Using a stylist for your Photoshoot with Suzanne Suthers

Suzanne Suthers has been a personal stylist for 16 years — after training as a nurse, working in fashion, and running her own accessory shop. Now she works mostly with 40-plus business clients, a growing share of them men who started noticing themselves on Zoom.Marcus and Sam talk to Suzanne about what a stylist actually does on a shoot, why colour choice matters more than most photographers realise, and whether the cost of hiring one is worth it.Why lockdown Zoom calls quietly grew Suzanne’s male client baseThe colours that photograph well on almost everyone — and the ones that wash people outWhy a jacket, and darker tones generally, read as authority on cameraWhat Suzanne actually needs from clients before a shoot: outfits, timing, hair and makeup prepWhether the extra cost of a stylist is worth it for a client shootThe two people — one a national treasure, one a former PM — Suzanne would love to styleA stylist’s eye on the details photographers rarely think to ask clients about.Working with stylists is a recurring theme — Using Models in your Work covers the same territory from the modelling side instead.