So I have question, I recently submitted my work and resume to a magazine and they offered a position where I would pull product images for the mag and give a brief description on the items, I considered hot items for the season. The pay they offered me is x amount of words per a rate. I am trying to weight if this is a benefical opportunity for my portfolio considering all the leg work involved pulling items.
So I have question, I recently submitted my work and resume to a magazine and they offered a position where I would pull product images for the mag and give a brief description on the items, I considered hot items for the season. The pay they offered me is x amount of words per a rate. I am trying to weight if this is a benefical opportunity for my portfolio considering all the leg work involved pulling items.
Taj76, if the journal that has offered you a job has national or even wide regional readership, you should definitely take it. This will give you fantastic exposure; the type of PR which will be very difficult to get on you own, even if you establish a fairly successful business, IMO.
Styling is something I've always wanted to do as a secondary career, but as I'm committed to writing full-time I've never known how I would go about moonlighting on the visual side of editorial. I figure the best opportunity will arise if I write on-staff at a small, left-field fashion magazine, but occasionally crossover into helping out on photo shoots, etc. Let's face it; at small magazines, they take what they can get. My brother is also studying fashion photography and if he follows through into making that his full-time career, opportunities will emerge on that front, too.
Hey!
My name´s Fab,I´m from Buenos Aires and I work as a freelance fashion stylist for a couple of local mags and I have also been working for some time now for a french online magazine (am I allowed to write names?) I really love my job but I´m not getting payed whatsoever! Right now my parents are supporting me but soon I´ll be moving to the LA area, and I need to get a real styling job! Do you happend to know any established stylists based in LA or any of those agencies I heard about? Any help would be reaaally appreciated! thanks!!
Here's an old thread that you might find helpful about artists agencies in the U.S. . I found it when I did an advanced search of the Careers forum, keywords = agencies, agency: Stylist Agency Information?
hey Bette, thanks a lot!
this is definetely helpful!!
now, here´s the question: should i go to NYC instead of LA to start my career? I´m only 21 and never lived in the US before... i thought LA was better cause i thought it was easier to "fit in" at first, but now I´m starting to consider NY since its much more of a fashion capital , right? Do you think NY would eat me alive? Am I too young?
NY and LA are both very expensive cities to live in. NY tops everything in the states. L.A. is less expensive, but still costs way more than most cities in the U.S. But ... NY is the fashion capital and it's where the big designers are, where the fashion magazines are and so on. It's also where every fashion student, aspiring desinger, aspiring stylist usually end up ... so it's highly competitive.. L.A. has a bit of fashion ... and there is work here ... but it's jeans and celebrity gowns ... and not much else. Actually, there's a lot of underground designers here (who don't hire stylists ... no money) ... and lot's of casual sportswear designers and manufacturers, too ... but it's not high fashion at all. There is less work ... and fewer stylists ... but it's pretty competitive, too. They will both eat you alive ... just in different ways. You have to have guts and stamina to be a stylist.
It takes years to start a fashion styling career ... to the point that you are getting paid decently ... so you will have to support yourself in a way that allows you to workwhile you build your business ... a job with extremely flexible hours. You will need a work permit or a permanent visa to live and work in the US... especially since you will need a real job to pay rent and buy food. So that should be you first priority ... figuring out how you can get here and then how you can support yourself ... while you start the long climb into building a business that will support you.
okay, so that´s pretty scary!
i kind of expected it would be something like that...
should i first try to "make it" here in argentina and then if I´m ready, go to NY? or is it better to just jump to NY and build my career from scratch there?... I know these are big questions, but it´s great to know what the real deal is over there!
That's a tough one ... I don't know if making it in Argentina would help you make it in NY or not. I suppose it would work if you become world famous ...
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