A new report argues that the fashion internship pipeline needs to be reimagined if the industry really intends to dismantle internal classism, racism and misogyny.
Author:Whitney BauckPublish date:Sep 11, 2020Not being paid for your work is bad. But paying someone else for the opportunity to get a job is even worse.
The report, which is based on two years of research by students Draven Peña, Alexa Ream and Elie Fermann and overseen by Liz Ricketts of The OR Foundation, goes on to claim that "on average a Fashion Design Student at the University of Cincinnati pays $37,607.50 for the expenses related to their internship experiences."
"What are low-income and working-class interns to do when these resources are not available to them? The answer is that they are forced to either take out loans, adding to the debt they will likely carry with them throughout adulthood, or they are forced to forgo the opportunity all together," the researchers write. To this they add anecdotes from individual respondents, like one who took out a $15,000 loan to cover internship-related expenses.
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