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Zendaya’s longtime personal stylist Law Roach revealed on a recent episode of The Cutting Room Floor podcast with host Recho Omondi that major designer labels refused to work with her early in her career.
“I will write [to] Saint Laurent, Chanel, Gucci, Valentino and Dior, and they’ll all say, ‘No, try again next year. She is very green. That’s not on our calendar,'” Roach recalled. “I still have all the receipts. I still have everything.
Zendaya hasn’t worn the ‘Big 5’ on carpets to date except Valentino?
Until Zendaya gained popularity, making her Met Gala debut at age 18 and landing her first American Vogue cover two years later, designers’ approach to clothing didn’t change. The law made it known that their original reluctance would never be forgotten.
“By the time she got to American Vogue, she had never worn any of those designers. She still hasn’t,” he explained, adding that the Dune star only started wearing Valentino in public after signing a major contract with the brand in 2020.
When Omondi expressed her disbelief upon hearing this, Law said that, except for editorial shoots, Zendaya has not done looks for any of these companies and will not do so anytime soon – all because they asked her to in the first place. Was so quick to reject.
“She still has never worn Dior on the carpet. She still has never worn Chanel on the carpet. She has never worn Gucci on the carpet until now—no press, no appearances—never. Never,” he said. “She first wore Valentino in public when she had a contract, so when I said, ‘If you say no, it won’t be forever,’ it remained true for a long time.”
Why are most of Zendaya’s looks vintage?
Roach, who is known for creating archival looks for her clients, recently said in a Vogue interview that when she and Zendaya first started working together they had to search the archives “out of necessity.” Because very few designers were willing to wear her clothes.
“we did [pulling vintage] It’s been 13 years now since Zendaya and I started working together. At first, it came out of necessity because when we started, no one would lend her clothes,” she told Vogue in February. “And I come from vintage — I had a vintage store in Chicago — so a lot of the things she wore were things from my store or vintage pieces.”
