To make things difficult, most stylists can’t call in samples from the major fashion houses. The vacations are particularly daunting, since the cast can wear three or more outfits a day, and god forbid one of the ladies turns up in the same sunglasses twice.Ĭrystal Kung Minkoff, Dorit Kemsley, Lisa Rinna, Erika Girardi, Kyle Richards, Kathy Hilton, Sutton Stracke, and Garcelle Beauvais in 2021. It’s a lot of content to fill,” says Andrew Gelwicks, a New York stylist who worked with actress Lisa Rinna (of Beverly Hills), Carole Radziwill (formerly of New York), and Chrishell Stause, of Netflix’s Selling Sunset, a reality upstart that is trying to take the crown for fashion with a capital F. Now Lublin handles everyday filming and Levine the confessional shoots and reunion episodes. With a demand for 100 outfits a season, she eventually had to start paying them. Minkoff, an entrepreneur who is married to filmmaker Rob Minkoff, initially asked two friends, the stylists Andrea Lublin and Dana Asher Levine, to help her out as a favor.
So she spent tens of thousands of dollars on clothes, an investment that cut into her $60,000 take-home as a first-year cast member. Before her recent legal troubles, Jayne was signed up by Rihanna as an ambassador for her lingerie line, Savage X Fenty, and attended shows by Marc Jacobs and Vera Wang. Then Erika Jayne broke out on Beverly Hills in 2015, weaponizing her outrageous closet to turn herself and her team into meme machines. For the most part these appearances were photo-ops aimed at impressing the tabloids. Ramona Singer walked one runway-as part of Brooklyn Fashion Weekend. Even though they’re not pulling viewers the way they used to (around 1 million an episode at their peak), they still command Instagram followings that range from 4 million ( Beverly Hills’s Kyle Richards) to 10 million ( Atlanta’s Kandi Burruss).Īll the franchise’s stars, especially in New York, have always attended fashion shows, of a sort. Robin L Marshall // Getty ImagesĪnd here’s something else: The Housewives move merchandise.
Sutton Stracke and Kinya Claiborne at Stracke’s launch of new cashmere line at Sutton on in West Hollywood. “When people write, ‘Sutton needs to fire her stylist,’ I just want to write back, ‘I am my stylist!’” “It’s all from my closet,” says Sutton Stracke, of Beverly Hills. To quote Dolly Parton, it costs a lot of money to look that cheap. To keep up appearances, they’re buying their Alexis Carrington Colby finery at their own expense. The Housewives don’t borrow clothes-luxury brands won’t lend to them-and they don’t rent the runway. Ur-Housewife Bethenny Frankel acidly commented on her podcast that behind the scenes is an army of “glam squads and costumes and hair pieces and a whole fashion show.” And yet the fashion show onscreen may be more real than what walks the red carpet, where celebrities more often than not are playing dress-up for the step-and-repeat. “Now part of the reason people watch is to see what the ladies are wearing.” It’s not just fans who have noticed a shift.
“It has totally changed,” says the journalist and Housewives diehard Amy Odell. These days, if you tune into one of the eight Real Housewives programs on Bravo (or the two more on the Peacock streaming service), it’s quite a different story: Gucci prints, high-end logos on everything from sunglasses to scarves, and a pair of earrings reading CHA on one lobe and NEL on the other that are so ubiquitous you’d think Andy Cohen gave them out as part of an initiation ritual. When Real Housewives of Orange County premiered in 2006, the biggest fashion statement on the show were these often ruched, often satiny, often sleeveless blouses with embellishment and jewels around the (often surgically enhanced) décolletage.
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