September 17, 2008
stylist rachel brown
Styling is one of those professions. When you first learn that it's basically a job whereby people get paid to shop, it seems incredibly unfair... and perhaps a little too easy. But it's deceptive like that. Magazine stylists have to always be ahead of the times with trends. They have to create completely new looks for different magazines. Their job often also entails doing the equivalent of moving house every day. And so when you think about it like that, it's probably something most of us would rather leave to someone else. Rachel Brown is a talented stylist whose work appears in real living as well as other Australian interior magazines. She's also just launched her own homewares range Attia Home. It's immediately clear that her discerning eye has handpicked these pieces with a view to form, colour and texture. Check out Rachel's Etsy site too - I just have to have those beaded storage boxes.
What five words best describe you? Passionate, over sensitive, enthusiastic, hardy, driven.
What's your proudest achievement? Having just made it to 30 and not having too many regrets.
Who inspires you? Lots of people inspire me; I have always been inspired by Bono and on a more local scale lately I have been inspired by Pip Robb from The Arm Chair in Crows Nest, NSW.
What's your proudest achievement? Having just made it to 30 and not having too many regrets.
Who inspires you? Lots of people inspire me; I have always been inspired by Bono and on a more local scale lately I have been inspired by Pip Robb from The Arm Chair in Crows Nest, NSW.
What are you passionate about? My family and friends, my dog Ruby, travelling in Indonesia, Africa and Italy, anything to do with homes and their interiors, old buildings with lots of flaky layers, Led Zeplin, potato chips and gold kiwi fruit.
What's the best lesson you've learnt? To relax more and enjoy the moment rather than always wishing for what's coming next.
Which person, living or dead, would you most like to meet? Jeff Buckley.
What are you excited about? Almost everything!! But especially homewares and interiors.
What are you reading? Anything by Peter Temple.
What's the best lesson you've learnt? To relax more and enjoy the moment rather than always wishing for what's coming next.
Which person, living or dead, would you most like to meet? Jeff Buckley.
What are you excited about? Almost everything!! But especially homewares and interiors.
What are you reading? Anything by Peter Temple.
Images courtesy of Attia Home