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Welcome to Who Up Where With Hillary Kerr, your direct line to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors and taste makers who are shaping the ever-affolving world of fashion.

I'm your host, Hillary Kerr, and our guest today is celebrity stylist, Aaron Walsh.

Aaron believes that what you wear gives you the power to tell your story, and to take it to an even deeper level, she says your personal style can be interpretive of your soul.

Over the years, she's created looks for major power players in Hollywood like Carrie Washington, Sarah Jessica Parker, and most recently Anne Hathaway,

and her unforgettable looks at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

In this episode, we talk about how Aaron got her start styling, spoiler alert, we talk about Vogue quite a bit, her philosophy around personal style, and a few excellent tips for how to get dressed in the morning.

It's all coming up on Who Up Where.

Hi, Aaron, welcome to the pod. I'm so excited you're here. I'm so excited to be here. I'm such a fan.

So just to sort of walk our audience through a little bit of your backstory, I'm curious if you can take me back in time and tell me about your background specifically, like, did you always love fashion and style, or was this something that you came to later in life, or were you the kid who was like dressing everyone up when you were two years old.

I always loved fashion and style period. I didn't want to work in fashion though. I wanted to be an actor. I went to school for that. But growing up, lying in bed at night, and this sounds so weird.

I would always dream about fits and what I was going to wear the next day. I just, I had a very stylish grandmother. My mom was always so stylish. She was a lawyer, so it was very much a ritual getting dressed in the morning, and especially for, you know, courtroom occasions or watching my parents get dressed and then go out for things.

I was always kind of fascinated by that. Even like later when I was involved in theater, I was fascinated by the ritual of becoming someone and how close let you do that.

I always wanted to be a storyteller and it ended up that I did that through clothes.

So to your point, you studied theater and school. I'm curious about how you made that transition then to the fashion world if you had sort of your site set on the world of acting.

So I came to New York wholeheartedly wanting to be an actor. I went to sell out there at NYU. I loved everything about being an actor in New York. I loved going to the theater. We would go all the time. In conservatory, you're in the training all day, like nine hours a day at least, and that's outside of rehearsal and all of it.

So I was the training as an actor is training yourself as a human. And I loved that so much. So like that was the beginnings of my curiosity about the human condition and what empowers us and enables us to behave certain ways.

So that was always interesting to me, and I loved that part of it. But the actual business part of it scared me shitless. And I graduated and I graduated like a semester early. And I started meeting with agents.

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