I was recently asked to define my ‘style’
Which made me think about what 'having style' means to me (with 📸)
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I was recently asked to define my ‘style’. It was a challenge. And it made me think about what having style means to me.
This essay is what I came up with (with 📸)
Plus, a lesson in being explicit about what you want.
A few weeks ago I received an email from the editor of a magazine
It was an inquiry to find out if I’d be open to being photographed for the cover. In the email the editor said, ‘You have such an incredible sense of style and I think you would make a really dynamic, joyous cover.’
It was the first time I had been asked to do anything like this and a procession of thoughts followed. The first were the lyrics to Madonna’s Vogue1. Then, what a lovely thing for someone to say. Finishing with, do I really have an “incredible sense of style”?
The shoot would happen in Lisbon (here are some of my favourite spots in this wonderful city).
Discussions continued and I soon learnt that I would be working with a make-up artist, which I am used to for most of my TV work. But I would also have a stylist with me for the day, someone who would source, curate and coordinate my outfits. And there would be four ‘looks’.