I'm an Art Director with about a year of agency experience plus 3–4 years of freelance work under my belt, and I'm looking for advice on breaking further into the fashion and beauty space. My portfolio has 3 campaigns. I know it's still lean on the brand side. My freelance background has given me a solid creative foundation, but I'm trying to figure out how to best get other agencies/brands attention and move to a path more aligned with where I want to be creatively. Thank you :)

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Make spec work/passion projects that are so well crafted you couldn’t even tell at a glance that it wasn’t a real campaign. I guarantee you mix those in with your real work and you’ll get a job where you want to go.

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Make speculative work that’s what I’m doing as well.

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Fashion clients/tentpoles have been far and away the most insufferable, self-absorbed, arrogant, and downright horrible group of people I've ever had the misfortune of working with.

If you love fashion.. find other ways to explore it. If you want to find out how shitty they are, listen to ACD below me.

Above me*

and sorry not to sound salty but fashion (like music) is one of those industries people are really enamored with for obvious reasons. The reality is far from what you see on tv.

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