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TASTE MAKERS

FOLLOWING ON FROM MY LAST POST ABOUT STYLIST AND EDITOR CATHY EDWARDS. TODAYS SEMINAR WAS A DISCUSSION ABOUT 4 PEOPLE WHO WE PERSONALLY FEEL HAS HAD THE BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON TASTE & STYLE. ALL FOUR OF MINE HAPPEN TO BE FROM A FASHION DESIGN BACKGROUND, WHICH APPEARS TO BE WHY THEY'RE WORK TAKES A DIFFERENT APPROACH BECAUSE THEY CAN SEE IT FROM MORE ANGLES THAN ONE. 

SCOTT SCHUMAN FOR EXAMPLE. PHOTOGRAPHER & BLOGGER FOR THE SARTORIALIST CAPTURING FASHION ON REAL PEOPLE THROUGH STREET STYLE ALL OVER THE WORLD. 

 “I always felt that there was a disconnect between what I was selling in the showroom and what I was seeing real people (really cool people) wearing in real life”

-       “I thought I could shoot people on the street the way designers looked at people, and get and give inspiration to lots of people in the process. My only strategy when I began The Sartorialist was to try and shoot style in a way that I knew most designers hunted for inspiration”   THIS IS A VALID AND INSPIRATIONAL POINT THAT HAS TRANSFORMED THIS TREND OF CAPTURING STREET STYLE.  HIS WORK INSPIRES PEOPLE & THE WAY THEY DRESS ALL OVER THE WORLD, REPRESENTING FASHION IN EVERY CONTINENT. 

 

KATY ENGLAND ESTABLISHED HERSELF AS ONE OF THE MOST INOVATIVE IMAGE MAKERS IN THE 90'S WHERE CREATIVITY WITH IDENTITY AND PERSONAL STYLE WAS AT IT'S PEAK, BEGINNING HER CAREER AT DAZED & CONFUSED. ALEXANDER MCQUEEN WAS INSPIRED BY HER STYLE AND SHE SOON BECAME CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF MCQUEENS STUDIO , RESEARCHING AND EVEN CONTRIBUTING TO SHOWS WHICH WERE RENOWNED FOR BEING LIBERATING AND IMMENSELY INNOVATIVE. SHE MOVED ONTO BEING FASHION DIRECTOR OF ANOTHER MAGAZINE, KNOWN FOR ITS ORIGINAL AND CREATIVE CONTENT. HER STYLE IS PERSONAL TO HER- A BIT QUERKY AND SLIGHTLY SCRUFFY WHICH IS PORTRAYED IN HER WORK THAT IS ARTY, ALTERNATIVE &; RISKY IMAGERY, BROADENING THE BOUNDARIES OF STYLE. 

KATIE GRAND, ANOTHER STYLIST & MAGAZINE EDITOR WHO BEGAN HER CAREER AT DAZED AND CONFUSED BEFORE MOVING TO THE FACE. SHE THEN LAUNCHED POP MAGAZINE, KNOWN FOR ITS RISKY AND ARTY APPROACH. SHE THEN LAUNCHED LOVE MAGAZINE, WHICH IS NOW ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FASHION MAGAZINES, ALSO KNOWN FOR ITS MORE RISKY APPROACH TO FASHION AND BEING MORE HONEST AND REALISTIC WITH WHO THEY FEATURE. SHE IS DESCRIBED AS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN FASHION AND HER TASTE IS OF COURSE REFLECTED IN THE WAY SHE DRESSES- TRASHY IN A LUXURIOUS WAY. ROUGH & SCRUFFY. SHE HAS AN ALTERNATIVE STYLE THAT IS STILL HIGHLY STYLISH, MAKING BEAUTIFUL IMAGERY. 

THIS IMAGE DEFINITELY SUMS UP THE WHOLE POINT ABOUT TASTE MAKING. HERE KATIE BRAND HAS CREATED A FASHION SHOOT USING A COMBINATION OF 'ELEGANT, EPICENE AND DECADENT INDIVIDUALS CAST ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK: TRANNIES, MODELS, CLUB KIDS, PROMOTER AND PERFORMERS.' SHOWING THAT TASTE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT.

         LASTLY TALKING MORE ABOUT CATHY EDWARDS. SHE ALSO BEGAN WORKING FOR DAZED AND CONFUSED AFTER GRADUATING FROM A FASHION DESIGN DEGREE AND ROSE TO BE A FASHION DIRECTOR. SHES WORKED ALONGSIDE PHOTOGRAPHERS SUCH AS DAVID BAILEY AND NICK KNIGHT- ICONIC FOR THEIR IMAGERY. AND THEN SHE MOVED ONTO BECOMING FASHION DIRECTOR OF ANOTHER MAGAZINE. SHE HAS ALSO STYLED BANDS AND MUSIC VIDEOS SHOWING HER VERSATILITY AND THE OUTSIDE INFLUENCES THAT SHE HAS ON HER FASHION STYLING.  SHE HAS ALSO STYLED TOPSHOP UNIQUE SHOWS THAT IS RENOWNED FOR ITS QUERKY AND RAW STYLE. SHE PLAYFULLY INTERUPTS BEAUTIFUL IMAGES WITH EDGY & FIERCE STYLING AND MANIPULATION.

WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT THAT I'D WRITE THIS MUCH IN ONE POST?!