Things only stylists do. Part 1
February 27, 2013
I recently learnt of a spirited editor on an interiors magazine, who banned the use of a certain flower in all shoots because a reader complained that only stylists would think to have them in their homes. In honour of this tale of outrage, today I give you the first instalment of a new feature, Things Only Stylists Do:
Part 1: The hydrangea display.
Isn’t it out there?
What have you seen that’s so exotic an interiors magazine might ban it?
I think I need to do the fashion version of this!
It is RIPE for fashion, I’ll be tuning in as ever to see if you do.
Oh… I must be a stylist…..I have hydrangeas on my mantlepiece. Ok they maybe dried from the summer but I love them.
Trish I do too, out and proud and I’m o stylist.
Straw hats? I’ve had a past ed ban these after seeing some dubious styling…this then became shorthand: ‘Oh I’m not sure about that look, it’s a bit straw hat’…..
One catalogue shoot I worked on had similar – there had been a culture of overly-vintage background props, culminating in a pair of small child’s vintage ice skates used as a casual bedroom accessory, which tipped everything over the edge. Reforms were then brought in.
Brilliant! Must look out for vintage skates in future lifestyle pics. Possibly with straw hats for that ‘use the shot whatever the season’ styling….!
Love the hydrangeas, I always buy them when there around. GG
Forgive the spelling mistake (I couldn’t). Should be I always buy them when They’re around.
That’s funny… Was toying with a ‘things only interiors writers say’ post only this morning!
Ha! Brilliant, yes plenty of fodder for that.
The hydrangeas are the spot of colour thar give life to this brown display, and the gorgeous old table highlights the floral arrangement.
Only in interiors writers’ homes… Book-stack bedside tables, especially in colour-spectrum-graduation. Especially made entirely from vintage Penguins.
erm, guilty. Or I have been. Used to have a lovely, but unreadable, stack of colour-ordered Mills & Boons. SHould have paid more attention to that… x
I am neither a stylist nor an interiors writer, and I have hydrangeas (fresh when I can, dried right now) and bedside books (some artful, some artless, some just piled about, some falling over…).
Well me too. The other My Friend posted this and she’s obviously not checked out my mantelpiece in a while. Once dried they seem to last forever. x