Dramatic pursuits that had the world gripped
Afterward, the designer sent her white roses along with a note that said, "You looked beautiful last night."
Frustrated by a lack of options, the actress has resorted to buying her own red carpet dresses, including the Jenny Packham gown she wore to the 2016 Golden Globes.
"It's so funny how there are no designers wanting to help me with a premiere dress for the movie." Jones continued, "Hmmm that will change and I remember everything."
After losing 80 lbs. (36 kg) in 2010, the singer described how different her experience with designers had become.
She said, "I definitely think the fashion industry, and people in general, look at me more now that I’ve lost weight."
Sources: (People) (The Cut) (Harper's Bazaar) (The Guardian) (Teen Vogue) (The Hollywood Reporter)
She also said, "I don’t care whether re-wearing clothes is acceptable or not, if I’m feeling the dress and the occasion, and if it fits, then I’ll wear it again."
Actress Megan Mullally has spoken before about buying her own clothes for events. She couldn't help but point out the absurdity of dressing herself to host 2019's SAG Awards.
Zendaya's former stylist, Law Roach, revealed that when he first started working with her, a lot of the fashion houses weren't dressing black girls.
In January 2019, the singer voiced her frustration about the fact that no one offered to dress her for the upcoming Grammys, even though she was a nominee.
After 'Bodak Yellow' became a hit, requests from Cardi B's stylist were rejected by both high-end designers and Instagram boutiques, because she wasn't "the It girl."
Khloé Kardashian told Harper's Bazaar that she didn't have many styling options before, but she does now her size has changed.
"Zendaya made it to the cover of Vogue, [and] she had never worn Valentino, Gucci or Chanel... We built that girl’s career and my career using smaller brands and emerging designers to prove a point," Roach told the Hollywood Reporter.
She said, "The truth is, so many more opportunities open up when you’re on the other side, as I am now. I had no idea what I was missing out on. It’s like a whole other world."
In 2016, Graham told The Cut that she didn't attend the Met Gala because she couldn't find anyone to dress her. "I couldn't get a designer to dress me," she said. "You can't just show up in jeans and a T-shirt."
"When you’re not ‘sample’ size, or when you don’t have a direct relationship with a designer, or if you don’t have a lot of notice, those types of size 6 dresses just aren’t that available that much," she said.
The rapper told Teen Vogue, "I'm not going to turn down an opportunity because they don't want to let me in, or they just don't like me in their clothes, period."
She said, "I am young and I am cool and I want to wear cool clothes! I don’t understand what the resistance is to it."
In 2014, Tom Ford refused to dress more than one celeb for the Golden Globes. The actress went on and bought her own.
The actress struggled to find someone to dress her for the Golden Globes in 2012. She gave the press her thoughts on the matter.
The plus size model is outspoken about size discrimination in the fashion industry, and even spoke about it at the Oscars.
When she received the CFDA Fashion Icon award in 2016 she said: "When we were starting out in Destiny’s Child, high-end labels, they didn’t want to dress black, country, curvy girls."
In 2019, the SNL cast member told PeopleStyle that she "begged" designers for years to make her clothes that don't "look like they were designed for the mother of the bride."
In a 2019 essay for The Guardian, Jane Seymour wrote that, after being an "unofficial muse" in the '80s and '90s, nowadays not every designer will dress someone her age.
In 2014, the actress and comedian revealed that she had a hard time finding a designer willing to dress her for the 2012 Oscars ceremony.
She said, "I had my team hit out a lot of designers and a lot of them do not want to dress me because I’m too big." After that tweet, multiple designers offered to dress her.
Today, designers would die to dress Queen B. But when she was starting out with Destiny's Child in the early 2000s, things were a lot different.
She revealed on Instagram, "Looks like I will be buying my dress online though, as per my usual, even though there is literally a 100 percent chance that I will be on camera, because I’M HOSTING IT. Designers do not send me dresses."
When a number of designers refused to dress Leslie Jones for the premiere of her movie, 'Ghostbusters' (2016), she shamed them on Twitter. Christian Siriano ended up dressing her for the event in a stunning red gown.
She explained, "I asked five or six designers, very high-level ones who make lots of dresses for people, and they all said no." In the end, she wore a department store, ready-to-wear gown by Marina Rinaldi.
She said, "I’m just a short, chubby girl. It’s hard for me to find a dress to wear to something like this! It’s a lot of pressure, I’ll tell ya. No designers are coming to me."
When you're famous, having the right outfit to wear on the red carpet or a magazine cover is part of the job. Generally, celebs and their stylists borrow these outfits from designers, which is a win-win arrangement: the celebrity looks great in front of the camera, and the designer of the dress gets important publicity. However, not every celeb gets the same opportunities.
Oftentimes, designers refuse to lend someone their clothes because of that person's body size, race, or age. But some stars and their stylists have also been brave enough to call them out. Click on to see who they are, and what those stars have to say about it.
Celebs who were rejected by designers
Be it for their age or size, designers didn't want to dress these stars
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When you're famous, having the right outfit to wear on the red carpet or a magazine cover is part of the job. Generally, celebs and their stylists borrow these outfits from designers, which is a win-win arrangement: the celebrity looks great in front of the camera, and the designer of the dress gets important publicity. However, not every celeb gets the same opportunities.
Oftentimes, designers refuse to lend someone their clothes because of that person's body size, race, or age. But some stars and their stylists have also been brave enough to call them out. Click on to see who they are, and what those stars have to say about it.