Law Roach admits to deliberately styling Zendaya in matching outfits with other celebrities | Fashion

September 23, 2024

Zendaya’s stylist Law Roach has opened up about one resolution he made when he first started working with her – by making her appear like other celebrities.

When the actress began her profession on the Disney channel in the exhibits Shake It Up and KC Undercover, luxurious manufacturers didn’t need to work with her, considering she couldn’t adequately market the garments to a wider viewers.

Roach particularly revealed on the podcast The Cutting Room Floor that Chanel, Saint Laurent, Dior, Gucci and Valentino had all refused to work with her.

He had a rule for each time a model turned the 2 of them down, they'd by no means have the ability to once more. “If it’s a no now, it’s a no forever,” he mentioned.

“I figured out that whoever got the most press got the best dresses, so I was, like, I need to get her more press,” the stylist informed The New Yorker.

Part of his methodology to get the Euphoria star seen extra was to significantly get her into US Weekly’s “Who Wore It Best” ballot, the place two celebrities sporting the identical outfit are proven aspect by aspect and readers vote on which outfit they preferred extra.

Roach talked about deliberately dressing The Greatest Showman actress into outfits he had seen other celebrities sporting. He defined that he wasn’t afraid of her probably shedding the ballot, saying, “Because I know she’s going to win a battle.”

Roach first began working with Zendaya when she was 14. He now says he dressed her in the identical garments as other celebrities (Getty Images for The Met Museum/)

This isn’t the primary time the stylist has spoken in regards to the lack of manufacturers that wished to work with Zendaya. In a February interview with Vogue, he talked about that she largely wore classic items after they first began working collectively as a result of that was all that was out there to them.

“We’ve been [pulling vintage] since Zendaya and I began working together, for 13 years now. At first, it came out of necessity because back when we started, nobody would lend her clothes,” he proclaimed. “And I come from vintage – I had a vintage store in Chicago – so a lot of the things that she wore were things from my store or vintage pieces.”

The stylist additionally recalled a time in 2014 when a publicist didn’t need to give him a black-and-teal Ungaro gown that Zendaya would put on to the Grammy Awards. “When you’re talking about that price point, it doesn’t really make sense to have a girl translating the brand to a woman that has the means to buy those clothes,” the publicist informed The New Yorker.

However, Roach refused to depart with out the gown, and after the inventive director of Ungaro noticed Zendaya in it, she scored her first invite to The Met Gala.

Although Roach introduced his retirement from movie star styling in 2023 he admitted to Interview Magazine’s Mel Ottenberg that he wouldn't cease working with her.

“How can I just pick up and leave somebody when I’m the only stylist they’ve ever had? She’s literally the one client where I’m like: ‘That is my family,’ he remarked. “And I know what I mean to her because she tells me all the time. So I am trying to figure out how to change my position.”