- BAY GARNETT
- STYLIST & AUTHOR
- CHEAP DATE
Bay Garnett is a style polymath, having established a strong position within fashion styling, editorial and consultancy. She gained initial experience in galleries such as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Pace Wildenstein in New York and working for photographic agency Art Department. In 1997 she launched acclaimed underground, anti-fashion magazine 'Cheap Date' in New York with Kira Jolliffe, which has won them the title 'thrift pioneers'. The magazine has contributors such as Anita Pallenberg, Chloe Sevigny, Liv Tyler and Debbie Harry. Since 2002 she has been Style Director for British designer Matthew Williamson, and a Contributing Editor for British Vogue. In 2004 she designed "Unique" a limited edition range for Top Shop. In 2006, Cheap Date was published as a book, and Bay became a consultant for Louis Vuitton and Chloe. Last year, the 'Bay' bag became a key fashion piece in the press.
"(Cheap Date is) a fun, irreverent, antidotal kind of magazine about secondhand thrift collecting. It's an anti-lifestyle magazine. It's not telling you how to lead your life or what to do or what to buy. It's about imagination and thinking for yourself. It's non-dictatorial. Free-thinking, I guess. That's the way I see it."
"What Cheap Date finally is saying is that actually things don't have to be new. You can just shift things. You can just do things in a different way."
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