Photo: Amy Troost

Ever wonder what a designer does all day? Here’s a play by play with the CFDA nominee Pamela Love, who just last night threw a Kanon Vodka-sponsored party with Dossier to celebrate the launch of her new website. Check out a day in the life of Love, as she works on her Topshop collection, noshes on nachos and still makes time for band practice.

10AM

I’m going into the office. It’s on West 29th Street in Chelsea, which has been our home for the last 2 years. We used to be just around the corner on 27th St, in a much smaller space. Now our team is spread across two floors (Production and Press/Sales) and I have so much more space to hang up moodboards and work on the new collections.

11AM

I start my day off catching up on emails and making a few phone calls, before touching base with my production team to talk about new samples. I’m currently working on samples for the SS12 collection.

1PM

After lunch (today I had my favorite Vietnamese soup), I met with a few people from Dossier for a video interview to discuss my design process and my favorite artists and designers.

2PM

I grab a much-needed green tea latte at the Ace Hotel before a super-busy afternoon of meetings with my team. There are so many exciting things happening with the label at the moment: the Topshop collaboration is dropping in stores soon and we have other fun projects coming up.

2:45pm

My friend Paris, the designer for the jewelry line Abraxas Rex, stops by as I am running super late to an appointment to show me some short films he has been working on, so I watched the videos on his iPad while walking down the street. Not the ideal way to see them, but I was glad I was able to!

4 PM

Today I got to have a bit of fun with David at Southpaw, an amazing vintage archive in Chelsea, looking for references. I could spend hours there!

5 PM

Back again at the office to go over some things with my production manager.

6PM

Finishing the AW11 look book with my graphic designer. Can’t wait for it to be out and about, it’s one of my favorites so far.

7PM

Nachos from LA Burrito. Mmmm.

8PM

BAND PRACTICE!

11PM

Wild Yaks play at Union Pool! They are my favorite band right now.