My First Week!

Editorialist is a premier online magazine and boutique featuring luxury accessories and fine jewelry. It launched in February of 2013 and is therefore extremely new, consisting of only about 6 or so employees.  At first, I was pretty nervous to begin my internship because I have never been a part of a fashion company or involved in its production. All I was told during my interview is that by the end of my time at Editorialist I would learn the operations of a Fashion Magazine.

Upon arriving I was immediately immersed into the busy workings of the office. All the employees work desk to desk, screaming questions and requests at each other. I personally find it to be a very welcoming and exciting environment. My first task was to find items on the website where the photograph for the piece is not quite to scale. I then made an excel sheet with the item, designer, price and description of what is wrong and what should be fixed. I spent the rest of the day doing inventory of all the jewelry and shoes on site, marking the quantity and size of each. We then updated this information on the back-end to fix any discrepancies with the website. On my second day, I got to watch a mini photo-shoot happen right in the office for a Memorial Day Sale e-mail blast which was pretty cool. Below is a picture of this shoot.

After I finally finished the shoe inventory, myself along with the two other interns built shelves to reorganize the middle of the office, making it easier to access when an order has been placed. Below is a picture of the before and after.

            At the end of my first week I’m both exhausted ad excited to see what’s next. I know that they have a million things happening on any given day and I can’t wait to see what’s in store.