When you're an actor, a musician, a model — talent, as it's often referred to in the industry — you are the product: the thing being sold. But for behind-the-scenes artists like wardrobe stylists, hairstylists and makeup artists, it's less about them and more about what they have to offer to enhance said product. Or is it? Thanks or (no thanks) to a radically shifting industry, one of the key elements to getting signed as an artist today is your personality in conjunction with your craft.
But don't get it twisted: that doesn't necessarily mean the personality you willfully craft on social media. Times have changed, no doubt, but the rulebook remains constitution-like in its unyielding to industry mores., tells Fashionista. "There was no such thing as a 'beauty influencer' or YouTube. There were a fraction of the amount of artists working and ascending as there are now. Subsequently, the industry was a lot less competitiv