Melissa’s career in the entertainment business as a celebrity stylist goes back 15 years, working with many clients such as Brad Pitt, Leo Di Caprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Hilary Swank, Will Smith, Forrest Whittaker, Annie Lennox, Keith Urban, Jamie Pressley, Anette Benning, Jamie Foxx, Eric McCormack, Billy Bob Thornton, Steven Spielberg, Penelope Cruz, Michael Jordan, and Ewan McGregor. Melissa has dressed athletes, directors, writers, and musicians as well. She dressed Keith Urban for 2 years for his tour and all personal appearances, as well as the Grammies, CMA, American Music Awards, and The ACM awards in country music. She dressed Annie Lennox for the Oscars. Melissa has also done high end product based commercials and advertising, as well as over 40 magazine covers and editorials. She has a degree in fashion design and art and has over fifteen years of experience in the fashion industry.
Her life and career completely changed in a matter of seconds in 2004 after being involved in a car accident. Over the next three years she was in and out of surgeries and was in constant pain. Melissa wondered how she would have the energy to make it through an eight hour day, much less up to a fourteen hour day, working as a stylist.
Fast forward to 2008, still in physical therapy, she needed to do something up-lifting to bring herself back. Melissa frequented art galleries and museums all of her life, and has been painting since the age of 2. She was in the L.A. county museum, turned a corner, and one of Mark Rothko’s paintings was staring at her. As an artist, you try to figure out how other artists achieve their colors, their texture, their inspiration, their art. Melissa then knew she had to start painting again. She had never played with acrylics, but was at the paint store the next day buying paint, brushes, canvas, and ready to pick up where she left off long ago.
She started with black, white and grey, but by her second painting she had graduated to color… “I thought the world and my wardrobe needed some color”.
The company name and logo came easy...it was named after her orange tabby boy kitty Elvis, and proceeds from all sales help fund animal charities.
elvislaskin, the apparel line, was born... bringing color, fun, and print into a mostly solid colored world.
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