Impossible dream?

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Your location is obviously a problem, but at your age and as a high school student, you’re going to need to think small and local. I got my first internship when I was 15, as a sophomore in high school, but it was with a small tennis magazine, and one of my dad’s friends knew the publisher. I was (and am) a totally abysmal tennis player, but the important thing is to get some experience, ANY experience, so your resume has something on it other than student publications and “a passion for writing,” although you should of course have both of those things.

If you want to work at a big fashion magazine in New York, that’s great—put it out of your head for now. Apply to all the New Zealand fashion magazines you can, as well as women’s magazines, home & garden magazines, teen magazines, etc. All of these magazines have fashion pages, even if they’re tiny, and you can start getting exposure to publishing in general. Also start looking for general fashion experience—contact local fashion designers to see if you can intern for them and learn about the fashion industry, contact your local fashion week to see if they need any help doing anything at all, contact fashion PR firms to see if they’re looking for interns, and contact everyone you know and everyone your family and friends know to see if they know anyone who works in media or fashion. While this board is a helpful resource, appealing for help to a bunch of strangers thousands of miles away is not going to get you a job. You’ve already noticed that you’re losing out to people with experience, so go get yourself some experience that will get you in the door somewhere!

This industry values experience, but it rewards ruthless persistence and creative thinking. If the opportunity you want isn’t presenting itself, you have to make it happen. And right now you have the advantage of time—you still have your summer vacations and all of your college years to intern and get the kind of experience you need to get the job you ultimately want, so don’t waste it dreaming about Vogue, get out there and get your hands dirty.

You’re in New Zealand…there’s your answer.

You’re 17 and live in New Zealand? Of course you are going to get the shaft. There are millions of people who live in the tri-state area who have your same dream and are just a short drive/train ride away. Magazines aren’t going to want to deal with visas when they have someone local who can come in immediately. On top of that you have college students who are going to school for Journalism who need internships to fulfill college credit. I will say it was way easier finding an internship when I was at Parsons and had a whole career center helping me out opposed to when I was a post graduate living in Atlanta. I would suggest looking into something local in New Zealand and start from there. Maybe look into school in the states when you are ready to graduate high school.