W Wants to Put You in the Closet!

Feb 19, 2008 @ 10:50am

Attention potential interns:

W Magazine needs some help in their accessories department.

The job is purely with the handbags, shoes, and jewelry (no writing) and is unpaid. You need to be available 2-4 days a week, you need to have prior experience at a magazine, and you need to be chic (duh). But most of all, you need to be incredibly organized, respectful, and willing to follow directions.

If you want the job email William_Kahn@condenast.com with a brief (seriously!) description of how you can make life in the W fashion department easier for the editors.

Also, you might get to see Kate Moss - the last time we were in the W offices, we did!

posted by syako

Feb 19, 2008 12:48PM

lol. unpaid. funny.

posted by guest

Feb 19, 2008 2:07PM

To give people a heads up. If you want to work in the W accessories closet be prepared to work LOOONG hours (we're talking an average of 10am-11:30pm every day) and be under a lot of stress. During my time there, at least 3 accessories interns quit after/during their first week.
W is amazing, they just work you like crazy.

posted by syako

Feb 19, 2008 2:28PM

and they don't pay you? what is this a sweat shop?

posted by guest

Feb 19, 2008 3:59PM

the whole idea of the internship is getting out of control, to the point where every company is just taking advantage of eager kids out of college, for which it is now impossible to find a goddamn job that pays actual money. it makes me sad.

posted by syako

Feb 19, 2008 4:52PM

In journalism school I was always told to never take an unpaid internship because - one, it's DEMEANING and two, it just validates this company's audacious idea that they can get free work out of a recent graduate and it only perpetuates this nasty cycle. Yes, you have to do your time before "making it" but do it while getting paid, people.

posted by guest

Feb 19, 2008 4:59PM

Seriously, they're just taking interns for granted, and they make them work like slaves. Sometimes you don't even have time for lunch. And it's all bitch work, (ie: getting coffee, buying personal stuff for editors, alphabetizing label names on all the racks, untangling necklaces, etc) I wouldn't mind that it's unpaid if it was for better experience.

posted by disneyrollergirl

Feb 21, 2008 12:53AM

Well...in the Uk this is just how it is. In my last job the work experience peeps didn't even get their travel expenses paid. But at least we (I) would try to get them to do things other than 'the cupboard'. But only if they proved themselves. If you can't get the photocopying right (and you'd be surprised how many people can't) then how am I going to trust you to do more responsible stuff? A lot of people think working on a magazine is all trying on shoes and going to launches. It's not. Even for a fashion editor there's a lot of mundane stuff like picture research and emailing. I'm not saying it's good to work for free just that you've got to really want to do the job badly and I guess working long hours proves that (although those W hours are outta control).

posted by syako

Feb 21, 2008 9:28AM

working for free only shows that you have no self respect, imo.