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Ruby Boutique auckland Part Time Position
  
We currently have a part time position available in our Auckland stores.
  
The successful applicant must be flexible and have retail experience as well as demonstrate a strong understanding and passion for our brands.  


You will be required to work weekends, public holidays and some week day shifts.  


Please send all applications to minty@rubynz.com with an attached C.V and personalised cover letter.



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1. Try your hand at vintage reselling. “A long time ago, I used to be a professional vintage resale person,” admits Cutrone. “I would go out to thrift stores like the Salvation Army and cherry-pick through the pieces, then bring them back and resell them to vintage stores in L.A. That’s a really cool way to get into fashion.”

2. Align yourself with the right brand. “If you want to be a contemporary person, get a job at Steve Madden,” says Cutrone. “Same thing [goes] for designers: They should work in a house at a big company so they can see how it works.”

3. Intern—even if you have to pay for it. “People are teaching communications theory in college, but communications theory doesn’t translate into the f*cking 21-year-old knowing how to take a fucking phone message,” gripes Cutrone. “So I’m actually thinking, like, we should get paid! Enough of this interning for free! You come here and you try to ruin my company—pay me $10,000!”

4. Get your timing right. “Do not send a letter in May—that’s the worst thing to do,” says Cutrone. “Nobody in fashion is hiring anybody in May. August and January are the best times to interview.”

5. Become BFFs with your dream boss’s assistant. “You’d be surprised how many assistants are looking for cool interns to help them out,” says Cutrone.

6. Don’t rhyme in your cover letter. Ever. “I hate stupid letters, like, ‘I have a passion for fashion,’” says Cutrone. “How do you know? You’ve never even worked in the fashion industry! You have no idea what it’s like!”

7. Follow your gut. “Sometimes people will be like, ‘You’re a really smart businesswoman.’ But I’m really not. I’m a really intuitive person. And I’m fearless. And I’m crazy,” says Cutrone. “That combination is usually really, really good.”Read more: http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/shopping/82342/kelly-cutrones-top-seven-totally-blunt-tips-for-breaking-into-the-fashion-industry#ixzz0uw8dr5fP

We have some exciting things happening here at Ruby & Madame Hawke H.Q. which means we have space for work experience.
If you are on to it, enthusiastic and either studying fashion (second year & above) or a fashion graduate then we would love to hear from you!

Email: emily@rubynz.com obviously if you're a total wizz at sewing/cutting/patternmaking and you are not studying, please still get in contact!

DO IT! xx

I must admit I am secretly a little obssessed with the MTV reality tv series 'The City' where Kelly Cutrone is the no-bullshit, straight-to-the-point owner of one of the most powerful PR firms in the fashion business; Peoples Revolution. I've just finished reading Kelly's book and believe it is a useful tool for anyone aspiring to work in Fashion or PR and for other young professionals.

"Kelly Cutrone has long been mentoring women on how to make it in one of the most competitive industries in the world. She has kicked people out of fashion shows, forced some of reality television's shiny stars to fire their friends, and built her own company from the ground up. Through it all, she has refused to be anything but herself." - Harper Collins Publishers

The book is small and not incredibly well written, but it does have some valid points for those looking to work in the fashion industry. "If you want to leave work at 6 every day, don't work in fashion and don't aspire to be an entrepreneur." [One of my fave quotes from the book] Kelly reinforces the importance of understanding your own needs and building yourself as a brand "The best thing you can do for your brand early on is to align it with powerful brands that represent your highest aspirations".

This book is also a useful tool for our generation [Gen Y]. Kelly tells of the importance on picking up the phone: "The only reason we email is because we're hiding, but when we hide from our fears instead of facing them, we are unlikely to progress as business people or as human beings".

"Raw, hilarious, shocking, but always the honest truth, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside calls upon you to gather up your courage like an armful of clothes at a McQueen sample sale and follow your sould wherever it takes you." - Harper Collins Publishers

I purchased my copy online www.amazon.com and have a wait list of friends and family dying to borrow my copy!