March 25 (Reuters) – Celeb stylist and artistic director Apuje Kalu is working with a number of A-list celebrities attending this yr’s Academy Awards and after-parties. So what goes right into a profitable Oscars look?
A part of the important thing to pulling it off is ensuring attendees are snug and assured.
“When styling my purchasers I’m very collaborative. We’ve conferences, we discuss technique, we trade pictures, however in the end they’re those which are going through the cameras, so I wish to make sure that … I’m not forcing a imaginative and prescient or look onto them,” he stated Friday. “However I’m additionally not afraid to push them.”
As for what to search for this yr?
“There’s going to be quite a lot of quantity, like actually massive robes on the carpet this yr. We’re coming again on the Oscars and persons are wanting ahead to creating statements and to be being seen.
“Additionally, you will see quite a lot of modern silhouettes. Everybody’s physique sort cannot carry possibly a very massive robe, and a few folks look actually good in modern silhouettes exhibiting off their determine however nonetheless being coated and nonetheless being tasteful,” he stated.
Kalu expects daring hues to rule on the carpet this yr.
“You are going to see shade on the carpet this yr, whether or not it’s major colours or jewel tones. So, stay up for folks (making) statements as a result of we have been locked down for therefore lengthy and it has been sort of an absence of their opulence.”
The 94th annual Oscars will likely be broadcast dwell from Los Angeles on Sunday night.
Reporting by Alicia Powell; Writing by Mark Porter; Modifying by Jonathan Oatis
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