Archive for April, 2012

April 18th, 2012

Internship opportunities with Alice

internship at what alice found

Here at What Alice Found we have part time internships available. We offer a three or six month placement at our vintage boutique.

The internship

We always need extra hands and we want to help you too – a placement here is flexible and fun! We can give you training in the following areas: Fashion retailing, visual merchandising, styling, website retail, PR and marketing.

If you are studying, or looking to gain experience in any of these areas for references or a portfolio, we want to hear from you! The internship is unpaid, but we will cover your lunches and travel expenses if you do events with us. We can give you references and portfolio examples from both the retail boutique and with our online boutique too, a wide spectrum for your cv.

Dependent on the applicants we meet – we may offer two people an internship each, and split the areas in to more defined roles such as 1) fashion retail and customer service  and 2) web, pr, marketing. Tell us what you interested in and we will do our best to accommodate!

Who we are looking for

A vintage fashion enthusiast, who is reliable and happy to try their hand at a variety of different tasks. Knowledge of vintage eras and designs is desirable. Marketing and pr gurus who want to oversee events and promotions for two brands under one roof. The placement will be 1 day a week , or split over two half days, and the odd weekend for events.

Example tasks

Designing and distributing flyers, modelling for our ASOS boutique, assisting on photo shoots, overseeing online orders and posting out, generating custom and marketing online, social media, html newsletters, creating window displays, assisting at events….. the list goes on!

No two days are the same here in this shop, and we are a friendly bunch, so feel free to call us on 01202 929531 for a chat about internships, or drop us an email with your CV and a covering letter to info@whatalicefound.co.uk

 

Thanks xx

 

(image via pinterest – because im obsessed with colour coding…)

April 12th, 2012

What a mad party!

Vintage Birthday party 1

Phew! We have just about cleared up all the cake sprinkles in the shop (they get everywhere, you know) from our wonderful one year birthday party in the boutique on Saturday.

Vintage Birthday party 1

Literally HUNDREDS of locals, friends and customers showed up to support us and our new vintage menswear company IKKONIK, do some vintage shopping, meet Vintage Dorset event stylists and enjoy free cake! Our party spilled out onto the streets and a great time was had by all….

Vintage Birthday party 1

BIG thank you if you came, BIG sorry to the traffic jams we caused with pretty girls in vintage dresses – with their hair done by the fabulous Vintage Hair Lounge pop up salon on the day.

You can see all the official photos from the day on our facebook page album.

Vintage Birthday party 1

We had a lovely blog write up by ‘Dorothy Does‘ and also local fashion blogger ‘Unlimited by JK‘ with some lovely photos.

Below is a short video looking back to our past year in this wonderful little boutique, featuring an original song written and performed exclusively for What Alice Found by our friend and model Rachel. ‘Aint she amazing!?