GQ needs interns.

They’d like a handful of highly-motivated, professional, and experienced interns to work in their fashion department.

It’s unpaid, duh it’s Condé Nast, but you will learn a lot! Normal day-to-day responsibilities include managing the closet, handling incoming and outgoing samples, assisting editors on projects ranging from storyboards to store pulls, and general office support for the entire department.

They’ll pick the most detail-oriented, highly organized multi-taskers who thrive in a fast-paced environment. Previous experience in the fashion industry is a must, so is living in New York. They’re looking for spring interns, but they’re also interested in anyone who can start now and work throughout the year.

You can e-mail your résumé and cover letter (as attachments) to gqfashion_intern@yahoo.com, with “GQ FASHION INTERNSHIP” in the subject heading.

Good luck!

For years it seemed like Si Newhouse and Condé Nast were hiding out and hoping that the whole internet thing would just run its course and life would return to “normal.” Sure they formed CondéNet and launched Style.com but they were certainly not pre-curve on anything digital.

But over the past few months, they’ve definitely been trying to make up for lost time. (We can only imagine the pages of the McKinsey reports that must have been dedicated to online growth.) From finally getting each of their magazines its own proper website to online dating (still super weird!), they are making a serious go of it.

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that the publishing house is developing an e-reader application that will debut sometime next year first with Wired and then the other titles like Vogue and Vanity Fair. Apparently this is different from the GQ technology they just put on iTunes.

We have yet to sign on to the whole e-reader thing. But it’s really nice to see Condé trying to get out ahead of things instead of hanging back and watching the world change while it stands still. Because we all know how that worked out, and no one wants to see it happen again.

This morning brings a boatload of news in the digital and iPhone application world. Gucci’s launched their free app which includes personal playlists from Frida and Mark Ronson, a feature where you can play DJ and mix your own beats, and of course lookbooks and news from the design house.

Every week seems to bring another designer entering the application marketplace, but props to Gucci for consulting with Mark Ronson to give theirs a bit more individuality. And, hey, it’s free.

What won’t be free is the application that Condé Nast is launching for GQ in mid-November for $2.99 on iTunes. WWD reports that it will be a fully-translated version of the magazine, and also offer up a wide range of new platforms and possibilities for advertisers. The technology that created it was actually developed in-house at Condé, will be used across other titles, and can be adapted for any sort of e-reader that comes along. (We’re assuming that means Barnes and Noble’s The Nook, which was unveiled yesterday and even has a fashion spin with designer covers by Kate Spade, Jack Spade, and Jonathan Adler.)

Today could end up being a very big day at Condé Nast. And likely not in good way. I fear that as I type, there may be a slew of people getting their pink slips. But one headline I really wasn’t expecting to see this morning was that the company was launching a dating site.

What the what? According to Vogue UK, Condé Nast International has launched TrulyMadlyDating.com and it’s linked in to Glamour, GQ, and even Vogue’s websites. (There’s an option on the profile sign up that names them as partner sites.)

The article states that the site is meant to “unite glamorous girls with fashion-conscious GQ-reading boys to create matches made in style heaven.” I have a ton of friends in and out of the fashion and magazine business who have had tremendous success with internet dating. But I’m sorry, our industry is really the last place I’m looking to for set-ups. I love the mix of people that I get to work with, but c’mon I don’t really think of it as the go-to place for straight men, not that those are the only pairings that the site can offer up…just the ones I would be in the market for.

Also, really Condé? This is how you’re diving into the internet business in a big way? I simply don’t understand this use of resources or what on earth it has to do with your core business. If someone else can explain it to me, please do.

Wishin’ and Hopin’: If I could look like this in ripped tights and a sweater for, oh, even five minutes…life would be good. {Topshop}

Modeling Dynasty: So Cara Delevingne got a modeling contract too. But we’re more interested in the fact that Alexis Carrington is her godmother. {Vogue UK}

D-Bags Unite: A little humorous reading for your afternoon. GQ ranked the douchiest colleges in the country. I (Abby) went to the number 2 school. I love my alma mater but I can’t really argue with that ranking and am well aware of how much people hate when Blue Devils are #1. And can I just throw in a “Go to hell Carolina!” for good measure? Okay, sorry, back to fashion. {GQ}

FNO in LA: Our in-boxes are overflowing with Fashion’s Night Out emails and we’re very much looking forward to all the festivities. Sounds like the west coast was feeling a little left out, so they’re jumping in on the action too. {All the Rage}

Still looking for your fall internship?

Way to cut it close. (Just kidding, we still need interns, too!)

GQ would like a few of you for their fashion department. They’d prefer the most enthusiastic, fashion-loving, hardworking students - especially those who can start immediately and work through to the end of the semester. Before you apply, you should also make sure you’re motivated, detail-oriented and organized, especially under pressure in a super fast-paced environment.

You’ll be based in the closet, you won’t be paid and the more you can work the better.

We just read over on The Cut (via Ad Age) that men.style.com will close come October once Si Newhouse et al establish stand-alone sites for both Details and GQ. Many of the staffers will thankfully head over to those two sites.

This is supposed to be part of the plan to give each title at 4 Times Square its own site which, you know, makes a lot of sense. But why the heck it’s taking them so long is another matter.

Style.com is in the clear at the moment, but we wonder for how long. WWD reported this morning that consultants from McKinsey & Co. have been hired by the publishing giant to “realign Condé Nast to be a successful business in an emerging economy that is now predicted to be painfully slow in recovering” according to CEO Chuck Townsend.

No area of the company is off limits and we’re betting that the web (long a thorn in Condé ‘s side) will be much discussed.

It seems our item about how far you’ll go to undress for fashion has caused a bit of stir in the comments section.

One debate currently going on is regarding male and female perceptions about the human body, and what reactions to clothing (or lack therof) say about both sexes.

So when we came across this very telling picture on Gawker from a local newstand, we immediately thought of our opinionated readers.

It’s quite the ridiculous double standard, no?

Each time I move apartments (and I tend to do this often) I fight the same battle; no one understands why I insist upon moving my magazines.

“Throw them out!” they tell me. “They’re too heavy!” they insist. (Though surely they’d balk at the thought of trashing a single book.) Absolutely not. I love my magazines. And while I can be talked into tossing an issue of GQ with Leonardo DiCaprio on the cover, others, like Andre J’s French Vogue or Coco Rocha’s Numero, will stay with me forever - even if I have to pay the movers extra - because nothing beats a really exceptional magazine.

One of the best that I’ve managed to hang onto dates from 2003 (which means its lived in seven apartments). W dedicated an entire issue to Kate Moss. Inside, various artists including Richard Prince, Lucien Freud, Chuck Close and all the best photographers paid tribute to the supermodel and now, the Chuck Close photographs are going to auction.

The black and white nude is expected to sell for as much as $16,300 at Christie’s on Wednesday which means I’ll have to stay content with flipping through the yellowing pages of my original issue.

“Okay, off ze top of mein head—a yellow Adrienne Landau printed chinchilla rex rabbit newsboy hat, worn mit ein Cynthia Steffe blue-violet velvet cadet jacket over a Cavalli back-belted chunky oatmeal sweater vest on top of a Cacharel gala shirt in silver, matched mit John Varvatos stretchtwill-brocade sailor pants over Stella McCartney patent snakeskin monk shoes offset by Costume National elbow-length leather gloves, und to accessorize, maybe a rudraksha-bead twenty-two-karat white-gold Neil Lane Infinity Pendant. Simple. Timeless. Classic.” Bruno on his definition of “creative black tie” to GQ. Sorry, we’re kind of obsessed today.

Cover Boy: GQ and Bruno…together at last. We would have killed to be on that set. {NY Post}

Who’s the Fairest of them All? Vanity Fair’s trying to figure out who the best looking man is. We hear our favorite polo player, Nacho, is pulling away from our favorite vampire, R Patz. May the best man win. {Vanity Fair}

Who Wears Short Shorts? Well, maybe they weren’t all that short but Alex Wang rocked some at the CFDAs. In a shocking twist, Marc wore pants. {StyleFile}

TMI: We now know more about the self-proclaimed world’s first supermodel than we ever cared to. {Jezebel}

Cape Marriage: Despite internet rumors to the contrary, MJ says he and Lorenzo are still doing the “I dos” in Provincetown. {FWD}

Let me just say that I love Elle, lots. It is one of the few American fashion mags that I actually read cover to cover every month.

I’m a huge fan of EIC Robbie Myers and Creative Director Joe Zee.

That said, I’m somewhat perplexed by their June cover girl, Megan Fox. One of these things is not like the other one. Granted, the girl is beautiful and the Alexei Hay shots I’ve seen look equally so.

GQ, sure I get it. But does starring in two Transformers movies plus being smoking hot really warrant an Elle cover? Not so much in this girl’s opinion.

—PHOTOGRAPHY BY JEREMY KOST

Interning might be the only way left into the magazine industry for a good couple of years so we’d suggest sending your resume to GQ immédiatement.

They need motivated, detail oriented and incredibly organized students to help out in the fashion closet and different editorial departments.

It’s unpaid, obviously, but you’ll get school credit. Plus, who knows who you’ll meet coming in and out of GQ. And, you’ll be on the same floor as Teen Vogue, our personal favorite, and probably the most fun, Conde Nast office.

If you can multi-task and you thrive in a super fast paced environment, send your resume and one, one paragraph explaining why you’d be a star intern to gqfashion_intern@yahoo.com.

The better your availability, the better your chances.

Good luck!

“Oh. My. God. We just got the new GQ. And Scott Speedman wears Rag & Bone. And Joshua Jackson wears Tom Ford. And I feel fifteen, but better.” — Britt, to Natalie, just now.

Someone at WWD got to do a very fun project.

Apparently, since September is indeed the start of the “magazine New Year” like GQ’s Jim Nelson says, a handful of editors have re-vamped their mini pictures on the Letter from the Editor page.

Men’s Vogue Editor Jay Fielden went from a boyish black and white shot of his face to a Graydon Carter like pose with a purple tie. Glamour’s Cindi Leive went from soccer mom to supermodel in Prada. Jim Nelson looks about ten years younger in his newer, not Terry Richardson, close up. Unlike Fielden, he eschewed make-up because, “Whenever I wear makeup, I look like Wink Martindale.”

We think all the editors should get together, maybe Carine could swing over here too, with stylists on hand and knock down Anna’s door for a total make-over spearheaded by Isaac Mizrahi.

On another note, we suddenly miss Jane’s make-unders.

I actually sat down and read GQ cover to cover this weekend.

1) Because James Franco is on the cover and you know how I feel about who’s on the cover and

2) Because I actually love their editorial content.

But on my way there I started noticing the ads.

Something was off. For example, in the four page Gap campaign, only men are featured. I flipped from Hugh Dancy to Joseph Feinnes without an appearance from Clemence, Julia, or even Liv. It’d be one thing if Gap only put their girls in women’s magazines, but we get boys and girls - so why do the boys only get boys? Oh, and the Sartorialist is definitively missing, (but so is Sean Avery).

Then we have the Tod’s ads. Gwyneth Paltrow is their super hyped, no doubt super expensive face of Fall 08. But while one of the men in the GQ ad version bears a slight resemblance to Chris Martin if you squint and can imagine Chris Martin draping a sweater over his shoulders, Gwyneth is most certainly not present. Though we know from the background that both she and the men are sitting on the same yacht.

Thirdly, and perhaps best, is the Salvatore Ferragamo ad spread. In it, they’ve used the same Claudia Schiffer and the same background from the ads in women’s magazines, but remember that guy who wore tights? Well, in GQ, he gets to wear a proper suit. And Claudia doesn’t look pleased. But there are ballerinas in tutus running around him which adds the ballet element in a different way.

So the the only woman who can sell a product to men is Claudia Schiffer? And definitely not Gwyneth Paltrow? But you can use any hot guy to sell something to women?

Or maybe I should just stop memorizing magazines.

Want an entry level job in fashion that doesn’t involve auditioning for Stylista? How about this:

GQ needs a new Fashion Assistant.

You should be really smart, really patient, really reliable, really good with people, and really familiar with men’s and women’s markets. This is not an entry level position for Project Runway addicts; it’s a serious job for a young stylist or market editor who already has experience working in the fashion closet of a major national magazine.

If you are one of those people, send a brief cover letter and resume to Ashley_Boer@condenast.com, and make sure you check out men.style.com before your interview.

“But seriously, folks, flip-flops are for the beach or maybe washing the car or spaniel. They are not the next big thing. They are the last sad thing on the road to stylistic surrender.” - Glenn O’Brien in August’s GQ.