18 Times Celebs Called Out Designers On Their Actions
Yes, we’re dropping some names. 🧚
The fashion industry can be a very unwelcoming place for anyone who doesn’t fit its narrow idea of a “beauty standard.” Not even celebrities are safe from the harsh judgment and cruel words of the designers at its helm.
However, this hasn’t stopped a lot of celebs and influencers from taking back control by calling out the designers who tried to tear them down.
Here are 18 times celebs, influencers, and stylists called out designers for making them feel awful:
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After Karl Lagerfeld claimed that Meryl Streep turned down one of his Chanel dresses in favor of a gown she’d been paid to wear to the 2017 Academy Awards, the actor called him out for defamation and said his statement “overwhelm[ed her] appearance at the Oscars, on the occasion of [her] record-breaking 20th nomination.”
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In a statement, Streep said, “Karl Lagerfeld, a prominent designer, defamed me, my stylist, and the illustrious designer whose dress I chose to wear, in an important industry publication. That publication printed this defamation, unchecked.”Â
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In 2012, after Karl Lagerfeld said that Adele was “a little too fat,” the singer told People, “I represent the majority of women, and I’m very proud of that.”
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She said, “I’ve never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines.”
In response, Lagerfeld told Metro, “I’d like to say to Adele that I am your biggest admirer. Sometimes when you take a sentence out of the article it changes the meaning of the thought. What I said was in relation to Lana Del Rey and the sentence has since been taken out of context from how it was originally published.”
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Early in Zendaya’s career, her stylist Law Roach focused on emerging designers instead of big names because “a lot of the [high fashion] houses weren’t dressing Black girls.”
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He told Paper Mag, “I really believed in her from the day she walked in. I thought she was a star and I wanted to throw everything that I had, anything that I could do, into her. I just felt like the world needed to know this girl so what it forced me to do was to start building relationships with emerging designers, which in essence was forcing me to be even more creative in a space that I already had no experience in.”
Thanks to his hard work establishing Zendaya as a fashion icon, now “everybody wants to dress her,” but Roach goes back to the high-end labels and says, “Not this season!”
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