PRESENTS
A Roswell New Mexico native and a “military brat” Montgomery Frazier began his professional career after graduating from high school and dropping out of university, opting instead to travel across the country & around the world, only to return back to America where he worked a 4 year stint with the Hyatt Corporation, commencing in Phoenix Az then later being transferred both to LA and finally landing in NYC where he’s resided since 1982 where he was employed at the Grand Hyatt, then owned by our current president.
After his hospitality stint with the Hyatt Corporation ended, Montgomery felt the need to embark on a different career path as be pivoted to the fashion/retail industries and while still residing in Manhattan landed a position as Asst Manager working in the artsy Soho District, employed by the Canadian Design Team, Harry Parnass & Nicole Pelly for the super-trendy Parachute Boutique brand. Having the opportunity to exude his own personal style and creative flair he was shortly thereafter promoted to oversee all creative & PR related projects, which included fashion video production, celebrity dressings, window visual displays, launching the Oribe at Parachute Hair Salon, and working with stylists for editorial pulls, where through his personal relationships, he was instrumental in enticing then “rising star” Madonna’s stylist, Maripol, to pull Parachute for her now infamous LIVE AID” performance. He personally dealt with all A-list, mega-legends/groups/celebrities from Cher & Duran Duran, to The Monkees for their Anniversary Tour and he personally oversaw the filming of the Woody Allen movie. ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’ where he was granted a brief cameo appearance as they filmed a scene in Parachute’s Soho Boutique.
While at Parachute, Montgomery collaborated with then emerging fashion photographers, Mario Testino for the very first Parachute advertising campaign which was featured in Interview & New York Magazines, and he worked with David LaChapelle on his first feature film. By way of his new creative position at Parachute, Montgomery was afforded entrees to lunches with Andy Warhol at ‘The Factory’, and who graciously attended his welcoming party to MTV. Montgomery has had an extensive career of longevity and NY “moments” and “firsts” which have subsequently filtered into pop-culture mediums of influence and interactions with a retinue of Bold Faced names in NY. Always ahead of the game with his hand on the "pulse of New York", yet still employed by Parachute, Montgomery was then offered a staff position as their FIRST ever, Fashion Director for the then upstart, irreverent, & culturally revolutionary pop-culture, music video channel, MTV, where he served the network styling all the network talent, & personally styling his longtime muse and friend, Downtown Julie Brown In designer duds from Jean Paul Gaultier & Stephen Sprouse to name a few,. As the quirky British import to MTV, DJTB became “The Diva of MTV”, and a cultural phenomenon who then brought him onto her new dance showD ‘Club MTV’ as her personal stylist & then as the on-aire Fashion Correspondent as she publicly labeled him “stylist to the stars”.
As the ‘Club MTV’ Fashion Correspondent, he was entrusted to produce on-camera, fashion/music, choreographed dance routines which he collaborated with former Joffrey Ballet Choreographer, Edward Morgan, featuring the Club MTV dancers, and introducing/showcasing then unknown designers like Dolce & Gabbana, Emporio Armani, Nicole Miller & Patricia Field and several other new brands. “There, Montgomery introduced a generation of rock & rollers to the worlds of fashion and style”. After 8 years, his tenure at MTV ended, Montgomery then lent his credibility, professional resources and creative/networking talents as the Special Features Editor for the extremely hip, youth culture "scene-zine" magazine, 'Project X, published by then nightlife king, Peter Gatien and the soon to become notorious Michael Alig, where the term "Generation X" was coined by the New York Times and Vogue. He worked styling fashion editorials with emerging talents Liv Tyler, Milla Jovovich, Dee-Lite, Beck, & Moby. Yet again, Frazier was identifying and featuring emerging talents in designer brands by Romeo Gigli, Emporio Armani & Moschino.
