My Fair Vintage

My Leonard Da Vinci Program

Name: Mary Vu

Date of program: 15^th November 2013 – 7^th February 2014

Destination: Brescia, Italy

During my first weekend in Brescia before my Italian Lessons started, I have explored the City Centre of Brescia to tried to understand the city better. After 2 weeks of Italian lessons I have start my internship in a local Fashion brand company call Le Piccinotti, the company is located 20 minuets away from the City center of Brescia. Le Piccinotti is a small local family run fast Fashion brand with a shop floor, office and workshop. During my first day at work I spent most of the time watching how the workplace is run and to understand the value of the company. The second days at work I started been given different tasks to completed from the staff of Le Piccinotti, since I have been busy cutting out garment pieces for the Summer collection of 2014 and helping sorted the finished garments in order. Just before started the new collection I had help the fashion team to reorganizing the Fabrics in the storing room with sampling all the fabrics, helping receiving fabric order and packing factories made garments ready to sent off to customers. I have learned more Italian, improved my Fashion skill and understand more about Fashion company values after my internship.

During my weekend off work I have visited the local Saturday market to sourcing local food product and Ski. I also visited places like Valle Camonica, Verona, Bologna, Lake Garda, Bergamo and Zurich.

During my time in Brescia the organization provide me the full support of my stay for any problem and my time in Italy I have meet many new friends and done so much different activities. This experience is one my best experience I ever had, I will recommend this programmer for other young people who is interesting in travel, work abroad and want to learn a new language.