“I want to be booked and busy. Modeling, styling, and designing. I want to do it all and I will do it all.”
Text: VIONNE Magazine | Accessory Designer/Wardrobe Stylist/Model/Fashion Designer/Makeup Artist/Hair Stylist/Photographer: Isaac Nave
Creator in Full
In Crimson Concerto, 19-year-old Chicago-based creative Isaac Nave turns fashion into a fully self-authored performance. Working across modeling, styling, design, makeup, hair, and photography, Nave controls the image from concept to final frame, using feminine fashion as a language of drama and possibility. His attraction to sculpted silhouettes, fluid fabrics, and unconventional styling comes from the freedom they offer: proportions can shift, textures can move, and the body can become part of the composition itself. Against Chicago’s fountains and architectural lines, crimson fabric catches the wind while lace, tailoring, and sharply contrasted white create a visual rhythm that feels theatrical without losing its sense of spontaneity.
The city itself is central to Nave’s evolving aesthetic. He describes Chicago as a place of fluidity, sharp architecture, street design, and constant visual contrast — an environment that continues to push him toward new ideas and a broader creative vocabulary. Styling comes instinctively; photography, he says, demands a far more exacting eye, where lighting, posing, and setting can determine the success of an entire frame. Inspired in part by stylist Law Roach and his uncompromising creative judgment, Nave is now looking beyond independent experimentation toward a professional life on set. His ambition is deliberately expansive: to model, style, design, and build a career without choosing only one lane. Crimson Concerto captures that ambition in motion — expressive, self-directed, and unwilling to be confined by conventional definitions of either fashion or masculinity.
Interview with Isaac
VIONNE: Isaac, you describe yourself as the creator from concept to final frame. What does having complete creative control allow you to express that might be lost in a more traditional fashion shoot?
Isaac: Complete creative control allows me to express myself in every way possible. What I see, hear, and touch. It allows every form of execution that I wouldn’t typically get in a reasonable fashion shoot.
VIONNE: You have a lifelong dedication to feminine fashion. What draws you to traditionally feminine silhouettes, fabrics, and styling?
Isaac: I’m drawn to feminine fashion because the silhouettes allow for more dramatic appearances. The silhouettes can be sinched, the fabrics can be diverse, and the styling can go any which way. It allows me to have a broad range of my choosing.
VIONNE: What was the inspiration or starting point for the visual concept of this series?
Isaac: Breaking out into the world and learning from different cultures. Being based in Chicago has diversified my taste in knowledge and has been my direct source of inspiration. Being surrounded by constant sources of different visual concepts is extremely inspiring.
VIONNE: You work as the designer, stylist, model, makeup artist, hair stylist, and photographer. Which part of that creative process feels most instinctive to you, and which part challenges you the most?
Isaac: Styling comes naturally to me, I can throw any look together in minutes. On the other hand, photography takes an executive eye. Any indirect use of lighting, posing, or misjudgment in setting can ruin the whole shoot.
VIONNE: Chicago becomes part of the visual language of the shoot, from the fountain to the architecture around you. How does the city influence your aesthetic and the stories you want to create?
Isaac: The city of Chicago influences my aesthetic through it’s fluidity, sharp architecture, and street designs. The diverse appearance pushes me to diversify my aesthetic.
VIONNE: Are there any artists, designers, performers, or other creative figures you look up to, and what is it about their work or career that inspires you?
Isaac: Law Roach has been an extreme inspiration as a stylist. His raw judgment and feed back push my criticism on how I execute everything. He has built a world wide social appearance that I strive for.
VIONNE: At 19, you are already building a very distinct creative world around yourself. What do you want to explore next?
Isaac: I want to explore the world of being a set professional. I want to be booked and busy. Modeling, styling, and designing. I want to do it all and I will do it all.
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