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By Hannah Bruchman > University of Maryland
The fashion world: glamorous, fast-paced and alluring. Fashion editors and designers command respect and admiration from the everyday Americans who dream of Prada and Gucci. But what about the lowly interns who have just started in this glamorous fashion world?
Take Maddie Rakosky, a freshman at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Rakosky was able to land an internship with New York-based designer Edwing D’Angelo, where she helped design his Fall 2009 collection.
At the request of D’Angelo, Rakosky designed a shoe that was iconic of New York. Says Rakosky, “Naturally, I designed a stiletto that looks almost exactly like a taxi cab, and the sketch is now in Los Angeles awaiting production. This is all very new and exciting for me, and I love going to work for him.” Working with D’Angelo, Rakosky is actually able to design clothes for him while learning “a lot about proportions of designing and the way a designer thinks.”
Glamour Magazine’s fashion intern Patty Haning works in a different part of the fashion world, helping the executive fashion editor-at-large Suze Yalof Schwartz and her assistant Lauren Tardanico put together each month’s articles. Haning ensures that everything runs smoothly, helping the two women with tasks ranging from checking e-mails, to sending clothes back to their respective fashion houses, to trying on clothes to see how they look.
The best part, says Haning, is “browsing through the racks of clothes, modeling and seeing everything that goes into the final product. Starting something from scratch and then watching it develop into something great is really rewarding.” Haning chose to work at Glamour simply because she has been reading Glamour Magazine her whole life. “I have always wanted to work for a major fashion magazine. I love that it is always changing and always new,” she said.
A common thread in these women’s internships is the fast-paced way in which they landed the job. Rakosky was at a party in downtown New York City when she met a man working for D’Angelo, who told Rakosky he could get her an internship with the designer. That Monday, she was called in for an interview.
In Haning’s case, she applied to an online posting on a Friday, interviewed that Monday and officially started two days later. “Having confidence and convincing Lauren that I would be perfect for this position really helped. Most people get internships by knowing someone on ‘the inside’ but I really just took a chance and it worked out for the best,” Haning explained.
It’s clear that Rakosky and Haning are passionate about fashion. “Fashion and style are so fun because everyone sees it differently and has their own sense of it, it’s impossible to get bored,” Haning said.
For Rakosky, fashion is about the individual and her own designs. “I chose fashion because I love and respect a person who can dress well. The way one dresses gives off the first impression he or she leaves on someone. And there is never a prouder moment for me than when I see something I designed on somebody else.”
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