it helps to know someone, like the manager. make nice, and after a few times of seeing each other mention you're looking for a new job... be confident, and dress the part. be extremely friendly and outgoing. be warned... working in a department store can have you shooting for monthly sales goals, and they may force you to sell sell sell. if you dont sell sell sell you run the risk of not keeping your job.
thats the only downfall to saks, etc.
also know that working for LV,
Gucci etc.. you need to have good credit, believe me, they will pull your credit report! I had 0 credit when I was going to work in orlando at milenia, and settled for Max Studio- even they pulled my credit. everyone i knew from LV, Gucci,
Prada, Burberry, and Cartier all had their credit pulled, some even had background searches.. kinda scary to sell acessories.