Fashion Career Building Activities if you are Still in High School

[voguelover94]

I keep procrastinating about it

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

In America i dont think you can work at
high end stores most stores like that you hav to be 18
like H&M

[a_brightspot]

exactly.
i recently applied for an internship with Indonesia's Voice Of America, but i was too young. my resume my impressive! but i was still too young. and i don't doubt that you know more about fashion than the average 14 yr. old, you probably do. but companies can't seem to look past age. which sucks, i know. argh ): but there also might be legal work issues for their reason of not hiring such young people?

Originally Posted by rainbowrosa

well i'm even younger than most of you, i'm 14! i've emailed nearly every magazine i know but all of them said you had to be 18. i even tried magazines aimed at my age and my local newspaper but even they wouldn't take me on. i know i'm young and that's why they wont let me come. if they looked past my age, they'd see that i'd be just as good (well i hope) as a 16/17 year old. i am quite mature for my age, i am very determined and enthusiastic. I used to run my own magazine and give it to my friends. I now have a fashion blog. i know a lot more about fashion than most girls my age who just say they do. next year i get to do two weeks work experience with my school. i want to do something fashion-related, but nobody will take me on because i'm young! what am i supposed to do?

[a_brightspot]

i'm having the same dilemma.
i go to a school concentrated on math/science.
there really aren't that many kids excited about fashion, or clothes for that matter..hahahah.

i'm still determined to start one though.
and all i can think of doing right now is a charity fashion show..
but besides that, i'm clueless.

Originally Posted by myblazerisblazed

well, retail doesn't really help that much because mostly you are doing customer service right? what other ideas do you guys have about the fashion club thing becuase I really want one, it'll build experience and what not, but have no idea. i don't know if people will be that commited to it. any ideas?

[FashionCapital]

So, over the summer, I was lucky enough to receive a Youth Communications Manager/intern position somewhere local. It wasn't really fashion-related, but I was able to write some press releases and get some awesome clips in general.

What I'm wondering is, does anyone know which NY-based magazines offer internship positions for high-schoolers?