Be the Last Intern: Magnus Berger and Tenzin Wild’s The Last Magazine needs design and production interns. You need experience and three to five days free to work. {Starworks}

Break It Down: Peter Brant spends $500,000 a month on his polo ponies. He doesn’t understand why his soon to be ex, Stephanie Seymour, spends $50,000 a month on clothes when she could just fly to Paris and take them from Alaia’s studio. And that’s just the tip of their divorce iceberg. {Jezebel}

Sex on Fire Sells: The Kings of Leon have partnered with Surface to Air to make clothes. The Tennessee kids whipped up some flannel, denim and a leather jacket of course that’ll only be available at Copenhagen’s Paris Texas. {Blackbook}

Birthdays & More: Gemma Ward shares her big day with Anna Wintour, though almost forty years later. She was out and about in New York looking almost unrecognizable. {BryanBoy}

Tired of doodling on paper or the soles of your Converse? How about your arm? Your thigh? Your chest?

Rodarte kicked off the body art trend in New York, covering their models with Sharpied tribal shapes to complement their primitive, deconstructed collection. James Kaliardos pulled from a variety of inspirations to come up with the black curvilinear designs that ended up the perfect armor for Rodarte’s futuristic warrior girls.

Converse needs a few stellar interns for fall.

You must be in NYC and available two to three days a week, starting now until December, from 9am to 6pm for college credit. They’d like you to be a rising junior or senior with a minimum GPA of 3.0. You don’t have to have experience, but as always, they’d love it if you do! Also, if you know Photoshop, major bonus.

It’s in the PR department, in which you’ll work mostly with Converse, but also John Varvatos trafficking samples for editorial and celebrity requests, maintaining and organizing the closet, scouring magazines for editorial and news coverage, helping with mailings, giveaways, updating the media database, helping out with events and tours and of course general administrative tasks like copying, expenses, etc.

We love our wardrobes. And when we spend money on something, even if it was only ten dollars on a t-shirt, we want to keep it in the best condition possible (except, perhaps, for our Chucks and certain pairs of jeans.)

But then life happens.

We usually head to the professionals, humbled and hopeful, with our scuffed shoes or stained cardigans. It’s pricey, though, and we get excited when there’s a way to care for our more delicate pieces from the comfort of our own homes. Like this summer when J. Crew started selling a cashmere wash to keep your cashmere fresh, for only $18.

Do You Swing? A new film gets the real story on what happened to Biba’s Barbara Hulanicki after she basically dressed a generation of Brits in the 60s in a new film. Also, see what Barbara thinks of Kate Moss. {Independent}

Victoria B meets SATC: And so the Sex and the City sequel rumors begin. First up, that Mrs. Beckham will be making an appearance. She’s allegedly taking acting lessons to get ready. We love her, so we approve. {DigitalSpy}

Loub Library: All the old favorites and new obsessions. Now if only we could get a card that allowed us to check them out for free. {Grazia}

Converse, if a shoe brand could be our best friend for the day, we’d pick you the day after Louboutin.

The sneaker line’s gone all out for the holidays. They’re determined to help with your Christmas shopping whether you’re a sneaky Santa or an obvious Santa.

If you’re sneaky, you can pick three gifts your friend/lover/sister/whatever might like and they’ll send an anonymous email to said person asking them to choose their fave. Then they’ll email you back with the answer and you just click and buy.

If you’re obvious, as in, you’re way more worried about the gifts you’ll be getting than those you’ll be giving, you can pick three things-Converse you’re dying for and they’ll email them off to whomever you think is buying you gifts.

Either way, for every Christmas email you ask Converse to send, you’ll be entered for the chance to win a $75 gift card, which, by the way, is just $10 less than our sequined sneaker obsession.

So you can’t really go wrong, unless you don’t like Converse, in which case you’re on your own.

Converse is looking for a PR Administrative Assistant, to work on a six month-long contract, and who already has at least a year or two of experience in PR.

You must be cool with assisting a team of about six people, working in NYC, drafting / filing / copying / mailing all kinds of documents, booking travel (and never screwing that up), mastering the basics of PR from top to bottom, and working for Matt, the nicest PR guy in all of Converse (and PR) history.

Interested (and qualified) candidates: e-mail pr@converse.com with a brief cover letter in the body of the email with relevant office/PR experience, with a subject line that reads, “PR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT RESUME”, and obviously, your stellar resume attached.

Good luck! And if you see any size 6, low-top, purple chucks lying around..

—PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEREMY KOST

I’m not really a sneakers kind of girl.

But I did go to the Converse party last night because

a) Cute boys wear Converse, (usually).

b) The Young Lords performed, and we like to play groupie.

c) It was at Florent, or the space that used to be Florent, and I was feeling nostalgic.

d) The one pair of sneakers living in my closet are black Converse.

But now, I want these sequined ones, too. Even though sequins are everywhere and I don’t really like them - there’s something appealing about a sneaker sparkle partnership.

I might be in the right frame of mind, or they might be as amazing as I think they are. I just need someone to scribble on the soles with black Sharpie and they’ll be perfect.

I think you need them, too.

I have a pair of Chucks that I adore. They cost me $80 and I got them at a vintage shop after a 12-hour work day assisting a photographer. The $100 bill he handed me lasted for a whopping six hours before I pulled these beautiful black, high top Converse sneakers onto my feet. I love them, but they’re kind of bothering me. I feel like they’re not really mine.

I mean yes, I paid for them from my hard work, but these shoes are worn in, deliciously and beautifully beat up and special, not through my own hard wearing, but through somebody else’s. This might sound crazy, but I feel like I’ve stolen someone else’s coolness.

The truth is, I wouldn’t have bought them if they’d been brand new. Their discoloration and wilted state were part of their appeal, all thanks to the street pounding of their first owner, the length of their life (and my mother’s would-be reaction) be damned.

I’m not sure if this has to do with the fact that they’re shoes (insert proverb here) or the fact that I receive so many compliments on them whenever I wear them (my standard thought: “They’re not really mine!”), but I just feel like a phony wearing Converses I didn’t beat up myself.

Have you ever experienced guilt at not having worn in your vintage shoes? Or is my existential shoe dilemma totally unfounded?

—LEAH MELTZER

When I was in high school, the unofficial uniform for a lot of my classmates consisted of Birkenstocks, ripped tan cargo pants and your dad’s most psychedelic Grateful Dead t-shirt possible. I was never really into the Dead as much as some of my friends, but I did always think the little bears were adorable.

So it’s with some sentimentalism that I swoon over these Converse Hi-Tops that feature the Grateful Dead skull for all passersby to see. Some people (like the lunch ladies) see that and think, “Drugs! Bad”, but all I see is second period Geometry and the shirts some seniors made with our high school name, emblazoned with the little Dead bears marching up and over the name, like it was a cliff.

On a side note, it’s too bad these didn’t come out fourteen years ago. Wouldn’t these have been so cute on Mary-Kate in The Wackness?

If you haven’t made your way over to the Colette X Gap pop-up store for those pretty sweet PARISxNYC artist tees, there’s even more reason to go now. Starting tomorrow, Converse is getting in on the action.

These adorable, limited-edition, high tops feature the thematic yellow and black stripe along with some hidden googley eyes, just for fun. We hear every cute thing in store has been flying out faster than they can stock it, so get yourself over to 54th and 5th first thing in the morning if the idea of wearing the sneaker version of Stick Stickly appeals to you as much as it does to us.

And if you don’t know who Stick Stickly is, then, well, these probably look insane to you.

-ALEXANDRA BEN-GURION

As you may already know, Ryan McGinley shot Daisy Lowe alongside cute boy Liam Wade from Select in a variety of diners, including Florent (R.I.P.)

But what you may not have known already is that the campaign is incredibly adorable.

Click through to check it out - hit Print to add Liam to your wall.

We just got back from hanging out with Toni Hacker, designer and creative director of Hayden-Harnett, and you’ll have to wait until tomorrow for the whole story, but for now, we’ll let you in on a little secret because we’re too excited not to share.

She, and the rest of her creative team, is partnering with PONY to bring you a super fun, super limited-edition sneaker collection.

The Brooklyn based PONY, which actually stands for “Product of New York”, approached the designer this summer to put some signature, vintage inspired colorful prints on their beloved sneakers because they, “like our flavor,” Hacker says.

The designer, who’s relegated her Chucks to the back of the closet in favor of Hayden-Harnett’s upcoming shoe collection, is thrilled at the opportunity to make cute sneakers for her loyal fan base.

So are we Toni, so are we.

(Stay tuned for pictures!)

We’ve been discussing the idea of men wearing short shorts (think above the knee, mid-thigh or shorter in length) all summer now and we’re still at arms.

Britt and Hayley both think hemlines shouldn’t creep too high, but just above the knee is ok. I’m all for them as long as the shorts aren’t too tight, and if the wearer has great legs worthy of being exposed. (Natalie thinks the higher the better, especially if you’re a soccer player, but she’s just gross like that.)

On the Spring ‘08 runways, everyone from Dsquared to Bottega Veneta featured thigh grazing lengths that quickly took to the streets. We’ve seen them paired with everything from tiny tank tops and Converse to button down shirts with boat shoes.

We love a guy that can take a risk and show some serious leg, but not with the possibility of indecent exposure (whatever, Natalie).

So guys, would you wear short shorts? And to the girls - should they?

—KYLE HAYES
(photo from The Sartorialist)

Cumulatively, our office has interned at a lot of places. Important places. We’ve learned a lot. But we’ve never been paid.

So if you’re searching for your second home for Fall we highly suggest applying to Converse’s PR office. It pays $10/hour and we’ve never heard of such a thing.

With that luxury comes these requirements:

- You must a be a junior, senior or recent grad with a GPA above 3.0.
- You must be available 3 full days a week.
- You must be a proactive team player with excellent organizational and communication skills.
- You must be familiar with the industry either through experience or your major.

Responsibilities will include tracking samples, organizing the closet, keeping track of press, assisting at special events and the usual copying/filing/mailing duties.

You will probably get at least one pair of totally awesome sneakers and we will probably be really jealous.

Email a brief cover letter in the body of your email to pr@converse.com and attach your resume with relevant PR and fashion experience with “FALL PR INTERNSHIP RESUME” in the subject and keep your fingers crossed.

One of the weirder rumors we’ve heard this morning is that Cole Haan is pairing with Converse.

The move seems inordinately silly, until you think about the fact that the brand’s spent a lot of time and money in the past few years to get a little hipper.

The evidence so far is a bunch of photos in People and InStyle featuring some cooler celebrities with their bags - like Keira Knightley, at left.

Seeding luxe bags to A-listers certainly doesn’t prove that you’re working with Converse, but since the new Lucien Pellat Finet sneakers - done by Vans - launch today, it may be that anything’s possible.

And John Varvatos hasn’t looked cooler in years…