stylist

plural stylists

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?

   1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books

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.

   2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196