Vice Style

Anna on the right

My buddy Anna Trevelyan is hot shit. We met when she started assisting big deal, as in creative director of Uniqlo, Thierry Mugler and Vogue Homme Japan and Lady Gaga's stylist, big deal guy Nicola Formichetti. I'd already been assisting him for a few months and we had a lot of fun flying round the world doing cool stuff, though naturally he had more fun because we were the assistants.

Anna's one of those fashion editors who's as much of an art director as she is a stylist, the sort capable of doing more than combining clothes in mildly novel ways. Looking at the evidence, we'd say she's gonna be the sort who, like Ray Petri, Simon Foxton, Katie Grand or indeed Anna's boss Nicola Formichetti did before her, goes on to define a whole new style.

She mixes mad inhuman accessories, manga-ish and hip-hop references into a swirly highly sexualized rather than cute whole. One of the magazines you can see her work in is Untitled #0, the mag she's the fashion director of. Also, although like everyone in fashion claims a place in Lady Gaga's affections, Anna works with her boss Nicola on a lot of Gaga's looks.

Nasir Mazhar

Vice: When you first started with Nicola, you already had a distinct style - super poppy and bright, highly sexed and intense. How did your weird style develop? Were you always so highly sexed?
Anna Trevelyan: Ha ha, is my style weird? I am still exploring, of course, and trying to play around with lots of new ideas. But I love to shoot people that are sexy and confident, I love the idea of teenage lust... But I guess I am drawn towards sexy, strange things, ha ha!

What is it about pop and sex you really like?
Hmm... Maybe because where I was growing up there was not much to be interested in other than SEX and POP. I guess there are many reasons why sex and pop are so core to what i'm inspired by, but I dont know if i can about write that without doing a whole thesis.

Charlie Le Mindu

Your work with Charlie Le Mindu really shows off this super graffic, cartoony styling you do.
I guess I kind of can't get away from the fact that I love and am inspired by people that become almost charicatures of themselves. So, often it's interesting to kind of work from a cliché and put my own fashion spin on it, if that makes sense. Probably not!

How's working for Nicole Formichetti and Lady Gaga?
Working for Gaga is like living in a whirlwind of inspiration and vision and pop! The scale of everything is so massive. It's like living in a fashion shoot the whole time. I haven't worked for loads of stylists, but the thing about Nicola is that however stressful the situation is, he's like the calm at the centre of the storm. He never seems stressed or angry, he's just very happy to be doing what he does.

Graveyard installation for Machine-A

What do you do for London store Machine-A?
I used to go shopping there and I really loved the way director Stavros Karelis was trying to support and develop new designers. So obviously, I just wanted to tell him about the cool young designers I knew about. We both think alike and love finding new talent so we work really well together. Now I consult for the store on all the designers stocked, window installations and gallery installations.

From the pages of Untitled #0

Talk about Untitled #0 magazine.
Untitled is dedicated to promoting the talent of young designers around the world. I work on it with the editor Junsuke Yamasaki. He's a very passionate man about fashion, he really wants to see young people develop into great designers, so we're trying to give them a platform where they won't be overshadowed by big brands and credits. We just try to show the world the talent is out there!

Anna's work in Dazed Japan

Youth is a big thing with you, then.
Absolutely. A lot of the fashion industry is stuck in its ways and it's amazing to have the opportunity to give some fresh talents a platform to show what they can do.

What's your wider vision, beyond fashion?
To be open-minded, and always try to learn new things.

Don't you go a bit mad trying to do so much?
Not really, because I'm so happy and so grateful to be in a job that I love. So much so, that even when I'm so tired I never dread work - I still love styling, designing, editing, consulting and doing lots of different things at once. Plus, I get bored easily, so I really couldn't do anything else anyway!

What did you do before fashion?
I guess I was a teenager, so teenagery things like getting drunk on blue WKD and falling in love with boys. Plus the other usual explicit teenagery things.  

Who else do you love and who do you see as a caricature of themselves?
Pamela Anderson, Katie Price, Tommy Lee, Jenna Jameson, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, Lolo Ferrari and Charlie Le Mindu. I think the ultimate is Pamela. One time, Charlie tricked me into thinking she was at a party that we were on the way to and I nearly had a panic attack, ha ha.

SAM VOULTERS

TAGGED: Untitled 0, Nasir Mazhar, Machinea, Charlie Lemindu, Anna Trevelyan, Sam Voulters, Lady Gaga