Her latest endeavor involves conceptualizing, casting, location scouting, styling and shooting images for brands — with an iPhone 6.Author:Fawnia Soo HooPublish date:Aug 1, 2016In our long-running series, "How I'm Making It," we talk to people making a living in the fashion industry about how they broke in and found success.
The future red carpet guru to celebrities including Lake Bell, Adam Driver and Bobby Cannavale boldly seized the moment to kickstart her career during her first internship with her dad's best friend at Island Def Jam records. One fateful day, when A.L.C. designer Andrea Lieberman came in to discuss a Jennifer Lopez video, the then-teenager jumped on her chance.
Nachmani continued interning in the Vogue closet, first under Martinez and then Virginia Smith. Along the way, she paid her dues, added to her skill set, developed her minimalist cool-girl aesthetic and cultivated relationships that she values to this day. "The senior people at PR houses and the senior editors [I work with] now are all people that I interned with," she says.
Nachmani's creative content consultancy Edtn developed just as organically as her continually expanding styling roles. She was working on an online feature for Vogue Australia and was "messing around and shooting" on her iPhone with the photographer in between takes.