- Woo, I'm getting styled by Freddie.
Oh my god.
(laughs)
- This is literally Freddie.
(laughing)
- [Curly] Love it.
This is the new me.
This is who I am right now.
(upbeat music)
- So I asked Freddie who is a
good good friend of mine here at Buzzfeed
to kind of like modernize my look a little bit.
Not because I'm ashamed of the way that I look or anything,
but I think it would be kind of fun.
I love getting dressed.
It's like my favorite part of the day,
but I'm very particular about the way that I dress.
- Ooh, how would I describe Curly's style?
Oh my gosh,
okay so earthy.
- [Curly] I don't recognize myself in bright colors,
I don't recognize myself in joggers.
I don't wear anything that isn't like an earth tone,
or something that I couldn't find in the earth.
- It's like grandpa chic, I love it.
- When I see old men in the streets I'm like,
(sighs) "style icon."
- Curly does pay a lot of homage to looks of the past.
- I always tell myself
that if it doesn't look like it came from Jesus' time,
I don't want it.
Like it needs to look old.
Freddie is known for her colors,
her silhouettes, her textures.
She doesn't put herself in a box.
And I am very much a Virgo.
I live in my box, I thrive in my box, I decorate my box.
I wanna see like what it's like on the other side of this.
- I think my goal with this whole thing is to try
to find new types of pieces for Curly,
especially experimenting with color.
But in a way that still feels in line with something
that he could maybe revert back to
once the experiment is done.
Curly but current,
that's the theme of this experiment.
(uplifting music)
- We are here at the desk of Fred.
- Look at this color.
- Oh I don't want.
What about that gray right next to it?
That is perfect.
Do you think this is gonna be a hard challenge?
- I think it's gonna be hard.
But I do, also like I said, I want some of theses items,
at least one or two, to be something that
you feel like you could integrate into your wardrobe.
- Okay, also don't be giving me (mumbles) of my midriff.
- Okay no midriff,
noted.
(chiming bells)
- [Curly] Okay so today I'm gonna be wearing
the first look for Freddie.
Which is a
long sleeve
sweater type thing with a beanie and some pants.
Look.
Who's gonna wear this beanie?
A little baby?
Oh my god.
(laughs)
Joe what do you think I'm wearing Freddie's outfit today.
- You look uncomfortable.
(laughs loudly)
- I think this is very you,
I think it's just missing a belt.
So you look like an art hour gay who would be in the
Tyler, The Creator's music video.
- I like this shirt.
I think this shirt is totally,
these pants on you but like the fit is not right.
- Yeah.
- Like a little too baggy for you.
- Yeah.
It's very me, it's very high-waisted I love it.
I think it's just the beanie that's throwing me off.
Do you guys know how to style a beanie?
- [Girl] Yes.
- Looks like you're putting a little
condom on my head right now.
Okay wow.
- You like it?
- You and Freddie are very close,
and I feel like she really knows your vibe.
- Yeah I agree.
- So I think
everything in here like is very you.
(chiming bells)
- [Curly] All right so it officially day two.
Today I'm actually wearing joggers.
And I've never worn joggers before in my life.
Look at my outfit.
Boom baby!
- I don't think I've every seen you in like
sweats and sneakers.
- It's cause I don't own any.
- You!
Have always said
you would catch me dead.
- [Curly] I know.
- In sweats.
You don't even wear sweats at home.
- [Curly] I don't!
- You wear pants at home.
- There is something about it that I want to be more,
Curly.
I love that she
stayed inside of your
color scheme.
- [Curly] Yes.
- Like with your neutrals
but then it had a pop of orange.
- So this outfit has kind of proved to be,
great I love it.
It's raining in LA.
These sweats, these shoes.
I'm good I'm chilling in this jacket.
At first I was like,
I don't know but now I'm like.
You better.
(chiming bells)
I kind of really didn't understand
how big of a deal
getting dressed for me is everyday.
I thought it was gonna be like,
yeah you know whatever, fuck it!
I'm kind of like,
I wanna wear my little
tan sweater.
What do you think about this outfit?
- It's so different of course but you know you,
you got that highlighter bright going on.
- [Curly] I feel like I look like this chair!
- I actually walked up had to make sure that is was you.
I think you look cute,
but I just this isn't you.
This is literally Freddie.
- [Women] Bright!
- They're (laughs).
So I am now in
half the day I've been wearing this already.
Actually am not mad at this outfit anymore.
I actually am enjoying it.
I feel like somewhat empowered to be in like this
different color that I would never wear before.
But I also feel really weird wearing sweats in public.
Like I'm like,
I should be wearing my pants.
- I really like the pants.
- Yeah.
- The color, it's something we've never seen you in but.
- Yeah, when was the last time
we've seen him in a lime green?
- Never.
- [Curly] It is now time to wear my nighttime outfit.
And I have to admit that
when I saw the photos I was like oh my god okay don't.
I don't wanna wear
floral.
And I don't wanna wear
pin stripe.
And then I put it on and I was like,
this is kind of really cute.
It's not that I doubt Freddie's style.
It really goes off of my mood
and like in the moment I just am not in a floral mood,
I'm not in this pin stripe mood, but.
I'm so feeling this outfit.
I'm gonna see how my friends like it.
- [Man] Oh my god, oh my god.
- I really love the shirt.
I'm a little bit,
like I would love to see this shirt
with those white pants and the white sneakers
that you wore in that other look.
I think it would be more like Curly.
- So we just got home,
I had a really good evening actually.
It was super cool, super chill.
I felt really comfortable in the clothing.
A lot more comfortable than I thought I was gonna feel,
which is really cool.
So I have one more night, one more night look.
This one for me is gonna be the hardest one only because,
it's kind of like
an ugly sweater.
- [Man] The comfort rate flow.
- And I'm not
an ugly sweater (mumbles),
so here we go!
(chiming bells)
So one of the things that I did want to say is that,
for me this had been like a little bit more,
challenging than I thought it would be.
And I realize that it's not because I'm like
being a brat or being spoiled or anything,
or anything like that.
It's just like,
I think as a queer Latino person growing up
you wanna just like get by.
You wanna just pass, you don't wanna get noticed,
you don't necessarily wanna flex on anybody.
Blending in is part of survival.
Even though I do with items that are
kind of loud sometimes.
They're items that you kind have to look at,
you don't necessarily see them coming.
And so that's why these clothes were a little hard for me.
So it's not coming from a place of,
I'm too good for this or I don't do this, I don't do that.
It's just mostly like I've always wanted to just blend in.
So, all right lets see how it goes.
So I'm getting ready for dinner and,
these are the pants that I have to wear.
I tried folding them at the bottom.
(speaks in foreign language)
- [Curly] I like it if you like it.
(laughs loudly)
Why you laughing at my sweater?
- I like it!
- You like it?
- Yeah, I'd wear it.
- It's cute, if anybody could rock it, it's you.
- [Curly] Thank you cousin.
- I think the sweater is so ugly, I'm sorry.
- You think it's ugly?
- I think it's ugly.
- I love it, look at this!
- You like it?
- The orange, can I wear it?
- I'm taking a look at all the photos
of Curly in the outfits that I dressed him in.
And I think he looks
really really cute and adorable and honestly,
super super confident.
Like based on all
things that he said he was nervous about
and all of his fears and his like you know.
Him being stressed out about really bright colors.
He really rocked all the outfit like,
I thought he looked really cute.
And I don't know Curly I'm so proud of you!
Good job boo boo.
(chiming bells)
- You know at the end of the day I super had
really amazing time getting dressed by Freddie.
I'm still like super learning how to
go out of my comfort zone style wise.
And it's absolutely okay to stand out a little bit.
I gonna stand out regardless.
I'm so thankful to you Freddie.
Thank you so much for taking time
to really pick clothing that you put your heart into.
I definitely would trust Freddie to dress me again for sure.
(gentle music)
- [Child] Pero Like.