IT’S A BIG BRAD WORLD

CELEBRITY STYLIST BRAD GORESKI REVEALS HOW HE ENDED UP DRESSING THE LIKES OF DEMI MOORE AND JESSICA ALBA...

words: Christian guiltenane

GROOMING SPECIAL

Photography: austin hargrave / grooming: Carola Gonzalez / styling: Brad Goreski

There are some people in life that you just want to hate and Brad Goreski is one of them. Not because he’s mean or anything, but because he appears to be living the perfect life. He’s got an amazing career – celebrity stylist by day, TV presenter by night, author, actor, you name it, he does it – he’s dashingly handsome and he’s tying the knot with his partner of 14 years, producer and writer Gary Janetti (Will & Grace, Vicious). Not only that, he looks ten years younger than his thirty-eight years.

Brad first burst on to our lives almost eight years ago when he appeared on celebrity super stylist Rachel Zoe’s TV show, The Rachel Zoe Project. His job as her assistant saw him travelling the world dressing the likes of Demi Moore and Jessica Alba. After three years, the ambitious young chap decided to go solo, and landed a TV show of his own, It’s A Brad Brad World, and penned a memoir that detailed his rise to fame as well as his drug addiction in his early twenties.

When we meet Brad at his home in LA, he is a bundle of fun and is excitedly showing us which looks he has chosen for himself for the shoot. “I love Attitude,” he tells as he prepares for the first shot of the day. “I have always been interested in British culture so I am excited to actually be in the pages of it myself.”

Here, Brad tells us how he got his big break, how he overcame his drug addiction and offers guys like you tips on how to look your best...

You have what some would consider a fantastic job.

When I was at school I got lucky and got a job as the assistant to the West Coast editor of Vogue. After interning there and at W while at college, I was lucky to make some good connections and contacts. A job became available at Vogue and I interviewed for it and got it. It was an amazing experience. I got to work with Grace Coddington, go on shoots with Mario Sorrenti and Mario Testino. I was lucky enough to intern at Vogue back then as they were the days when we’d book town cars to pick up millions of dollars worth of jewellery. I was there for three months before Rachel Zoe called and offered me a job with her. I was with her for three years and that’s when the ball started rolling.