LAUREN GARRETT JOLY
fashion stylist

Experience

Junior Stylist for E-Commerce at Saks Fifth Ave (Saks.com) 

June 2021 -  Present  |  Lower Manhattan, New York, NY 

Assists the Stylist in-studio by steaming & prepping 65+ garments each morning, styling out & organizing the garment rack (for start & end of day), helping to choose props & shoes for each look, tracking and inputting every prop/look credits into a Google Spreadsheet as we shoot, prepping the model, and aiding the Stylist and other studio team members with anything else needed on set. Also periodically helps research and select props/accessories for the studio fashion closet, as well as creating fashion trend and brand reports.

US Press Assistant at T LABEL

Oct 2020 -  October 2021 (Freelance)  |  Remote

Handled press in the United States for British luxury brand T Label : received and coordinated all pull requests, send-outs, returns, and transfers of select T Label samples to & from different stylists/magazines/brands/etc across the country. Managed any other PR inquiries from within the states for the brand, all while in direct virtual correspondence with brand designer & founder Taylor-Bea Gordon (who is based in England). 

Stylist Associate at Leap Inc

Oct 2019 - Oct 2020  |  West Village, New York, NY 

Sales/stylist associate at the Something Navy storefront on Bleecker Street (+ the now closed Thakoon brick & mortar pre-covid - both were powered by Leap). At both stores: managed fitting rooms, greeted, cashiered, did stockroom runs, and occasionally assisted with visual merchandising. All along with always creating positive customer experiences & relationships to drive sales, by providing in-store personal styling and superior shopping assistance. 

Assistant E-Commerce Stylist for ANN INC 

Dec 2019 - Feb 2020, September 2023 (Freelance)  |  New York, NY

On-set styling assistant at e-commerce photoshoots for Ann Taylor brands: assisted the on-set stylist by organizing, prepping, & steaming all garments/accessories, dressing and aesthetically perfecting each model for set. Also aided the stylist prior to each photoshoot by helping with outfit decisions and photographic documentation at the in-office style-out. 

Styling Intern at Mel Ottenberg Studio/Interview Magazine 

Sep 2019 – Nov 2019  |  New York, NY

Main tasks were returning and collecting clothes from PR’s & designers across New York (and NJ), handling and packing/unpacking returns of samples, organizing the fashion closet, and occasionally assisting in the same tasks with samples on-set at photo/video shoots.

Fashion Intern at Wonderland Magazine 

Dec 2017 - Mar 2018   |  London, England

Responsibilities included: packing, unpacking, and completing dockets for fashion samples, returning and collecting clothes from PR’s & designers, organizing the office/fashion closet. Also assisted fashion editors at photoshoots for Wonderland, Rollacoaster, and Gay Times magazine(s) - which meant transporting suitcases of clothes to set, steaming/prepping garments, organizing/displaying accessories, dressing models, documenting looks, writing shoot credits, etc. 

Skills

~ Creative Direction   ~ Photoshoot Production  

~ On-model and Product styling   ~ Experience in-studio & on-location  

~ Adobe Suite (particularly Photoshop and Indesign)

~ Microsoft suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc)  

~ Google Suite (Sheets, Drive, Docs, Slides)  ~ Customer service  

~ Creative Writing   ~ Project Leadership and Teamwork