tristinstyling, a Chicago-based personal styling company, specializes in Fashion Styling and Wardrobe Refinement / Management. Since 1998, we have served a diverse clientele of photographers, actors, models, musicians, and business executives in Chicago and Los Angeles.

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Staff

Christine Matsunaga, also known as Tristin, started her career as a wardrobe stylist in Los Angeles, California in 1998. When her first client was cast as a regular in the (then WB) show, Gilmore Girls, Tristin became her go to stylist throughout the seven years that the show was on the air. Over the years, Tristin built clientele through word of mouth. Since spring 2007 she has been residing in Chicago which has given her the ability to provide her styling services between Los Angeles and Chicago for fashion designers, photographers, actors, models, musicians, and business executives for headshots, comp cards, lookbooks, catalog, and production projects. Her work can also be seen on previous Heroes and current Dexter cast member, Brea Grant. As a personal stylist, her mission is to provide all clients with comfortable style through her eye for fashion and invaluable skill to get clients exactly what they want. click here to read testimonials written about her services!

Vannesa Villarreal, stylist intern, is a stew that is made of fashion, art, and film as the main ingredients. At a young age she had begun to show interest in fashion and art. As a little girl, she and her mother would go school shopping, come home and proceed to put on mini fashion shows with her mother acting as a photographer and grandparents as the audience. Upon entering high school, Vannesa felt the need to define her style in a sea of mundane uniforms, so she became infatuated with D.I.Y. fashion. Her first project was handstitching leopard print fabric (ripped from an old hat) onto her Chuck Taylors (this was prior to the release of leopard print Chucks) which took 7 hours and 6 bleeding fingers. Soon after that, everything she owned was either painted, patched, sewn, or collaged over and she had fully developed the desire get into the fashion industry. She soon entered The Illinois Institute of Art in 2003 where she quickly grew fond of the history of fashion; from the art work that inspired major movements to the original psychological purposes of “why” fashion and adornment are so important to us. She adores researching looks and styles from different time periods and subcultures whether it be through old pictures, magazines, digging for books in the back of the library or simply by people watching. Always the one to be constantly inspired and motivated by all around her, the ability to fully enthrall herself into whatever subject matter she may be focused on at that point as well as her absolute love and passion for her trade, sets her apart from everyone else. Vannesa graduated from the Illinois Institute of Art in 2007 and is currently working as an assistant stylist intern with tristinstyling. Needless to say, she’s ready to take on the world. Click here to view her resume.