2014 THR Power Stylists
Clients:
Julie Bowen, Kaley Cuoco,
Kristen Stewart
WHY SHE MATTERS
Clients: Julie Bowen, Kaley Cuoco, Kristen Stewart
Sure, Swennen is lauded for recognizing a client’s individuality (i.e., Kristen Stewart‘s Chanel hot pants), but where she has a larger-than-most impact is internationally, thanks in part to client Kaley Cuoco Sweeting, whose Big Bang Theory dominates worldwide syndication.
Clients: Stewart, Cuoco Sweeting, Julie Bowen, Connie Britton
PHOTOS: Power Stylists’ Greatest Hits: 48 Looks That Made The List HER TOP LOOK
Bowen’s color-blocked Herrera at the Globes (No. 40). “It was fun, sophisticated, and we were really drawn to the colors,” says Swennen. Her other pick is Stewart’s ladylike tweed jacket teamed with those hot pants and fingerless leather gloves that she wore front-row at Chanel’s Haute Couture show in July in Paris (No. 41). Swennen recalls her very first red carpet with Stewart: “She was attending a premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, and it was a Chanel moment.” Chimes in Stewart, the face of Chanel’s new Metiers d’Art Paris-Dallas campaign that debuts in May, “It all comes full circle with Chanel.”
MEMORABLE MOMENT
Minutes before Big Bang Theory‘s Cuoco Sweeting headed out the door to the SAG Awards, Swennen took scissors to her dove-gray strapless silk organza Vera Wang mermaid gown (No. 42). “I was under Kaley’s dress taking off layers of tulle because it was too voluminous,” says Swennen.
SIGNATURE STYLE
Swennen, a self-described “T-shirt, Converse sneakers and jeans-wearing girl,” shares similarly laid-back taste with longtime client Stewart, whom she met during Stewart’s breakout role in 2007′s Into the Wild when the actress was 14. Says Stewart, “I would go to her with anything — and do — and sometimes fittings are like full-on therapy sessions.”
| Kristen Stewart, Stylist Tara Swennen:"We push the envelope" (Video) The "Twilight" star reveals that a checkered Louis Vuitton jumpsuit was her favorite outfit from last year. |
Changing between a Chanel jacket and shorts in our exclusive shoot, Stewart reveals that she and her stylist have worked together since she was 14, when Swennen styled her for the Into the Wild premiere at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival.
"You were in Chanel -- the first look we ever did," recalls Swennen with Stewart.
What makes the pair work so well together? "We really try to push the envelope," says Stewart, who's the current face of Chanel. "We never like to do something we've done before. She reminds me that I like to be daring."
The 23-year-old actress also tells THR about some of her favorite Swennen-styled outfits -- memorably, the nude lace gown by Zuhair Murad at The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 premiere and the checkered Louis Vuitton jumpsuit she wore in Tokyo to promote the final Twilight film. And watch for the great moment when the pair share a sweet high-five from our shoot.
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