How To Get Fashion Internships

Hi! I'm Claire Watson owner of personal styling business—Miss Dress and today I'm going to be showing you plenty of tips and tricks on style and lots of fashion advice that you could use for both work and play. Having worked in the fashion industry for several years I am always being asked how I got the work experience in the first place and how I got those fashion internships, so my advice for those people looking for a fashion internships involve the following. Firstly, you need to be absolutely passionate about fashion it has to be your one and only interest in life.

Gaining a fashion internship is a highly sought after placement. You really have to stand out against the rest with your passion and enthusiasm for fashion. Whilst you don't have to have a degree in fashion although I must say it really does help, you do need to have a thorough understanding of past, current, and future fashion trends and designers and where all of the trends arrive from.

So if you have these skills and interests then it's definitely worth applying for fashion internships. And now comes the nitty gritty about how you actually go about finding them. Firstly, chose from your favorite magazines or newspapers or indeed your local newspapers and look for the staff page on the magazine where it list off the people who work on the magazine and look for the fashion section and who the fashion editor is, that is the person that you would want to contact with regards to finding out if they have any fashion internships available.

Once you've find out who the fashion editor is then you need to either go about writing or e-mailing to them with your CV and a covering letter. In your covering letter make sure you make it very clear why you think you are right for an internship on that magazine and why you stand out from the rest. So let your passion and enthusiasm for fashion shine through.

When it comes to finding out the actual email address that you need to send to, you can do this very sneakily by looking at the bottom of the staff credits and finding out who the publishing company are. Then it's a very simple process and normally there is an email written down for costumer relations you take the end part of the email so for instance with instyle, its IPC media and in this little bleb down at the bottom here its customer service at IPC media .com.

so then you just take the name of the fashion editor firstname.surname@IPCmedia and that applies to all of the magazines, they all work for different publishing houses or their own publishing house and you just take the firstname.surname@ then publishing house and that would be the email address that you need to send it to.

There are some variations, if in doubt just contact the magazine and find out if you have got the right email address. 9 times out of 10 they won't question it, they wail just give it to you straight off. Don't just limit yourself to the monthly glossies; look close to home too and online as well.

Glossies are very, very competitive but if you search around you will actually be more likely to find an internship without having to wait months and months on end for one to become free. So good luck finding your first fashion internship, they are very rewarding and once you are there you will reap the benefits of starting your career in the fashion industry.