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Christian Siriano on Championing Size Inclusivity in The Fashion Industry | Pretty Big Deal

Feb 27, 2020
money and the Met is very expensive and very annoying and I really appreciate it, but it's very difficult, that's the hardest one. I think the Met is the most difficult, our artists. I mean, there's a lot of pressure on the Oscars, the designer, and then there's a lot of pressure on him. hair and makeup and then whoever wears it is the one that really gets the flak, yeah and it's yeah, but it's very important, yeah, and it lasts a long time and you always have those moments where the Oscars are similar, I mean, in every big red red carpet.
christian siriano on championing size inclusivity in the fashion industry pretty big deal
It's similar, it's worth it, it's worth it, but how do you support the bandwidth of just keeping up? Well, I don't know, we all cried a little this week because the Emmys are on Sunday and how many people are you dressing up for the Emmys? I don't know, but I still have too many, but it's very difficult because then you give us a round number, maybe six or seven. I know it's as silly as anything off the red carpet, our offering, the roar of my collection, I'd actually rather be many. That's it, yes, everyone else is a customer.
christian siriano on championing size inclusivity in the fashion industry pretty big deal

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Wow, okay, can we talk one-on-one for a second? I feel like you're okay Melanie in my office yeah I could die oh no you're my birthday no because we've literally made seven dresses for the Emmys and the show and Paris are okay but can we talk about the fact that you're one one of the only designers who continues to make custom designs and not off the catwalk? I do it because obviously not everything we show on the runway is going to suit everyone, so I'm so I feel like saying oh no, I wouldn't want to be respected, respectful, saying, oh, we just don't fit in with you, so I won't send you nothing, so I say, okay, I'll make you something.
christian siriano on championing size inclusivity in the fashion industry pretty big deal
That's how I solve that problem and then you like to suck it, buttercup and you make it, yeah, it's hard, they move a dress, even though it wears out from the runway. I'll laugh because it was so easy and I thought, well, I wish. They were all like that, no, okay, so it's hard because then this celebrity is on the red carpet and then someone might get criticism like Christina Hendricks' death, of course, yeah, you never know, but it's a big criticism because they were them who told her that, oh, there's no way a big girl should wear a big dress, but I was, I was, I was.
christian siriano on championing size inclusivity in the fashion industry pretty big deal
I was bothered by the fact that they first thought it was a big dress which also started, actually I'll say they changed almost everything for everyone when those comments came out, it was the first time anyone had said anything out loud about someone on a rug like that, everyone else looks at her

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, everyone has always been like oh I hate that the dress is ugly, whatever, it's not flattering, but that was it. She particularly likes the body a lot and she also likes that they are one of the most beautiful women in the entire world and that they have been idolized their entire lives, so did it make sense that people, not men, of all women, all , were they Marilyn Monroe, I mean, literally? living Marilyn Monroe and I think that really changed a lot, you can see her breasts, you can see her waist, yeah, it's just that the color in her skin tone was beautiful, I just didn't understand if that hurt her, I think it was like I.
I think it could have been, but to be honest, Christina is so confident and amazing and we did it, it's like six dresses after that. I know we also talk about your store, the well-kept city of New York. I mean, I've been there a billion times. Yeah, and you just moved there in the last two years, like a year and a half. Oh, not even like that, how was it? Yes, it's amazing to literally see the customers interact and be there, and it feels like it's old. It feels very old-

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ed because we're all in one place, we're in this house and you go up the spiral staircase, it's really nice, you can walk, so you literally walk in, a doorbell rings, yeah, and there's a lady there that's usually a lady you meet at the reception and she's a clue and you can shop downstairs yeah and then for me I go straight upstairs I know where to go yeah and you're usually there with a rack of clothes .
I'm going to do a test and even though it's like the Upper East Side, I know what a lot of rich people are like and now you have Jay Chou, hi Julia, hi JJ, hi Joe, how was this collaboration? Jgo is amazing at the CEO. laughs silly Brian and went to JJ Land it's amazing we love Linda we love Linda and actually to be honest JJ was the best opportunity because it's my first time all inclusive because she's zero to 28 , small and tall in all styles, and they never have. They had done this before, but not like this, they had never done it completely, the same collection, the same clothes, so it's incredible, they had never done a collective collaboration before, so everything before was like an incredible project, okay? ?
Next up for Christian Siriano we have more to come, what an age, Oh, which is really exciting, and yeah, and I just like building the business and keeping it going, meaning making sure the customers come back season after season. I love it, I love what you represent, I love who you are. you're like a person thank you I love how fun this is like in your living room I know it's like there's people in front of us I know there's all these people here which I like but I just say thank you thank you for being quite big. agreement now there is one thing we do at the end of every important agreement.
I haven't made it quick like some kind of lightning, yeah, and you just fill in the blank, okay, I'm ready, okay, you're ready, mm-hmm, okay. Almost always, almost always, oh God, I talk bad about money, what's the most important lesson you've learned this year? Oh, I think it's a cliché, don't look back, but look forward, like it's so far in the past, that's cool, yeah, what is it? the biggest

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you've ever made and it can be like I made a big

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for that or like that's a really big deal or like or money because we know you like to talk about it yeah oh my gosh big thing, I mean, I think it's a

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important thing that I can show in New York and in Paris and, yeah, honestly, I don't know any other designer who is doing that or who has done that, yeah, another designer did that, I don't know, it's okay, because you're a

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girl. big deal I want to know what you think it's a big deal oh I think it's a big deal I think we still have to do it it's a big deal I think we still have to talk a lot about bodies and beauty and kabob la I think it's kind of weird so I hope my big problem is when it changes, it will be a pretty important moment.
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