At Erdem’s fall 2024 show at London Fashion Week, I asked Law Roach who he thought should be on the next cover of British Vogue. “You should do an issue with all the amazing stylists around the world,” he said. “So, I should be on the cover. It’s about time, right?” Though lighthearted, Roach’s response says a lot about the convergence of fashion and celebrity in 2024–wherein certain stylists have become just as visible and famous as their A-list clients. (Case in point: Roach will next week debut as a co-host on E! Entertainment’s new fashion design competition with Julia Fox.)
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Perhaps Roach was, at that point, already aware that The Hollywood Reporter had been planning a series of covers dedicated to this incumbent generation of power stylists. (The publication unveiled its latest edition this week with yearbook-style photographs of Colman Domingo, Demi Moore, Emily Blunt, Cardi B, and Hunter Schafer alongside their respective image architects.) This is no bad thing: Schafer’s ongoing relationship with Dara Allen–who played model on Miu Miu’s fall 2024 catwalk–has produced some of the most memorable fashion moments of the past 12 months, among them a feathered Ann Demeulemeester bralette and enough vintage Prada to rival the archivist Dr. Qi.
Last night, the duo attended the issue launch in coordinating midis, which had been plucked from the Erdem’s pre-fall 2024 tribute to Maria Callas. (Schafer wore a cropped cocoon jacket and slashed neckline dress, while Allen wore a textured tweed iteration of the same cocktail dress with opera gloves.) Both looks sat well within Allen’s approach to awkward glamour: calling back to the golden age of Hollywood in an attempt to position Schafer as a sort of quirked-up descendant of Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth. “Hunter wants to take that kind of fashion risk,” the stylist told Vogue’s Alice Newbold back in November. “I think that makes her a perfect match.”