Emma Chamberlain is indisputably considered one of Gen Z’s true “It” ladies.
Since stepping onto the scene with YouTube as a 16-year-old, the social media star has launched her personal entrepreneurial ventures, together with her personal espresso firm, Chamberlain Espresso, and serving as inventive director of magnificence line Bad Habit Beauty. She can be an envoy for Louis Vuitton, attending its fashion exhibits and carrying its ladies’s put on ceaselessly.
Chamberlain’s grasp on vogue is noteworthy, and whereas she has at all times been recognized to decorate herself effectively, this yr has marked a big one for her. She made her Met Gala debut and attended Paris Trend Week as soon as extra, all with the assistance of her stylist Jared Ellner.
The 2 first met when Ellner helped type the YouTuber for a shoot for Storage Journal two years in the past, whereas he was nonetheless working there as an assistant to the fashion director. “We simply hit it off — I liked her,” Ellner advised WWD. “It was an unimaginable day.”
Afterward, her publicist requested if he needed to type Chamberlain once more sooner or later, which he stated he would. Ultimately, Ellner left Storage and moved to Los Angeles from New York Metropolis with the hopes of turning into a stylist, however was uncertain on proceed provided that he went to Parsons for vogue design and had not essentially styled full time earlier than.
Then Chamberlain’s publicist reached out and talked about she was searching for a full-time stylist, asking if Ellner would step as much as the plate.
“It was so past fortunate. The timing labored out extremely effectively, it was stunning,” he stated. “Then we form of simply hit the bottom operating.”
Chamberlain was one of many first stars to embrace the resurgence of traits from the late ‘90s to early Aughts period, managing to mesh items like a classic Paul Frank or Von Dutch crop prime and low-rise cargo pants with Louis Vuitton loafers. With that, Ellner merely leaned into her sense of vogue and helped elevate it.
“She has unbelievable type. She’s actually a dream consumer and individual to work with as a result of she has such a very good sense of her personal type and a very good eye that it makes working together with her easy,” he stated. “I’m such a fan of how she places herself collectively already, so being requested to assist with that was the absolute best dream job I may’ve ever requested for.”
In terms of defining and drawing inspiration for her type, Ellner believes that Chamberlain may be very “traditional” and versatile.
“She appears to be like timeless, it doesn’t matter what she does, I really feel like she has an excellent capacity to put on new issues and classic issues and make all of it look traditional,” Ellner stated. “She jogs my memory lots of early ‘90s vogue. She will pull from lots of completely different references. She at all times tends to make one thing look very pure, so it will possibly go one million other ways as a result of she’s tremendous adaptable.”
Lately, Ellner helped put collectively a number of the YouTuber’s largest vogue appears to be like this yr, together with the customized glowing, sequin- and rhinestone-studded Louis Vuitton costume she wore to her Met Gala debut. The costume featured triangle cutouts, displaying off her midriff and the perimeters of her abdomen, a backless design and an uneven prepare on her proper facet.
Emma Chamberlain on the 2021 Met Gala carrying Louis Vuitton.
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Whereas the stylist has put collectively loads of memorable ensembles for Chamberlain since they’ve labored collectively, the Met Gala look was his favourite.
“I undoubtedly can’t take full credit score for that as a result of it was such a collaboration with Emma with Louis Vuitton,” Ellner stated. “There was a lot love and labor put into that from all sides. It was each of our first [Met Gala] and I feel she actually needed to ensure that this second was her showing grown-up. She’d by no means actually stepped out and showcased vogue like this.
“She had such stunning concepts. We had been sending backwards and forwards lots of photos of Cher and completely different silhouettes,” he continued. “We needed to make use of this second to essentially make her youthful however grown-up and step into a brand new vogue period for her. In order that was a really, very particular one.”
To this point this yr, Ellner and Chamberlain have labored collectively on cowl shoots for L’Officiel Philippines, Forbes France and Numéro Netherlands, in addition to picture campaigns for Chamberlain Espresso and her “7 Days, 7 Appears to be like” video section for Vogue.
“It’s actually surreal, however it doesn’t actually really feel that overwhelming and scary as a result of I’ve such a tremendous associate on this on the finish of the day,” Ellner stated. “I get to work together with her, and I like her thoughts, how she thinks and what she desires a lot that it by no means feels daunting or intimidating. It’s genuinely simply thrilling.”
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