Stylist1

Fashion Stylist. Credits include London Fashion week, numerous magazine fashion editorials, Fashion shows etc.

I am also a Fine Artist, Fashion Illustrator and Creative Director and even write editorial. Been passionate about Fashion since childhood, and have every Vogue and Tatler and Queen Magazine from the 1950s. Girlfriend has just started her own small retro Fashion company and we show at Goodwood Revival, and other such events. 

Back in the 80's I specialised in Youth Style as Subversion for my Honours Year at Uni, but fell short of Dick Hebdidge on the Anthropology academic side and short of Peter York on the Style Expert side but it got me an early in to styling for photographers magazines and newspapers. :) 

I did my own fashion collection in tweeds etc in 2008 which swiftly sold out, but then the Banks lost all their money so I had to give it all back to help them out ;) So had to ditch that as I had no funding to do it again, and went back into styling. 

Passions include Anthropology, Horse Racing, post punk music and Film Noir. Fave bands would be Danish punk band Iceage, She Past Away, Singapore Sling, O Children , The Horrors,  and La Femme. So don't expect to walk to crap mainstream music in any of my fashion shows ha ha and if selected get with the programme ;) No good looking like you are edgy fashion wise if you don't get that! :)

But I also do very classic timeless styling and have won and been placed by styling ladies for numerous Best Dressed competitions at the races and Goodwood revival etc. 

Favourite Designers are of course Thierry Mugler and McQueen. I think the bulk of Corporate high st stuff is NOT fashion and I won't work with them. The corporate mindset has destroyed creativity in Fashion and I won't have any truck with it and would rather starve. In fact I would go as far as saying they have killed glamour in fashion and compounded the feeling of austerity in society with mediocre and banal fayre on all levels. There's not even any imagination in window dressing any more.

Fave photographer is predictably if you've read this far Helmut Newton. Ambition would be to work with Tarsem Singh (on a movie like The Fall which visually breathtaking) , or with David Lynch. 

I scrape a meagre living but enjoy the lifestyle, people seem to like working with me,  and I think I am quite good at what I do!