Maria Lipatnikova (@mlstyle) is a make-up artist and hair stylist, wedding stylist, universal master working all over the world. Her work has been published in magazines such as Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and many others. Trained in Image Consulting, Fashion Styling at Istituto Marangoni, in Milan and Paris. CEO @stylingschool
— What has surprised you in the fashion world lately?
– Something that can be told and shown in fashion by everything: any event and any phenomenon. It has always been so, but now it is as frank and obvious as possible. Of course, the virtual world and its value are surprising. For me it is still an incomprehensible and unknown meta-universe.
— Do you create ideas for style and image on your own or are they mainly the wishes of the client?
– I am a master who is strong and deeply “about a person”. It is the person in my professional work that inspires me. There is a whole world in every person, and my task and passion is to reveal and manifest it. I’m still more of a stylist-psychologist. I do not treat anyone, but I feel very much. Customer focus is my trump card.
-What do you want to achieve in your field? Who do you want to work with?
– Now my intention is to create a project in Moscow and work is already underway on it. I really want him to please as many people as possible, give emotions and new sensations from his beauty. I am interested in bright, deep, talented and bright people – these are always among my clients, and I know that it will be so.
— What work turned out to be the most memorable or, perhaps, the most difficult?
— After 20 years in the profession and working in different areas of the beauty industry, there have been so many situations and events that I can’t remember. I rarely find it difficult, rather interesting. I worked in different countries and in different conditions: in the dark in a castle; in the cabin of a rocking ship (trying to shoot arrows, for example) and creating an image for 15 girls in two hours! I’m not talking about different psycho-emotional states of clients. There were a lot of funny experiences which I came out of each with dignity and professionalism.
Text by K. Mironova
Photo provided by M. Lipatnikova
