4 more days

AND I COMPLETED AND SURVIVED THE BEHEMOTH INTERNSHIP!
OH MY GOD!
THIS DESERVES A CELEBRATION.

OGMGOMGOMMOGOMG I GOT THE GQ INTERNSHIP!

OGMOGMOMGOMGOMGM I GOT THE GQ INTERNSHIP! IM LITERALLY  SCREAMING IN MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW I REALLY THOUGHT I WOULDN'T GET IT BECAUSE THE COMPETITION SEEMED TOUGH AND THEY INTERVIEWED A SHITLOAD OF PEOPLE FOR LIKE 4-5 SPOTS AND IM SERIOUSLY DYING. ABSOLUTELY DYING! IM SO EXCITEDDDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH


Now that you guys know where I previously interned, and where I will be interning in a few weeks, the only thing thats missing is... where am I interning at now? hmmmm......

[IMAGE VIA THEFASHIONSPOT]

forty outfits.

SO. If you have been FOLLOWING ME ON TWITTER  you would know that I had a interview ( well two ) at GQ Magazine for my third internship. YES I like to plan ahead, and this weekend at work (Macys Herald Square, Lacoste Section) I've been thinking of this idea to wear 40 OUTFITS to GQ. I'm sick of being the workhorse intern and slaving going on runs from Earth to Pluto while the other interns get to sit and look pretty. SO. Being that GQ seems really selective with their internship process and they get more responsibilities, which would essentially mean less runs and more office time, why not spend a ridiculous amount of money to look really nice. Even though this is TOTALLY bad being that I'm saving up so I can move to the city in November-December.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

So my plan is to have 40 outfits. Probably just 40 shirts + 3 jackets. As I told a friend today, "I'm trying to outdo Emily Weiss" LOL. Well here's some ideas that I saw around the store and a few other stores, I'll keep you updated on how well my 40 outfit plan goes, even though 40 outfits and my wallet are in very much disagreement right now.

  HI.     IM.

WARREN.    WRIGHT.

AND.

IM A CRAZY GOOD FASHION INTERN THAT EATS WEAK INTERNS FOR BREAKFAST, SNACKS ON RETURNS FOR LUNCH, AND DEVOURS JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR DINNER!

Period. So watch it.

[images via Forever21, Ralph Lauren, Urban Outfitters, Macys]

rant.

-S O0O0O0O0O0O0O I'm learning SO much at my internship right now. I feel like I'm really growing as a more knowledgeable person in the industry and I feel this is the right place for me. Aside from the 13 hour long attempted suicide I call a work day here LOL.

- WOWOWOOWOWOWOWO Anne Christensen at Glamour! Excitingggg. I'm really interested to see all this "extended" fashion coverage Cindi is talking about.

-Just saw the Interview August cover, looks great. I love the close up shot of Marion, and the stroke of red across the page.

- REBECCA MINKOFF NOW HAS MENS ACCESSORIES UNDER THE NAME OF BEN MINKOFF! WOOOOOOOO. Check em out on www.minkette.com

ran.t.

- VERY VERY VERY HUGE changes are happening in my life right now. SO as a result, I'm minimizing my internship days from monday-friday to only monday and tuesday. I can't really give you guys the details on these changes, but it is definitely going in a positive direction. I just have to finish this summer here if i want any sort of acceptable future in this industry.


-FASHION WEEK FASHION WEEK FASHION WEEK, thats all im thinking about september needs to come faster ( or more like august for all the early invitations). I'm trying to double the amount of show coverage from last season, which would be around somewhere in the 40's to 60's but im sure we can do it!

-STILL unemployed, still trying to get a job, and I will not freelance. =P or maybe.

-STEFANO Tonchi has fired so many people from W, I am really wondering how the magazine is going to look on his debut issue. Allegedly staffers are loving what hes doing, so its gotta be good.

-CONGRATS TO SALLY SINGER! Even thought I have NEVER picked up the T magazine before, I bet she will do a great job over there.

first day. 2nd day.

  This internship is VERY different from my last. The responsibilities that I'm given definitely impact the magazine greater if errors are found. Im constantly under pressure being that were more around the senior staff than usual. I kinda liked Glamour because the interns were all in the closet while the  senior staff were away from us. Its very intimidating, especially for me, because I like to make a good impression, but its hard trying to be MR.PERFECTCORDIALAMAZINGINTERN every second. It's almost like your walking on a room full of eggshells. Today I literally had to step out into the hallway and breathe for a second and drink some water. It really is a surreal environment. On top of this all, I have a interview to do a 2nd internship with the managing team, so thats exciting, but I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED MY FIRST WEEK !! Crazy right? The hours are definitely longer, but that doesn't really effect me that much as the environment. Aside from it all, its a great opportunity, and I plan on completing this just as successfully as my last internship.

omg.

ohshitohshitohshit.
0.o

JUNE 7TH.

A LOT OF THINGS ARE GOING ON JUNE 7TH.


-OSCAR RESORT SHOW (MAKE SURE YOUR FOLLOWING MY TWITTER BECAUSE ILL BE TWEETING LIVE FROM THE SHOW)
-CFDA AWARDS.
-THE PRESENTATION OF ALEXANDER MCQUEENS F.W. 2010 COLLECTION IN ITS ENTIRETY (SOOOO EXCITING!)
and last but not least
-THE DAY BEFORE I START MY INTERNSHIP!
I won't be blogging that day, but I will try and tweet as much as I can so make sure your following me! After my first day I'll have a nice lengthy post =D

a statement from the faindent.

right now fashion is boring. dead. this time of the year, even though we wait for the fall couture shows , were drowned by resort and menswear, the more boring of collections. no fashion week, no fashion parties, just wearability and other boring crap. right now theres nothing really exciting going on. sooooooooooo
JUST SAYIN.


I START AT MY INTERNSHIP NEXT TUESDAY! WOOOOOOO!

so....

I am here in my room. ITS BLAZING outside, and im doing my laundry. i start at the new internship next tuesday, and im deciding, WHAT SHOULD I WEAR ON MY FIRST DAY!
any thoughts?
leave em as comments.

trash and gala.

  Saw this on Jak and Jill, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING LOL. TOTALLY gonna rock one.

Anyway Met Ball was BORING. BORING BORING BORING. The gowns people wore didn't even really match the theme, with the exception of maybe Oprah who wore a ODLR gown in a similar color and style to the one she wore when she was on Vogue's cover back in the 90's. The only celeb whos dress I really liked was Katy Perry.  And kudos to Alexa Chung for switching it up. Aside from that, it was all a big yawn. Anway, it's May, the semester is ending, and my internship is starting next month. It's getting hotter, and I'm nervous as fck but really excited. I can't even tweet that much while on the internship, but when I do, its something good, so make sure that your following my TWITTER. 3 FULL MONTHS THIS TIME! HERE WE GOOOOOO0O0O.

P.S. READ  THIS AMAZING ARTICLE ABOUT ME ON PAPER MAGAZINE BY THE AWESOME PETER DAVIS!

[images via getty]

hmm intern coordinators...

NY Times, April 2, 2010
Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal, Officials Say

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor.
Convinced that many unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws, officials in Oregon, California and other states have begun investigations and fined employers. Last year, M. Patricia Smith, then New York’s labor commissioner, ordered investigations into several firms’ internships. Now, as the federal Labor Department’s top law enforcement official, she and the wage and hour division are stepping up enforcement nationwide.
Many regulators say that violations are widespread, but that it is unusually hard to mount a major enforcement effort because interns are often afraid to file complaints. Many fear they will become known as troublemakers in their chosen field, endangering their chances with a potential future employer.
The Labor Department says it is cracking down on firms that fail to pay interns properly and expanding efforts to educate companies, colleges and students on the law regarding internships.
“If you’re a for-profit employer or you want to pursue an internship with a for-profit employer, there aren’t going to be many circumstances where you can have an internship and not be paid and still be in compliance with the law,” said Nancy J. Leppink, the acting director of the department’s wage and hour division.
Ms. Leppink said many employers failed to pay even though their internships did not comply with the six federal legal criteria that must be satisfied for internships to be unpaid. Among those criteria are that the internship should be similar to the training given in a vocational school or academic institution, that the intern does not displace regular paid workers and that the employer “derives no immediate advantage” from the intern’s activities — in other words, it’s largely a benevolent contribution to the intern.
No one keeps official count of how many paid and unpaid internships there are, but Lance Choy, director of the Career Development Center at Stanford University, sees definitive evidence that the number of unpaid internships is mushrooming — fueled by employers’ desire to hold down costs and students’ eagerness to gain experience for their résumés. Employers posted 643 unpaid internships on Stanford’s job board this academic year, more than triple the 174 posted two years ago.
In 2008, the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that 83 percent of graduating students had held internships, up from 9 percent in 1992. This means hundreds of thousands of students hold internships each year; some experts estimate that one-fourth to one-half are unpaid.
In California, officials have issued guidance letters advising employers whether they are breaking the law, while Oregon regulators have unearthed numerous abuses.
“We’ve had cases where unpaid interns really were displacing workers and where they weren’t being supervised in an educational capacity,” said Bob Estabrook, spokesman for Oregon’s labor department. His department recently handled complaints involving two individuals at a solar panel company who received $3,350 in back pay after claiming that they were wrongly treated as unpaid interns.
Many students said they had held internships that involved noneducational menial work. To be sure, many internships involve some unskilled work, but when the jobs are mostly drudgery, regulators say, it is clearly illegal not to pay interns.
One Ivy League student said she spent an unpaid three-month internship at a magazine packaging and shipping 20 or 40 apparel samples a day back to fashion houses that had provided them for photo shoots.
At Little Airplane, a Manhattan children’s film company, an N.Y.U. student who hoped to work in animation during her unpaid internship said she was instead assigned to the facilities department and ordered to wipe the door handles each day to minimize the spread of swine flu.
Tone Thyne, a senior producer at Little Airplane, said its internships were usually highly educational and often led to good jobs.
Concerned about the effect on their future job prospects, some unpaid interns declined to give their names or to name their employers when they described their experiences in interviews.
While many colleges are accepting more moderate- and low-income students to increase economic mobility, many students and administrators complain that the growth in unpaid internships undercuts that effort by favoring well-to-do and well-connected students, speeding their climb up the career ladder.
Many less affluent students say they cannot afford to spend their summers at unpaid internships, and in any case, they often do not have an uncle or familygolf buddy who can connect them to a prestigious internship.
Brittany Berckes, an Amherst senior who interned at a cable news station that she declined to identify, said her parents were not delighted that she worked a summer unpaid.
“Some of my friends can’t take these internships and spend a summer without making any money because they have to help pay for their own tuition or help their families with finances,” she said. “That makes them less competitive candidates for jobs after graduation.”
Of course, many internships — paid or unpaid — serve as valuable steppingstones that help young people land future jobs. “Internships have become the gateway into the white-collar work force,” said Ross Perlin, a Stanford graduate and onetime unpaid intern who is writing a book on the subject. “Employers increasingly want experience for entry-level jobs, and many students see the only way to get that is through unpaid internships.”
Trudy Steinfeld, director of N.Y.U.’s Office of Career Services, said she increasingly had to ride herd on employers to make sure their unpaid internships were educational. She recently confronted a midsize law firm that promised one student an educational $10-an-hour internship. The student complained that the firm was not paying him and was requiring him to make coffee and sweep out bathrooms.
Ms. Steinfeld said some industries, most notably film, were known for unpaid internships, but she said other industries were embracing the practice, seeing its advantages.
“A few famous banks have called and said, ‘We’d like to do this,’ ” Ms. Steinfeld said. “I said, ‘No way. You will not list on this campus.’ ”
Dana John, an N.Y.U. senior, spent an unpaid summer at a company that books musical talent, spending much of her days photocopying, filing and responding to routine e-mail messages for her boss.
“It would have been nice to be paid, but at this point, it’s so expected of me to do this for free,” she said. “If you want to be in the music industry that’s the way it works. If you want to get your foot in the door somehow, this is the easiest way to do it. You suck it up.”
The rules for unpaid interns are less strict for non-profit groups like charities because people are allowed to do volunteer work for non-profits.
California and some other states require that interns receive college credit as a condition of being unpaid. But federal regulators say that receiving college credit does not necessarily free companies from paying interns, especially when the internship involves little training and mainly benefits the employer.
Many employers say the Labor Department’s six criteria need updating because they are based on a Supreme Court decision from 1947, when many apprenticeships were for blue-collar production work.
Camille A. Olson, a lawyer based in Chicago who represents many employers, said: “One criterion that is hard to meet and needs updating is that the intern not perform any work to the immediate advantage of the employer. In my experience, many employers agreed to hire interns because there is very strong mutual advantage to both the worker and the employer. There should be a mutual benefit test.”
Kathyrn Edwards, a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute and co-author of a new study on internships, told of a female intern who brought a sexual harassment complaint that was dismissed because the intern was not an employee.
“A serious problem surrounding unpaid interns is they are often not considered employees and therefore are not protected by employment discrimination laws,” she said. 




I feel very indifferent towards this. Mainly because thats just how it is. I'm totally suffering this summer interning unpaid for nothing 5 days a week, but I guess I have to hold onto this random hope that in a few years it will all be worth it, when in actuality, I live in the fu*king now, so I guess internships pay you in false hope. Or for the few, true hope.

68.

68 days until I start my internship at the bible.

fun fact.

Jim Nelson was 30 when he started his first internship at Harpers Magazine. Now he's Editor In Chief of GQ Magazine.

THE BIG REVEAL

Yes, when I first started this blog this is where I was interning. Glamour magazine. It's really funny because I actually checked in that shirt that V.B, is wearing on the cover. I was there from December 15th till the last week of January and it was awesome. I'm also starting to list all my internships on the "my resume" side of the page so keep updated. I can't reveal what my summer internship is until september, so until then, just stay updated!

[image via Image.com]

internship listings

   It's funny how when you read internship listings, your actually reading certian things that previous interns have done, or mistakes made, that the staff is trying to prevent. Heres some examples.

  WWD Mens Fashion Internship - "We are looking for someone who is extremely organized, motivated,
and loves clothes. You will be around clothes all day long so you must have
a strong interest in it."

A intern with no interest in clothes? WTF

Life & Style  Fashion Internship - "Life & Style Weekly is located in Englewood Cliffs, NJ — just a hop, skip and a jump (by public transportation) across the George Washington Bridge."

Someone was late!

Teen Vogue Accessories Internship - "A genuine passion, interest and knowledge of jewelry is crucial."

Someone was looking over at the fashion interns!

PAY ATTENTION TO THINGS LIKE THIS WHEN LOOKING AT LISTINGSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

intern tip #2- PRONUNCIATION!

   Another internship tip is to PRONOUNCE BRANDS CORRECTLY! At one of my internships, we were showing samples to a very important editor, and one of the interns mispronounced Givenchy (gee-ven-chy). INCORRECT! The editor chuckled and gave a death stare at the intern, and I felt so bad for him. Brand pronounciation is just simple fashion common sense. Heres a list of the pronounciation of most brands.


Givenchy ( he-van-she)

Dior ( de-or)

Chanel ( sha-nel)

Hermes (air-mes)

Prada (pra-dah)

Balmain (bal-man)

Balenciaga (ba-len-ci-a-ga)

intern tip #1- take it like a bitch.

  What I've learned from interning at one of the top fashion magazines this past winter, and preparing to intern at the "bible" this upcoming summer, is that when your supervisor "breathes fire"

PSA***** PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ******PSA

Breathes fire (brea'thes fi'or) : 1. To act out in monstrous rage.
2. To revolt to injustice.
3. To penalize severely for wrong actions
4. To breathe heavily, and talk to ones self while actually meaning to talk to someone else.

  You need to take it like a BITCH. What most interns don't realize is that when we fuck up, we don't get the blame, our supervisors do. Now if you put yourself in their place, I would be dammed to have some random person who doesn't even work here increase my chances of getting fired. Maybe people who work in the industry don't want to say it, but interns are the bitches and sweatshop workers of the companies they intern at, and I'm totally fine with that. I realize that thats what you sign up for, and since I go to my internship every day as if its war with my supervisor who can throw the most spontaneous or craziest task ever and expect to deliver ( which I do, with the food still hot and without need of a tip) I know that working your way up isn't the easiest thing. But others don't quite catch onto that concept as I do.  The last thing you want to do is talk back. One intern from my past internship did that, and while the great debate was going on, I said to myself, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING SHE IS QUEEN OF THE INTERN CASTLE!!!!!" Thankfully, the interns at Peoples Revolution know how to react to fire breathing at its best, Kelly Cutrone ( who I, btw bumped into one day at my previous internship when I had to run out to Peoples Revolution one night ).




       So when the Art Director, fashion assistant, CEO, fashion director, Market Editor, Senior Sittings Editor, Creative Director, Editor- In- Cheif, Accountant Executive, Editor, Designer, Contributing Editor, Culture Editor, Beauty Director, Bookings Editor, Associate Fashion Editor, Design Director,Style Director or Editor at Large decides to breathe fire, TAKE IT LIKE A BITCH! IT WILL BE WORTH IT IN THE LONG RUN!

P.S. - for my fellow interns, don't worry, we will eventually take the above positions and breathe fire too. =)

boot camp.

    So, its official. I will be interning this summer at ANOTHER top fashion magazine in the Conde Nast Building. I feel honored to work with such a prestigious magazine, and you will once again experience the life of a fashion intern in NYC. This internship is going to be intense, ill be working at this magazine for 3 months instead of 1 1/2th, 5 days a week from 8AM to whenever its time to leave. Yes, I just said whenever its time to leave. I know that its a big sacrifice, but there are TOO MANY people in this WORLD who would KILL to  have this internship I'm about to embark on. I'd say this is the ultimate internship of all internships. I'm literally sacrificing a summer for this, so it HAS to be worth it when its all said and done.  I'll be there for a total of 93 days, in the heat, going on runs, checking in samples, and doing anything else the staff needs of me.  Stay tuned.

AND PRAY FOR ME!!!!! LOL

internship moves.

   So my internship is almost over, and I'm currently thinking about my future options. This spring semester I'm not interning, so I will be at FIT telling you guys about all the craziness. My ideal option is a paid summer internship for a fashion magazine. Bigger than the one I'm at now. Don't worry guys, I'll reveal what magazine it was when I'm done with it. Since a family friend has told me her friend is interning at Italian Vogue, maybe that could be an option? Or, since I'm already kinda sorta on friendly terms with the Art Director at W, a internship there? I'm not sure whether I want to continue into fashion internships or delve into art internships. Since I really want the 3 fashion to 2 art internships, most likely whatever comes this summer will be a fashion internship. Before my current internship I had no internship experience and I worked at a few shows. Now I've got this magazine, and I'm reporting many shows this season instead of just working backstage, so hopefully that will look impressive for a 18 year old. haha.

What do you guys think? Any suggestions of where I should intern next?