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Who gets to be a Hollywood stylist?
—Jena, Charlotte, North Carolina
The B!tch Replies: Most Hollywood stylists become Hollywood stylists by following around more successful Hollywood stylists and doing whatever they want for free. They learn the ins and outs of the business that way—often starving themselves skinny in the process.
And that's pretty much it. They're now a size zero, and they're qualified. Some of your more highbrow types may also spend a few years at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, learning the history of muslin and things like that, but that's far from required.
Once on the job, a stylist "stays on top of the trends, attending fashion shows, always networking, whether you're on the clock or not …maintaining the relationships you need, so you can always get the best designers to lend you clothes…going to the cleaners, getting things altered, running around with boxes, carrying stuff all the time."
That's a quote from my own wardrobe stylist, Adriana Gallarzo. (Witness her work on my show—click on the video box at the bottom of this page.)
Most clothing consultants feel no need to follow their clients about like emaciated doppelgängers. They meet the celebs only before an event, TV shoot or magazine cover sitting, and then they go home. For that, they earn a day rate—anywhere from $500 to $5,000, depending on the stylist, the client and the event.
But occasionally, here in town, you'll come across what we like to call the hyperstylists. These are the Icaruses of the fashion world, raisin-faced doyennes who have no idea when to stop reaching for the light emanating from their luminous meal tickets.
They have forgotten how to just go home and watch Grey's Anatomy like the rest of the commoners. Instead, they party with their clients, "eat" with their clients, even pose on the red carpet with their clients. And eventually, when they have stolen one too many rays of spotlight, they get fired.
So went the fate of poor Rachel Zoe, überstylist to Keira Knightley, Lindsay Lohan, Mischa Barton and, until recently, Nicole Richie. Richie fired Zoe, reportedly because of all the attention the stylist was getting in the media.
The stylists who keep themselves invisible are the ones who will always work. Right, Adriana?
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