How to Become an in House Freelance Fashion Expert

Fashion shows, photo shoots, and models are all a part of the world of fashion, but breaking in as a freelancer can be tough. If you desire to one day walk the halls of magazines and help style clothes for photo shoots and assist editors, here’s your chance to learn how.

Instructions

1. Get experience. The easiest way to open the doors is to have been a former full-time editor or fashion intern, which helped you learn the magazine business. While becoming a full-time editor first may not be an option, working as a paid intern would certainly be beneficial.

2. Become an expert by writing fashion pieces through a website or blog. Some organizations will take on writers free of charge, which will give you a chance to perfect your skills. Writing about the newest items on the racks or new designer news can immediately boost your expert rating.

3. Volunteering your services to showrooms, local boutiques, catalogues, and small publications will help you get on-site experience that you can later use to sell yourself to larger clients.

4. Create your portfolio using pictures and styling done at smaller venues and also consider doing your own minimal budget photo shoot with things you have around and maybe a friend as a model to help editors see your work in action if you haven’t landed any volunteer gigs yet.

5. Befriending editors who are currently on-staff at a publication or those who work as freelance editors will be your best contacts. An on-staff editor can ask you to do freelance work specifically for a shoot and an already-established freelancer can bring you on as her assistant.

6. Build your network of contacts at different designer houses and try to attend fashion shows for up and coming designers if you cannot get into more established ones. Coming with your own book of contacts for sample requests will make you look more credible and make your job easier.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• www.ed2010.com