Fashion Stylists

Stylists have become increasingly influential in shaping fashion imagery. They have moved from the backstage, as unrecognised players, to the frontstage of fashion, becoming celebrated for their creative work as image makers for magazines, advertising and fashion designers. Yet little is known about the profession, its diverse incarnations and its aesthetic economy. Featuring contributions from leading experts and stylists, this collection is the first to explore the history, meaning and practice of fashion styling through interviews and historic and present-day case studies.

Featuring in-depth contributions from prominent fashion scholars, chapters span historical periods, cultural contexts and theoretical frameworks, employing a range of methodologies in the international case studies upon which they're based. Interspersed with interviews with innovative fashion stylists working today, and drawing on examples from advertising, the catwalk and magazines, this book explores the challenges faced by stylists in a fashion system increasingly shaped by commercial pressures and by growing numbers of collections and seasons.

Fashion Stylists is an invaluable resource for students and professionals interested in image-making, the representation of style and fashion, entrepreneurship and the history of fashion professionals.

Ane Lynge-Jorlén is a visiting research fellow at the Department of Fashion Studies, Lund University, Sweden and a lecturer at the University of Southern Denmark and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Ane Lynge-Jorlén is a visiting research fellow in Fashion Studies at DIS Copenhagen, Denmark, author of Niche Fashion Magazines and Director of Designers' Nest, a talent incubator for Nordic fashion graduates.

"A welcomed and timely publication that brings together an array of sophisticated scholarship and interdisciplinary approaches and is greatly complemented by a series of in-depth interviews. An audience of students, academics and practitioners alike will benefit from this informative and far-reaching work." --Felice McDowell, University of the Arts London, UK

"An exciting, well-illustrated collection, employing wideranging methodologies, from archival research to interviews with practitioners, to tell us all we need to know - and more - about fashion styling. Recommended to anyone interested in the creative evolution of fashion." --Hazel Clark, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, USA