Nordstrom Fashion Blog: Fashion Director Jeffrey Kalinsky at Work and Behind the Scenes

What happens behind the scenes when Fashion Director Jeffrey Kalinsky and crew are photographing the best of the season’s runway for our Designer Collections lookbook? Well, a little and a lot. There are times when half an hour goes by in a sort of hurry-up-and-wait fugue, and periods of such scurry and excitement that you look up to find two hours have passed in what felt like five minutes. It’s the nature of the game.

A blur of a man: Jeffrey Kalinsky in his studio and office.

As a companion piece to the rich, gorgeous images and exclusive interviews in our fresh-off-the-presses, in-mail-boxes now book, we decided to single out a few of the more placid moments as well as let you inside the cheerful assortment of fashion flotsam and jetsam in Kalinsky’s Chelsea office. (Call it our 9-to-5 complement to his home’s recent cameo on The Coveteur.)

We also brought some of our favorite favorites into close range, so you get a sort of stylist’s view of the season’s best.

Business on the right, levity on the left. Analog thumbnail pics of runway looks alongside Archie characters—and above, a reminder of Kalinsky’s passion for the theater.

Just another day at the office; take off one’s tie, finish up some correspondence, slam-dunk a triple ollie on the old Stella McCartney board.

Watching the Milk Studios and Nordstrom production crew put together the wonderfully dizzying multi-mirror setup in which the pieces were shot was really something. Here, just a small corner of the action. We can’t give away too much magic.

Caroline Issa, our collaborator for the Nordstrom Signature and Caroline Issa collection, manicure still freshly oiled, awaiting her turn with the camera.