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Erin Walsh Manifested This Interview Through Her Chanel Pumps<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Now the stylist for Ariana DeBose and Anne Hathaway wants to teach you how to manifest your life through fashion, too \u2014 even if your style leans more ASICS and Gap than Valentino and Schiaparelli.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two weeks before The<\/em> Devil Wears Prada 2 <\/em>hit theaters, Anne Hathaway\u2019s stylist, Erin Walsh, asks if I want to see \u201csomething insane.\u201d We\u2019re hiding out in the corner of a hotel lobby, perched on a gray sofa on a gray rug on a gray day in Manhattan. What could possibly be \u201cinsane\u201d here \u2014 a magenta velvet throw pillow? But Walsh cocks her blonde ponytail in a \u201cfollow me\u201d gesture and punches some elevator buttons. The doors open to reveal the offices of Runway, <\/em>the fake magazine based on Vogue <\/em>that drives both the original TDWP <\/em>and its sequel. \u201cThey rebuilt the movie set here for our press junket,\u201d she says, pointing out the gleaming racks of the faux fashion closet; the white-on-white office of Anna Wintour avatar Miranda Priestly where Hathaway will sit for interviews; and the pile of actual Prada bags and shoes culled from the vintage boutique What Goes Around Comes Around. \u201cHonestly, the whole Devil Wears Prada <\/em>thing is so meta to me,\u201d says Walsh, who herself got her start as a fashion assistant at Vogue<\/em>. \u201cI mean, I used to work here. Now, I guess, I work here again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walsh describes the return to this stiletto-pierced chaos as almost Buddhist. \u201cWe\u2019re always put back to where we\u2019re meant to learn the most,\u201d she says. And to the 42-year-old stylist, who also counts Selena Gomez and Mindy Kaling as clients, fashion is both a job and a spiritual cycle. Also: a platform for her new self-help book, The Art of Intentional Dressing<\/a><\/em>, which hits shelves today after nearly a decade in development. Walsh\u2019s career spans double that, beginning with her couture-hauling days for legendary fashion editors like Phyllis Posnick and Samira Nasr and then gradually acquiring Hollywood clients for their red carpet appearances and press tours. With The Art of Intentional Dressing<\/em>, published this week by Harper One, Walsh may capture a bit of the same spotlight that she helps claim for her megawatt clients. But instead of using her proximity to the superfamous and un-gettable Dior bags as a launchpad for, say, the Bravo-verse, Walsh is gunning for something more subtle: to be the world\u2019s self-appointed \u201cfashion therapist\u201d who helps turns clothes into emotional success, transforming your life (and ideally, her grip on pop culture) in the process.<\/p>\n

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Today, Erin Walsh is a top stylist<\/strong> with Hollywood Reporter <\/em>covers, best dressed accolades, and \u2014 as her Oscar-winning client Ariana DeBose<\/a> tells me \u2014 \u201ca girl\u2019s girl who can single-handedly understand what will look good on my body but also make me feel good in <\/em>my body, which is an incredible talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

But before then, Walsh was a kid North Palm Beach, Florida, where she delighted in thrifting vintage Chanel heels and little black Valentino dresses from local charity shops. Though she always loved fashion, Walsh initially moved to New York City to study theatre at NYU, arriving on campus during the same mid-2000s era as Aubrey Plaza, Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, and Lady Gaga. \u201cI thought I would be an actress,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2026 well\u2026 I was not <\/em>an actress. And I had to find something to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Intrigued by the world of magazines \u2014 and encouraged by classmates who had completed internships at various glossies \u2014 Walsh applied to work as a receptionist at Vogue <\/em>publisher Conde Nast through a local staffing agency. \u201cWe would float through all the magazines and just fill in and do daily tasks,\u201d she recalls. While temping, Walsh heard about a full-time job in Vogue<\/em>\u2019s fashion closet and applied. When she graduated in 2004, it became her first job out of college. \u201cVery quickly, I learned that the word \u2018no\u2019 didn\u2019t exist at Vogue<\/em>,\u201d she says. \u201cIf the fashion editors needed something \u2014 anything <\/em>\u2014 you would get it. And that\u2019s really translated into my work as a stylist. We don\u2019t say \u2018no,\u2019 we say, \u2018OK, how?\u2019 Looking back, my God, it was incredibly intense, incredibly intimidating, a lot like what happens in The Devil Wears Prada. <\/em>You never think you\u2019re good enough to be there. But it was also incredible. <\/em>I didn\u2019t miss acting at all. I knew the fashion closet was where I was supposed to be. You were building whole worlds in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think of that girl who worked at Vogue <\/i>and really believed she wasn\u2019t enough. I don\u2019t want anyone to feel that. Fashion is a way to help stop those feelings.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like DWP <\/em>heroine Andy Sachs, Walsh eventually found herself confronting burnout and self-doubt while grinding through 20-hour days at Vogue.<\/em> \u201cIt was not working out for me there,\u201d Walsh tells me over the phone a few days after our first meeting. \u201cI quit, but my boss, to be honest, she really didn\u2019t like me as her assistant. I knew she wanted me gone, so I left. And I swear, I consider this one of my big breaks.\u201d Walsh believes that if she hadn\u2019t been pushed out of Conde Nest, she wouldn\u2019t be talking to me on speaker phone while lugging a super-secret Met Gala look up the stairs of her gorgeous Brooklyn townhouse. \u201cListen, at the time, it was devastating,\u201d she confirms. \u201cBut it set into motion a chain of events that led us here. So let\u2019s talk about \u2018big breaks\u2019 because often the getting-broken part is also the break.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Leveraging her network of peers<\/strong> from her Vogue<\/em> days to connect with working stylists, Walsh assisted on shoots for fashion magazines, TV commercials, and catalogs, eventually getting hired by clients to manage the looks herself. \u201cI had a few clients \u2014 Kristen Wiig and Jason Sudeikis during [their] SNL <\/em>days; the Bridesmaids <\/em>press tour for Kristen, which was a very big deal to me \u2014 but I didn\u2019t even have an agent,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019d been sending my book around for years trying to get signed but nobody was interested.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until 2012, that is, when one of Walsh\u2019s former bosses \u2014 the respected stylist Samira Nasr, who is now the editor in chief at Harper\u2019s Bazaar <\/em>\u2014 introduced her to actress Kerry Washington. \u201cShe said, \u2018You know, my friend Kerry needs to clean out and update her closet. Can you help her with that?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Sure, why not? Sounds fun.\u2019\u201d The process ended up being more transformative for Walsh than for Washington\u2019s wardrobe. \u201cIt just felt like magic. We had this weird synergy right at the beginning,\u201d Walsh says. Washington mentioned that she had to get dressed for a TV premiere \u2014 a pilot episode for a show called Scandal <\/em>that had just been greenlit on ABC. She also needed some gowns for the press tour of Django Unchained, <\/em>the Quentin Tarantino movie she starred in with Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio. Walsh pulled unexpected showstoppers, like a billowing white couture gown by British designer Giles Deacon that was printed with a faded painting of a running horse, and peplum-happy white suits by Michael Kors and Altuzarra accented with graphic Chanel clutches and candy-colored Prada heels. \u201cKerry called us \u2018fashion twins\u2019 in the Hollywood Reporter, <\/em>which I think is about right,\u201d says Walsh. \u201cAnd that work finally, finally, <\/em>got me signed to an agent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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