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Melissa McCarthy on Making It In Hollywood
Comedian and actress Melissa McCarthy beat herself up the whole ride home from her ‘Bridesmaids’ audition. “Little did she know,” says director Paul Feig, “that when she walked out, we were all high-fiving.”
Photographer: Dan Martensen
Stylist: Elissa Santisi
Stylist Assistant: Julia Russo
Oscar De La Renta Will Make You Fall In Love With Gowns Again
Photographer: Max Papendieck
Stylist: Djuna Bel
Stylist Assistant: Julia Russo
There may not be many axes where Huma Abedin and Paris Hilton intersect, but apparently, fashion is one of them. At least when it comes to Oscar de la Renta. Both Abedin, of Hillary Clinton campaign fame, and Hilton, of early-aughts nightclub notoriety, have worn the label. As have Amal Clooney, Millie Bobby Brown, Céline Dion, Sandra Oh—the list goes on. It’s hard to pin down a commonality between these women, other than the fact that they all look very much like themselves in ODLR.
Typically, designers conceive of their “girl”—a sort of cameo portrait of the woman they hope to dress. In their three years as co–creative directors of the brand,Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia have done the opposite: widened their scope, gone macro where others have gone micro. They don’t have a “girl,” per se; they aim to outfit a wide swath of people. To them, dressing someone is a “collaboration.” Kim and Garcia apprenticed under the house’s late founder, and they still think of the question he asked every time he created some-thing: “What does this do for her?”
It’s a refreshing approach in an era when American sportswear is in a neck-and-neck race with its jock cousin, athleisure; when evening dressing could conceivably mean denim and sneakers; and when personal style trumps “full look” perfection. In fact, what Kim and Garcia are doing might just represent the future of a certain kind of refined American style.
The two have a long history with the house, and with each other. After graduating with an architecture degree from Notre Dame, Garcia worked at Oscar de la Renta for six years. It was there that he met Kim,a Pratt grad who was already an ODLR veteran—she spent a dozen years at the house, eventually becoming its design director. In 2015, they left the brand to launch their own label, Monse, showcasing their first collection in a Chelsea townhouse. A year later, they returned to the Oscar fold. Today, they split their time between de la Renta’s stately, flower-filled Bryant Park offices and Monse’s slightly more downtown digs, located, well, downtown. “It’s fun for us to have a different perspective,” Kim says. “If I did Monse all day long, I might get a little bored. Sometimes I go to Oscar after Monse, and I’m really refreshed to see embroidery and super expensive fabric. And sometimes I come back down here and I’m like, ‘It’s so nice to see a hoodie.’ ”
Issue #2 - Sex and Love: Gwyneth Paltrow Confirms Her Engagement in Goop Magazine’s Sex & Love Issue
Photographer: Steven Pan
Stylist: Michael Philouze
Stylist Assistant: Julia Russo
