know is from books and the internet, not a professor!

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Perry Uwanawich is an American fashion designer and illustrator- AuricWear.com; fashion, beauty, and lifestyle blogger at Subversive.Style; and Spirituality Lifestyle Blogger at TheGypsyMystic.com. Perry has a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from The Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, two certifications in Fashion Design and Industrial Sewing, and has a background in graphic design, marketing, journalism, and fashion design. Perry Uwanawich launched two fashion collections, the first called Deity Greek Wear, while enrolled full-time in college, and the second in 2020 called Auric Wear available at AuricWear.com and on Etsy. While pursuing a Certification in Fashion Design, Marketing, Public Relations, and Photography, he became the Parsons Teen Vogue Ambassador and created multimedia content which was included in the course. He completed another Certification in Industrial Sewing and was placed as an Industrial Sewing Machine Operator in a Rhode Island mill, working in production sewing for Military, Bags, and Medical Health industries. Perry Uwanawich has worked in retail, acted as a graphic designer for multiple brands creating graphic prints for screenprinted garments. His marketing experience spans several industries from Fashion to Media, Medical Billing to the Medical Field- he's created graphics, logos, digital and print media assets, designed and managed websites (HTML, XHTML, CSS, WordPress…), managed social media accounts, and created marketing campaigns and ad campaigns which drove significant traffic in the local and national markets for respective industries. He has experience with photo and video editing, re-touching, motion graphics, and also worked as a freelance makeup artist working in Beauty as well as SFX makeup.

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