BIOGRAPHY
A Roswell, New Mexico native, Montgomery Frazier began his creative career,
after a 4 year stint with the Hyatt Corporation, in Manhattan’s artsy Soho
District as the Creative Director for the then trendy fashion boutique,
Parachute, where he was responsible for dressing an up-and-coming pop icon,
Madonna, for ‘Live Aid’ and then such superstar pop idols as Cher, Peter
Gabriel, and Duran Duran. His talent and capacity for working with new talent
led to editorial and advertorial collaborations with emerging photographers
Mario Testino and David LaChapelle.
Always ahead of the game with his hand on the ‘pulse of New York’, Frazier was
then offered as staff position as Fashion Director for the revolutionary pop
culture medium, MTV. There, Montgomery introduced a generation of “Rock &
Rollers” to the world of fashion and style. He styled such MTV classic shows as
‘Remote Control’, the first season of ‘House Of Style’, the popular dance show
‘Club MTV’ and the hugely popular ‘Club MTV Tour’ with Paula Abdul, Ton Loc,
Milli Vanilli, Lisa Lisa and The Cult Jam, and Information Society. Helping to
develop and create a distinctive and signature style for VJ and 80’s pop diva,
Downtown Julie Brown, Montgomery was then invited to step in front of the camera
as an on-air Fashion Commentator for ‘Club MTV’. Seizing this great opportunity,
Montgomery produced weekly fashion segments, handpicking then unknown† dancers
like actress Jennifer Esposito, pop star Anastasia, Mrs. Kelsey Grammer,† and
Mrs. Noah Wyley to model new fashion houses such as Dolce & Gabbana, Emporio
Armani, and Patricia Field. |
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As imaging and style are ultimately a form of communication, it was a natural
segue way for Montgomery to lend his talents and resources as Special Features
Editor for the extremely hip, youth culture magazine, ‘Project X’ where the term
“Generation X” was coined by the New York Times and Vogue. Yet again, Frazier
was identifying and profiling pop talents such as Moby, Beck, Bjork, and
starlets-in- training Liv Tyler and Mila Jovovich in designs by Alexander
McQueen and Hussein Chayalan.
From 1998 on, Frazier founded his own production company, MVM Productions to
produce events and provide talent with fashion and image strategizing for such
TV luminaries as “Downtown Julie Brown” on E! Entertainment’s ‘The Gossip Show’,
and for a brief stint was a fashion consultant to Katie Couric on NBC’s ‘The
Today Show’, plus beauty conglomerates such as Matrix Essentials, A Bristol
Meyers Squibb Company,† and a men’s hair product styling image campaign for
‘American Crew’, and as well as Co-Chairing The Contemporaries Committee for the
Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. Mr. Frazier is also the consultant for
“dressing for success” a series of seminars created for Credit Suisse-First
Boston and other corporate and entertainment entities.
Montgomery Frazier is considered an image pioneer who is quoted and sourced as a
lifestyle expert and commentator on media outlets including E! Entertainment
Television’s ‘Style Court’, ‘The Gastineau Girls’, and ‘Hollywood Blondes’,
Fashion File, ‘Inside Edition’,† The Metro Channel, VH-1’s ‘The Fabulous Life’.†
He has been profiled in The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, The New York Observer,
Money Magazine and appears often in the columns and society sections of Women’s
Wear Daily, DNR, Interview, Hamptons, Quest, Gotham, Q and Avenue Magazine and
has been regularly featured as a style critic for Star Magazine and In Touch
Weekly.
Frazier’s new company, The Guru Image Development, is an image development "think tank" for product launches and image development. Current long-term
projects include a television development deal with Fountainhead Productions and
a book project with Sterling Lord Literary Agency centered around The GURU, the
development and launch of EUVA INC, the not-for-profit branch of the ‘Energy Up’
program, a health & wellness program created by client High Voltage, a creative
advisor’s position to the Editor-In-Chief of the new publication from ‘Consumer
Reports’ entitled ‘Shop Smart Magazine’.
Mr. Frazier was retained as a consultant to aid in the business and creative
development of high-end fashion designers Anait Bian and the ex-Chanel muse Jackie Rogers. Montgomery Frazier currently assumes the position of Fashion
Director for MOD Magazine Online and is the resident "Image Guru" for
www.HairDesignerTV.com, while also serving as a Contributing Editor for ARUDE
Magazine.
His newest project partners him with his longtime friend and muse, former MTV "icon" Downtown Julie Brown to repackage and reposition her once again in the
mainstream public eye!
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