<completed>Promise (Juliantina)

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A month later, it's their big day. Finally, the class of 2020 has graduated. Jul and Val start to work on their start-up a week after their graduation. They didn't want to waste anymore time so the few of them relocated themselves to Melbourne.
They scouted for a pop up store in the CBD of Melbourne, traffic flow is there, they just need to get their brand out there.

Next comes Ashleigh as the face of ojos del océano, she has been modelling in Sydney and Melbourne so she has pretty much a fan base to reach out to. Ashleigh tweeted out and posted a couple of photos from the shoot, fans began to bombard her social media on where to get her clothes. It was a great start and from there, they use Ashleigh's fan base to help spread their brand internationally.

Sarah did up the online store and they decided to go with free international shipping with a minimum purchase. Their aim is to reach out to the age group between 16-35 years old and so teens at a younger age group can afford and do not have to worry about the shipping fee. The cool thing is buyers get to donate their purchase amount directly to the selective few charity organisations that ojos del océano are working with at the check out so to prove that the proceeds are entirely going towards them.

They struggled at the start but Val's father managed to give everyone in the team on where to get started and slowly they all got the hang of it. Ojos Del Océano became renowned after five years, with blooming business and opening three stores based in Melbourne, Mexico City and Bueno Aires. Chloe and Ashleigh have been together for the past two years, the lovebirds are taking care of Melbourne branch, Val and Jul offered Lupe to go back to Mexico City to help them take care of the boutique over there and Val's Argentina bff volunteered for the Bueno Aires branch.

The two uprising designers settle their place in Melbourne and sometimes they will fly over to check on their respective branches. With three branches and over fifty employees working for them, it certainly speak for it. Don't underestimate yourself and start believing in you can do it.

Their brand has reached out to thousands of youths in the LGBTQ+ community, which helps to raise huge awareness towards to the community. The exposure of this awareness led to the attention of the media and they were invited to the Melbourne Fashion Week to showcase their works. Their works caught the attention of marketing executives of Dolce Gabbana and Gucci. Name cards were handed to Chloe in hoping that she will get in touch with them for a summer collaboration. Once the show is over, Chloe broke the news to them. Val and Jul couldn't be more excited, striving hard together with the team for the past 5 years, finally they have made it! Now even high fashion brands want to collaborate with them, it's another step closer to their dream of showing their works at Milan Fashion Week.

They brought their work to Milan, more partnership opportunities open up for them. As they are the young and uprising designers, lots of fashion industry want to collaborate with them and even offered to pay them for their designs if the duos don't want to collaborate with them. Chloe feels that it's a good opportunity for their brand to get more exposure to reach out to wider range of consumers. Val and Jul agreed with her, their initial proposal plan went smoothly as they thought out which was awesome and Val is touched that she finally made it to Milan. Her mom would be so proud of her as they talked about Val's dream of showcasing her work at the show before she passed on.

Even though it has been ups and downs for Val and Jul but in the end they managed to sort out their differences and work out on their relationship. Their dream of being a fashion designer came true, being the youngest entrepreneurs and have their works showcase in Milan. Things couldn't have been better for them and that's the life of Val and Jul living their dream.

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