Internships and summer are
like peanut butter and jelly. It’s not
a complete summer if you don’t
have an internship, especially in the
fashion industry. I feel that being
here at FIT with opportunity’s just
swimming beneath our feet, waiting
for us to grab them, we as fashion
students have to take every
opportunity we can.
I remember starting school
here at FIT and hearing how this
person works retail, has 7 classes
and interns 3 days a week and still
remains to be alive and breathing.
When I heard that my head spun
around thinking “how does she do
it all?” From then on, at an early
stage in my college career I took the
initiative to go out and find an
internship. My parent’s were
shocked, not at the fact that I
wanted to work but that I did it on
my own and I successfully landed
and Internship my first semester of
being a college student. My first
internship was at Lively Mag, which
was an online magazine that catered
to the design and fashion world. It
was an unpaid position so I was
basically working for free, but I
wanted to put it on my resume so I
kept at it. I was responsible for their
social media accounts and writing
articles for their website based on
new designers in the fashion and art
world. I worked three days a week
for 5-6 hours each day.
From here on out I was used
to juggling a busy life. I school,
Merchandising society, style shop,
friends and family, work, etc. After I
had my first internship I wanted
more, since I liked being busy. I
then landed LANVIN as a market
week showroom assistant. It was a
great experience and let me tell you,
they will work you to the bone. I
would arrive to the studio at 8:00
that morning and I wouldn’t leave
until 8:00 that night with an hour
commute on top of that. It taught
me a lot while I was working there,
it taught me what hard work was
like and I got an awesome
experience out of it.
My most recent and
noteworthy internship took place at
Tory Burch. I was considered a
Liaison intern since I helped
connect with multiple different
departments such as e-commerce,
retail operations, merchandising and
product development. It was a
wonderful company to work for and
it made it
enjoyable to
go there
everyday.
I look
forward to
the future
positions I
will hold and I am excited to see
what the future has in store for me.
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