I think what’s interesting is that I’ve been doing kind of the same thing for a really long time, but people are just starting to notice it. I just try to make pretty clothes and hope that people like them. I think everybody has to find their way into the world and everybody has different paths. I actually don’t think about it too much. I love her, I’m a huge SNL fan, I’ve dressed a lot of them - Amy, Tina, and I wanted to give her that same moment. In a lot of ways, it was great because she definitely got her Cinderella moment which she so totally deserves. As I’ve been in this business now for almost ten years, I’ve realized that that’s a little more important, that we all try to celebrate each other a little bit more because there’s enough hate going on in the world. There’s a lot of hate going on in the world, so I took it as a phrase “people are people” because that’s what it is - we all are living in this world, we all are here for different purposes, and different reasons.

On your runway this season, you had a shirt that read “People are people,” which is one of many, many statement shirts that I saw that could be read politically this season. I felt that it was really important to start showing that right at the beginning of the process. My woman, the person who’s buying the clothes, is from all walks in life, she’s from different countries and cultures, she’s going to be different sizes. I think more and more in fashion now, diversity is so important because that’s what the customer is. You’ve always embraced all body types, all ethnic backgrounds. I think what’s been amazing to see is the diversity of your designs, especially on the runway, from the beginning. It was really nice because it was so small and just people that they loved. They were very easy-going brides, probably the easiest brides I’ve had in a long time. And for Lauren, the idea was that she wanted it to be kind of masculine but still feminine enough that it didn’t feel kind of cliché. I think Samira knew that she wanted to be in something sort of grand and kind of unexpected - I think people sort of thought that she would wear a suit, but she wanted the total opposite. They also both like fashion, so it was kind of nice to have brides that’ll wear something interesting.ĭid you collaborate with them on the designs? It kind of just worked out, super organic, and I was just honored to do it. I had dressed Samira for a bunch of awards shows, I dressed her for her first Emmys, I dressed her for the SAG Awards once, so we just became friends over the years. Wise words.Christian Siriano: They just asked me. “There is no gain so sure as that which results from economizing what you have,” reads one of the mottos carved in stone at Gotham Hall. There were too many looks and a surfeit of variety. Siriano successfully communicated his starry-eyed approach to fashion, but the collection lacked a clear point of view. (Though to be fair, looks that were only slightly less dramatic could be seen in the audience.) The more voluminous looks, especially those with gigantic ruffles, felt heavy and threatened to overwhelm the wearer. Siriano does an LBD nicely, and there were options for the flirt and the very daring. The idea of two-piece dressing, a bra and pants, say, seems current. There wasn’t a lot of restraint in this collection, but when it appeared, in slim ’30s silhouettes, a suit with asymmetric lapels, or a white dress with attached marabou-trimmed scarf, it was memorable. The designer was looking at old family photos when creating this collection, and the power punch of orange he used was an homage to his Italian grandmother, the season’s muse.

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