I wanted to be an artist, so that was my goal. I wanted to be creative and do something in a creative field. When I proposed being a fine artist to my dad he said, “You’re not going to make any money!” Luckily, I went to a really interesting high school - just a public school, but it had a very good art program where I had studied both advertising and fashion.
Read MoreI interned with Playboy magazine where I assisted their production designer. She left while I was still in school and the team at the magazine sort of pushed me onto the job, so I just fell into it.
Read MoreI’ve been a stylist for 20 years. I studied photography, I’m from a family of photographers, so I still practice in the art of photography, but predominantly in the fine art respect. So if I had a title, I think it would be very long - it would be Fashion Stylist slash Photographic Video Artist.
Read MoreWhen a photographer reaches out to me, we talk about what their needs are, the scope of their focus, what exactly they might need me for. So, I might help on one particular marketing project, but I can also help on estimating a project. But also, I have photographers who I work with on coming up with their whole marketing scheme for the year.
Read MoreI graduated in 2005 and started photo assisting. When I graduated, I was shooting for Timeout and photo assisting and then I ended up photo assisting at the Crate & Barrel Studios - that’s when I transitioned from photo assisting to stylist assisting.
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