My Internship Diary - Week 1

Last week I had some extremely amazing (last minute) luck. My lovely friend Alice, who is in her third year at LCF studying fashion journalism has spent her summer interning at the most incredible places; Armani, Stylist, Harpers Bazaar and InStyle not forgetting the many offers she had to turn down. As a fashion student it is SO important to bulk up your CV with work experience. It's an industry, like many, where who you know will get you much further than what you know. 

I got chatting to a lovely woman in Mason House, a lovely club in Mayfair last week and she was a designer for a new brand in London. She was telling me how she graduated with a 2:2 but walked out of uni into a job because of someone she met during an internship compared to people who had gained a first but not gained any experience along the way are three years out of uni and still looking for a job.

So last week was Alice's last week as fashion intern at InStyle magazine and on Thursday I had an email from her to say she was passing on my details and CV to  Lulu on the fashion team and should look out for an email. I was then offered a four week internship starting Monday. Very last minute but I was over the moon. 

So this week I started my first internship at a monthly magazine. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Heat and Closer but I felt ready to move on to a fashion magazine. I also wanted to compare the pace of a monthly in comparison to a weekly as I love everything to be fast paced and wasn't sure a monthly would be for me. That's another reason why work experience is so important, you can eliminate the areas of the industry you know you don't like and don't want to work in. Try a number of things and find what you like best. 

Many people will have read or at least seen InStyle on the shelves. It's the perfect mix of high fashion and wearable so the fashion cupboard is huge mix of the two. On the same rail you will find a Burberry coat, Chanel shoes, Whistles jumpers and a Misguided two piece. 

As an intern our main job is to keep all deliveries tracked as there is SO many in one day and keep all the items in the fashion cupboard in the right place. We also call in products for photoshoots and find the credits for the magazine afterwards. The fashion team also try and get us on to a shoot in the time we are there which is very exciting. 

The team are all great and all though it's been a busy week I have loved it and can't wait to continue for the next three. I have earned a relaxing weekend after getting up at 6am every morning for my work out before work and then being kept most nights until after 6. I am looking forward to chilling out before it all starts again on Monday. Oh, I should probably catch up on my uni work too.

I didn't manage to snap many pictures this week as I barely had a minute to spare but I will try much harder next week: 

Bring on next week! 

Yours Fashionably

Sarah Victoria