Autumn Winter 2026 · Twenty-four looks
Livia Castellani
Fashion stylist for houses, magazines and a few private clients. Every look I build is numbered, credited and kept on a card, and this is the season's book.
The looks
Plates from this season
Six of the twenty-four, in the order they were shot. The photographer and the publication are printed under each one, the way a lookbook does it.
Photography Elena Rossi Publication Maison Aubry, Autumn Winter 2026
Photography Tomas Lindqvist Publication Rivista Sera, September 2026
Photography Elena Rossi Publication Private, an opening night in Milan
Photography Marco Bellini Publication Ferrante, Spring campaign
Photography Tomas Lindqvist Publication Il Quaderno, March 2026
Photography Elena Rossi Publication Private client, Milan
The stylist
A book of looks, kept since 2011
Who dresses the pages, and what she has on while she does it.
Wearing Shirt, Maison Aubry · Trousers, cut to her own pattern · Shoes, Ferrante, resoled twice
I build looks for houses, magazines and a small number of private clients, and I have numbered every one of them since 2011.
The first six years were spent on other people's fittings, pinning hems in the corridor of a Milanese house and then editing pages at a monthly. The card index started there: a look, its pieces, who photographed it, what was borrowed and from whom. It runs to two thousand one hundred and forty cards now, and it is the reason I can tell a client on the phone exactly what she wore to the same dinner three years ago.
Campaigns and editorials take most of the year. The private work is a few people a season, by referral, dressed for galas, weddings and the months in between. Both run the same way: a fitting, a rail, a book of looks, and nothing on the rail I have not tried on a body first. I own eleven hundred wooden hangers, all the same, and I do not allow a plastic one on a set.
- Based
- Milan, Brera, and wherever the fitting is
- Since
- 2011, assisting from 2005
- Represented
- Studio Marsala, for campaign and editorial
- Languages
- Italian, English, French
Livia Castellani · Via Palermo, Milan
The edit
Six pieces I would buy this season
What I would put on a rail for myself, chosen from the showrooms I walked this month.
The black pump, low block heel
The one shoe that goes under a column, a trouser and a wedding dress without an argument.
Ask about it
The chocolate belt, brass buckle
Worn on the second hole for eleven years. It has outlasted three coats.
Ask about it
Bone cashmere scarf
Warm enough for a February fitting, plain enough to be in every photograph without being seen.
Ask about it
The ivory silk shirt
Cut long, so it tucks or hangs. I own four and they are all the same one.
Ask about it
The small black bag, top handle
Holds a phone, a tin of pins and nothing else, which is the point.
Ask about it
Long black leather gloves
Every gown in this book was photographed with a pair within reach.
Ask about itNothing here is paid for. I take no commission from any house, which is the only reason the list is worth reading.
Engagements
What can be booked
Four ways of working: two of them through my agent, two of them directly with me.
Campaign styling
For houses shooting a season, a fragrance or a capsule
The looks, the rail, the fittings and the set days, with the credits written before the shoot so the book is right when it prints.
Editorial
For magazines and their fashion directors
Stories of eight to sixteen pages, pulled from showrooms I know by name, shot in one or two days and returned by the Friday.
Private clients
For a few people a season, by referral
A fitting in your own wardrobe, a rail of what is missing, and a numbered book of looks for the months ahead. Nothing is bought on the first day.
Occasion dressing
For galas, weddings and the dinner before them
One look, built in two fittings from what exists and what is borrowed, delivered pressed on the morning of.
Rates
What it costs
Printed here so nobody has to ask. The figures are a starting point; the fitting decides the rest.
Rate card
Campaign and editorial
Private clients
Consulting
Editorial rates follow the publication's card and are agreed through the agency. Private work is invoiced per season, half on booking. A fitting cancelled inside forty-eight hours is charged in full.
How it runs
The order of a booking
The same five steps for a campaign and for a wedding, at a different scale.
First
The letter A week
You write, I reply within two working days with a date or with the name of someone who can do it sooner.
Second
The fitting Half a day
In your own wardrobe or in the studio, with a tape, a tin of pins and everything you already own on the rail first.
Third
The rail Two weeks
What is missing, pulled from the houses and tried on you, never on a hanger. Nothing is bought until it has been worn.
Fourth
The book A day
Every look numbered, photographed and credited on a card, so a dinner in March can be dressed from the book in five minutes.
Fifth
The day itself The morning of
Pressed, delivered and, when it matters, pinned on you at the door.
The fitting room
The back pages
What the looks come out of: the rail, the pins, the mirror, and the morning before the shoot.
The houses
Who I have dressed the pages for
Campaigns, lookbooks and editorials, in the order the work came in.
- Maison Aubry Campaigns since 2019
- Casa Lombardi Three lookbooks
- Rivista Sera Twenty stories
- Alderby Two campaigns
- Sorelle Pavan Lookbook and showroom
- Il Quaderno Editorial
- Ferrante Spring campaign
- Guanti Brera A capsule
And a few private clients who would rather not be listed, which is exactly why they stay.
Press
As seen in
The stories that ran, and where.
Notes
What the houses said
Written after the shoot, kept with the cards.
She arrived with the rail already in the order we would shoot it, every hanger numbered to the page. We finished at four and nobody had raised their voice.
The campaign looked like the house, not like a stylist. That is the rarest thing there is, and it is the only reason we book the same person twice.
I wore the same coat to three dinners and nobody noticed, because she had built three looks around it. My daughter now has the card index for her own wedding.
Before you write
The usual questions
Answered here so the first email can be about the clothes.
- Do you travel for a fitting?
- Yes. Milan and Paris are home ground; anywhere else is a day rate plus the fare, booked by you or by me, and I bring the pins.
- Is there a deposit?
- Half on booking for private work, the balance when the book of looks is handed over. Campaign and editorial terms are the agency's.
- Can I book you directly for a campaign?
- Campaign and editorial work goes through the agency, always, so that the credits, the usage and the invoice are handled by someone who does it every day.
- Do you take a commission from the houses?
- No, from nobody. What I put on a rail is there because it is right for you, and the houses know it.
- How many private clients do you take?
- Four or five a season. It is the number that lets me be at every fitting myself, which is the whole point of asking me.
Now booking
Spring Summer 2027, from January
Two campaign weeks are still open, and three private seasons. Write early; fittings are set in the order the letters arrive.
Appointments
Request an appointment
Tell me the occasion and roughly when. I will tell you within two days whether I can do it, and honestly if I cannot.
By appointment
Requests are answered within two working days
Thank you. I read every request myself and reply within two working days, with a date if I can do it and a name if I cannot.