Who's that girl? Elisa Nalin Italian-born, Paris-based stylist Elisa Nalin is quite possibly the perkiest woman in fashion. Elisa Nalin is fond of exclamation marks. She's also fond of colour, sunglasses, vintage, silk, and shoes. Hailing from fair Verona, Elisa studied classical art and humanities before moving to Milan to study fashion design at the Instituto Europeo del Design. After graduating, she snagged a job straight out of school at Italian fashion house Costume National, before moving on to become creative director at Samsonite for their shoe line, a job which transformed her into a self-confessed "shoe freak." After that, she explains: "I was so bored and sick of Milan that I decided to move to Paris and start 'fresh new' with a styling career." With a new career came a new peroxide blonde crop (she was previously a fringed brunette) which suits her "more funny outfits," and styling jobs for Dazed & Confused, i-D and Vogue Nippon. She has since styled campaigns for La Perla, Morgan, Sessun, the French department store Le Bonmarché and Benetton. In recent weeks her chameleonic approach to life and fashion has made her a firm fixture on the street style scene, where her orange lipstick ("I practically always wear my one and only orange matt lipstick from MAC! It's called 'so chaud'") and beaming smile are the only constants. How would you describe your look? Well I would say ...happy! Colourful, unexpected, textured, but always elegant! I love to play with clothes and I'm not afraid of fashion faux pas. Why do you think brands pick you to style their campaigns? I think lately for my very specific sense of colour and for my very personal sense of style. I've also been told that I have a very wide comprehension of fashion due to my different experiences in the business. Whose style do you admire? The style of people with their very own point of view. The ones that are not following trends but following their own personal taste. Where do you buy most of your clothes? I buy a loooot of vintage! At local flea markets, mostly. Plus I go to press sales! My favourites are Dries van Noten, Pierre Hardy and Louboutin. What are your interests outside fashion? Well I have plenty! Art, photography, cinema, travelling, cooking, my Buddhist practice and activities, ayengar yoga and pilates. I also have a huge collection of vintage toys. I find them at the same places that I find my clothes: the vide-greniers [car boot sales] and local flea markets all around Paris, which I scour every weekend. I love them all! I love to collect little stupid objects with no practical function at all. Elisa's collection of vintage toys. PHOTO: Todd Selby, from his blog, The Selby . Which blogs and magazines do you read for inspiration? I honestly don't read as many magazines as I used to years ago, simply because I don't find magazines that inspiring anymore, with very few exceptions. I do follow some blogs like Garance Doré , who is a good friend of mine and always makes me laugh when I read her posts, then also The Sartorialist , Jak and Jil , Streetpeeper , Catching Instants . What was your favourite show of autumn/winter 2012? I had a few but I think my super favourite is Prada! I loved it all!!! Especially all the printed and jacquard suits. It's very me. I always wear pants and those colours and geometric pattern...I would wear everything from that show even if I had to pick an outfit with my eyes closed. Where are your favourite sunglasses from? I have many but my favourites now are a pair of Ray-Ban bicolour, and a pair from Karen Walker.