Elizabeth Stewart Stylist: Red Carpet Designers and Fall Winter Pieces to Shop

Elizabeth Stewart is a Los Angeles based celebrity stylist and fashion editor whose clients include Cate Blanchett, Julia Roberts, Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis and Amanda Seyfried. She began in the Paris offices of WWD and W Magazine, then spent twelve years at The New York Times Magazine's Style Section before moving into celebrity red carpet work.

British Vogue records Stewart's long relationships with those five stars, and her collaborations with Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy and Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen. She calls Cate's 2011 Oscar Givenchy gown one of her favorite looks. In another interview, she says Cate wore Yacine Aouadi twice and Esteban Cortázar for the London premiere of Carol, while Amanda Seyfried's Oscar de la Renta look shows how the right dress can change how someone feels.

At Venice in 2020, Cate Blanchett rewore an Esteban Cortázar gown, a reworked Alexander McQueen dress and an embroidered Acne Studios suit. Stewart called the choice 'chic to repeat,' making a red carpet archive part of the story rather than a one night exception.

That is the logic behind this fall and winter edit: strong outerwear, substantial knitwear, evening dresses with presence and boots made to work beyond a single event. Stewart has said a look is the sum of the clothes, hair and makeup and how the client feels, and she relies on tailoring once the right dress is found.

Start with a coat that sets the shape, then build around it with a soft knit and a boot that can handle a full day. For evening, pick one dress you would gladly wear again, not one that only makes sense for a single photograph. The best reference in Stewart's work is that the person should feel like herself in the clothes.