The Hills

[jeweledvixen]

does anyone know what school whitney goes to? i wasn't able to watch the first season so i don't know if it was mentioned.

USC, I'm pretty sure

 

[purreow*]

from tonight's show... does anyone know the song that was playing during the transition where it showed outside Whitney's house before Lauren walked in?

 

[Avant Garde]

Wow, Emily the NY intern was really hardworking and driven, and she made Lauren look like Andy Sachs from The Devil Wears Prada. I don't get why Lauren and the other girl were getting so bitchy though .

 

[julesrules815]

^haha i know! just because she is a better intern doesn't mean you should dislike her! I'd be happy to follow her direction b/c I would be way over my head if I had to do all that by myself.
^^purreow- they usually post the songs played in the episode the day after it airs

 

[LAlights]

I swear I've seen this Emily intern before...maybe in a teenvogue magazine? ugh, its annoying me trying to remember!

 

[julesrules815]

^yeah she did look really familiar!

 

[cosmogrl5]

^ In general she seemed more mature and together and serious about her job than Lauren ever does. Sometimes, Lauren looks totally dead and lifeless and miserable. I want to shake her and yell, "Look alive!"

 

[DP_woman]

^haha. Maybe this Emily doesnt come from such a privileged backround and is more accustomed to hard work. I mean, look at Lauren, her car, her apartment. She can always go and work for her father (whatever he does). The other girl is driven to succeed, and Lauren once stated that she simply "wants a job in the fashion industry".

 

[julesrules815]

^so true! yeah, you might not like some of the work you have to do, but you shouldnt show that you dont to your boss! i would be excited to even be in the Teen Vogue offices!

 

[Madhuri]

Emily is from a very privileged background-- that, and her connections, is how she got her internships. Her internship seems more unfair to me because she is neither a fashion or journalist major but studies studio art at NYU. She has been featured in Teen Vogue before.

 

[DP_woman]

^do you know her personally?

Regardless of their majors, the work they do as "interns"--a high-school dropout could do. Its funny how you gotta start at the VERY bottom to get into this business. lol

 

[Avant Garde]

Meet The Hills' Newest Alpha Intern

Before her Monday night cameo on The Hills (and select sightings of her bossily sauntering through Fashion Week in Manhattan), who the hell had ever heard of Teen Vogue "super-intern" Emily Weiss? Now, thanks to her snooty reality-TV (and possibly real-life) persona, we can't get enough of her. The wealthy 21-year-old from Wilton, Connecticut, captivated us from the moment she swanned in on The Hills to help the show's intern-star, Lauren Conrad, plan a business dinner and dropped knowledge of chinoiserie and rare peonies.

While we expect a certain level of pretense from fashion editors, an intern so fluent in couture snobbery boggles the mind. Furthermore, we cannot remember a Condé Nast intern in recent history who has been allowed to speak to the press, appear in a magazine spread, and pose in national photo ops with top fashion editors. Well, Bee Shaffer aside. (For the record, Teen Vogue wouldn't let Weiss speak to Radar when we called for comment.)

Something is up with Emily Weiss. And we intend to get to the bottom of it. After the jump, a rundown of what we know so far about the pampered, oh-so-strenuous life of the latest Teen Vogue drone.

• The girl has money. In 2005, during her sophomore year at NYU, she proudly boasted about her $1,000 Balenciaga bag. Weiss divulged the purchase to Bloomberg News for a story about materialism, which stated that her "mother and father paid the bill" and that she "became serious about purses in the ninth grade with a $300 Louis Vuitton shoulder bag."

• From the same article, we learn that at age 20 she had her own apartment on the Lower East Side and that her major at NYU is "studio art." We now know how she handles those "intense 18 credits" at school and finds the time to shill for MTV.

• Weiss appeared in a shopping spread for Teen Vogue in 2005, which she discussed in a USA Today article that describes her as "thin and pretty." She told reporters, "women's magazines are fantastical and highly stylized."

• She has been at Teen Vogue for over a year, balancing a steady gig there with one day per week at Chanel. Okay, who does daddy know? ([email protected], AIM: TipRadar)
Photo: Patrick McMullan

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/02/meet-the-hills-newest-alpha-intern.php

 

[Avant Garde]

Emily was also in the Teen Vogue magazine Dec/Jan 2005.

I thought that maybe I've seen her before, and the article she was in made me really jealous of the clothes she was picking through.

She was also in Teen Vogue again shortly after, she was in the April 2005 issue talking about her prom dress on pg 83.

scans by me

 

[lmelanie]

i knew she was some wannabe socialite....although she really did give LC a wakeup call on the show..which was entertaining to watch..because normally they make her job look a little too easy..

 

[julesrules815]

that is so unfair! she isn't even studying fashion! i hate how you have to have money and connections to intern. its just not fair! no wonder socialites rule the fashion industry!

 

[jssy4eva]

What happened between her and Lauren?

 

[pinkpalm]

nothing major, she just made Lauren look incompetent (which wasn't difficult)...She showed up early, she was organized,m she knew the names of flowers and what chinoserie (sp?) means and actually seemed dedicated. She also told Lauren that she had 18 credits and did 2 days a week for Teen Vogue and 1 day for Chanel.

 

[FASHiON-CHiQ]

What does that mean, 18 credits?

 

[mundodabolsa]

What does that mean, 18 credits?

Relates to the number of classes you are taking. Each university has a different way of counting credits. At mine, you got 3 credits for a "regular" class (one that meets 3 times a week for 1.5 hours or twice a week for 2 hours), and then 1 credit for "extra" elective classes, like a gym class or ceramics or something. You could also get 4 credits or more for a science that classes that involved long lab hours, or credits for things that aren't even classes, like 1 credit for writing a senior thesis or x # of credits for teaching a class, and I'm sure she gets credits for her internships.

Each school is different though, I didn't go to NYU so I can't tell you exactly how many credits 18 could mean class-wise.

You need certain numbers of credits to graduate, and usually you have to have a minimum number of credits in one department to get a major or minor from that department.

 

[pinkpalm]

For a studio art major, most of her classes are 4 credits each. I'd say she is taking 12 credits (3 classes) working at tvogue for 3 credits and chanel for 3.