Week 3

Now I know it's been a while since I last updated and even though I'd love to regale SOMEONE with thrilling stories of packing clothes [the brutal papercut I got the other day had me itching to write a post] I realise that's probably not the kind of thing anyone besides my mother would want to hear about. Those of you who know my mother will also know that even she's hard pressed to care! The thing is, a lot of working as an intern at a magazine is waiting around for something, anything, to happen.

I managed to spend a colossal, and surely record breaking, 5 hours sending items off to their respective PR houses today. Worry not though, I spent my time wisely- pondering what Millie Macintosh of Made in Chelsea fame was doing that very same moment in the Glamour office. Selecting an outfit for her next TV appearance from the fashion rail perhaps? Because we all know that's what being an intern entails.. Just in case though, I did check with Alice and Lauren and they assured me [or rather crushed my dreams] that that's not the case. Once again, I'm straying dangerously close to moaning territory and while I have bad days where I dread the thought of giving up my gloriously carefree student life for the real world- goodbye midday rising and extravagantly long lunches- there are twice as many good days where I feel as if I'm finally getting somewhere with a career in fashion. While I am prepared to wait for a magazine to provide me with an opportunity to assist on photoshoots the opportunity might have presented itself to me in the form of Koulla Sergi. Koulla is a freelance fashion stylist who also cut her teeth at Red magazine and occasionally returns to carry out features shoots. Not only has she proven that each and every member of the Red fashion team really is completely lovely and helpful but also shown what a small world it is after all. Koulla and I attended the same primary school, live five minutes down the road from each other and share mutual friends but I would never have met her had I not been at Red at the right time. A little bit of serendipity at work I like to think. Koulla's fashion styling website is now up and running and I have made my services as a fashion assistant available to her should she need any help- I am quite hoping that my version of networking and forthrightness will pay off! You can find Koulla's work here: http://www.koullasergi.com/

On a final, optimistic, note the freelance fashion assistant from Marie Claire got in touch with me today, after months of pestering her systematically with emails begging for a placement, potentially offering just that. Slap bang in the middle of my exams. Bugger. I have attempted to negotiate a September internship instead [in the desperate hope that I won't feel unemployed and nostalgic when all the freshers make their way to university for the first time] but so far I have had no response. Let's all keep our fingers crossed it goes well or I may end up packing clothes in a factory instead to make ends meet!