stylist

A designer.

A hairdresser.

A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.

• If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?

An artist who has a particular distinctive style.

• A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.