In the week leading up to the Oscars, the biggest talk among the fashion industry was Tom Ford s comment that he would no longer work with anyone through a stylist. A few stylists have become as well known as their clients like Phillip Bloch who now serves as commentator to television networks, has a jewelry line and is launching his acting career and their unprecedented recognition has helped create a backlash. Another public relations director with an American designer said, Tom Ford made a huge statement and said what a lot of us were feeling. Stylists have become too powerful. They are working with more than one person and it becomes not about the woman but about whatever agenda that stylist has - and hearing people that they pay good money to reel off their names any time they re on television to boost their own stock has angered a lot of actresses.
Many stylists are great but some have become horrors to work with.
Some actresses like Julia Roberts were said to have worked without a stylist. The actress says it was not a calculated move but simply a matter of picking the best dress. I saw it and I loved it, she said at the Vanity Fair party. If things continue in this way, I think we will be seriously evaluating our involvement next year, said Brodie, although Winston did fare extremely well by dressing Best Supporting Actress winner Marcia Gay Harden, Sigourney Weaver, Hilary Swank and Julie Andrews among others. Something has got to change.