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Bridgette Raes - Style Consultant |
About Bridgette Raes
Since 2002, Style Expert Bridgette Raes has transformed the wardrobes and styles of hundreds of clients. She is the president of Bridgette Raes Style Group and author of the book Style Rx: Dressing the Body You Have to Create the Body You Want. Her witty, down-to-earth and educational advice has made her a sought-after writer, spokesperson and style expert for many media outlets.
In her 20 years in fashion, Bridgette has worked in just about every area of the industry. She worked in retail fashion while getting her design degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and then spent nearly a decade designing every type and clothing price point and product ranging from Wal-Mart to more upscale specialty store labels like Barry Bricken and mainstream brands like Talbot’s. In 2002, when just twenty-eight years old, she decided that her expertise would be put to better use if, rather than designing clothes for women, she showed clients how to wear them. She went back to FIT to do her image consulting training and started Bridgette Raes Style Group.
The goal of Bridgette Raes Style Group has always been to provide more than just a makeover. Bridgette believes in educating her clients so that they can make better and more knowledgeable wardrobe and shopping choices that enable them to not only change their styles, but their lives. In 2011, Bridgette Raes Style Group expanded and now has several style consultants working with the company who are available for consultation worldwide.
Bridgette’s book, Style Rx: Dressing the Body You Have to Create the Body You Want (Perigee/Penguin 2008) was written to relate to the “everyday woman”, including realistic advice and over 250 photos of real women with real bodies, not professional models.
As a style expert, Bridgette’s opinion on shopping and wardrobe selection has been featured many times in Real Simple magazine, Woman's World magazine, First For Women magazine, AOL’s Stylelist.com, MSN.com, iVillage.com, and more. She has been an expert on Glamour Sizing for media outlets including The Boston Globe and Good Morning America. Bridgette’s media experience as an expert on fashion, beauty and lifestyle also includes over 80 television appearances which include CNN and The Daily Buzz, as well as dozens of local networks from coast to coast.
Bridgette lives in Brooklyn New York with her husband, real estate professional Frank Mazzola.
