Style Me!!!

April 20th, 2010

What is a Fashion Stylist?

A fashion stylist helps to coordinate all of the parts of a fashion shoot or fashion showcase on the runway. In this capacity, a fashion stylist handles the interaction of the clothing with jewelry and other accessories, to make sure the look is as it should be. In a personal capacity, a fashion stylist may be hired to help a person pick out exactly the right look for them, and to help them find the right wardrobe and accessories.

As a “fashion stylist”, I am constantly inspired to see fashion as a medium for a canvas. The canvas is the photograph. Both the photographer and fashion stylist collaborate to create an image, an emotion, a story.

Telling a story is the most creative aspect of fashion styling. The story is told through the fashion, the setting, and through the lens of the photographer. We all have heard the saying  “A  picture  is worth a thousand words”. Storytelling through the lens is an art form. It is pure collaboration, magic, between stylist and photographer.

I have worked with photographers from New York to Florida. Some are great, some are not so great. If the connection between stylist and photographer is in conflict, a photo shoot can turn into a total disaster, but if the connection is strong, when both artists have the same vision, magic happens. I am blessed to work with creative, magnetic photographers in the Boston area. Photographer Dana Tarr is my pyschic twin. When we work together we connect both visually, aesthetically and emotionally. Working with Dana is exciting, exhilirating and magical.

Look at the photograph and tell me the story.

What is the story?

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