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The 11th edition of Lingerie on Film is here with film by Joana Avillez, Julia Trotta, Julia von Boehm, Mina Stone, Miwa Susuda, Molly Rogers, Patricia Iglesias Peco, Quinn Wilson, Sandeep Salter, Zoe Latta, and Nell Verlaque. On the occasion of the series release, we spoke to each contributor about their taste and perspective, pulling at the thread of what colors their lives. Our second to share is Julia von Boehm, a celebrity stylist and fashion director whose work has appeared across French Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Interview, and InStyle, among others.

Julia von Boehm's parents ran a film company together.

There was no separation between business and cultural life — it was one colorful rubber band ball, constantly rolling. The family traveled. Culture wasn't something you went to see; it was the medium you lived inside. She absorbed this without being taught it, the way children soak up their first nouns. "What I learned early on was that passion is the best motor for both success and meaningful work, and that's exactly what I aspire to bring to everything I do."

At ten, she became fixated on sky blue. The wardrobe went first, then the shoes, the hair accessories. Then she made her parents paint the radiator to match and change the curtains. It is the kind of thing that we imagine a young Sonia Delaunay might have done.

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The Antonia Bralette and Panty in Confection on vacation.

She started fashion design school in Paris not knowing styling existed as a profession. Then she met Carine Roitfeld, who was about to become editor in chief of French Vogue, and everything aligned. Her affinities have never stopped at the closet. A room, a book, a pocketed rock — it all falls within the same field of obsessed attention. No hierarchy of materials, no attachment to expensive values. "It's always been a three-sixty for me. I can create something visually pleasing out of nothing."

In practice she takes away more often than she adds. She knows something is off when things feel over-coordinated — when the clothes are doing the talking and the person has gone quiet, or worse, when there's a sense of disguise at play. What she clocks first when she meets someone is whether they feel at ease. The clothes come after. The person wearing it, she is clear, is everything. "I always return to the same challenge: making things beautiful and helping people feel at their best — giving them strength through clothing and styling, making them feel like the strongest version of themselves."

A wide open sky in Blue, naturally.

"A look is never truly finished, but at some point, you have to leave the house."

She believes that the following items are provisions in every wardrobe: a man's jacket, a tie, a crisp white button-down shirt, a slip dress, a black lace bra, and a pair of high heels. On a Tuesday she wants a triangle bra in an interesting color just visible under a blue-and-white striped shirt. On a Saturday, a slip dress, a man's blazer, high heels.

Person wearing an Araks blue swimsuit with criss-cross straps with a swim aht against a blue background Person wearing an Araks blue swimsuit with criss-cross straps with a swim aht against a blue background

"I'm obsessed with the simplicity of the two-piece and Araks' approach to swimwear in general — it's perfection."

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