Valet. asked me to take their Female Perspective survey and sound off on men’s style and I had a lot of fun doing so! My guy friends ask (ok, practically beg) for shopping counsel way more than my female friends so take the survey and maybe this will help steer them in the right direction. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'advice'
What a Girl Wants
June 16th, 2010 5 Comments
Tags: advice · features · street etiquette · style · valet mag
Advice From Amy Astley @ FIDM: The Teen Vogue Handbook
October 20th, 2009 22 Comments
Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief Amy Astley recently held book signings and a Q&A at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles, CA. I did some investigative journalism, pretending not to hear the security guard who asked for my “student I.D.” & sat front row to jot down pages of notes to bring [...]
Tags: advice · amy astley · books · fashion · fidm · internships · q&a · teen vogue · the teen vogue handbook · work
The Teen Vogue Handbook: An Insider’s Guide to Careers in Fashion
July 29th, 2009 9 Comments
Teen Vogue is always my favorite. They bust out great content month after month, are keeping afloat among all this madness, & gave me my start in this industry. I met with my fairy godmother aka Amy Astley while I was in NY this May and she mentioned Teen Vogue had just finished their first book “The Teen Vogue Handbook: An Insider’s Guide to Careers in Fashion” with Penguin.
Tags: advice · books · internships · teen vogue · the teen vogue handbook
Amen.
July 7th, 2009 5 Comments
Leave it to Cathy Horyn to speak some truth about the state of fashion and the industry, or to find someone who can, in this case, Louise Wilson.
Tags: advice · cathy horyn · louise wilson · new york times · quotations · the industry
April 29th, 2009 5 Comments
I see them sometimes in the fashion closet, and they are just brimming with enthusiasm packing up shoes. You can just see it, you recognize it… I try to teach them some of the things I learned, which is that it’s O.K. to be an assistant. There’s nothing wrong with just LISTENING and LEARNING & WATCHING.”
- Alexandra Kotur, on interns/assistants to the Observer
Tags: advice · alexandra kotur · quotations · vogue
