Posts from the ‘Fashion Styling’ Category

Yesterday I had the extreme pleasure of shooting part of a music video for up and coming recording artist Jarrod Sherman. We shot at a fantastic farm in Bowral.

Here are some photos, I will post a copy of the video as soon as it becomes available.

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Jun 20

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The rise and fall of the Stylist

Back in the day a stylist was strictly behind the scenes. You picked up a fashion magazine looked at the editorials, marvelled at the creativity and then went about your day.

Then the Street Style photographers came along and gave rise to the women who created those beautiful pages. Tommy Ton and Phil Oh photographed Carine Roitfeld, Anna Dello Russo, and Shala Monroque. All of a sudden their faces and amazing clothes were everywhere. Everyone was fascinated and wanted to be just like them.

Rachel Zoe began her Project and the “glamorous” job of celebrity styling became the new styling job to covet. People all over tried to become real Zoebots.

Correspondence schools started offering styling courses “you too can be a famous fashion stylist”. Never mind that there are some things a stylist can’t learn, they are inherent, you either have it or you don’t. Everyone who decided since fashion was their passion they were going to call themselves a stylist. They started blogs and made business cards. Basically glutted the market.

So where to go from here. As a stylist myself, I’ve become disheartened when I see what has happened to our beautiful art form. But it also makes me want work harder. Show people how it’s done. But now I really more than ever want to stay strictly behind the scenes. That means no more outfit posts. I will only post behind the scenes and new work. I will be posting less but I will be happier about the content.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy my work.

Jan 21

New Work

It’s been a while since I posted any of my styling work. I thought I would share with you some work I did before the Christmas break.

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Photographer – Jessica Klingelfuss

Hair – Mandy Kingsman

Make up – Vanessa Collins

Styling – Lenya Jones

Stylist Assistant – Genesis Mansilongan

Clothing from Regina Garde, Elliot Ward-Fear and Alpha 60

Shoes from Shoes of Prey

Accessories - Regina Garde

Nov 21

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Fashion Female Dream Team

Just finished an amazing secret shoot. Details to follow soon but I will leave you guys with some pics of the amazing clothes and accessories that we used.

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Apr 17

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The Styling Process for Editorial

In the past I’ve posted behind the scene photos from various shoots but never explained all the goes into it.

The process for shooting a fashion editorial, from the Stylist perspective, is a big job. We begin our process before the shoot even happens. There are meetings to work out the theme and clothing direction, then there is the sourcing or pulling as it’s called, then the creating of the looks, the actual shoot and then finally the returning of all the merchandise. A long and sometimes exhausting process.

I (with a bit of help from Genesis) finally documented a bit of this process with pics, here are a few.

Here my fantastic new styling assistant Angelika and I are getting ready to walk into Man Heaven – Harrolds Menswear Store.

Angelika and I looking around, trying to pick out what we need from this amazing array of designer suits.

My office once all the clothes and shoes and accessories arrive. I now have to make outfits for the 3 models for 10 different shots.

My beloved Genesis taping the shoes so that we don’t damage them. This is a very important process. Since you borrow all the clothing you need to treat them with a lot of care and respect and return all the items in excellent condition. I have to say we normally do the taping the night before but there far too many shoes to tape for this shoot.

Angelika ironing – unfortunately this is the life of an Assistant. I did it for a few years and now its their turn.

Make up station and some of our clothes.

My favourite section, the shoes.

3 Models meant heaps of chaos but controlled chaos. My darling son was the Photographer Assistant and he was amazed at all that went into a shoot.

After the shoot is done, Genesis and Angelika make sure that all the clothes are clean and make-up free and start to put everything together to be returned.

My office just before the returns. Everything wrapped and ready to go.

I didn’t photograph the return process as it was a really hot day and all of were too tired to be bothered with that. The shoot was amazing. Markus Van Driel is a wiz with his lighting and I am excited about the final results.

Jan 6