- Oh Phoebe Bridgers,
You gotta come get this necklace.
Whoever's styling Phoebe Bridgers
needs that skeleton necklace.
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Hi, I'm Katie Qian and I'm a celebrity stylist.
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Today, I'm at Lidow Archive
and we're gonna look through some fun vintage
and archival stuff for my client, Conan Gray.
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This is VIPeek
I pull at Lidow literally every week.
This is one of the most aesthetically-pleasing showrooms
to pull at in LA.
This is literally one of my favorite places
because they have so many unique, interesting pieces
and we love vintage,
like all of my clients love vintage.
These actually Tinashe wore in the X music video,
Dolce & Gabbana fluffy Green Heels,
and it was like an alien look.
It was so fun.
So, I worked with Tinashe for two years.
I love her.
It's really fun because, kind of, every day with her
is really different
and she doesn't like to do the same thing again, ever.
So, it's challenging,
but like that's also what makes it fun.
Videos with her are really fun
'cause she dances like she dances her ass off.
I feel like adding movement to clothes
is just like another dimension of the vision.
Then you've got like editorial looks,
and crazy dresses, and platforms,
and like it was just really cool.
That's like the best feeling when you're on a shoot,
you're just like, "I literally need this
to come out like tomorrow or I'm gonna die."
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- Boots - Yay.
- These are the boots that I'm here for, technically.
They're beautiful.
2017 Marc Jacobs runway.
It's a premiere for a play for Romeo and Juliet.
We had this idea of just going to every carpet this year
and just like pulling a look.
I think these will be great 'cause they're very theatrical
and like he's kind of going for
a whole Victorian vibe right now.
Actually the challenge with these
is finding the right pants for them.
We don't wanna cover like all the fun details.
Conan, I love working with him.
The relationship with him is so fun.
It literally just feels like we're friends
and we're like playing dress up every day.
I met him during the pandemic.
I think we really just clicked right away.
We kind of had the same vision for things.
He loves a good flared pant.
Usually when I pull for specific clients
I worked for for a while,
I'll always consider like the silhouettes
that they tend to like.
These are cute, have like a slight flare.
Our Coachella look with Conan
was really really a big moment for us.
It was super talked about that Coachella weekend
and like Vogue wrote an article on it.
He was like on every best dressed list like W, Nylon.
So it was just like this huge like press moment for us,
and I think he like really got noticed for his fashion.
Thank you Valentino.
(laughs)
Like those are gonna be gigantic on him.
He has like a couple different aesthetics,
like he likes the dark academia aesthetics.
So we do like a lot of Tom Brown,
like sharp little suits,
and like sweaters, and ties.
Like just super adorable.
Like that's a word we use a lot,
it's just so adorable.
This is more suiting.
And then he has the other side
which is very like princely Victorian,
like vintage angel of a boy.
That's the aesthetic that we go for a lot as well.
Paying homage to the greats, Price, Michael Jackson, Bowie.
We've hit the jackpot, white ruffle shirts.
It's more about the narrative
and less about the fashion I think for Superache.
But when it comes to like performances and stuff,
we go all out.
Like we just did these giant like feather flare pants,
this crazy like dripping blood pearl full look for Fallon.
Like it's just been a lot of fun,
and he always like has ideas as well,
like that are really cool and different
and I love hearing that from him
and like bouncing off each other.
He tells me like, "I'm thinking like a big slay moment,
Victorian, Romeo and Juliet."
And I'll be like, "I know exactly
what you're talking about."
I wonder how many variations
of the white ruffle shirt we can do
before we've exhausted all of them.
But it just looks good every time.
- (laughing) - Yeah, yeah,
he likes like a little grandma shirt.
Ooh, I haven't seen this, this is really cool.
- Oh yeah, this is great.
- Isn't this cool?
- And the collar is really dramatic too.
- We like drama.
I think my style,
I tend to go really like dramatic
and then like do weird stuff
and I tend to like to layer a lot
and like pattern mix a lot,
play with weird silhouettes and weird shapes.
Whether it's the texture, or the color,
or the shape of it, or the accessories.
Like I just try to make something pop.
Should he wear this too? From here.
This is sick, this wig.
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Starting in high school,
that's when I started to do, like, my own shoots and stuff
and I would like style my friends for like senior portraits,
and like basically do whatever I could to find an outlet
for all this creative energy that I had.
I was really inspired by a lot of high fashion,
like runway shows and like editorials.
I didn't think that I would go this route
and like do celebrity.
I feel like music is a good medium
between like editorial and more commercial stuff.
A lot of artists are like not afraid to go there
when it comes to their style,
and like experiment and do some like really crazy,
like wacky stuff.
This is why I love this place,
'cause where are you gonna find this? You know.
I love fashion just 'cause it's so fun
and it's just really like an opportunity
for people to be themselves and express themselves.
Actually one of the first moments
where it really like hit me was McQueen's last show.
It was Atlantis when I was watching it,
and I was probably like 11 or something.
To the main room.
This is where we'll have to do a bit more sifting.
In the beginning I did a lot of editorials
and that's how I met a lot of my clients now.
Like we would meet on magazine shoots
and start working from there.
This is really fun.
He likes like a long kind of robe or shirt
with like a pant under.
Styling is really stressful
because I feel like there's a lot of pressure on you
all the time to deliver,
but there's a lot of things
that are out of your control a lot of the time.
Like shipping, big one, gets messed up all the time
and I think it's really just having the mindset
of like persistence and like we have to,
like our only option is to figure this out
and make this work.
These we used for Tinashe also in the Love Line video.
I had also seen these for weeks,
and then when the video rolled around,
I emailed them and I was like,
"Please save these earrings for me immediately.
I need them for this look I have in mind."
My biggest advice would just be
to find good people to surround you.
I've come to this point where I'm like,
I don't need to have like an empire,
I don't need to be like the number one, like in my industry.
I just wanna like find people who work well with me
and who I vibe with.
And like create an experiment and evolve together.
And I feel like I've gotten to a good place
with like a few of my clients where I can do that.
And it's like kind of a safe space to really just,
I don't know, play and be creative.