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Have you scrolled through red carpet photos recently? That Met Gala that wasn’t even worth robbing. A dozen boring Oscar night gowns. It’s a famine of beauty, honey … my eyes are starving for beauty! The exception to this is always Law Roach, the celebrity stylist who made his career delivering show stopping looks for Zendaya. This week Roach made a shocking announcement: He is retiring from celebrity styling. “Every person that trusted me with their image, I’m so grateful for you all,” Roach wrote on IG. “If this business was just about the clothes I would do it for the rest of my life but unfortunately, it’s not! The politics, the lies and false narratives finally got me! You win … I’m out.”
Roach is certainly the most famous celebrity stylist in Hollywood (and definitely the most famous who wasn’t ensnared in the Olivia Wilde-Florence Pugh drama). If you believe DeuxMoi, he might also be among the rudest and most reviled. Honestly, I don’t. Everyone complains about stylists, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the people complaining about him are … you know. The retirement announcement coincided with Roach walking the Boss Spring/Summer 2023 runway show in Miami. Afterwards he clarified his retirement announcement to Vogue, and then gave a longer explanation in an interview with The Cut: “I am definitely, 100,000 percent retiring. Nobody can say what’s forever and what will happen, but at this moment, and in my mind, I’m definitely retiring from celebrity styling,” he said. “I’m not retiring from fashion, because I love it so much. But styling, in the way that I’ve been of service to other people, I’m retiring from that.” Immediately, the rumor was that it had something to do with Zendaya, who is now a Louis Vuitton ambassador. At an LV runway show, a video of Roach, confused that there wasn’t a seat saved for him in the show’s front row went viral. It looked like Zendaya was suggesting Roach sit behind her, on the second row, but Roach clarified the situation in the Cut interview: “When you see her turn around and touch the seat, it wasn’t her telling me to sit there, it was her telling me like, ‘That’s Darnell’s seat,’ which is her assistant. I’m not gonna sit in Darnell’s seat. So then where does he go? And so I was standing there — I was really just kind of confused … I’m coming from a house [Valentino, where Zendaya previously had a deal] where I know where my seat is, right? It’s right next to her, and it’s always right next to her, because that’s part of our relationship and our interaction, seeing the clothes together.” Retiring over a second row seat … be serious please! Roach’s answers to the Cut suggest that publicists and personal teams were making his job impossible. The drama, he said, came to a head during Oscar week, when a client didn’t feel like the priority, and Roach was on the phone with her, her team, and the designer: “That call was very early the very next day after [the Oscars]. And the client was one of the clients that I dressed that night. And it’s just like, I got off the phone and I felt like I’m still fighting. I’m still fighting. I’m still defending myself. And one thing people who work with me also know is I don’t like to be managed or feel like I’m being chastised. You know what I mean? That just doesn’t work for me or my personality and especially when I feel like I’m giving so much.” For the VF Oscars Party, Roach dressed Megan Thee Stallion (Queen of the Night-gorge), Hunter Schafer (a quill pen over someone’s boobs has never looked so divine), Kerry Washington (simple, stunning), Hailee Steinfeld (not my favorite, didn’t like the coat), and Eve Jobs (Steve Jobs’s daughter). The client in question wasn’t any of those; Roach tweeted that there was a mystery sixth client who didn’t make it to the carpet.  Her dress vintage Galliano dress got stuck in the car door and completely ripped and expose the lady parts Cryptic! Drama! A grateful nation mourns Roach’s retirement. I haven’t seen any good theories on who client number six is, but:
The Succession rewatch continues: This week we finished season one and started season two. Join us!
Best Parts of the Ben Affleck Interview, Ranked What was your favorite part of Ben Affleck’s Hollywood Reporter interview? Affleck is generally pretty candid, but this interview especially: like damn, he in his mood. Affleck talks about his new movie Air, his new production company with Matt Damon, that Grammys non-fight with Mrs. Affleck, being “one of the poster boys for actor alcoholism and recovery,” and about the new DC universe (minus The Flash and Zack Synder’s Justice League recut) with rancor. The four best parts, ranked: 4. “Begging” … bellissima to me!
3. In Affleck’s story about discussing the Nike movie with Michael Jordan, golf caught a stray.
2. Hollywood’s leading gamer, as far as I’m concerned, is Tobey Maguire. Molly’s games. Competitive puzzling. Pickleball. Am I really to believe there’s a “cool little red velvet rope celebrity Wordle group” that Maguire has not either run the table in or exited in a huff of defeat?
1. And this part right here— no, I’m sorry, you could hear my laugh from the Heaviside layer. Something about Jennifer Lopez and “culture and style in America is 90 percent driven by black culture” being in the same breath … I know Ashanti is letting out a good cackle.
You can read the whole interview here.
“You Need To Calm Down” As for the tour and the 44-song setlist: I cannot support a setlist that does not include “False God.” Otherwise, all the videos I’ve seen of the costumes and staging and chroeo are not doing anything for me.
New Divorced Man on The Horizon?  This shakes up the landscape of divorced men. This could be their civil rights leader, an advocate for their cause.
Reader Request: Bradley Cooper Cooper really is Black Hollywood’s favorite white man. (Although not for much longer if Austin Butler has anything to say about it!) As Hanna points out, he was part of the trio to immediately console Will Smith after The Slap (a trio that, of course, included Denzel and Tyler Perry). He has been a guest of Beyonce’s official Oscars after party (and if you told me he’s standing at the edge of the Roc Nation brunch, hiding in an Eagles cap, I’d believe that too!). Michael B. Jordan asked him for directing advice. I mean, he got Dave Chappelle (pre-toxic transphobic shit) and Eddie Griffin and Robert De Niro’s daughter Drena De Niro in A Star Is Born. Cooper appears to be so in the pocket of Black Hollywood, he’s like one email thread away from wearing Dolce and Gabbana to a red carpet. Bradley Cooper’s tethered, Jake Gyllenhaal, is stomping like Rumpelstiltskin, knowing he’s been out-played once again!
Due Diligence On the post-Oscars party circuit Leonardo DiCaprio and Gigi Hadid were “talking” again. He is so obvious with it: making headlines just after Rihanna took the stage at the show! (Us Weekly) Lindsay Lohan is pregnant! (People) That’s all this week. Thank you for reading!
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Sunday, March 19, 2023
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