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Portrait of Julie by Chad Davis<\/small><\/p>\n
The road to success is not always a straightforward one. Just ask Julie Ragolia<\/a>, the celebrated stylist who, in the past few months, has styled campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch and Michael Kors, collaborated with Canali and Cartier, styled the Berluti show in Paris last week, and celebrated the one-year anniversary of the magazine At Large, for which she has been fashion director since its beginnings. Now one of the industry\u2019s most respected stylists, Ragolia initially began as a philosophy undergrad with plans to become an art critic or a curator. She recalls thinking of herself as \u201ca bit of an anti-fashion gal\u201d who found her way to styling by helping out her college roommate, a budding photographer, on shoots. \u201cI never really fancied myself as having anything to do with fashion,\u201d she recalls, \u201cand one day he said, \u2018You can never make it in this business,\u2019 and, being a tough kid from Brooklyn, when someone says I can\u2019t do something, my automatic response is, \u2018Oh yeah?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Photos: Philippe Vogelenzag, Model: Jamie Clark, Left: Calvin Klein, Right: Prada<\/small><\/p>\n She quickly found her way to MTV, where she worked styling the VJs and visiting musicians, and eventually ended up as Alex White\u2019s assistant at W, which opened her eyes to the creative possibilities of fashion. \u201cThat\u2019s where my academic eye and my interest in the philosophy of culture found its happy place, because I really started to see what an art form the fashion world is,\u201d Ragolia says. \u201cJust the level of research into fashion editorials, just how much art comes through, especially at a place like W, which welcomed artistic vision, made me realize that I could indeed follow a passion in art and academics through fashion, and then from there, I was hooked.\u201d<\/p>\n Ragolia began focusing more on menswear when she took a position at Man of the World<\/a>, a fit that seemed natural at the time for someone who \u201calways dressed in a more masculine manner.\u201d She says that, as a woman, her strength in styling for men comes from her penchant for minimalism and her firm grasp on the real world. \u201cI love it when it feels like everything is supposed to be there, as opposed to something that\u2019s a stylist\u2019s trick,\u201d she explains. \u201cIn the way I approach both [menswear and womenswear], I want there to be a sense of realism.\u201d<\/p>\n Photos: Randall Mesdon, Model: Levi Bradley, Left: Bottega Veneta Right: Marc Jacobs<\/small><\/p>\n In the summer of 2014, Ragolia left Man of the World and joined some of her fellow editors at At Large<\/a>, a menswear magazine that is meant to speak to the idea that \u201cwe\u2019re all at large in the world at every turn.\u201d With early support from designers like Frank Muytjens at J.Crew and brands like Berluti and Herm\u00e8s, it was a quick turnaround of three months before the first issue appeared on newsstands that December, with four covers shot in a clean, pure style that has become a trademark of the magazine. \u201cI think the space between art and fashion is something that\u2019s always been important to me and it\u2019s important to all of us as a team and it\u2019s important to men,\u201d she says. \u201cHaving a space where guys can get that fulfillment in one magazine is exciting to us and it\u2019s something that we explore from issue to issue.\u201d<\/p>\n Photos: Ben Weller, Actor: McCaul Lombardi, Left: Prada, Right: Michael Kors, Tee Shirt: Baldwin<\/small><\/p>\n As the American menswear market continues to grow and evolve, Ragolia remains a consistent champion of New York brands like Robert Geller<\/a>, Todd Snyder<\/a>, and the late Band of Outsiders<\/a>. At next week\u2019s men\u2019s shows, she\u2019ll also put her touch on the Nautica<\/a> collection, showing again on the runway after an absence of several years under the new creative direction of Steve McSweeney. As her increasingly busy schedule shows, Ragolia is not one to shy from the new and unexpected, one quality she shares with the At Large reader. \u201cOur guy is always on a journey,\u201d she says. \u201cHe\u2019s an adventurer in the sense that he doesn\u2019t need to be educated on what to wear, he doesn\u2019t need to be educated on where to go in the world. 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