Mattine Guillaume: She Wears Power
Mattine Guillaume is a Miami-based wardrobe stylist, creative director, and founder of T.A.M.E. (Trendy And Made Elegant)—a personal styling brand that empowers individuals to embrace their unique identity through fashion as a form of self-expression. Of Haitian descent, Mattine brings her Caribbean heritage, intuitive resourcefulness, and an unmistakable artistic lens to every project she touches. With a background in fashion education and years of hands-on industry experience, she launched her career in 2015 as a style coach, helping professionals cultivate a confident and creative personal image.
Through Tame Your Style, Mattine curates looks tailored not just to a client’s lifestyle and budget, but also to their inner narrative—treating fashion as both mirror and canvas. Her approach is attentive and sincere, rooted in love, empowerment, and transformation.
As an artist, Mattine’s practice transcends conventional styling. She creates wearable sculpture, reshaping everyday and industrial materials—like brass wire, burlap, soda-can tabs, and zip ties—into pieces of adornment that radiate power and storytelling. Her works, such as the Chain Veil and Pull-Tab Kimono, reflect themes of intimacy, resilience, and alchemical beauty.
From editorial styling to her fashion line VOIR, Mattine Guillaume continues to redefine the intersection of art, fashion, and identity—offering not just style, but a living, breathing form of visual poetry.
Artist Statement
I create wearable sculpture that transforms humble often industrial materials into luxe adornment. Brass wire, chains, burlap, shells, soda-can tabs, and zip ties are reshaped through draping, hand-sewing, and assemblage to feel regal on the body. This series explores alchemy: protection and bloom, structure and movement. “Gilded Bloom” frames the body in floral brass; “Pull-Tab Kimono” reimagines refuse as evening armor; “Chain Veil” studies intimacy and power; “Sea Relic Set” honors coastal memory; and “Fringe Alchemy” converts zip ties into kinetic fringe. As a Miami-based creative of Haitian descent, I draw from the Haitian tradition of resourcefulness and handcraft transforming the overlooked into beauty and resilience. I treat the set as part of the garment so each image reads like a living artifact: fashion as sculpture, craft as luxury, and everyday materials reborn.
Short Bio
Mattine Guillaume is a Miami-based wardrobe stylist and creative director of Haitian descent, and the founder of Tame Your Style. Her practice merges couture sensibilities with upcycled and natural materials to craft sculptural looks for editorials, runway, and art installations. Rooted in Caribbean heritage, her work explores transformation, resilience, and cultural storytelling turning ordinary objects into statement pieces. She has styled music artists, private events, and fashion editorials, and is developing VOIR, a Creative fashion line Through image-making and live creative direction, she champions confidence, creativity, and craftsmanship.
Photos:
1. Gilded Bloom (2024) Mattine Guillaume
2. Pull-Tab Kimono (2023) Mattine Guillaume
3. Chain Veil (2022) Mattine Guillaume
4. Sea Relic Set (2023) Mattine Guillaume
5. Fringe Alchemy (2023) Mattine Guillaume
Website: www.Tameyourstyle.com
Contact: [email protected]
You can find more of her work on her Facebook profile.
