Fashion on the brain

Pardon the late post. It’s actually been hot and sunny in London—a rare occurrence—so I’ve been out enjoying the weather.

I arrived here on Friday night. Luckily my internship was completely fine with me taking a week off. I typically intern three days each week. So, in anticipation of the week I was to miss, I worked five days two weeks ago, and four days last week. I will have two more weeks of interning when I get back next week.

Hopefully this week I will meet with one of the fashion editors of #4’s magazine. Lately I have been thinking about what I want to do with my life. I mean, I only have one year of school left, and I’m majoring in philsophy, not anything pertaining to journalism, so I have to work my butt of with internships in order to attain any sort of career in magazines. I spent this summer as an editorial intern in Atlanta and have a fall editorial internship lined up at a magazine where I go to school. But what about spring? What about post-grad?

I recently realized that I would love to work for a fashion magazine. Fashion is one thing I’m really passionate about. To me, Fashion Week is on par with national holidays. Time stops and all that matters is what style.co.uk says about the New York, Paris, London and Milan shows. But it will take a lot more than a love of style and two editorial internships to get a job at a fashion magazine. I need some relevant experience.

So, hopefully I will get to meet that editor. And hopefully she’ll decide I’m fabulous and keep me in mind for a summer post-grad fashion internship. Yes, it will be unpaid, and I may be a bit overqualified when the time comes, but #4’s magazine is making quite a name for itself in the fashion world. I feel like an internship there will open a lot of doors for me.

I’ll let you know how it goes!

--Ed’s Intern #3