Welcome to the Interior Perspective, where luxury real estate meets timeless design. I'm Nicole Fisher, a Hudson-based interior designer working with the region's most exclusive properties. Each week, we sit down with top brokers to explore the stories, insights, and inspirations behind the most remarkable homes on the market. This is your front row seat to the art of elevated living. Let's get started. Welcome back to The Interior Perspective, where we explore the intersection of home, design and culture. I'm Nicole Fisher, and today's episode is going to feel a little bit different, a little bit more personal. Before I designed homes, I worked in editorial styling, my background in fashion, working with magazines and working under Nicola Formichetti for the likes of Lady Gaga, working on editorial campaigns, music videos and everything creative really taught me something that still drives my design work today. Fashion and interiors are two sides of the exact same coin. So let's talk about how the runway translates to the living room, how personal style becomes a spatial style, and why the clothes in your closet might say more about your dream home than you realize. I started working in editorial styling several years ago. It was an opportunity I received while in Parsons and honestly feels like a fairy tale. It was something, this was, all right, let's just set the stage here. This was pre, Internet capability for job posting. This was on a job board for the school. Something I happened to just look at, think, hell yeah, that sounds awesome, I wanna go apply for it. I get into the building that I am in, going to be interviewing in and it is one of those elevator open up right into your apartments. If you're from New York you know this is like Mecca, this is dream New York City living. And the apartment is flooded with light, tons of plants everywhere. It looked like an old factory that had been repurposed to be a home. And it was one of the coolest loft spaces I have ever been in still to this day. And the place was flooded with everything. to do with now realizing a music video that they were working on. I had been instructed to sit and wait for someone to come interview me. And I sat there looking around, taking in my surroundings. And there were several folding tables, all covered with chains and rock and roll tees and leather and gold. and ripped denim, and I noticed out of the corner of my eye was a gold lipstick gun. And I noticed that it was the lipstick gun from the Judas music video. And at that time, it was wild because I kind of knew where I was, but didn't want to admit that that's where I was. It felt too surreal. fan and it didn't feel, it just didn't feel real at that point. And this journey just evolved into an adrenaline rush. It was working with fast deadlines, pulling unexpected pieces, working with archival fabrics, archival high-end luxury designers, things that you do not have access to, things that we're just pulling from all over the world to create an NPS of a vision, a look that is telling a story, creating these moments. And to be frank, it's exactly what we do now. One aha moment when you realize fashion principles are exactly the same as interior design principles is when you realize that proportion, texture, storytelling are one in the same for no matter what you're doing on a creative front. They are exactly the same flex and require the exact same eye and It's wild to think about now how much I have evolved and how much I have moved into this interior spaces, but really understanding and knowing that my eye has been fine-tuned with years in the fashion industry. So when I moved into interiors, it wasn't a pivot. It was an expansion. Instead of styling people, I started styling homes. And that's not just, you know, the small judging that comes at the end of the project. It's understanding what that vision is and how to bring that vision to life. Because fashion, especially when you're working with celebrities or music videos or on editorial campaigns, there is a story we're trying to tell here. There's an end vision. There's an idea that we want to get across. And I look at my projects exactly the same. What idea are we trying to get across? And styling for, especially for a celebrity, but for anyone, any kind of magazine cover, creating Any look to me is the same as creating a living room, a reveal. They both need to tell a story instantly. And fashion and interiors are both really about creating identity through style and being able to Embrace who you are, what your style is, what story you're trying to tell with your clothing, what story you're trying to tell with your home, and then putting it out into the universe. I was recently told my house felt like Alice in Wonderland, and I was like, you know what? That's exactly what I'm trying to go for. I love that. Alice in Wonderland is an idea of fantasy. It's an idea of color. It's an idea of wildness and transportation into a different world and universe. And if my home made someone else feel like that, then I did something right. So we're going to talk a little bit about parallels between fashion and interiors. I'm going to start with silhouette and proportion. In fashion, cut of a dress, the length of a trouser, how a blazer shapes your body, all works with silhouette and proportion. And interiors, it's the same. We're talking in terms of ceiling heights, sofa scales, how furniture proportion balances a room. Instead of a body, we're looking at a room as a whole. And I love to think about it is In this way, a too big sectional is like wearing shoes that are two sizes too large. It overwhelms the look, no matter how beautiful they are, and it distracts you, and it's impractical. We want to not only be show-stopping, but we wanna be completely functional when we're executing a space. The second thing I want to think about is texture and layering. In fashion, it could be a wool against a silk. It could be a leather paired with a chiffon. In interiors, it could be a velvet against a linen, a marble with wood. The juxtaposition of hard and soft, the juxtaposition of piles, the juxtaposition of metal and a fabric there is such an an easy way to get an unexpected moment with layering and texture and something I think here at NFID we do so so well is putting things together that you wouldn't necessarily think go together. just like I would do with an outfit. There is such an easy way to create that element of unexpected and a really simple way to get into that is taking something very simple, something you can do with your home too, taking a classic white tee and denim pant and then putting a really unexpected, cool jacket on it. Does it have a cool pattern? Does it have a cool texture to it? Does it have a trim on it? Does it have sequence? All of these things are the little bit of jewelry, the little bit of unexpected, the little bit of wow. And all of a sudden it took that white tee and denim to an entirely new level and made everything feel so cool and unique. And that's exactly what we do in a room. So many times in our past when we're working with a room, we would do... The same, we would take a beautiful camel colored velvet sofa and then we're going to adorn it with a bullion trim. We're going to add some pattern pillows. We're going to add a tape to it. All of a sudden we've taken a very simple yet beautiful base piece and elevated it just with these extra things that we're adding onto it. layering is absolutely key. And the third thing we're going to think about is signature style and identity. For fashion, some people are minimalist, others are maximalists. Interiors are literally exactly the same. I am a self-proclaimed maximalist. I love things to feel like they've been collected over time and give an idea and a feeling of a curated, layered home. The biggest flex you can do as in your home is being able to share your identity in your space. So how do you create something where someone walks in your home and says, I know exactly who lives here. I know exactly the type of person who spends their evenings here. And it's such a beautiful thing when you're able to communicate that through style and through the spaces that you live in. So I want to share some actionable things that we can do because I have a ton of clients who are not using our services but they want to elevate, they want to continue the conversation. I have lots of followers on social media. We want to continue the conversation who will not necessarily end up being clients. So how do we do that? I'm gonna give you some tips. First thing we're gonna do is look at your wardrobe. What colors repeat? What are we seeing over and over and over again? Start with those for your home palette. Let's take the same colors because your eye clearly goes there. Let's make that the base. Let's make that the big piece in your space. Are you scared of color? Don't be. You need to embrace color and embrace that individuality because that's exactly what's going to set you apart. Second thing is you're going to notice your fabrics. Are you a linen, cotton, wool person? Do you gravitate towards silk, satin? Translate that into your upholstery. Translate that into your textiles. Take all of these things that you just love and make it part of your home. Make it part of how you live. And the third thing is, what's my showstopper piece? When we're getting dressed, it could be jewelry. It could be shoes. In interiors, it could be a chandelier. It could be a piece of art, a sofa. I love, love, love using art as that kind of wow When we're dipping our toe into this concept, especially when we're talking about color, there are so many opportunities for you to be able to portray a look just by a piece of art. So I want to leave you with this little tidbit. Your home is the runway you live on every single day. So why not dress it to the way you want to feel? What an incredible thing to think about. I want you to, I want you to think about Well, thank you for joining me on this solo episode of The Interior Perspective. I hope this gave you a glimpse of how the language of fashion translates seamlessly into the language of interiors. If this resonated with you, share it with a friend who loves both fashion and design. And if you're dreaming about creating a home that feels like your ultimate runway, reach out to us. This is what we do best. Follow us on Instagram, Nicole R. Fisher, and get an idea of how our team does this every single day, living through the lens of both fashion and design to create a story. So until next time, I'm Nicole Fisher, reminding you that style doesn't stop at your closet, and it lives in every room you call home. Thanks for listening to The Interior Perspective. If today's conversation inspired you or you're a broker with a story worth telling, connect with us on Instagram at NicoleFisherInteriorDesign or visit NicoleFisher.com. Until next time, keep creating beauty, living with intention and seeing every space through