me; new clients want to rethink their images entirely. In either
case, it���s essential to take someone���s visual profile somewhere
new and non-derivative and to be sure that this image, or brand,
if you will, reflects where they are and where they need to be in
the current landscape. I relish transformation and re-branding;
I am happiest when given the freedom to radically change
someone stylistically. I gave Lena her chic slicked back hair, and
did the same for Al
Sharpton, speaking
of transformative.
8. Has a subject ever
been unhappy with
a picture?
Once. A great singer.
She smoked up a
storm, disrespected
my crew, and suffered
from
self-hatred.
And this was not
Jessye Norman, who
is one of the loveliest
people I have ever
Al Sharpton
known; not Abbey
Lincoln, who was a
true queen, and not the great Nina Simone. Nina was impossible
but worth every minute of torture. After seeing her pictures,
she said, very dramatically, in that over-the-top Nina voice:
���Carol. You made me look like Audrey Hepburn, and I thank
you.���
HYLAND