accessorist

English

Etymology

accessory +‎ -ist

Noun

accessorist (plural accessorists)

1. One who makes accessories.
   • 2001, Dominique Manotti, Rough Trade‎^[1]:

     The accountant, the secretary, two salesgirls, the cutter, the retoucher, the accessorist and the manager were all there.

   • 2004, Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, A Guide to Elegance: For Every Woman Who Wants to Be Well and Properly Dressed on All Occasions‎^[2]:

     After very rapidly earning the professional title of Paruière (Accessorist) to the Haute Couture, which meant that more than half of my annual trade was with the haute couture (a term designating the important Paris designers who sell original custom-made fashions in their own salons), I also became a designer for a small knitwear firm.

   • 2011, Barrie Kerper, Paris: The Collected Traveler‎^[3]:

     Once an accessorist for Oscar de la Renta, today he makes and sells his bold and bright objets from this showroom-atelier.

2. One who wears accessories.
   • 2005, Edward P. Comentale, Stephen Watt, Skip Willman, Ian Fleming & James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007‎^[4]:

     It is a message to be read by others in order to decode the identity of the accessorist.

Adjective

accessorist (comparative more accessorist, superlative most accessorist)

1. Of or relating to accessories.
   • 2010, Rich Hall, Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society‎^[5]:

     The girls should have looked very alluring, straddlin' the Gold Wings or draped over the handlebars - every accessorist dream.