“My student loan doesn’t stretch far enough to accommodate shoes and rent over the summer...”

Charlie Bland is a second year fine arts student at Leeds University.  She has been following the advice of ‘those in the know’ and completed a fair amount of work experience; from writing reviews for The Times to freelance styling.  She was also keen to tell me about her input for the orange phone commercial: “you know the one where they go ‘stop screwing up our streets with graffiti kids, just lets go watch Kanye West after doing four hours of cleaning up rubbish’.”  (Don’t worry I hadn’t heard of it either).  Her dream job would be in fashion PR or fashion marketing, “just something fashion related really.”

She is now on a mission to find an internship so how has the credit crunch affected her?