Junior Brenna Clementz walks into the studio and immediately gets started. She’s the head intern at Ola Style for and she has a lot to get done at the fashion show today. Brenna makes herself busy by laying out clothes. Next, she grabs an airbrush and calls a model. As she applies the tribal design to the model’s face, she thinks back to the beginning of summer. She never thought that sharing her
dream with a designer, countless phone calls, and a love for fashion would get
her here.

“I just saw an opportunity,” Brenna said. “She told me she was looking for an intern and I said I loved fashion and everything about it.” At Ola Style, Brenna holds a lot of responsibility. Her jobs range from going on coffee runs to proposing concepts for the lookbook, also working with companies like Macy’s and Nordstrom. Fashion Designer Ola Hawatmeh and her personal assistant Logan Griesemer say that Brenna is important to the company and helps keep them focused.

“She’s a great employee,” Griesemer said. “She’s highly motivated. Brenna shows initiative, which we like here, and is always wanting to do a good job. We’ve given her a lot more creative freedom than we have any other intern.”
To some, Brenna’s level of maturity is surprising. The job she has normally goes out to college students, so she works above what’s expected from her age. Brenna is the first high school student to be hired as an intern for Ola Style.

“She has a passion for fashion and is attentive,” Hawatmeh said. “She follows directions well and takes leadership upon herself.”

Brenna believes that this internship is the beginning of a future in fashion. Hawatmeh and Griesemer agree that Brenna has a good chance of success in the
industry.

“It’s a good way to get my foot in the door,” Brenna said. “I just hope something
of a career comes out of it.