The Politics of Fashion Photography Part 2

© 2010 Benjamin Kanarek

The Politics of Fashion Photography Part 2

The networking challenge

Before jumping head first in to this subject, it is important that you do your homework. But before doing your homework, you need to know what to study. All magazines of repute
have a very specific hierarchy. It generally goes as follows.
Publisher, Editor in Chief, Creative
and or Art Director,
Fashion Director, Beauty Director and Fashion and Beauty Editors.

To add to the mix, most of these magazines use outside sources of Fashion ad Beauty Editors who work freelance for several of the Top Fashion
Magazines. It is your job to decide which magazines you want to scope
out and research who does what and with whom. It is also important to
know who they work with on their home turf and who they collaborate with
when they shoot in the different cities of importance to them. To know
this, you will have to know when all of the Fashion Weeks take place
and who will be there and which Stylists are wring with which magazines.
Stylists for all intent and purpose are considered Fashion or Beauty
Editors. You may call them Fashion and Beauty Stylists as well.

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