Oh god, this is not a good sign. Prestigious, but previously free internships at Teen Vogue, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair are now be auctioned off at a Christie's celebration on Dec. 2nd.
The good news? You don't need to be a celebrity like Francis Bean Kobain or Sean Avery to intern at these previously exclusive mags anymore.
Bad news? Magazines are doing so bad right now that you have to pay to work at them for free. You'll really be missing that $4,000 you plunked down for the honor of getting Ms. Wintour her double caf skinny latte when you're too poor to pay off your college loans.
Oh, and in case you actually wanted to make money while working at a paper, would you consider moonlighting as a valet?
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Just because Sean Avery can dress like a gentleman after his stint interning for Anna Wintour, doesn't mean the hockey star can act like one.
Avery returned to Madison Square Garden for one night only to play against his old teammates, The New York Rangers, only to get booed at every turn by betrayed former fans. Doesn't matter though: the class act managed to a) fight with the goalie during his first shift in the game, b) mocked the back-up goalie during a post-game interview, and c) start a fight with a member of the press (working for the same publication he later gave the interview too.)
Maybe he should have just stuck with fashion: we hear bitchiness and thin-skin is something of a plus in that industry.
Sean Avery is the cutest asshole clotheshorse to ever hit the ice. He's kind of a jerk sometimes, but usually that's when he's body checking an opponent into the glass. Otherwise, he's the perfect gentleman, which explains why he got along so well with Anna Wintour, who he reached out to when he snagged his summer internship at Vogue.
But Avery has left us city types, departing the New York Rangers for the Dallas Stars, which means soon he won't even be a blip on our radar. But then he says some pretty awesome things during interviews — "I do get my underwear ironed" — and we're hard again.
Two more clips below from Avery's interview with CBC's The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos. CONTINUED »
Fashionable hockey player and former Anna Wintour intern Sean Avery just happened to stop by Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles' office on Tuesday, the same week the magazine's show Running In Heels began taping. And guess who made it in front of the cameras? [P6]
Sean Avery skated (ugh!) his way into your fantasies playing for the New York Rangers, but you'd never know it from all the summer buzz. Avery "begged" Anna Wintour an internship at her body dysmorphic disorder magazine and the queen relented, as she needed to learn some pro tips on gracefully bodychecking underlings while making impromptu exits.
Now that time has run out on Avery's NY experience, he is cramming in all the Fashion Week activities he can before he moves to Texas to join the Dallas Stars, earn $15.5 million over four years, and never, ever talk about his experience in men's fashion again. Until the press junket for that New Line movie.
So what did his summer as a clothes horse teach him? How to talk like a snotty New Yorker, natch:
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NHL player Sean Avery is famous for a lot of things, mostly hockey-and-clothing-related. Equally well-known is the fact that the self-proclaimed "fashion jock" interned at Vogue this summer and then did a semi-naked photo shoot for the Condé Nast's brother publication. Haha, yes. He did. Because dodging plates being thrown at him by Anna Wintour is the best way to prepare for a lifelong career in sports and sports-related injuries. Of which he's suffered from before.
Always on the ball, New Line Cinema bought the rights to Avery's life story (or at least the parts that involve him acting as a professional bottom for the editrix), and production has begun on the film, which will be a romantic comedy — or "rom-com," in Katherine Heigl speak — of all things. So who should casting directors be looking toward to play both Avery and the love interest he finds in his mirror reflection? CONTINUED »
Heterosexual clotheshorse, professional hockey player, and former Vogue intern Sean Avery is cashing in on his sartorial notoriety: He's the newest face of Gap, alongside photogs Ryan McGinley and blogtographer-cum-Esquire lens Scott Schuman.
Way to look out for your own, Wintour.
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Hockey player Sean Avery, who made a name for himself by personally pleading with Anna Wintour for a Vogue internship, and then taking his shirt of in Men's Vogue to write about it, looks like he might be trading teams. Yes, he'll still be inventing rules for the New York Rangers, but what's this about his schmoozing up to Marie Claire? CONTINUED »
Some sort of congratulations is in order for Sean Avery, the professional hockey player so obsessed with clothing he agreed to endure a summer making photocopies for Anna Wintour. (Actually, he asked her.) Somehow, in all the excitement about July's Nicole Kidman cover, we didn't realize that Avery had already wrapped up his internship at Vogue. So now that he's done at the magazine — though he hopes he'll be asked back next year — what does Avery plan on doing? Hitting the beach, "bringing the European flavor back to America, and I'm rocking a straight Speedo all summer." God bless you Vogue.
At last night's Fifi Awards: New York Rangers hockey player Sean Avery walked the red carpet with Vera Wang (who didn’t speak to reporters), but nobody seemed to recognize him except for me. I called him over to talk about his new internship at Vogue, which he just started last week. He claims he’s done his share of photocopies and is not intimidated by Anna Wintour.
Twenty-eight-year-old Sean Avery, the New York Rangers hockey player who knows at least eight different ways to fold a pocket square, began his Vogue internship on Monday, where he'll pick up a cool $5,000 for his work this summer. "Observers say he's involved in all sections of the magazine, including features and accessories, and attends edit meetings." [WWD] Last month, Avery managed to lacerate his spleen during a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, though he played through it. Teammates thought he had suffered cardiac arrest when reports surfaced that he wasn't breathing when he arrived at the hospital. So you can tell he's quite the dramatic type, so he should fit in quite nicely.
Sean Avery, the New York Ranger who's set to become a Vogue intern (!) this summer, was hospitalized last night after lacerating his spleen. As Jossip reported earlier, the totally-straight Avery secured the Vogue internship after writing a letter to Anna Wintour. We don't know what was in the letter, but perhaps Avery and Wintour bonded over being "the most hated man in hockey" and the most-feared woman in fashion, respectively. Avery's duties at Vogue will include the usual intern bitchwork of messengering gowns, getting coffee, and making photocopies. The AP says that Avery is in stable condition and will only need to be hospitalized for a few days, so it won't interfere with his Starbucks and Hermès scarf runs. Maybe he should extend his hospital stay, though–he's gonna have to lose some weight if he wants to fit into those sample sizes.
*we tried to make a hockey ice/icy Wintour pun, but it just wasn't happening
If it weren't for his proclivity to sleep with women, guys like hockey player Sean Avery might go by the label "gay." Yep, the man loves clothes, and we love stereotypes. Though he's "the most hated man in hockey," he was likable enough for Anna Wintour, who agreed to hire him as a Vogue intern after he wrote in with the request. Though he's earning $2 million with the New York Rangers, this summer he'll be schlepping couture from messengers to the Vogue offices, perhaps even the Men's Vogue offices, though that won't do much for his tendency to style girlfriends.
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