Ep 61: An Interview With Karla Welch

Monocycle with Leandra Medine

Monocycle

Arts

4.9 • 779 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of Monocycle, unofficially called Bicycle every time I have an interview subject, Karla Welch — celebrity stylist to the likes of Ruth Negga, Karlie Kloss, Justin Bieber, Olivia Wilde, Tracee Ellis Ross and so on and so forth — shares a number of important facts that are as revealing as they are sentimental. At one point, when I try to prod on how she manages burn out, she rejects my assertion that everyone experiences burn out, proclaims perennial gratefulness for her role in Hollywood (she is originally from Canada, and moved to L.A. not for work, but for love) and suggests that perhaps those who burn out don’t yet quite have strong enough relationships with themselves manufactured to perfection. “I never have FOMO because I like my own company,” she said. Enjoy a listen and should you feel so inclined, do too, buy a t-shirt from her remarkably successful collaboration with Hanes. Amelia gushed about them earlier this fall. I’m just going to say co-sign.

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0:00.0	This episode of Monocycle is brought to you by Smilf, a new comedy series from Showtime.
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0:44.3	Hey, welcome to Monocycle interview edition, which is actually more like bicycle
0:52.9	because there are two people talking, not just the one.
0:57.2	Today we are interviewing Carla Welch, a celebrity stylist based in L.A. from Canada who dropped out of
1:03.7	college, thought she wanted to be a sommelier, fell in love and then moved to California, now dresses
1:10.0	Justin Bieber and Ruth Naga and Tracy Ellis Ross and every other celebrity that you can think of.
1:15.7	I'm not going to say anymore and just let you hear about it firsthand.
1:24.1	So you're from Canada, right? I am from Canada. Where in Canada?
1:30.9	I am from a very small town in British Columbia called Powell River.
1:32.4	It's just north of Vancouver.
1:37.4	But then I lived in Vancouver for many years after high school.
1:38.5	After high school.
1:38.7	Yeah.
1:40.5	You went to university there? Yeah, I went to college, and then I dropped out of college, and then I went to
1:44.2	food and beverage management school. Right. I read that you were a Somme. Were you a master
1:49.7	song? No, God, no. No. I wanted to be like Michelle Fifer and Tequila Sunrise. Oh, where she was like,
1:56.8	I was like, oh, I want to, I saw that movie and I was like, that's what I want to do with my life. I want to, like, run a restaurant.
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