I work in the marketing department for a Los Angeles-based streetwear clothing brand.

What’s cool is that the company is always sending me to high-profile events all over the world so that I can expand my celebrity network on their behalf. It’s a fairly straightforward job: I put our product on artists, troll their Instagram and Snapchat to get a good image of them wearing our shit, take a screen shot and send it to my boss for high praise and fanfare (okay, scrap that last part. It’s a thankless job, but it beats sitting behind a desk).

A few years ago, I went to the Sundance Film Festival to pester actors into wearing the brand’s products. I went in style. The company rented a huge chalet in Park City and sent me there early to get the lay of the land. I had the place to myself for... Read More