Name: Kate

University: University College of Creative Arts

Course: B.A Honours Textile Design

Country: UK

Heading to: Sydney, Australia

For how long: 10 weeks 

Starting: April 2010

Programme: Fashion Internships programme

Kate applied for her Fashion textile intenship when she was travelling around New Zealand. In April Kate will travel to Australia to start her Fashion Textile internship focusing on marketing and PR.

The company we have placed Kate into is a small company with a very well recognised Australian designer. Kate will learn a great deal on her internship.

Some of the things Kate will be doing are:

Public Relations – dealing with magazine editors & stylists.

Selling/ wholesale – dealing with sales agents, boutiques and the process of taking orders and manufacturing them .

Some comments from Kate about why she chose Australia for her Fashion Internship and what she is looking forward to:

I am going to be starting my internship with in May, which I am really looking forward to. During my internship I will be working on PR, marketing and administration tasks and I am going to be based at their office in Sydney!

I travelled to Sydney before as a tourist and loved it so I am really looking forward to working and living in the city for a couple of months, I have also been travelling for the past four months so will be nice to get into a work environment again and learn some new skills.

I have a degree in Printed Textile design. I am doing a fashion internship as I would like to learn more about the industry and gain experience with a fashion designer. I am hoping that the experience will help me to make a decision later in the year as to whether to apply for a masters degree in fashion design or set up my own business selling my designs, or I may end up working for another designer, who knows!

The main thing for me is to learn as much as I can, hopefully have fun whilst I am there and then see what happens.

If you’re interested in a  summer internship or a graduate Fashion placement, click through to the Fashion Internships page for full details on the programme and example events internship company and positions descriptions.