At last night’s Fifi Awards: New York Rangers hockey player Sean Avery walked the red carpet with Vera Wang (who didn???t speak to reporters), but nobody seemed to recognize him except for me. I called him over to talk about his new internship at Vogue, which he just started last week. He claims he???s done his share of photocopies and is not intimidated by Anna Wintour.
Twenty-eight-year-old Sean Avery, the New York Rangers hockey player who knows at least eight different ways to fold a pocket square, began his Vogue internship on Monday, where he’ll pick up a cool $5,000 for his work this summer. “Observers say he’s involved in all sections of the magazine, including features and accessories, and attends edit meetings.” [WWD] Last month, Avery managed to lacerate his spleen during a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, though he played through it. Teammates thought he had suffered cardiac arrest when reports surfaced that he wasn’t breathing when he arrived at the hospital. So you can tell he’s quite the dramatic type, so he should fit in quite nicely.
Sean Avery, the New York Ranger who’s set to become a Vogue intern (!) this summer, was hospitalized last night after lacerating his spleen. As Jossip reported earlier, the totally-straight Avery secured the Vogue internship after writing a letter to Anna Wintour. We don’t know what was in the letter, but perhaps Avery and Wintour bonded over being “the most hated man in hockey” and the most-feared woman in fashion, respectively. Avery’s duties at Vogue will include the usual intern bitchwork of messengering gowns, getting coffee, and making photocopies. The AP says that Avery is in stable condition and will only need to be hospitalized for a few days, so it won’t interfere with his Starbucks and Herm??s scarf runs. Maybe he should extend his hospital stay, though–he’s gonna have to lose some weight if he wants to fit into those sample sizes.
*we tried to make a hockey ice/icy Wintour pun, but it just wasn’t happening
If it weren’t for his proclivity to sleep with women, guys like hockey player Sean Avery might go by the label “gay.” Yep, the man loves clothes, and we love stereotypes. Though he’s “the most hated man in hockey,” he was likable enough for Anna Wintour, who agreed to hire him as a Vogue intern after he wrote in with the request. Though he’s earning $2 million with the New York Rangers, this summer he’ll be schlepping couture from messengers to the Vogue offices, perhaps even the Men’s Vogue offices, though that won’t do much for his tendency to style girlfriends.