“He is grayer and I am gayer,” London jokes, whereas she and Kelly additionally open up about how their new Prime Video collection, “Put on Regardless of the F You Need” and “What To not Put on” are each “about remedy.”
Stacy London and Clinton Kelly rose to fame by telling individuals what they need to not put on, however over 10 years later, they’re encouraging individuals to put on no matter they need!
In an interview with TooFab, the type consultants opened up about reuniting for his or her new Prime Collection, Put on Regardless of the F You Need, which comes over a decade after TLC’s What To not Put on resulted in 2013, and a subsequent years-long fallout between the 2.
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Put on Regardless of the F You Need — out now on Prime Video — sees Kelly, 56, and London, 55, teaming as much as “remodel shoppers one after the other” in New York Metropolis, per Amazon Studios.
“With a recent perspective that celebrates private expression over outdated type guidelines, they empower people to reside out their style fantasies and uncover their type fact.”
The fashionable duo spoke to TooFab about working collectively as soon as once more, and defined how Put on No matter is a greater portrayal of the instances compared to What To not Put on.
When requested in the event that they felt like “no time had handed” since they shared the display screen, Kelly joked, “Nicely, time had handed as a result of we’re now in our mid-fifties and it is arduous to disregard that reality” — to which London quipped, “Yeah, he is grayer. And I am gayer.”
“We actually loved this course of, and we have been engaged on the present for a really very long time, so it is not like this was like, Oh, it simply cropped up for us. You recognize, it has been 13 years!’ We have been speaking for fairly some time,” London continued. “I feel that the intention of this present is so completely different from What To not Put on, and the result is so completely different that it truly is far more reflective of the world we’re dwelling in in the present day, and never the type of daybreak of actuality tv that you just noticed once we did What To not Put on.”
Whereas the pair stated they do not essentially “imagine” in tendencies, they have been excited to include influences from popular culture from the final decade, with the references additionally being a type of inspiration for the shoppers.
“There’s so many like popular culture references, proper? Like Cookie from Empire,” Kelly stated, referring to Taraji P. Henson’s character on the musical drama. “When one among our shoppers, Freedom, wished to appear like Cookie from Empire, as a result of she type of noticed her as a robust lady, we have been like, ‘Sure! Let’s do this. Let’s get you a giant fuzzy coat!'”
“Neither one among us actually imagine in tendencies,” London added. “However you see what’s on the market, and you’re employed with what you’ve got received. The wonderful thing about a present like that is that it is a very particular lens that we’re wanting via. So if we’re searching for Cookie, you understand, we all know what we’re searching for versus what’s trending in the intervening time. It isn’t like a style information present the place we’re like telling you what, you understand, the large tendencies have been on the runway … it is what does this particular person need with a view to really feel assured and succesful?”
London and Kelly went on to open up about their method to serving to their shoppers discover their greatest interior self via outer expression.
“I feel we’ve to return to What To not Put on, proper?” Kelly stated. “There was a format and What To not Put on, and due to the time, we have been type consultants and we have been telling individuals what they wanted to do. Now, we’ve utterly flipped that on its butt, and we are attempting to determine who you are as an individual, as our consumer, and like, you are the information and you understand …. we’ll be the information rails, however you are gonna information us that will help you. And it is such a deal with. It truly is a deal with. It takes a bit of little bit of the stress off of us as a result of we do not have to [know everything] and demand that we’re proper on a regular basis. That is serving to someone obtain a dream. Like, there’s nothing higher than that.”
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London chimed in, noting that there is no “judgment” with regards to their shoppers’ preferences.
“I imply, there are occasions the place there have been, you understand, outfits on the present that I used to be like, ‘No, no, no. … I’m not gonna put on that myself.’ But when that made her completely satisfied or him completely satisfied, then we have been completely satisfied to do it as a result of they’re those who need to rock round of their pores and skin. It isn’t us. We’re not dwelling their lives,” she stated. “And actually, we wish you to get essentially the most out of your life that is doable. And understanding who you might be, controlling the narrative within the visible sense by way of your type is an excellent vital talent to have.”
“Whether or not you study that at 20 otherwise you study that at 50, it would not matter,” she added. “It is simply if you study it and likewise recognizing that you just as an individual, you are gonna change. You are gonna need various things over time, and that is okay. You do not have to have the identical type your complete life. You do not have to put on the identical issues. You do not have to have a uniform in case you do not need to. These are, you understand, some individuals love to try this, however it’s not required.”
She then referenced the “quiet luxurious” development of latest years, whereas noting how the ’80s are coming again “with massive daring colours and large daring jewellery” — earlier than including that “brooches are again,” which she jokingly admitted that she’s nonetheless a bit skeptical about.
“I imply, if brooches actually come again, I shall be shocked,” London stated. “They are saying it yearly. By no means occurs. It is just for males. However now they’re saying, ‘No, no, brooches are again for ladies. We’ll see.”
On the subject of brooches, Kelly introduced up one of the vital fashionable and trendy tv characters from the previous few years — if not of all time — Moira Rose (Catherine O’Hara) from Schitt’s Creek, who positively wore no matter (the f) she wished to.
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“I simply began rewatching Schitt’s Creek, and Moira Rose going to mattress in a brooch is every thing,” he stated, to which London added, “Moira was actually a person … she needs to be [Wear Whatever’s] mascot.”
Finally, of their new present, London and Kelly are breaking down the boundaries which can be holding the shoppers again from being themselves — whether or not that is working via doubts they, or others, put of their heads.
When TooFab likened the method to remedy, London agreed. “I feel it is one thing that we’re a bit of used to, to be trustworthy. To not be, you understand, blasé about it, however all of what we have accomplished on What To not Put on and Put on No matter has been about remedy.”
“It’s really about what’s stopping you on the within from being who you need to be. How can we present you that there’s a strategy to get what you need?” she continued. “And that requires asking arduous questions of individuals. And it requires asking questions that might not be snug to everyone, however it’s our purpose to be useful in understanding, you understand, who instructed you you may’t put on this? Who stated you could not put on that? These forms of issues, I feel actually do have an impact. And we wanna assist uproot these beliefs that aren’t true.”
“It is actually a pleasure to assist someone differentiate between their very own perception in their very own head,” Kelly added, “And a perception that someone else implanted of their head as a result of they could have instructed them one thing at a really susceptible time or at a younger developmental age, and it received caught in there.”
“So to unstick these ideas that you just suppose you imagine if you really do not imagine them, it is like, you understand, exorcism,” he stated, to which London interjected, “Gardening!”
“Stacey is aware of how a lot I like to backyard. So pulling weeds or exorcising demons,” he joked.
“Sure, sure, precisely,” London stated. “Gardening and exorcising demons!”
All eight episodes of Put on Regardless of the F You Need are streaming now on Prime Video.
