Hockey player turned Vogue vanity intern Sean Avery can now add “model” to his resume. In this ad for Marc Jacobs “Protect the Skin You’re In” campaign, Avery poses with very little left to the imagination. This is one T-shirt I don’t think I’m going to buy.
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Anne Hathaway is on the cover of November’s Vogue, proving once again that you can star in The Devil Wears Prada and somehow get Anna Wintour not to hate you. In the interview, Anne says that she wants to do more than just act – her goals include finishing college, starting a band, and being Tilda Swinton’s assistant. Um, it’s cool that you like Tilda Swinton, because she is awesome, but since you’re famous already you could probably just be her friend and not have to manage her schedule.
Perhaps this is a new trend: is the vanity assistantship the new vanity internship? Way to one-up Kanye, Anne.
Following in the footsteps of Kanye West, who did a faux-internship at Louis Vuitton and folded T-shirts at the Gap for an hour, Lady Gaga is reportedly jumping from music to fashion by taking an internship with hatmaker Philip Treacy. Gaga and Treacy collaborated on two headpieces for Gaga’s recent tour, and she apparently applied for an internship in the traditional way rather than just asking her friend to hook her up. I think it’s really cool that she wants to start at the very bottom and work her way up in order to truly learn about the industry, but it also kind of bugs me to see a celebrity – who doesn’t need it – possibly take an internship position away from a student who could really benefit from the experience. I don’t have a problem with someone like Gaga taking on a vanity internship, but there is a part of me that’s like “you get to play at having a job while some people actually really need this gig in order to launch their actual careers? I’m going to give it three weeks of “interning,” max, before she’s designing her own line of hats. It’ll be the quickest promotion ever.
Cross posted from TheGloss.
Vanity internship alert! Walter Cronkite IV, the grandson of beloved anchor Walter Cronkite, has landed a fall semester internship at – try not to be too shocked here – CBS News. Specifically, he’s at their Washington, DC bureau. I assume this must mean that Cronkite (known to pals as “Walt”) attends college somewhere in the DC area, since he’s currently a full-time student. From Mediabistro:
At the memorial for his grandfather, Bob Schieffer talked about how Walt stopped in to his office the other day and asked, “What was it like when my grandfather was here?” Schieffer told him, “It was fun. We all wanted to be there.”
Talk about art imitating life – Ugly Betty star Mark Indelicato, who plays Betty’s fashion-conscious nephew Justin, may be jumping into the fashion world for real. Indelicato, age 15, took a tour of designer Carolina Herrera’s showroom last week. While there, he showed Herrera some sketches he had in mind for a denim line he wants to do. The designer was reportedly so impressed that she offered Indelicato an internship on the spot. Will he be a vanity intern who skips straight to designing, or will he actually get a chance to learn about the workings of the fashion industry?
Let’s just remind Carolina Herrera that, while it was very kind of her to offer this internship, she might want to hold out another year or two. Fifteen-year-olds, as we all learned from the Tallulah Willis at Harper’s Bazaar incident, are not able to be interns. So maybe Indelicato will just have to be a “guest of the designer” while he’s still a minor.
Remember when Kanye West was going to intern at a fashion company in London so that he could then start his own fashion line? I thought it was just another celebrity vanity internship, where he would pretend to intern for two weeks and then claim he had so much industry credibility.
However, it seems that Kanye actually got a real – or semireal – internship not at Gucci or Prada but at The Gap. The Chicago Tribune reports:
According to published reports, West, who is known not just for his music but for his cutting-edge style as well, has been interning at The Gap headquarters in Manhattan. He’s apparently working side-by-side with pal designer and creative director Patrick Robinson, who was reportedly hired to spruce up the label.
Sources say West is taking the internship seriously, too. He’s apparently been putting in late night hours – including staying in the office until 2 a.m. It has been speculated West is looking to launch a line of clothing for the Gap, but so far, those reports have not been confirmed.
As a former Gap employee – I spent the summer before college folding shirts and helping tween girls pick out an outfit to wear to ‘N Sync concerts – I welcome Kanye to the folding board club.
Celebrities’ kids – they’re just like us!
Case in point – Tallulah Willis, youngest of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis’ three daughters, will spend the summer interning at high-fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar. That’s normal for a college student, right?
Well, it is. Tallulah, however, is fifteen. And her mom appeared on the cover of the magazine recently. Oh, and her stepdad occasionally pens columns for said magazine. Gosh, what a coincidence that lil’ Tallulah beat out all those older kids who study journalism in college to get the coveted internship.
But wait! It seems that fifteen year olds are too young to work for free. (Really, isn’t EVERYONE too young to work for free? I digress.) Lest anyone get in trouble with the law, a Harper’s Bazaar spokesperson told Page Six that “Tallulah is a guest of Harper’s Bazaar, shadowing our editors for a couple of weeks.” If you’re not familiar with PR-speak, allow me to translate: the editors are doing a favor for her celebrity relatives, and Miss Willis will certainly not have to stoop to actual intern tasks like fetching coffee or answering telephones. Perhaps she caught the intern bug after her dad did a gofer stint on Letterman?
What’s the over/under on when she’s going to do a “cute” Sean-Avery style photoshoot of her pretending to do filing?
Plenty of college journalism majors get internships working at newspapers and magazines. But very few of them get to be interviewed about it. However, Rolling Stone summer intern Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy – yes, of those Kennedys – has that lucky combination of unpaid internship plus prestigious family background that makes her worthy of a Blackbook magazine writeup.
As much as I’d like to snark on Kick, she actually sounds nice. Nobody gets to choose their parents, and at least Kick’s trying to work for a living unlike some born-rich folks who waste their money and don’t do anything productive. Her internship nonwithstanding, she works with Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper (environmental charities founded by her dad, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), goes to Stanford, and started her own philanthropic organization, Legacy Associates. Let’s hope – for Rolling Stone’s sake and mine – she’s a better intern than Frances Cobain.
Thanks to several factors – such as the shitty economy, rising unemployment, and the popularity of the vanity internship – it’s now as competitive to get an unpaid job as it is to get a paid one. And, of course, some workplaces are more competitive than others. If you want to intern for The Huffington Post, though, it’s going to cost you. $13,000, to be specific.
The popular website – which Gawker once nicknamed “livejournal for celebrities” – is already known for not paying their writers, setting a free-content trend throughout web media that upset many journalists. Now, they’ve managed to go one step further by asking an employee to pay them for the privilege. Granted, the internship is for charity, but the whole things makes me kind of squeamish.
So far, ten people have bid on the internship. The proceeds from the auction go to the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.
