Awards Season

A Day in the Life of an Oscar Stylist

All the fashion savvy, industry connections and endless schlepping required to get Hollywood’s top names ready for their big night.

From left: Cristin Milioti (styled by Bailey Moon), Jake Gyllenhaal (styled by Michael Fisher), Diane Lane (Moon’s client) and Sebastian Stan (Fisher’s Oscar-nominated client).

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Once, the stylist Bailey Moon was dressing a female client for a major event, and moments before she left her hotel, a piece of tile, used as embellishment, fell off. Having handled hundreds of situations like this in his career, Bailey leaped into action with some hot glue.

The problem was, though he succeeded in reattaching it to the dress, he had also accidentally glued himself to the garment, too. And thus he found himself in the sleek town car with the actress, on the way to her engagement, desperately trying to get himself unstuck.