Art Feel: Weekly fix of local arts scene
* Art Meet: Top fashion stylist Lisa Powers of Style Point, a commercial, editorial and personal wardrobe/closet revamp styling service. Currently, she is the lead stylist for The River Oaks Shopping she hand-selects clothing for the fashion set in Harris and Montgomery Counties.
Like collage, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms creating a new whole, fashion styling is often about finding the right cocktail of disparate parts to work together, but it also requires a deep understanding of the human skeletal system, body type and insights into a person’s soul.
“A good stylist will figure out who you are,” says Powers. “Not tell you what towear”.
Powers began her style training in Dallas on the floor of Neiman Marcus and later at The School of Style in Los Angles earning a Styling Certification. Powers approaches her fashion styling with a client empowerment philosophy and breaks down her process into three parts: one, body type analysis/ what looks best on you and why; two, closet/wardrobe review; and three, shopping/ Some people just want one piece of the puzzle, some want all the pieces.
Swiss fashion house Akris is a current Powers favorite with its understated suits and separates with polka dot linings for her busy female executive clients. Her shining design star, however, is Tom Ford and heralds Carine Roitfeld, the stylist famous for her provocative work as the former editor of French Vogue, as her ultimate style muse.
Powers credits her entry into the fashion art world to her creative thinking parents Steve and Marie Khatibi (Conroe’s Crown Paper & Chemical, Inc.) and heavyweight fashion designers like Christian Lacroix, Thierry Mugler, Oscar De La Renta and Ralph Lauren, whom she followed in the pages of coveted fashion magazines she collected as a young girl. Originally from Huntsville and a Conroe High School graduate, Powers nowlives with her husband, Larry, in The Woodlands. She enjoys volunteering with The Women’s Home and Dress for Success and playing with the family’s newest grandbaby, Logan.
When Powers views a new fashion collection she is always giddy with excitement. Fashion, like any art form, produces feelings upon engagement with it. Dior’s dynamic structuralism often makes her feel small in a big world (like that feeling when travelling to another country and you are reminded of how big the world is again) while Italian fashion house Etro makes her feel playful – and a bit like she’s riding on the edge of insanity with its fun mix of patterns and color – very unexpected – that Powers enjoys mixing into her clients’ wardrobes. When clothing herself, however, she prefers solid colors, clean lines and bold accessories. The best part of fashion styling for Powers is always helping others figure out how to produce a comfortable look that projects a luxe effortlessness.
* Art Feel: Powers’ thoughts about “Ode to Joy” the piano shaped art bench: “It makes me feel a sense of magic and that the creative world is infinite“. Created by Dan Skaggs and generously underwritten by The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, this public artwork sits along The Woodlands Waterway near the Pavilion entrance. www. the wood lands arts council.org/artfeel
To learn more about Powers’ fashion styling services visit www. stylepointlmp.com. To join the Art Feel conversation “like” and “follow” The Woodlands Arts Council on Facebook and share your thoughts on how the vast collection of public art in The Woodlands makes you feel.