“It was a completely unpaid internship,” says Hannah [speaking to us with a pseudonym to maintain anonymity], a fashion graduate who a few years ago at the age of 21 had her first internship at a fast-growing design studio. “They didn’t pay travel costs or anything, and I’d stay ‘till 11pm for a few weeks running up to the show. There were six interns and they would alternate. Some of us would come in on the Saturday and some of us on the Sunday, which seems crazy now [as] there were more interns than people working there.”
