Life Lessons | Karla Welch: Hollywood Stylist, Designer, and Founder of X Karla

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4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Karla Welch is the in-demand stylist behind some of the biggest names in entertainment, from Justin Bieber to Tracee Ellis Ross to Elisabeth Moss. In the first episode of the Life Lessons series, listen to how she got her start in the industry, ramping her way up from scrappy shoots to working on Apple’s memorably iPod commercials and eventually taking on clients as a personal stylist. She’s had a serious effect on celebrity fashion, and she’s also changing the way we get dressed by way of her cool, in-demand collaborations with brands like Levi’s and Hanes.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to Life Lessons. I'm your host, Tillerie Kerr and I am so excited
0:12.7	to share this new series with you all. Life lessons, spotlights women who have incredible
0:18.5	careers within a single field and we talk about everything from how they got their start
0:24.1	to the best things they've learned along the way. Today I am overjoyed to have a woman
0:29.9	I truly admire in the studio with me. Celebrity stylist and designer Carla Welch who is
0:36.0	the brains and taste behind some of the world's most photographed men and women, including
0:41.6	Justin Bieber, Olivia Wilde, Tracey Ellis Ross, Sarah Palson, Busy Phillips, Elizabeth
0:48.5	Moss and many more as well as the founder of her online ex Carla. She's one of the most
0:55.4	influential and important forces in the fashion and styling world. She's unapologetically
1:01.1	vocal about her political beliefs and she is hugely creative on every level. She's also
1:08.0	learned some very valuable lessons along the way and I am so excited she carved out
1:13.1	a little time from her insanely busy schedule to sit down with me today. Now with no further
1:20.0	ado, it's Carla Welch on Life lessons. Okay Carla, so let's start at the beginning.
1:28.2	What did you study in school and what did you think you were going to be when you grew
1:31.8	up? Oh my god, the very beginning and did I even study? I mean, I was kind of a shit
1:37.4	student. So that's pretty common on this pod. Oh great. Good company. You're in very
1:42.2	good company. I'm not actually that embarrassed of it to be honest. Well obviously I got through
1:48.1	high school and then I went to college and I did the basic bachelor of arts and then
1:53.4	I kind of realized, oh my god, this is in for me. And I took a little bit of time off
1:58.3	and I traveled around and then I realized what I really wanted to do besides actually
2:03.4	being in fashion because I, and secretly I was like, I always want to be a fashion designer.
2:07.0	I think when I was a kid, yeah, we're like a lab technician, which would require school.
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