Object Lessons: How An Award-Winning Prop Stylist Creates Eye-Popping Magazine Visuals

An argument with Naomi Campbell convinced stylist Philip Shubin to change his focus from people to inanimate objects. For a decade he had been dressing TV personalities (Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric) and actors (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford) for photo shoots, but working with diva models was becoming increasingly fraught.The Fashion Institute of Technology alumnus told a disgruntled Campbell, “I can make a bed look just as voluptuous as a model, but the bed wouldn&rs