If the sentence, Isaac Mizrahi needs interns doesn’t make you a little excited, then we’re not quite sure what to say.

Fashion’s most fun character is looking for both styling and design help for the upcoming semester and we really can’t think of a better way to spend your time if you’re trying to break into the industry.

On the design front, you would assist in sketching, making boards, organizing trim
books, and helping out with design projects. Fun! Some experience with Adobe Illustrator would be even more helpful but is not 100% required.

“Are you stalking me,” asked Isaac Mizrahi last night when I told him how much I loved hearing him speak at the 92nd Street Y a few weeks ago?

“Oh my god no,” I whimpered as the color drained from my face.

“Kidding!! I’m SO glad you enjoyed it, that’s so great to hear! It was so fun and I’m so happy you loved it,” he squealed in delight.

While my heart slowly started beating again we talked cheesecake and tartan and the impossibility of guest cheesecake designers at the launch of his new line for QVC, Isaac Mizrahi Live. The party was held on a soundstage with a cubed centerpiece made from TVs - tiny old portable TVs, giant flat screens, a rainbow of TV variety - playing Isaac’s colorful show.

I’ve never watched QVC (alas, no TV), but by the end I found myself determined to own a tartan Isaac blanket. I was not, however, determined to tell Ashley Olsen (who huddled in a corner with her sister and publicist) that I loved hearing her speak at the Y, too. One stalking insinuation’s enough for a night (a lifetime really).

Joyce Culver, 92nd Street Y“Fashion advertisements are hateful,” said Isaac Mizrahi at tonight’s 92nd Street Y panel discussion on the future of fashion, “but they work.”

Glamour’s Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive moderated the talk between The Washington Post’s Robin Givhan, Ashley Olsen and Isaac. The group discussed Michelle Obama, the economy, Ralph Lauren’s ad scandal, fast fashion and the fate of platform heels while Mary-Kate Olsen and Justin Bartha cheered from a few rows back.

Robin and Isaac spent the first ten minutes relishing the First Lady’s effect on the fashion industry. Robin heralded the example she’s setting “for women over thirty with busy careers and families who feel disenfranchised from fashion,” while Isaac finds her balance of mass and high fashion “so inspirational.”

Cindi asked the group why the fashion industry is so hated and Robin brilliantly responded that people have no problem condescending to fashion because it’s a women’s industry.

“No one ever says spending thousands of dollars on season tickets for football is a waste of money, but spending $5000 on a dress…” to which Isaac almost jumped out of his chair in agreement.

“Right on! Misogyny rears its ugly head again!”

On Monday night at 9 pm (EST), HBO will debut the documentary Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags that takes a look at the history of New York’s Garment District. From the clips we just watched, it looks to be incredibly educational and interesting.

As someone who has only worked on the editorial side, the Garment District has just been an axis around which the industry I work in revolved. But I’ve never had much first-hand knowledge or experience with it, the way a designer or a production person would. Needless to say, I will be tuning in and soaking up all the historical footage and interviews with lifelong garmentos and industry folks like Fern Mallis and Isaac Mizrahi.

The Garment District used to be a serious force in the city’s economy, but that’s become less and less the case as the years go by. In the mid-60s 95% of American clothing was made in the US. By 1985, it was 70% and now it’s only about 5%. You can only imagine what that does to the country’s fashion hub.

Lately its problems are garnering a lot more attention. Along with the documentary, a Save the Garment Center rally has been planned. The center is in danger of shutting down due to zoning issues with the city. Steven Kolb, Stan Herman, Nanette Lepore and others will be on hand voicing their concerns and showing support.

Here’s hoping the garment industry fares better than the airlines and the automobiles. More information on the rally and another clip after the jump!

After Isaac Mizrahi’s show, the designer ran around his Bryant Park set smiling, waving and blowing kisses and even Anna Wintour broke out into a toothy grin (seriously!).

There really couldn’t have been a better note on which to end New York Fashion Week than his theatrical production complete with studio lights and rain.

His models - Karlie, Iris, Tao, Eniko, Natasha - wore candy colored confections in tulle, fringed sequins and sheer swiss dot. They climbed stairs, walked under water and smiled wide in their classically tailored clothes paired with wooden briefcases and sun hats. There were Oscar gowns and rompers, suits, youthful cocktail dresses and glorious shoes. Maybe we were just exhausted, but it felt almost magical.

How about an internship where you’re working for both Isaac Mizrahi and Liz Claiborne?

A few employees help with the creative sides of both and they need you.

Specifically, they need one intern to help get ready for fashion week through fittings and backstage prep; help with photo shoots; undertake some typical intern tasks like pulling reference images, reading through blogs and magazines; a few errands, a few admin tasks and generally being aware of what’s going on in the fashion world.

We are so excited for September.

While the official list won’t be released until August 17th, we just received a huge rundown of events for Fashion’s Night Out, the New York City fashion celebration this September 10th. Over 300 retailers in all five boroughs have already signed up to party from 6pm to 11pm. We’re a little overwhelmed by it…in a good way.

We already told you about Alex Wang at Barney’s. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Also at Barney’s? The Olsen twins (girl crush times two!), Jonathan Adler and Lisa Perry, on hand to teach you how to knit. After you learn, you can knit a square to be included in a blanket to be sold to benefit the September 11th Memorial Fund.

At the Met, no less. How chic is that?

The Costume Institute is launching a film series during July in conjunction with their Model as Muse exhibit and they’ve lined up some pretty awesome special guests to attend and discuss the movies, along with curator Harold Koda and guest curator Kohle Yohannan.

Here’s the lineup:

July 10 - Funny Face and Carmen Dell’Orifice
July 17 - Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? and Dorothy McGowan
July 22 - Unzipped and Isaac Mizrahi

Tickets are only $10 and you can get them here.

It’ll be like a way more stylish version of all those film classes we loved so in college. Plus, we’re just about due for our annual viewing of Unzipped and we can’t wait to watch it with Isaac himself.

Ever wanted to sit and chat about your personal design aesthetic with Isaac Mizrahi?

Here’s your chance. Radio station WNYC (that would 93.9 on your FM dial, 820 on your AM) is holding a Become Your Own Designer Contest. And the grand prize is a chance to chat with Isaac on the station’s Leonard Lopate Show, along with a signed copy of the designer’s book How to Have Style.

All you have to do is design a t-shirt and submit a picture of yourself wearing it here by June 5th. There are no limitations or guidelines so let all that creativity hang out.

Perhaps you’ll be able to find out what Isaac really thinks about having to co-host a fashion show with Kelly Rowland?

Watching this two minute clip of The Fashion Show’s first runway presentation felt like one of those Spot the Difference cartoons we used to love in Highlights.

The Fashion Show differs from Project Runway

1. The runway is triangular.
2. There are lots of people in the audience, not just the judges.
3. Stila has major product placement.

The Fashion Show is the same as Project Runway

1. One designer says, “I don’t need the money, I don’t need the fame, I just want to see people in my clothes,” the other says hes from, “the hood” and the other has Christian’s haircut & thick black glasses.
2. They live high up in an ultra-modern New York apartment.
3. Tresemme is everywhere.

We’d call a draw, but as a general rule, anything with Isaac Mizrahi wins.

When we told you about Isaac’s new radio show, we lamented the loss of Sketches and Answers - that end segment of The Isaac Mizrahi show in which he sketches girls out of their fashion problems.

But because he’s perfect, he’s found time amidst creatively directing Liz Claiborne, doing a radio show, starring on Bravo’s new show and designing his own line to do a few segments on his website. So here’s a Thursday morning pick-me-up. Maddy’s 5’9” and twenty-years-old so Isaac sticks her in major platforms and a mini-dress to make her, “look like a fashion model” and demands, “Go crazy!”

Dean and Dan Caten, the lovable brothers behind Dsquared2, are launching their own radio show.

The broadcast airs on Sirius satellite radio’s BPM channel starting May 5th.

The boys will play all their favorite music, including bits from their runway soundtracks. And aside from their own witty commentary, they’ll have interviews with some of their closest friends - actresses, musicians - to talk about fashion and life in general.

Their show comes just a couple of weeks after Isaac Mizrahi launched his five-week radio show and now we’re hoping for a fashion radio take-over. They can call it Inside the Fashion Mind - have a new guest every week and pick their brain about fashion for an hour?

Do we have a host?

Clear your schedule for Thursday night. Isaac Mizrahi debuts his new show, Isaac Mizrahi: Tell Me Everything, on Martha Stewart Living Radio from 7pm to 8pm.

Mizrahi will take calls from around the country asking for fashion and style advice. Most of the questions he’ll answer on his own, but he’ll also be joined by stylists, designers, models and celebrities for roundtable discussions.

While it sounds like the old Isaac Mizrahi show, and about ten times better than Bravo’s forthcoming The Fashion Show, the absolute impossibility for Sketches & Answers leaves us bummed.

Though Fern Mallis, senior vice president of IMG, is one of the most important figures in fashion (she is basically who we have to thank for that little thing called Fashion Week), many people don’t actually know her know her.

So we thought we’d share this short, rare interview she did with Bravo in promotion for her role as a judge on Bravo’s new Project Runway replacement called The Fashion Show, for which Isaac Mizrahi is also a judge, so everyone can get to know the lovely Fern a bit better.

Learn that she used to wear only American designers while director of the CFDA, that her style is “international,” that Donna Karan sometimes “gets fats, gets skinny,” and that Fern is much nicer than most people seem to think she is.

The show premiers May 7th - more info on Bravo’s site.

When we first heard about Bravo’s Project Runway replacement, Fashion House, we chalked it up to being a desperate move and a show that probably no one would watch.

Consider our tune changed: Bravo’s just announced the show’s judges, and they’re none other than Isaac Mizrahi (whom we wish we could carry around in our pocket for running commentary all day) and IMG’s Fern Mallis! (Oh, um, also Kelly Rowland, but let’s just skip over that part.)

The show airs sometime later this year, and pits professional designers against each other in a series of challenges for the chance to have their line available for sale in a “major retail outlet” (which we’re sure will be a major help to whichever department store signed on for this).

But back to what’s important: If Isaac can somehow work Sketches & Answers into this - maybe while the credits roll? - we’re hooked.

Update: Bravo’s changed the show’s name to The Fashion Show. Very descriptive.

Isaac Mizrahi’s first Liz Claiborne collection has hit the mama company’s site, and we’re sure you’ll now be entertained for the entirety of this morning.

Not only does the site include more looks than last month’s preview, but plenty of the pieces are already available for purchase, and at prices that make all the recent clearance sales seem like highway robbery.

The wool dress at left (which could be worn on a cool summer day, with a t-shirt tucked under during the spring/fall, and with strategic layering through the winter)? $149.

Plus, the site’s been appropriately Isaac-ed up: You can send him questions, there’s a “Fit Lab” full of his advice, and you can even enter a contest to win pieces from the collection.

We bet Ralph Lauren’s shaking in their booties.

After months of up-to-the-minute reports of the latest economy-induced fashion catastrophes, we all need a good dose of Isaac Mizrahi.

WWD takes an in-depth look at his Liz Claiborne kick-off - his first collection for the brand lands in department stores next month - and he couldn’t sound more optimistic. Behind the beloved, bubbly personality lies a brilliant businessman who’s revolutionized fashion and whom we can thank for the Proenza, Luella, Erin Fetherston (for Target) hanging in our closet.

He’s prepared to do for Liz and her customer what he did for Target, “I’m trying to shift the paradigm once again…There’s this whole other cultural thing that’s taking place before our eyes, and it’s only accelerated because of the terrible economic thing we’re going through. It’s like, I believe firmly in the middle now.”

Will it work? We’d guess yes. A preview of his Spring collection accompanies the story and we’d wear every single piece, with the exception of a dress or two and the shoes. Styled differently, sure, but we’d wear it, our moms would wear it, our grandmas might even wear it and we’re pretty sure that’s what Liz Claiborne’s all about it.

Meanwhile, tucked into the article is this juicy quote from Karl Lagerfeld on Isaac Mizrahi: “Oh, he’s just too good at promoting himself.”

Pot, meet kettle.