Stacy London & Clinton Kelly Speak Reuniting For New Sequence ‘Put on No matter’

In an interview with TooFab, the type specialists opened up about reuniting for his or her new Prime Sequence, Put on Regardless of the F You Need, which comes over a decade after TLC’s What To not Put on resulted in 2013, and a subsequent years-long fallout between the 2.

Put on Regardless of the F You Need — out now on Prime Video — sees Kelly, 56, and London, 55, teaming as much as “rework purchasers one after the other” in New York Metropolis, per Amazon Studios.

“With a contemporary perspective that celebrates private expression over outdated type guidelines, they empower people to dwell out their style fantasies and uncover their type fact.”

The trendy duo spoke to TooFab about working collectively as soon as once more, and defined how Put on No matter is a greater portrayal of the occasions compared to What To not Put on.

When requested in the event that they felt like “no time had handed” since they shared the display screen, Kelly joked, “Nicely, time had handed as a result of we’re now in our mid-fifties and it is onerous to disregard that reality” — to which London quipped, “Yeah, he is grayer. And I am gayer.”

“We actually loved this course of, and we have been engaged on the present for a really very long time, so it isn’t like this was like, Oh, it simply cropped up for us. You recognize, it has been 13 years!’ We have been speaking for fairly some time,” London continued. “I feel that the intention of this present is so totally different from What To not Put on, and the end result is so totally different that it truly is way more reflective of the world we’re residing in at present, and never the sort of daybreak of actuality tv that you just noticed once we did What To not Put on.”

Whereas the pair stated they do not essentially “imagine” in tendencies, they have been excited to include influences from popular culture from the final decade, with the references additionally being a type of inspiration for the purchasers.

“There’s so many like popular culture references, proper? Like Cookie from Empire,” Kelly stated, referring to Taraji P. Henson’s character on the musical drama. “When one in all our purchasers, Freedom, wished to appear like Cookie from Empire, as a result of she type of noticed her as a robust lady, we have been like, ‘Sure! Let’s do this. Let’s get you an enormous fuzzy coat!'”

“Neither one in all us actually imagine in tendencies,” London added. “However you see what’s on the market, and you’re employed with what you have bought. The beauty of a present like that is that it is a very particular lens that we’re wanting by. So if we’re searching for Cookie, , we all know what we’re searching for versus what’s trending in the meanwhile. It isn’t like a style information present the place we’re like telling you what, , the large tendencies have been on the runway … it is what does this particular person need with a view to really feel assured and succesful?”

London and Kelly went on to open up about their method to serving to their purchasers discover their finest inside self by outer expression.

“I feel now we have to return to What To not Put on, proper?” Kelly stated. “There was a format and What To not Put on, and due to the time, we have been type specialists and we have been telling folks what they wanted to do. Now, now we have fully flipped that on its butt, and we try to determine who you are as an individual, as our shopper, and like, you are the information and …. we’ll be the information rails, however you are gonna information us that can assist you. And it is such a deal with. It truly is a deal with. It takes a bit little bit of the stress off of us as a result of we do not have to [know everything] and demand that we’re proper on a regular basis. That is serving to someone obtain a dream. Like, there’s nothing higher than that.”

London chimed in, noting that there is no “judgment” in relation to their purchasers’ preferences.

“I imply, there are occasions the place there have been, , outfits on the present that I used to be like, ‘No, no, no. … I’m not gonna put on that myself.’ But when that made her joyful or him joyful, then we have been joyful to do it as a result of they’re those who should rock round of their pores and skin. It isn’t us. We’re not residing their lives,” she stated. “And actually, we would like you to get essentially the most out of your life that is potential. And figuring out who you might be, controlling the narrative within the visible sense when it comes to your type is a brilliant necessary talent to have.”

“Whether or not you study that at 20 otherwise you study that at 50, it would not matter,” she added. “It is simply while you study it and in addition recognizing that you just as an individual, you are gonna change. You are gonna need various things over time, and that is okay. You do not have to have the identical type your complete life. You do not have to put on the identical issues. You do not have to have a uniform should you do not wish to. These are, , some folks love to try this, however it’s not required.”

She then referenced the “quiet luxurious” development of latest years, whereas noting how the ’80s are coming again “with large daring colours and large daring jewellery” — earlier than including that “brooches are again,” which she jokingly admitted that she’s nonetheless a bit skeptical about.

“I imply, if brooches actually come again, I will likely be shocked,” London stated. “They are saying it yearly. By no means occurs. It is just for males. However now they’re saying, ‘No, no, brooches are again for ladies. We’ll see.”

On the subject of brooches, Kelly introduced up one of the fashionable and trendy tv characters from the previous few years — if not of all time — Moira Rose (Catherine O’Hara) from Schitt’s Creek, who undoubtedly wore no matter (the f) she wished to.

“I simply began rewatching Schitt’s Creek, and Moira Rose going to mattress in a brooch is all the pieces,” he stated, to which London added, “Moira was actually a person … she needs to be [Wear Whatever’s] mascot.”

In the end, of their new present, London and Kelly are breaking down the obstacles which might be holding the purchasers again from being themselves — whether or not that is working by doubts they, or others, put of their heads.

When TooFab likened the method to remedy, London agreed. “I feel it is one thing that we’re a bit used to, to be trustworthy. To not be, , blasé about it, however all of what we have executed on What To not Put on and Put on No matter has been about remedy.”

“It’s actually about what’s stopping you on the within from being who you wish to be. How can we present you that there’s a solution to get what you need?” she continued. “And that requires asking onerous questions of individuals. And it requires asking questions that is probably not snug to all people, however it’s our objective to be useful in understanding, , who informed you you possibly can’t put on this? Who stated you could not put on that? These kinds of issues, I feel actually do have an impact. And we wanna assist uproot these beliefs that aren’t true.”

“It is actually a pleasure to assist someone differentiate between their very own perception in their very own head,” Kelly added, “And a perception that someone else implanted of their head as a result of they may have informed them one thing at a really weak time or at a younger developmental age, and it bought caught in there.”

“So to unstick these ideas that you just suppose you imagine while you really do not imagine them, it is like, , exorcism,” he stated, to which London interjected, “Gardening!”

“Stacey is aware of how a lot I like to backyard. So pulling weeds or exorcising demons,” he joked.

“Sure, sure, precisely,” London stated. “Gardening and exorcising demons!”

All eight episodes of Put on Regardless of the F You Need are streaming now on Prime Video.