From the Chair to the Set: Break into Editorial & Celebrity Work with David Lopez
Session details:
There’s no clear roadmap for breaking into editorial and celebrity styling. Most stylists piece it together through luck, connections, or trial and error.
In this candid session, David Lopez (@davidlopezzz), whose editorial work has included Ashley Graham, Chrissy Teigen, Hailey Beiber, AVA Max, and others, shares the path he took and the lessons he wishes he'd learned sooner. He'll cover assisting, testing, agency representation, portfolio development, and the business realities of editorial work, including contracts, rates, usage, and the roles of the key players you'll encounter on set.
David also explores how to maintain your creative point of view while collaborating with photographers, producers, art directors, and brands, and reveals what truly separates stylists who get rehired: a trained eye.
To bring it all together, he'll transform a finished salon style into a camera-ready editorial look live on stage using only his hands, a comb, and finishing spray, explaining every decision along the way.
Topics include:
- Assisting, testing, agency representation, brand education, and social media as pathways into editorial work
- Building a portfolio agencies want to see
- What agents do and don't do for your career
- Understanding the roles of photographers, producers, art directors, and brands
- Maintaining your creative vision on set
- Live model demonstration: turning a salon look into an editorial look through styling choices, not products
- Rates, usage, commissions, kit fees, and key contract considerations
This is the class David wishes existed when he was starting out.
