Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet

Decoder Ring

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Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Like a manager or an agent or a publicist, a stylist has become a kind of must-have accessory for well-dressed, A-list celebrities. It’s just expected that they will have hired someone to select the clothes they’ll wear at public appearances. But this was not always the case. In today’s episode, Avery Trufelman, host of Articles of Interest, will guide us through the collapse of a certain kind of Hollywood glamor; to the rise of a growing, financially rewarding relationship between fashion designers and celebrity culture; and then onto the explosion in red carpet events patrolled by fashion police that helped create this new occupation. This episode was produced by Avery Trufelman and Evan Chung, who produces Decoder Ring with Willa Paskin, Katie Shepherd and Max Freedman. Derek John is Executive Producer. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director. You’ll hear from Teri Agins, Dana Thomas, Melissa Rivers, and Jeanne Yang. If you haven’t yet, please subscribe and rate our feed in Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you’re a fan of the show, please sign up for Slate Plus. Members get to listen to Decoder Ring and all other Slate podcasts without any ads and have total access to Slate’s website. Your support is also crucial to our work. Go to Slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Before we begin, this episode contains some adult language. It's early 20-24 at a movie premiere in London and like at any movie premiere there are
0:48.8	fans shouting and photographers taking pictures of actors posing on the red carpet.
0:54.9	Except at this particular movie premiere, there is no red carpet.
0:59.1	There's just sound. Because this is the premiere of Dune 2, a movie set on a desert planet covered in sand.
1:07.0	And posing on this sand is the actress Zendaya who's wearing an outfit that's a little unusual too.
1:14.0	She showed up in this like amazing vintage Terry Mugle.
1:20.0	It looks like she's the robot from Metropolis.
1:22.0	It's just incredible.
1:23.6	Avery Traffelman is the host of the podcast Articles of Interest.
1:27.6	Basically it's like a sexy robot suit. I mean she looked like C3PO.
1:31.8	But it's super hot, super hot and glamorous and silver just
1:36.8	just incredible. Zandaea was photographed on the sand carpet with all the
1:42.2	usual suspects her co-stars, the director, and also the person who picked out her incredible robot suit.
1:51.0	She was posing next to a figure who she is often seen posing next to which is her
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