Do You Want an Internship with Hush Puppies Marketing and PR department? If so read on...

Hush Puppies, the iconic footwear brand, are offering talented students and graduates internships in marketing.

Working in the UK Head offices of Wolverine Europe, in King’s Cross London, interns will gain valuable insight into how a global corporation operates.
We are looking for interns who are serious about pursuing a career in marketing, PR or communications. Candidates should have a passion for fashion and be able to demonstrate their interest in current social and cultural trends. This opportunity will suit students or those who have recently graduated.

In return for your hard work Hush Puppies are offering you the chance of influencing the marketing activity of a truly global brand.

Key Skills / Attributes:

1. Excellent written and spoken English.

2. Proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

3. Good commercial awareness.

4. Able to execute multiple task and prioritize workload.

5. Excellent organizational and planning skills.

6. Strong communication skills.

7. Creativity and problem solving.

8. Strong Work ethic.

9. Commercial awareness.

WORKING CONDITIONS
This is an office based role but there may be the opportunity to get involved with events and a flexible attitude to working occasional evenings and weekends would be advantageous. The post holder is expected to work flexibly and respond positively to changing business needs.

We are looking for people who can spend at least 1 month in this role but we are willing to be flexible about the duration of which a candidate works with us. The upper limit of the internship offered is 6 months.
Hush Puppies will pay towards the successful candidates travel and expenses.

ONLY CANDIDATES WHO HAVE THE LEGAL RIGHT TO WORK IN THE UK WILL BE CONSIDERED.

Please send your CV and a short covering letter saying why you want to complete an internship with Hush Puppies and how you fit the above criteria to ffion.greenow@wwwinc.com.

Please apply only if you meet the requirements listed. Only those candidates short-listed will be contacted.

Hush Puppies trades designers with Cannondale Bicycles

Not content with just designing shoes for the high street, when Hush Puppies' design team were challenged by New Design Magazine to trade places with a designer from Cannondale Performance Bikes they tackled it with gusto!

Tanya from New Design Magazine comments "we love challenging creative people to put themselves in the shoes of a designer from a very different industry. The concept of trading place is simple: we ask the designers to give one another a design brief - something they would do in their jobs everyday – and then put the results in the magazine for designers everywhere to consider. We find that not only do the results make for an interesting article but the feedback from the participating designers is always that the challenge has refreshed their perspective and given them a new approach to their own job."

Cannondale briefed Hush Puppies designer Tim Richards to create a bike pedal that would specifically appeal to young women who are style conscious. Taking Agyness Deyn as his muse Tim went on to create a crazy PedalShoe – influenced by high fashion; Chanel’s clogs to be precise but with the practical in mind: Whilst cycling about town, the PedalShoe would protect footwear against the elements without appearing in opposition to her general look.

Erik Eagleman, Cannondale designer comments on the PedalShoe, ‘This is great! Very cool indeed. This address's a lot of issues that I saw problems with when approaching cycling accessories for the women’s market. You could sell it in three or four different sizes, S,M,L,XL. It keeps your dress shoes nice and clean, your foot doesn't move around on the pedal, you have the ability to pull as well as push. I really like this idea. Great work!”

In response to our brief to create a cycling-inspired tread design Erik designed a cool bike-chain inspired tread complete with men’s footwear silhouette. Tim comments on Erik’s design “Wow! I’m really impressed. Not only would this shoe design appeal to the cycling fraternity but also our current Hush puppies customer who buys casual fashion product form us. It’s really very commercial and the chain-link tread design just adds a neat twist. I also love the idea of creating a shoe inspired by retro bike shoes”.

So watch this space, and who knows we could be seeing Hush Puppies bikes and Cannondale shoes in the shops sooner than you think!

Glee's Mr Schuster wears Hush Puppies!

I can't say we're surprised, we always new Glee's Mr Schuster was a stylish (and rather attractive) fellow, but we were still somewhat excited by the announcement in last night's episode of Glee that he wears Hush Puppies!

Instructed to hold open try-outs for the "Cheerios" the squad's despotic leader Sue Sylvester, is encouraged by Will Schuster to give the otherly-abled candidates a fair shot at getting into the squad with the argument that cheering is after all about "expressing oneself".

Sue's response is comic genius: "Well I'm about to projectile express myself all over your Hush Puppies. "

Who knew!

Classic.