How do you build a career in fashion marketing where you get to work with brands from premium loungewear specialists to global sportswear giants? And how do you do that when no-one in your community works in the industry *and* the industry is structurally designed to be hard to access for people with your background or experience?  Tom Armstrong shares his story of how a love of music and fashion, coupled with an irrepressible need to be creative, led him from working in a shop at the weekends to launching a magazine that got him noticed among some seriously major players.  Throughout our conversation, Tom highlights the power of using your creativity to generate new opportunities and how valuing our unique experiences as individuals can help us to identify what we have to offer.  We also talk about working class culture, state vs private schooling and the surprising statistic that led to Tom and some of his friends forming Common People - a collective that aims to represent, connect, open doors and increase the number of working-class people in the creative industries.  To learn more about Tom's work, head to LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-armstrong-the-move/ To join Common People, head to https://commonpeople.substack.com/ #commonpeople #careerstories #creativeindustries Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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