Hire this intern at your own peril.
An aspiring fashionista who’s suing the Hearst Corp. over her unpaid internship at Harper’s Bazaar filed a similar suit yesterday against a jewelry designer whose necklaces have graced the throats of Michelle Obama and Jessica Alba.
Xuedan “Diana” Wang claims she toiled up to 50 hours a week for Dana Lorenz last summer, helping produce the bling that Lorenz sells at upscale shops around the world, for zero pay.
Her Manhattan federal-court filing seeks unspecified damages, including unpaid wages, from Lorenz and her Fenton Fallon Corp.
Wang, whose official title was “press intern,” says her duties actually included “purchasing materials from jewelry-supply stores and negotiating prices,” and “constructing jewelry from raw materials, including cutting chains and double-knotting necklaces.”
Her suit also alleges that she “worked alongside other individuals whom defendants also classified as unpaid interns, who performed productive work and were paid no wages.”
Lorenz’s lawyer, Jeremy Richardson, declined to comment.