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CNBC
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNBC
How to dress for success in the workplace, from ‘What Not to Wear' hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly
Stacy London and Clinton Kelly know a thing or two about dressing for success. London and Kelly, both 56, became household names as the hosts of popular makeover show "What Not to Wear," which ran on TLC from 2003 to 2013. More than a decade later, the two style experts have reunited for a new show, "Wear Whatever the F You Want," which premiered in April on Amazon Prime Video. "The world has changed a lot since 'What Not to Wear' ended, and we wanted to show that we changed along with the world," Kelly says. On "What Not to Wear," Kelly and London were known for critiquing makeover participants' style and overhauling their wardrobes. Not so on their new show. This time around, London and Kelly are focusing less on fashion do's and don'ts, and more on personal empowerment. As Kelly puts it, "the rule book went out the window." According to London, their new message as stylists is "we are not here to change you." Instead, she and Kelly want to show their makeover subjects "what style can do for an individual in terms of confidence, self-esteem and capability." The so-called rule book may be gone, but Kelly and London still have plenty of advice to give, especially when it comes to navigating the ever-changing etiquette of professional attire. Here are their best style tips for putting your most professional foot forward in the workplace. Style can serve as an important communication tool in the workplace, London says. For instance, wearing a cool mixed-print outfit can highlight your creativity, while a well-tailored suit sends the message that you're meticulous about details. "We want style to be a shortcut to help get to know people better," London says. Your clothing can also telegraph "a certain work ethic," according to Kelly: "People think that if you are conscientious about your wardrobe – keeping your clothes nice and neat and clean, and taking things to the tailor when they need to go – you're probably going to be conscientious with your work," he says. Since Covid, some companies have relaxed their standards for office attire, but Kelly and London say that wearing suitable work clothing remains key to professional success. "We're still human beings, and we're still looking at other people and making snap judgments on them," Kelly says. "We can make an assumption about somebody in 3.5 seconds based on their appearance." Dressing appropriately at work conveys "respect for yourself and respect for your context," London says. "Seeing somebody respond to their environment in a respectful way does translate into the way that we think about them," she says. Of course, there's no one-size-fits-all handbook for workwear – it depends on your office's unique culture and norms. But certain time-tested fashion rules still hold true: London and Kelly both advise against showing too much skin at work or wearing clothes with stains and holes. For young professionals just entering the workforce, Kelly recommends visiting your office building before your first day and scoping out what your future colleagues are wearing to work. Above all, your professional style should align with your goals, London says — both inside and outside the workplace. "I think the whole point of creating a personal style is to really define for yourself who you are and what you want," she says. "You want to dress in a way that creates a kind of attraction toward all of the things that you're looking for in your life." In other words, if you're hoping to level up at work, make sure that your appearance matches your professional prowess. "We used to say 'dress for the job you want,' and in some ways that's still true," London says. "I think that we really don't recognize how much our style impacts the way people perceive us."
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Met Gala's Sheer Dresses Over the Years: Beyoncé in Givenchy's See-through Look, Kim Kardashian Dripping in Mugler and More
The sheer trend has been consistent on the Met Gala red carpet since the early noughties when see-through fabrics were trending on the runway, as seen in collections from Marc Jacobs, Versace, Alexander McQueen and Calvin Klein. However, the style first made headlines at the event in 1974, when Cher famously wore a sheer Bob Mackie dress to the Met Gala, which was themed 'Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design.' The singer later took another chance on naked dressing for the 1985 Met Gala, wearing another Mackie design. More from WWD Emma Roberts Goes Classic in Dior Houndstooth Wool Jacket and Skirt Coords for Brooklyn Artists Ball Kerry Washington Channels Gothic Romance in Sheer Dior Dress for Brooklyn Artists Ball 'Wear Whatever the F You Want': Ten Years After Hit TV Show 'What Not to Wear,' Stacy London and Clinton Kelly Embrace Evolution in Styling and Friendship In 2003, Victoria Beckham notably embraced the see-through trend at the gala, wearing a Dolce & Gabbana minidress. Over the years, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Kim Kardashian, Janelle Monae, Kendall Jenner, Katy Perry and more stars have also sported sheer looks at the event. In 2024, sheer turned out to be one of the biggest trends on the event's red carpet, with Jennifer Lopez, Greta Lee, Emily Ratajkowski, Dove Cameron, Elle Fanning, Eddie Redmayne, Alexandra Daddario and more opting for see-through silhouettes. With the 2025 Met Gala taking place on Monday in New York City, WWD looks back at some of the sheer dressing moments in the event's history. See the list below. Nicole Kidman wore a custom silver-sequined sheer dress by Tom Ford for Gucci at the 2003 Met Gala. The one-shoulder design was completely covered in delicate crystalline embellishments. The dress featured an asymmetric neckline with one long sleeve and one bare shoulder, and followed a sleek column silhouette. Rihanna donned a one-sleeved black lace dress by Stella McCartney for the 2011 Met Gala. The design featured intricate black lace overlay against a nude underlay, creating a textural contrast. The dress had a form-fitting silhouette with a dramatic train extending behind. Beyoncé went sheer in a Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci custom-made gown at the 2015 Met Gala. This daring gown showcased a sheer illusion design completely embellished with strategically placed colorful crystals and beadwork. The dress featured a high neckline, long sleeves and a flowing train. Kim Kardashian wore a Thierry Mugler sheer gown that took eight months to create at the 2019 Met Gala. The form-fitting dress was made of a wet-look fabric with crystal water droplet embellishments. The garment had a structured, corset-like bodice with a plunging neckline, a button-front closure and a cinched waist. Janelle Monáe changed outfits on the 2023 Met Gala red carpet, swapping a black-and-white patchwork jacket for a whimsical sheer dress by Thom Browne. This avant-garde ensemble featured a dramatic cone-shaped cage structure made of sheer black material with horizontal rings connected by vertical crystalline. Dua Lipa arrived at the 2024 Met Gala in a look from Marc Jacobs with jewelry from Tiffany & Co. The singer's dress, adorned with a large feather adornment on the right shoulder, featured a distressed black lace triangle-cut top and matching black lace low-waisted, tie-front maxiskirt. View Gallery Launch Gallery: Met Gala's Sheer Outfits Through the Years: The See-Through Style Trend on the Red Carpet [PHOTOS] Best of WWD Zendaya's Met Gala Looks Through the Years: Dramatic Maison Margiela Gown, Her Glowing 'Cinderella' Moment and More Elizabeth Hurley's Red Carpet Style Through the Years, Photos Met Gala 2025 Cochair A$AP Rocky's Red Carpet Moments [PHOTOS]
New York Times
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
How Stacy London Spends Her Sundays
Stacy London wants you to wear whatever you want. Ms. London, a fashion expert and entrepreneur, is best known for the show 'What Not to Wear,' which she co-hosted with Clinton Kelly on TLC for over a decade. But as she's changed, so have her views toward style: She no longer wants people to adhere to a specific set of fashion rules. 'Style is about the individual, and that is never about whether or not you are participating in trends,' Ms. London, 55, said. 'It's about what you are doing with your raw material, your body and your self-expression.' 'What Not to Wear' ended in 2013, but the co-hosts teamed up again for 'Wear Whatever the F You Want,' which airs on Prime Video. Instead of rules, it focuses on channeling inner fashion desires. 'I may not think this is the best we could have done, but have I made you the happiest? Because that's the goal, and that's the shift between where we were and where we are now as a society,' Ms. London said. In addition to the show, Ms. London designs clothes for women going through menopause for her QVC line By Stacy London. 'I still love style and I still love fashion, but I wear suits, I wear trousers. I feel more confident that way than I did wearing skintight pencil skirts and five-inch heels,' she said. Ms. London moved into a three-bedroom apartment in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood in Brooklyn in 2006. It's filled with racks of clothes, art and dinosaur knickknacks. 'I knocked out every single wall, so it's just a duplex loft with no doors,' she said. 'There's a huge staircase in the middle of the apartment that leads down to the bedroom and the dressing room.' Ms. London shares her home with Dora, a 'completely vindictive' 8-year-old Morkie (Maltese-Yorkshire Terrier). SLEEP MODE It depends on what Saturday night was like, but I can sleep in anywhere from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There's just something about sleeping in. My bedroom is a dark little cocoon, and Dora sleeps with me. I love my sheets and my mattress, and sometimes I'll get coffee and get back into bed and read. I have a whole separate shelf with books on my reading list, and I'm slowly working through them. FINDING THE CURE I'm obsessed with Salt's Cure's brunch and sitting on their patio. You can go one of two ways: You can do salty or sweet, or salty and sweet. I can never decide, but I usually start salty and then go sweet. The egg, avocado and hash brown is one section of my breakfast, and the gluten-free chocolate chip oatmeal griddle cakes are the second. I always have to order extra eggs because Dora's going to eat them. Yes, I'm that person. WALK IT OUT I love walking to Dumbo, and I like to go to Brooklyn Flea. I've found incredible designer pieces there for really reasonable prices. Some things that people wouldn't necessarily know, more so '90s designers that I love, like Romeo Gigli. Also, because I love tchotchkes, it may be something like accessories or a weird little trinket I want to put on a shelf. If I'm in Dumbo, I'll also without fail go to Front General Store, which has vintage clothing and jewelry. Walking by the carousel is always fun for Dora. There's tons of dogs she could potentially attack, but she also loves being by the water. PERFECT FIT I've been working with my friend Suleika Jaouad, who recently went on tour. She does not love shopping, and she doesn't love styling. She has great taste, but I don't think she trusts herself enough. So on Sundays, I've been doing fittings for her here, just in my clothes. She'd rather wear things of mine that she likes and she can fit and she knows. COFFEE CATCH-UP I like to go to Liz's Book Bar, which is a bar and a bookstore. It's a lovely atmosphere, and I'll meet my friends there. They're my neighbors, and we try to make a point to see each other on the weekends. I might order an iced latte, or I might get a bottle of rosé. SUPPORTING LOCAL I've been in Carroll Gardens for so long that I've really watched this area gentrify completely and utterly overnight. It's been hard since Covid to watch so many small businesses not make it, so I try to be as supportive as possible. There are two stores I love on Court Street, Rue Saint Paul and Woods Grove. If I'm in the mood to shop, I'll go there. TAKEOUT TIME There's nothing better than Han Dynasty. I order the rice noodles stir-fried with scallions, egg and shredded chicken. The noodles are oily, and they come with chili oil on the side. I find that it's spicy but not salty, so I add some salt. Then I'll literally eat an entire container. Currently, I'm watching 'The Righteous Gemstones,' but I'm a scripted TV connoisseur. I watch everything scripted. HOUSEKEEPING The thing I have to do to cap off my Sundays is to go through my entire week. I'll look at my calendar, coordinate with my assistant and coordinate with my housekeeper, who takes care of Dora when I travel. I get very overwhelmed with too much information, and frankly, there's a lot going on right now with the promotion of my new show. I have the best assistant in the world — she's like my other half. SNUGGLES My scrubbing and polishing — what I call my skin care and teeth polishing — routine can take about 40 minutes. Dora goes and sleeps in her little anti-anxiety bed and then we go downstairs. I usually go downstairs to bed before her and then I wait for the little pitter-patter of her feet before I turn off the light so she can get up on the bed, too.
CBC
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Stacy and Clinton reunite — with a gentler approach to makeovers — on Wear Whatever the F You Want
Another 2000s era cultural artifact has gotten a makeover — and this time, it's a makeover show. Wear Whatever the F You Want is a new show that brings together stylists Stacy London and Clinton Kelly, who many audiences will recognize from their time hosting the popular TLC reality show, What Not to Wear. But it's not exactly a reboot. On What Not to Wear, the pair gained notoriety for not only giving everyday people style makeovers, but also their approach to these makeovers — which often required throwing out the subject's old clothes, and making a lot of snarky comments along the way. Now, on Amazon Prime's Wear Whatever the F You Want, Stacy and Clinton are taking a totally different approach to helping people develop their personal style. But does their newer, nicer approach still make for good TV? Today on Commotion, culture writers Amil Niazi and Joan Summers chat with host Elamin Abdelmahmoud about the legacy of 2000s-era fashion anxiety, and how Wear Whatever the F You Want takes an entirely different philosophy on fashion. We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. For the full discussion, listen and follow Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on your favourite podcast player. WATCH | Today's episode on YouTube: Elamin: Amil, the show felt very centered around the hosts, Stacy and Clinton, and how opinionated they are, and how harsh they can be around other people. What was the appeal of that? Why did we want to watch something like that? Amil: Well, I think as an audience, we really get something out of other people saying the thing that is taboo. And for Stacy and Clinton to be able to just say the mean thing — to tell the woman that she's too old to wear a short skirt and bobby socks, you know — something that you might have thought in passing, but you would never tell someone in your life…. They were kind of like an avatar for our worst desires and our worst thoughts and our worst impulses. They were fun to watch in their meanness, too, of course. We wouldn't have enjoyed them if they weren't funny and snarky. And their love for each other, and the way they sort of giggled when each made a really good joke, I think we also got something out of that. We can't be that mean in real life. And so Stacy and Clinton allowed us to experience something that we all don't want to admit that we have inside of us. Elamin: Joan, the subtext of what Amil was saying there is we all have these thoughts, we just don't actually get to air them out. And this show was sort of an opportunity for those thoughts to emerge…. Television was like this from 2003 until maybe 2013, which is when the show was on. How much do you feel like this show is an artifact of that time? Joan: Yeah, I think that especially here in America, where the show was obviously very popular, it was such an expression of this burgeoning anxiety in American media around specifically the way that women looked, dressed, where we shopped. As women found more agency in the workplace, in the home, at school, with their career opportunities and their self-expression, and media became so much more disseminated and in our own hands, I think that a lot of conservative beliefs started to bubble up in the way that we talked about women's bodies, whether it's body size or clothing. And I think this show specifically was such a good way for people to channel all that onto these avatars of, like, "No, you're 40. You can't do this. Time to put on the pencil skirt and the blazer from JCPenney and watch the kids, or go to work at the office job, and that's all you ever get to be," you know? And there's so much media that I think it also ties into…. There's also this idea of crushing people's dreams or hopes. You look at American Idol, which was also kind of schlocky reality TV for the time. And for all the good singing, people didn't enjoy that. They enjoyed watching the auditions and seeing people panic and cry because their dreams got crushed, or have a really crazy bad audition, you know? There was this, I think, need for people in the 2000s to channel all of these anxieties and frustrations onto reality TV. And Stacy and Clinton were more than happy to do that. WATCH | Official trailer for Wear Whatever the F You Want: Amil: You also think about what was happening online — you had people like Perez Hilton talking about Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan and their bodies, how they looked, who they were dating and what they were doing. The landscape was just mean, online and on television. It was just a very harsh time to be a woman. Elamin: The approach that Stacy and Clinton are taking has changed a lot. Amil, you watched the show [ Wear Whatever the F You Want ]. What's different about it? Amil: I mean, it's so funny because you can almost hear how difficult it is for them to not be judging. They're just like, "We want to help you be whatever you want to be, and we won't say anything about what we think about that fantasy. We'll just help you do it." Yes, it is obviously a reboot that really pushes aside the meanness, pushes aside the judginess and says, "We want to repent for what we did to women, specifically, for all those years. And now we accept that personal style is an expression of who you are, and it's meant to be different from what everyone else is doing. And so we wanna help you achieve that." So it's a much nicer, much gentler, much more inclusive, pulling people into the circle rather than pushing them out. But I still hear in their voices how hard it is for them to do that because it doesn't come naturally to Stacy and Clinton.
Boston Globe
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘Yes, Chef!" is a few too many cooking competition shows in one
For one, 'Yes, Chef!' comes from the producers of Bravo's ' The most immediate 'Yes, Chef!' twist is that each chef was nominated to be on the series by someone they know — a friend, a family member, a concerned business partner — in the vein of self-improvement shows like 'Queer Eye' and 'What Not to Wear.' Imagine if Advertisement As per the show's pithy chyron explanations, these chefs (including Exeter, New Hampshire chef For all that, though, the most confusing part of 'Yes, Chef!' might be why its hosts are Stewart and José Andrés, the Michelin-starred chef and compassionate founder of World Central Kitchen (which, come to think of it, went strangely unacknowledged in the first episode altogether). They're charming enough as a duo, sure. But I'm not convinced their particular areas of expertise make them the right fit for this diet Gordon Ramsay show, which probably should've faced its own identity crisis before making its chefs do the same. Caroline Framke is a media analyst who previously served as Variety's Chief TV Critic. Her other work can be found at The Atlantic, Vulture, Vox, and more. A Smith College graduate, Framke is currently based in New York City.
