Tips and Tales From Around the Globe

The 6 Top Cities for your Fashion Internship

Lauren Plug | May.30.2017
Every fashion student dreams of one day living and working in one of the world’s top fashion capitals. Can you see yourself sitting in a cafe in Paris, sketching the street style in your treasured notebook. Or perhaps walking the streets of the Quadrilatero d’Oro in Milan, watching the who’s who of fashion parade the streets during the spring and fall fashion shows. Maybe London is more your style with fast, futuristic designs and the glitz and glamor of this timeless city. Some prefer the body conscious, fashion forward beach wear of Sydney and learning about a totally new fashion style. 

An Insiders Guide on Taking Epic Travel Photos

Lauren Plug | May.19.2017


Congrats, you’re on your way to an international internship! If this is your first time or your hundredth time you’ll always want to look back on your memories and well, remember. Whether you’re creating a slideshow for the fam, putting up a Facebook album, or rummaging through your photos, you’re going to want great pics for the long haul.

Jordan's Fashion Photography Internship in London

Meghan Tankersley | July.11.2014

Jordan is a fashion marketing and photography student from the University of Tampa. This summer Jordan is interning for a wedding dress designer in London. Below is a post from her blog about her experiences in London. Follow her here for more updates and great photos! 

Interning Abroad With Siblings

Meghan Tankersley | March.25.2014

 

Over the past few years, we’ve had many different family members that have interned aboard together including over 5 different sets of twins. We know all the great reasons why someone should intern abroad, but what are the benefits of doing an internship with your twin or sibling? We asked a few of our alumni who interned aboard with a family member to discuss the benefits and challenges of interning abroad with a brother or sister.

London Town

Alex Paisner | November.01.2012

 

Current Intern Kayla Hauge shares her experiences as a photography intern in London this fall.

Ideally this post would be over flowing with all the fabulous photographs I have been taking on all of my amazing adventures in London. Realistically, I haven't taken my camera on one outing. Judge away, a photographer without her camera. I am fully aware of how little sense this makes. I am going to use my bag as a lame lame excuse, but really I brought 3 bags that won't fit my camera and one bag that's strap upsets me so I rarely use it. You understand my predicament right? And my camera bag is just unnecessarily large and I'm not about to lug that around with me. I can continue with the excuses or I can actually talk about my new home and new life.
Lucky for you I've got these awesome pictures I took with my phone's badass picture taking capabilities.
Yeah not so much...

I arrived in London two weeks ago exhausted, jet lagged and emotionally unstable to say the least. But with the help of a friend we made our way from Heathrow airport to my less than large accommodations. I haven't slept in a twin bed for as long as I can remember. But I think the funniest thing about our living place is that we are allowed 8 overnight guest passes a month. Where is my guest going to sleep because I have a hard enough time sharing a king size bed I'm not about to share a twin bed... off topic, I digress. So I can probably say my first week in London was a bit of a confused blur. I was jet lagged for most of it and then work felt like it took up all of my time so I didn't do much else.

However, the studio I work at is pretty incredible. Studios are basically just like the movies by the way. Music you've never heard, models with legs for ages and various other people holding make up brushes and hangers. And my favorite part of course the photography. To flip through a magazine to see a spread and knowing that it was shot at the studio you work at is a pretty cool feeling. I've never been exposed to this side of photography before so it's really interesting. And the exact opposite of photojournalism. I mean I'm not sure what I want to do with photography in the end, but I do know that it will help me being exposed to every side.

Ok so outside of work. I've been to the largest mall ever, Westfields, to buy a UK phone. It's an awesome flip phone. Takes me about a half hour to text on it, but it was next to free so I'm not about to complain. I've been to Brick Lane and stuffed my face with Chinese food, but I was feeling homesick that day so it wasn't my best day. Did a Jack the Ripper tour during which I closed my eyes and turned the other way during photos because almost anything scares me. We've had some good drinks and good times at pubs. Went to Borough Market, my favorite place in London, and ate the exact same burger I had a year ago... I couldn't help myself! Aimlessly walked around London all day only to continuously think-  I live in London. Did I mention that's been my dream for quite some time now? And yesterday I can say I had a proper, yes I said proper, UK day. I had tea at Spitialfields Market and got caught in the cold wet rain, but luckily that motivated me to buy an adorable and warm sweater or would it be jumper here? I'm stilling working on that part.

I'm living and working in London. And I am loving it.

Interns Down Under: Ashley's Australian Internship

Global Experiences | August.13.2010

 

 

Ashley P. wanted to expand her horizons and learn outside of the classroom. Through Global Experiences, Ashely was able to have an internship abroad in Sydney, Australia. During her internship program, the McHenry County College student traveled all over Australia and had the experience of the lifetime. Ashely wrote a blog about her time abroad to give you a glimpse at the life of an international intern.

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