Rumer Willis for Entertainment Weekly

Hey Stylistas! I finally got back the picture of the photoshoot I helped assist on back in August. The photo shoot was with Rumer Willis for Entertainment Weekly. She was doing press for upcoming movie, Sorority Row-now out in theaters. It is the September 11 issue of Entertainment Weekly with the Beatles on the cover. The shoot was on location at this ranch style mansion on the very very top of the Hollywood Hills. I got to prep and pull looks for the shoot. Going to the different showrooms in LA was fun. I got to go to People's Revolution, Jimmy Choo showroom, Chanel jewelry Showroom, and a few others that have been featured on The Hills and Rachel Zoe. Oh how different it is in real life and shown on Tv! It is always smaller in person, but just as cool to see!

Rumer was very cool and easy to work with. As most actresses, she is smaller and even more beautiful in person. Prep for this small shoot took about two days and then post/returns took about a day. We pulled so many looks for this shoot, twenty different dresses from underground labels like monroe to famous designers such as Dolce and Gabbana. We also had twenty pairs of jeans, thirty different shoes and so much chunky jewelry we ran out of places to lay it all out! Our rack of clothes was packed to the max. In the end she did three outfit changes, and went barefoot for each one. We were under the impression for wardrobe that this shoot was going to be a three page write up & spread, so we had to over prepare. However, it ran as a one full length shot and a page write up. Oh well! The end result is a great picture to add to the portfolio! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

American Vintage Photo shoot

Hey stylistas! I just got back some very early photos from a shoot I put together with the help of a photographer and model friend of mine. I collaborated with photographer Katelin Wallace and model Nicole Lockshaw. The theme for the shoot we came up with was American Vintage. We decided to do this theme because of the locations we choose: a vast open field as well as a modern/rundown building. The only hitch that could have gotten in our way was weather. It rained off and on the day before and the whole morning prior to the shoot. We had a back-up studio if the locations were to be rained out, but the studio would not have allowed us to translate the American Vintage theme as well. Lucky for us we were far enough south in Orange County that the clouds parted and we got some AMAZING photos all with natural lighting! We could not have been more lucky.

It was a long but very fun day. We started with hair and make-up at 12:30, came onto the location by about 3pm, and shot right up until we started losing light around 6:30pm. What a day! We were able to shoot at two different locations and get in five different outfit changes. These are some of the preview untouched photos. The final shots are still not ready, but I wanted to share these early photos because they turned out so well! These photos will serve the purpose of building the portfolios for the photographer, model, make-up artist, and myself, the stylist. Thank you again to photographer Katelin Wallace and model Nicole Lockshaw! Enjoy!!

Domestic Safari

Happy October!

I am so glad it is finally October. The official month of fall. For some reason I crave the fall season. I love the ambiance of the leaves turning, the brisk mornings, chilly nights, and pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks (although my favorite is still Carmel Apple Cider the rest of the year). Halloween is coming and so are the rest of the holidays. It's the last stretch until the new year, without all the craziness of the frenzied holidays back to back to back. It always seems to hold such a promise of opportunity-October is perfect.

Here is an editorial photo shoot that I worked on at FIDM. The project here was to sell a high end lifestyle brand, ours being homeproduct; more specifically within the photo a l

ine of dishware. The goal here was to sell not only a line of product but a lifestyle. I came up with the tag line of "Domestic Safari" as a play on words with the domestic side of a home blended with the craziness of the jungle safari. It is not the typical style that I gravitate towards, however I feel that our group came up

with a strong look and successfully sold this product visually speaking. The original was in color, but due to some tweaking in photoshop, I cannot get the color image to come up correctly on the blog. Which doesn't make sense because it will come up fine when I print it. Either way, here is the black and white version. Here is a photo of the color version on my computer. Terrible quality, but it is so much stronger in color than black in white. This was a great experience. I have never styled a shoot for a lifestyle brand. It is a part of the styling niche, so it is good to be well rounded. Styling jobs are very difficult to obtain which I am finding out, so the more well rounded I can be all the better! Stay tuned, I have a photo shoot I am styling with a photographer friend of mine next Weds. So pictures will soon follow! Check out Katelin's blog and work as well, she is really talented.

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