I’d love to apply that ideology to two of your clients who seem to have very different styles: Selena Gomez and Anne Hathaway. How would you define their personal styles and what type of holiday trends might you embrace for one of them that you wouldn’t embrace for the other?
They probably could both use some peace, so maybe something cozy. For someone like Annie, the denim category is somewhere we’ve been having more fun recently. So, these barrel jeans that Old Navy’s doing, I’d love to see those on her. I think they’re really cool, and they surprisingly look good on so many body types. Really, it doesn’t make sense to me. [Laughs] I think some of those, like easy, everyday elements feel cool for her, for sure.
I think with Selena, some of these really elevated, polished pieces. She wore a lot of black this fall. [When styling Selena] I think, “What feels crisp and elevated and essential?”
Selena recently kept her winter coat on while walking the red carpet. What’s something you look for in a good winter coat?
I think sometimes people use coats as like a safety net, and that’s okay, because your clothing should make you feel held and protected and comfortable. But if you can find a way to do that, what you’re wearing is also a means to highlight your best features. If that’s an oversized coat, which I think are quite cool, you have to think about the proportion of it. You don’t want to look like you just got lost in your grandfather’s old jacket. If I wear an oversized coat, then I’ll probably wear something more lean underneath.
Or even if it’s like, a wide-leg jean or a barrel jean, you want to cinch the waist or find ways to accent the silhouette properly, so you don’t get lost in your clothes. Yeah, I love a really great shoulder in a coat and if it has that kind of effect, then I like it go in a bit so, again, you don’t get lost in your clothes.
We all know about Secret Santa and White Elephant parties, but I recently learned about “Favorite Things” parties, where each participant gives an item they love to all the other attendees. What would be the item you’d bring to a Favorite Things party?
