stylist

noun

Etymology: From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.

1. A designer.
2. A hairdresser.
3. 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?”

4. 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.”