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‘Nothing fell in my lap’: how Law Roach redefined celebrity styling
Self-styled ‘image architect’ helped turn Zendaya into a household name – and catapulted himself into the spotlight
Law Roach is the 46-year-old stylist who put Céline Dion in a pink frothy millefeuille-esque coat on the cover of Vogue France, dressed the actor Hunter Schafer in little more than a feather at a 2023 Oscars party, and convinced the model Bella Hadid to wear solely vintage on the Cannes red carpet. Roach, who now also walks the red carpet, is invited to sit in the front row at fashion week shows and has garnered his own legion of fans – more than 1 million followers on Instagram – who chase him down the street for selfies. But as a gay, black man who grew up in one of the poorest areas of Chicago, one of four siblings raised by a single mother, Roach has managed to break into an industry where it is notoriously difficult to succeed – a world in which a people-pleaser is unlikely to triumph.
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