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Art Director – Luxury Fashion Jobs in New York, NY at Fourth Floor
Title: Art Director – Luxury Fashion
Company: Fourth Floor
Location: New York, NY
Our client, a luxury fashion showroom, is seeking an Art Director to join the team!
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of seasonal creative direction in partnership with the Creative Director
- Define and evolve the brand’s visual language across campaigns, editorials, and key brand moments.
- Ensure all imagery reflects a cohesive, elevated, and distinctive brand identity.
- Oversee retouching, color correction, image selection, and final asset delivery.
- Concept, plan and direct all photoshoots (campaign, eCommerce, lookbook, and special projects).
- Oversee casting, styling direction, set design, locations, and overall shoot execution.
- Lead on-set creative direction, ensuring alignment with brand vision and creative standards.
- Lead and manage the Graphic Design function across all brand channels.
- Oversee the development and execution of marketing, digital, social media, email, packaging, retail, event, and brand collateral.
- Directly manage and mentor the in-house Photographer, Photo Editor, and Graphic Design team.
- Establish clear creative direction and performance expectations across all creative functions, including shot lists, and post-production standards.
- Leverage AI tools to support concept development, mood boarding, and early-stage visual exploration.
- Identify opportunities to enhance efficiency in post-production, image selection, and content iteration through AI-enabled workflows.
Qualifications:
- 8-10+ years of experience in art direction within fashion or luxury brands, startup contemporary brands or working within a founder-led brand a plus.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in photoshoots, campaigns, and brand storytelling.
- Experience managing photographers, retouchers, and post-production teams (in-house or freelance).
- Strong understanding of emerging AI tools within creative workflows.
- Deep understanding of fashion imagery, lighting, composition, and post-production workflows.
- Proven ability to lead creative projects from concept through final delivery.
- Exceptional eye for detail, color, and visual storytelling.
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