Responsibilities

• Before the shows (Sept 1–8): Help Dylan and Jordana build the backstage-beauty media list: research bylines, pull contacts, tier editors the way they tell you to. Verify every name is actually covering hair this season.
• Before the shows (Sept 1–8): Pull first drafts of the look-breakdown one-pagers for Jordana to edit: product names, sizes, order of application, straight from the stylist's notes.
• Before the shows (Sept 1–8): Learn what a bond builder and a keratin smoother do to a strand — you'll be handing product to editors who ask.
• Before the shows (Sept 1–8): Pack and manifest the show kits with Dylan: count every brush, cape, sticker, mirror decal, bottle. Label boxes by show. Track what ships to which stylist and what stays as backup.
• Before the shows (Sept 1–8): Print and cut: talking-points cards, station cards, credential lists, run-of-show sheets. Laminate what will get wet.
• Before the shows (Sept 1–8): Confirm backstage credentials by name with each show producer; chase the ones that don't come back.
• Show week (Sept 9–15) — the runner job: First in. Arrive at load-in with the kit, before the hair team. Set stations: product label-out, station cards up, mirror decals on, tools laid out the way the lead stylist wants them.
• Show week (Sept 9–15) — the runner job: Restock all day. When a bottle drops below a third, replace it before anyone asks. Backup kit on your shoulder, not in the car.
• Show week (Sept 9–15) — the runner job: Runs. Coffee for the hair team at 6 a.m. Extra pins from the drugstore two blocks over. The forgotten cape from the hotel. The steamer that needs a new outlet.
• Show week (Sept 9–15) — the runner job: Escort. When Dylan or Jordana bring an editor to the lead stylist, you've already cleared the path, cued the stylist, and have the right product in hand for the photo. When the interview ends, you log it (name, outlet, asks, contact) so the team never has to.

Requirements

• Current student or recent grad in PR, comms, fashion, event production, or beauty. Or a stylist's assistant, a salon front-desk pro, or anyone who has run backstage or a set and knows what "40 minutes to doors" feels like.
• Fast, organized, cheerful under pressure. You keep a list, you close loops, you say "done" and it is.
• Anticipates. You notice the bottle is low, the cord is short, the editor is waiting, before anyone says a word.
• Writes clean, quick notes: a legible interview log at 7 p.m. after a 6 a.m. call is the job.
• Strong enough to carry a kit box up a loading dock, calm enough to hand a lead stylist a brush mid-look without breaking their rhythm.
• Based in NYC (or can be, Sept 1–22). Fully available Sept 9–15: early mornings, late nights, two-show days. Knows the subway; fine on a bike or in a cab with six boxes.
• Bonus: hair-obsessed. Double bonus: you've assisted backstage before.

Preferred

• hair-obsessed
• assisted backstage before

Benefits

• Paid: $20-25/hr, upto 40 hrs/week for three weeks, plus travel stipend and meals on show days.
• Full backstage credentials at seven NYFW shows and a view of how a brand PR team actually runs a fashion week — from the side, where the work is.
• Direct mentorship from Dylan and Jordana; exposure to Coryn Finn, the lead stylists, and their agencies.
• A portfolio you earned: the manifest you ran, the interview log you kept, the clips you helped land.
• A very good black Uberliss tee and a kit of product you'll know cold by the end.