“Well, I’m obsessed with embellishments, especially for carpet looks,” A’zion says. “I love a fringe or bead or bedazzled sparkly moment,” she contin
“Well, I’m obsessed with embellishments, especially for carpet looks,” A’zion says. “I love a fringe or bead or bedazzled sparkly moment,” she continues. “I wanted it to feel really watery and flowery,” she says of the way in which she put the necklaces together. She wanted to feel like she was dripping in diamonds.
“I feel like, with acting, it’s a little confusing because even red carpet looks are not fully you,” she says, “it’s a version of you, but not what you’d wear walking through life every day.”
A’zion argues that it’s not always that the Tinseltown glitterati get to show “their taste and who they are and what they’re into.” It’s a fair assessment: with stylists becoming increasingly crucial power brokers between Hollywood and the fashion industry, brokering brand deals and being conduits for relationships between labels and actors, stars are not always coming as they are, but as an idealized, and sometimes branded, idea of their Hollywood personas. If actors are only ever seen in costume for films and television or in red carpet looks crafted by stylists, then when do audiences get to know them?
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Maybe that’s the point—to keep a certain distance—but A’zion seems to like the idea of bridging that gap. “I just feel like it’s important for me to call the shots in my own life in that way,” she says, “That’s why I like doing it myself, even if I’ve definitely created a lot more work for myself.”
It’s not always basic for actors to find the right look, which is why the intermediaries have become so fundamental to the red carpet circuit. It’s a job that takes time. A’zion is open to working with a stylist down the line, someone who she feels she can collaborate with as opposed to ceding control of her self image.
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