So, how do you see yourself contributing to Will & Well?

“Um…writing blog posts?” *smiles awkwardly*

Other things were said at my first meeting with Elisa, but it seems rather fitting to end my 3-month long internship stint at Will & Well with a task to – you guessed it – write a blog post.

This pandemic is a wild time for a young person with barely any working experience to be an intern. And it was just as much a learning process for us as we never had an intern on board. Thankfully, our first 3 interns embodied the spirit of Will & Well and more than just interns, they became valued members of the team.

You Pin started learning to sew at a young age of 12 because it was a skill her father had deemed necessary and suitable for women to learn. Struggling between her father’s demands and exploring her own passions through her youth, You Pin ultimately told us that she was thankful that her father had made her learn to sew.

Adaptable, our latest collection, didn’t start with anything lofty like a designer’s vision. It began with our weekly practice of adapting to the people we meet. This collection is our love letter to the unyielding spirit of the clients we have met on our journey so far.

"You like the smell of toilet, is it?" people would ask Melody, our co-designer for our recent capsule collection: Leave UV. To produce the UV collection, we had to move the working table into the toilet as it was the most convenient place to work on the prints and wash the silkscreens.

Shooting for Will & Well was quite an interesting experience as the photoshoot at Botanic Gardens was my first time working with the elderly and talents who were physically challenged. 

Preparation is half the battle won. Unless in the next half of the battle you’re pitted against Murphy's Law on steroids. Then, everything that can go wrong will go wrong and everything that cannot go wrong will also go wrong.