The Well Styled Life

HAROLD JAY MELVIN

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but someone”

-COCO CHANEL




Jay as he’s called says of himself: designer/stylist, purveyor of chic. First idol: Lenny Kravitz.
Style icons: Tom Ford/ Patricia Field. Favorite Photographers David Lachapelle/Helmet Newton
Radar: Style.com

Personal Style: Razor sharp Italian tailoring mixed with 80’s urban and a bit of punk thrown in for good measure.
Best Fashion moment on film: The Eyes of Laura Mars starring Faye Dunnaway.
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At a young age (though he didn’t pen the above quote) Jay decided to be someone… The stylist artist formed his eclectic fashion vision by fusing many of the influences in his surroundings from world travel (his education transcended the classroom taking him to Paris, Japan, Morocco London, The Cote De Azure, Italy, and South Africa) and His Fathers music to his mothers Penchant for couture.
Jay’s love affair with fashion began at young age; he received a scholarship to attend a gifted artist workshop at Moore College of Art and Design at the age of twelve. He counted his education in New York at The Fashion Institute of Technology receiving a degree in women’s wear design with a minor in Art History. After college he juggled being an A-list scenester and stints at some of Europe’s Top fashion Houses. During this period he further developed his trendsetting sense of style. Jay ‘s larger than life personality was and still is the catalyst for his chameleon-like sense of style.
Soon hip-hop came calling tapping Jay to not only work his magic on some of hip and R&B’s elite but to grace their video projects with his statement making looks.

Fast-forward to the present, Jay most recently completed a stint as a women’s wear personal shopper for the GUCCI Group where he counted some of the most influential men and women in the world as his clients. “Being donned the go to guy for GUCCI”.
After building a stable of clients he went out on his own and started all eyes on you, a styling, imaging, and personal shopping firm. His A List client following sing his praises on the red carpet and in some of world’s most well renowned publications. Now most of his time is divided between globe trotting to source the hottest trends, sitting front row at some of the worlds edgiest Runway shows, providing style guidance to some of music, fashion and nightlife’s elite and most recently Creating costumes for TV and Film as well as contributing to publications such as Kurve, Future claw, Surface, Trace, Zink, Elle international, Fashion mini, and Kouture Magazine.

When New York’s own “IT” boy was asked what next? He answered Fashion Anarchy!! (I’m taking over watch OUT!!)