Ebony Dee Cheyne: The Archive
The Fashion Stylist Portfolio
As an advertising & Editorial Fashion Stylist Ebony knows wardrobe matters. It physically takes up more space in the frame than anything else, holding an immense, undeniable impact on the overall shoot and the emotional state of the subject.
For Ebony, a wee girl from Scotland, this was the ultimate dream job. It is a highly competitive and revered position that granted her access to the world’s most exclusive fashion houses, borrowing pieces from any designer she desired, and regularly handling millions of dollars in diamonds and fine jewels straight out of Beverly Hills.
While it is an undeniably glamorous world at times, true styling goes far beyond the glittering surface. It is a demanding, high-stakes discipline of meticulous curation, heavy lifting, and sharp creative problem-solving.
For Ebony, a wee girl from Scotland, this was the ultimate dream job. It is a highly competitive and revered position that granted her access to the world’s most exclusive fashion houses, borrowing pieces from any designer she desired, and regularly handling millions of dollars in diamonds and fine jewels straight out of Beverly Hills.
While it is an undeniably glamorous world at times, true styling goes far beyond the glittering surface. It is a demanding, high-stakes discipline of meticulous curation, heavy lifting, and sharp creative problem-solving.
A stylist is the ultimate architect of a shoot's atmosphere, translating fabric into a powerful visual narrative that defines the entire mood of a publication.
Various Photographers & Clients
Ebony Dee Cheyne: The Archive
Post Production Artist
Various Photographers & Clients
Ebony Dee Cheyne held one of the most coveted, behind-the-scenes roles in the publishing industry.
As a Digital Imaging Specialist Ebony sat at the pinnacle of the creative process, the vital final gatekeeper of an artist's vision, or brand’s public image. Translating raw photography into iconic cultural moments.
Through a masterful blend of advanced compositing, colour grading, and skin work, they ensure every high-profile magazine cover commands immediate attention and holds absolute professional authority on the global stage.
Through a masterful blend of advanced compositing, colour grading, and skin work, they ensure every high-profile magazine cover commands immediate attention and holds absolute professional authority on the global stage.
My Story
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For years, my life was dictated by high-pressure editorial deadlines for major fashion publications. My digital finishing work was on magazine covers worldwide and hanging in world-class institutions like MoMA (NYC) and Foam (Amsterdam) galleries. I was working on set on Elle Covers with the talent and with all the main music labels. I was styling Advertising Campaigns and Live Productions across the world alongside edgy editorials. Recently I saw a shoot I worked over a decade ago, in a Banksy exhibit in Amsterdam. From the outside, it may have looked like the pinnacle of creative success, but that was not the full story.
From the inside, I was fighting a multi-layered, unseen war against severe chronic illnesses that went undiagnosed from childhood until now —all while navigating a narcissistic environment that told me my physical pain a weakness and was an illusion. Two years ago, I had to go completely invisible, again, and like so many others, to become my own wellness detective. My normal was and still is not normal. I had to heal, decode my body, and just survive at times. I didn't just study wellness because it was on trend, I had to fight a system that was not set up to help people like me. I need wellness practises to function at all. I stopped editing other people’s masterpieces so I could rebuild my own life from scratch. Today, I combine my editorial eye with an 8-session identity framework to help high-achievers, spicy minds, and sensitive creatives dismantle the external noise, find their true baseline, and safely claim their authentic self, where I believe true confidence comes from.. We meet in my private, quirky souterrain sanctuary on the Herengracht (or online)—a hidden room of vintage doors and absolute creative safety—to build a foundation that shines from the inside out. |
Alex Prager: Susie and Friends 2008 - MOMA NYC
Banksy's version of a shoot I worked on for Anthony Mandler & James White
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Wellness Coaching
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"They were too good for this world" is a phrase uttered after the unthinkable.
Moving around the world, from Scotland to Los Angeles, Paris to Amsterdam — I’ve lived a few lives already. Working in Fashion Styling, Specialised Post-Processing, and Photography, I always loved bringing big creative visions to life for brands, and working with people I grew up watching on the big screen. It is exciting and humbling.
During this time I saw behind the smoke and mirrors of some of the most idolised people in Hollywood and saw everyone is human and has physical and emotional pain. Often they could not live up the perfect persona that was presented. Now this phenomon has grown expedentionaly for the masses with sm and filters etc being so avalable and easy to use with no integrity to reality.
As this side of the industry became clearer, life was about to take me in a different direction personally. Extreme chronic health issues I’d been pushing through my whole life became impossible to ignore. I was living abroad, navigating doctors, language barriers, pain, and burnout — all while trying to keep up appearances and keep my career going. I felt so ashamed of my symptoms because I saw them as weakness. Eventually, something had to give. And it did.
Finally, after a lifetime of being gaslit by the people who should have helped me, the unexplained symptoms have names - Celiac Disease, Osteopenia, Endometriosis, Andemyosis, Dysautonomia, Fructose Malabsorption, Histomine Intolerance, Hypermobility, suspected ME(CFS), HEDS, Neuro Divergence, Hashimoto, all the struggles that come with those and still being investigated.
I have spent more than the last decade embracing all the modalities possible to improve my own health and wellness and have proven it is possible to improve and even turn around your health with the right support and choices, with actual guidelines it was possible to truely recover from a myriad of overlapping and confusing symptoms, but they were not in my head. I had to muster the gumption to go against a society & system that didn't understand me,
Now, I bring all of that into what I offer — coaching, photography, and a curated archive of fashion and tools to help you reconnect with your power, your presence, and what you’re really here for.
Because when you feel like yourself again — grounded, seen, and in alignment — everything shifts.
Moving around the world, from Scotland to Los Angeles, Paris to Amsterdam — I’ve lived a few lives already. Working in Fashion Styling, Specialised Post-Processing, and Photography, I always loved bringing big creative visions to life for brands, and working with people I grew up watching on the big screen. It is exciting and humbling.
During this time I saw behind the smoke and mirrors of some of the most idolised people in Hollywood and saw everyone is human and has physical and emotional pain. Often they could not live up the perfect persona that was presented. Now this phenomon has grown expedentionaly for the masses with sm and filters etc being so avalable and easy to use with no integrity to reality.
As this side of the industry became clearer, life was about to take me in a different direction personally. Extreme chronic health issues I’d been pushing through my whole life became impossible to ignore. I was living abroad, navigating doctors, language barriers, pain, and burnout — all while trying to keep up appearances and keep my career going. I felt so ashamed of my symptoms because I saw them as weakness. Eventually, something had to give. And it did.
Finally, after a lifetime of being gaslit by the people who should have helped me, the unexplained symptoms have names - Celiac Disease, Osteopenia, Endometriosis, Andemyosis, Dysautonomia, Fructose Malabsorption, Histomine Intolerance, Hypermobility, suspected ME(CFS), HEDS, Neuro Divergence, Hashimoto, all the struggles that come with those and still being investigated.
I have spent more than the last decade embracing all the modalities possible to improve my own health and wellness and have proven it is possible to improve and even turn around your health with the right support and choices, with actual guidelines it was possible to truely recover from a myriad of overlapping and confusing symptoms, but they were not in my head. I had to muster the gumption to go against a society & system that didn't understand me,
Now, I bring all of that into what I offer — coaching, photography, and a curated archive of fashion and tools to help you reconnect with your power, your presence, and what you’re really here for.
Because when you feel like yourself again — grounded, seen, and in alignment — everything shifts.
This is the catalyst for your next chapter
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