Forget Shoes, It's About the Lipstick: Hollywood Stylists Share Lessons Learned From Working in a Pandemic
"We are working in a waist-up world," says veteran stylist Cristina Ehrlich, who tends to Laura Dern, Uzo Aduba and Rachel Brosnahan, regarding the most visible result of the pandemic putting the red carpet on pause. "It's not about, 'Do the shoes fit?' It's more about, 'What color lipstick you are wearing?' " For a recent virtual fashion spread, Ehrlich styled Brosnahan in Dolce & Gabbana, Prabal Gurung and Christian Siriano without a shoe to be seen as the actress shined in uncharacteristically dusky eye makeup and a killer lip line.