Sunday Stylist

So those that know me personally may know that I consider myself a Jack of All Trades (Master of None, somewhat). I'm hyperactive and like to be involved in a million projects at once - Must keep those plates spinning!

What? I'm a Lawyer, gogo dancing in an art gallery during the day - TAKE ME SRSLY!

I'm a 'qualified' stylist (for whatever that's worth) but generally refer to myself as a "Sunday Stylist". What I mean by this is that it's not my bread and butter. During the week I'm busy being a lawyer, either at my main firm or freelancing as part of the WA arm for the amazing folk at Creative Legal.

My nocturnal nights are spent doing admin for my boutique The Powder Room, and my weekends are spent performing or rehearsing with my GoGo troupe The Beehives. Add a few dance classes a week, a samba performance troupe, an emerging events company and a lovely (patient) boyfriend and that doesn't leave a lot of time for styling sessions - but every now and then, I find myself with a bit of time (often on a Sunday afternoon!), a cool concept and some amazing people to work with and I finally get to stretch my styling legs.

I've managed to snatch enough time to do a few great shoots lately, so I thought I'd share some images with you. I'm going to split this into a few posts as it's extensive - and maybe try and group them a bit according to style (conceptual/fun/high fashion/retro). Shall we start with Retro? Ok, I think we shall. Credits are as stated.

So you've probably picked up on my intense love of the 60s by now, no? Most recently I got to finally style a shoot that the wonderful photographer (Marti Hughes) and I had been discussing since we first met and instantly hit it off (bonding over being Irish - in my case, 'Irishish' - and laughing at other peoples stupidity).

We both love the mod era and culture and were keen to shoot. It took us an awfully long time to find our perfect model though (over a year) but when we found her, oh boy was she perfect.

The following are shots from a rainy sunday afternoon shoot in a Northbridge car park. I styled 3 looks, both Marti and other Perth photographer and all round nice guy Danny Reardon of Tomoboy photography were behind the lens, our beautiful pixie model Chloe Morien is also a talented make up artist and runs 'A Brush With Colour'  and the awesome Tim King responded to our call out for a fabulous 60s scooter. Thanks also to the fabulous Lisa Rodrigues over at Your Fashion for covering this shoot (and in the process kicking my butt into action to cover some of my own shoots!)

All clothing is either the stylists own, vintage or from The Powder Room.

Stay tuned for more styling work (I think I have a back log of about 11 shoots to put up!) And if you're ever bored, googling mod fashions has to be one of the BEST time wasters.