Meskita | Spring Summer 2015

Aladdin's Paramour

 Rub on the lamp.... Your wish is my command ! 

Life of a Stylist: Days of change

I come to you guys to share some amazing news !!

Behind the Scenes editorial- MWITU Pastel

Pastel from takem2church on Vimeo.
My editorial shoot with Brandon Mitchell Brandon Mitchell Photography called MWITU Pastel, Wild Pastel. Video by Shawn Church.

Models-  Rachel Faulkner: Model , Dorian Maris - Model with Muse Model Management , and Jasmine Johnson.
Featuring clothing by Achalla Est Couture , and QooQoo

Hair Stylist- Nadirah Alexander
MUA(S) Brandy Page Mua, AND Carly C Vega

The day we created magic was the moment I will not forget ! Working with a team that everyone work equally as hard to create a new mood  is worth more then words. However, My life as a stylist always have those challenges, but when you take all that in. You'll begin to see a change and make every moment count. Alright, enough of the sob story! The photos will come soon from this editorial shoot, I hope you enjoyed the video !

Last but not least, I want to thank the team who was apart of the crew, Please be sure to check them out. Including, The designers whom clothing made every shot worth it, and as well the models !!

Documented Concept shoot.

      When seeing this photograph  shot from behind the scenes of my concept we shoot December 10th. We will be submitting to a magazine soon enough, I've taken the moment to realize this is the awakening moment for me. Though. I do have a longer journey ahead of me. I can already taste what it could be like to plan something months before time, creating mood boards so that everyone can understand what direction your head is going, and also bringing together a team of creative people that know what you want and what you asked for.

    Every time I began to plan something, I'm always learning something new. A stylist in general does it all when planning the concept except shoot the images. I had to know the lighting I wanted; Hair; Make-up; and clothing. I had to direct the model so that they can translate the mood through the picture.

   As I watch my assistant stylist: Sylvia Clark add the accessories I picked out, and Hair Stylist Elijah Greene make touch ups I start to wonder off into how things have finally come together. The dress I pulled from Long Tran's Spring/Summer 2013 collection was the perfect fit.

I'm excited to see the final edits, and can't wait until we send out our photos to a few magazine publications.

After a while there will be a video release from the shoot. As of now, I'm not sure if I can release the name of our concept but all I can say is " In due time."

To be continued

Only minutes to spare,  our images have been revealed and i'm loving every moment of it!

The model did an amaze job,  and the photographer : john herzog

Check out: burnette-burke.blogspot.com For more photographs.

Task done.

Today, I've taken on,  moved through, and conquered the entire world right with only 2 days to finish my fashion commitments. 
Saturday I received a message from a representative wanting me to work with a fresh face to the modeling world for willamenia models and another agency in NY. Other then that I know I had a short amount of time to get these chores done. Since I don't drive,  I called my boyfriend to take me to the mall early in the morning around 11am stayed until the stores opened at 12am. I really had to pick up two items that were easy and affordable too purchase. Then  headed downtown to Rumors Boutique to pull tons of simple looks and pieces.
NEXT MORNING! I had to wake up around 6:55am and the shoot started at 8:00am. I picked out what I wanted to wear and headed out the door.(Thank goodness I packed everything the night before)
Any who, I'm super excited that I was contacted to be apart of the shoot for the model and seriously hope for the best that she makes it in the industry along with other wonderful models of the industry !  She could possibly be the next  Naomi Campbell. Also nice to know my work will be in her portfolio bring the up most madness to the scene while she's giving fever, and I believe the agencies are going to eat it up ! (Figuratively speaking)
I loved the fact that the room was a very positive group ,  energetic  with the model, her mother ,and the Make up artist Lulu, who I have been longing to meet, and nice seeing the photographer again since the last time I assisted a shoot with a different stylist, recieved the opportunity to style myself that day a couple of months ago when being fresh to the fashion styling world.
Alright dolls. I'm fatigued and need a nap. Lol
17 and making  moves but I have much more that I have too prove. Additionally, most important is myself and last others.
P.s : while pulling clothing from rumors. I found these oversized shades(sunnies) and i'm in love with them. They are the ones I've wanted since the last collaboration with H&M last season, and to find them in that store was worth buying.
Excited to see the finale product!
Xoxo

MSGM: THE AUTUMN/WINTER 2012 CAMPAIGN

I seen this collection floating around on Tumblr and couldn't help but blog about it !

I love the experimentation of flowers and fire works that gives you a time of excitement for Winter/fall 2012. I couldn't help but to feel my medication has been restocked , and I feel better already. The video was even better considering that it focused on digital movements but it was very functional. Shot by  Luca Finotti, and styled by Paolo Zagorei. The models were an amazing pick for this campaign and their names are:  Quinta Witzel, Ioana Timoce, Simone Nobili & Samuele Visentin.

Well enough of me trying to explain how amazing they are and the clothing is! Watch for yourself... Enjoy

My fashion affairs

I'm back and have news to share with you all !

Tuesday, I went downtown in Petersburg, VA to help assist a shoot with a stylist I worked with before I started my very own style team and it was all the pleasure of meeting the model Named Jenna Luxe. It so happens she was the face of a music video called where is Molly produced by a french born Dj  that received tons of hits and tweeted by Madonna. " I don't condone in drug usage."

But you have to admire her !!

Other then that I met her on our way to the hotel , when we were shooting with  her. I was in pure shock of how see moved, in an electric matter. The setting of the shoot was unimaginable because of the grungy look of it. but it was perfect for shooting a grunge ,sexy . chic photograph. I even brought my vintage fox to the shoot so that Jenna can rock the photographs out !

I do hope to work with her in the future!!

I'm excited to see her again , and see the finale photos.

Book Us

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More photos to come on Burnette & Burke.

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THE BIG BANG

wearing : Mink, blazer, Broken Celebirty Sunglasses (esty.com) , Louis Vuttion bag, Plaid shirt

Wow, What a load of Fresh air it is to get back to you guys after  missing days of posting. My week has been everywhere dealing with High School, Homework, peers, networking, and working on the weekend for Hollister Co. on the weekends. GESH!  A work load to do. Besides from that exciting things have been happening to me. Went shopping for my school's fashion show that will be occurring this month and boy talk about serious team work also including that I'm the coordinator that gives ideas. I've been thinking about things as far as for the model's make-up, What time will it start , and where it would be held at the time being of the show. Second year doing this and I want it to be better than the one we hosted last year at the end of the day. I imagined this year's fashion show as if I were in Dior couture show just blowing the crowd away. During the show it's suppose to be different categories such as Formal, Winter attire, and Fur and of course I chosen to model for fur, Picture me walking down the runway like Chanel Iman. HA! but I got skills along with the talents.

During the entire week I have been giving a sneak of what I might wear but not nessercerly giving them every detail there is just getting everyone excited about the show, lord knows I am.

I will be posting more photos after my the show of my outrageous out fits.

Fashion Spotlight: INTERVIEW WITH CELEB FASHION STYLIST TRE FORD

Tre Ford only in his  20’s  was already making statements where ever he went. Trekking through clubs around the city he would constantly be approached and asked for autographs and the name of his stylist. They all loved his aesthetic and natural attraction to glamour. People wanted to look like Tre because he creates a persona with his clothes that everybody envied. It does not matter who you are because he possesses the uncanny ability to find a person’s individual flair and elegance, and illuminate it with his sheer style and grace.

The Brooklynite with Haitian roots is ready to be added to the list of greats hailing from his town. Born Berthold Jean-Charles, he grew up studying the aesthetics of artists like Jimi Hendrix, Bootsie Collins, and Prince. Tre Ford is just beginning to get started in this complex world that he calls an “influx of non-signature works of art”. By creating art through fashion, he’s making it known that he is here to stir up controversy and chaos, while simultaneously keeping people inspired. Tre Ford has worked with celebrity photographers Charles Tracy and Willis Roberts. His work has graced the pages of such prestige publications such as ELLE, Z!NK and Boulevard .

I just had to interview him because his talent as a Afro American shined among me.

 How are you today Mr. Ford?

 I have seen your work and to be honest it's amazing! What inspires you each time you style a client?

 Merci, Everything!.... I'm always going through a different experience so I use that with each and every project and I always want to top my last work of art. I'm always competing with myself!


What's the story of how you started styling?

 Well... I've always loved to express myself trough clothing and I wanted to take that to another level. So while working in a high boutique on the upper east side I met Janice Dickinsons sister and after a lengthy conversation she introduced me to French photographer Antoine Verglas and the rest is history.

as a stylist what have you faced?

High end*

·  Hmmmm.... This is a very contradictory answer but, being creative in a world where your honored and praised for it was a very prevalent reality for me. As well as working my way through a predominantly white industry. But once I started to prove myself "WORTHY" I started to be accepted slowly and slowly.

 what separates you from others fashion stylist in the industry?

 What separates me is the ability to take my personal style and bring it to the forefront of my work. Which has been a gift and a curse, because if you look at the overall scope and aesthetic of fashion... It's mostly a straight line... Not that many curves or detours so to speak. As well as my ability and blessing in disguise to have never been granted the opportunity of being able to assist a fashion stylist or intern for a magazine... Which is something almost every seasoned fashion stylist has done.

· 


out of all the years to that have pasted what client would you say was you favorable to shoot?

·  Myself, when I shot the editorial for my feature in Hollywood Weekly with my muse Gemmy Quellz from Major Model Management that was an experience that I would never forget. I was the "MODEL" "CREATIVE DIRECTOR" and "FASHION STYLIST". So, for now that would be my most favorable client to shoot. I know that's not the answer most would say. But, I'm not most people






 what designers inspire you?

I'm inspired by Dsquard2, John Gallino, Gucci, Commes DES Garçon.

·  Comme des garcons

 What's your alternative to fashion?

Alternative to fashion..... Writing







In ten words what describes Tre Ford?

10 words that would describe me would be.... PERSISTANT, COURAGEOUS, TRIUMPHANT, PEACEFUL, SIGNATURE, INNOVATIVE, POWERFUL, CONSISTENT, MINDFUL,

·  and of course. AMAZING ;)

 

 Most stylist that have been that have been in the styling scene eventually start there own fashion line, Do you see Tre ford as a brand?

It's interesting that this question is asked now... Because I have gotten this many time before. But now I'm in a graciously different place in my life. So I will just say ... I'm creating the brand before people even know that I exist. So you take that wherever you want to. ;)

I've recently and forever will work for the people who can't seem to find a voice in a fashion world that only gives way for a few.

What do you think would change about Tre Ford in 10 years or less?

The only will change besides the amount of wrinkles on my face would be the number of people I touch with my overall aesthetic as a fashion entity and my philosophy of being a human being a part of a forever changing society.

·  The only thing that will change*

 

What advice would you give to those that want to make it in the industry of fashion?

BE YOURSELF!! And  know exactly what it is that you want. Think of it like this..... How would you know if a small child is hungry if it doesn't go near the refrigerator?

I've recently and forever will work for the people who can't seem to find a voice in a fashion world that only gives way for a few.



Thank you so much !

Tre Ford- "No problem. It's always a pleasure to share what I do and give a voice through words and not just clothing."

Here's some of Tre Ford's work

Elle Vietnam - July 2011 - Summer Love - unpublished photo with my skirt
Foto: Jamie Nelson
Styling: Tre Ford
under the creative direction of Phuong My
Pearls: vintage CHANEL

You can View more on his Website : http://treford.tumblr.com/

You will fall in love believe me I did.