Law Roach is no stranger to controversial looks. Whether the ! Oh, I was a watcher.
Yeah! My train started many, many years ago. That was almost 10 years ago.
How time has flown.
I also judge from the lens that my work has been judged. I have been critiqued over the years by millions of people. I’ve been able to walk away from that still feeling like I made the right decision, and still having the same amount of confidence, while also learning. Sometimes it takes another set of eyes or another opinion to show you something that you missed.
I had millions and millions of people around the world judging every single thing I just did with Zendaya for the Challengers premiere. Some people hated it, some people thought it was too costumey or too literal, or just too much!
Screw those critics, her Loewe tennis ball heels were inspired.
I listen to those, and if there is any critique that I somewhat agree with, I take that and use it for the next go-around.
How much of this feels like work and how much of it feels like having fun with your friends? We’ve seen you become so close with the people you work with that I imagine those relationships make the job feel less like work.
Zendaya’s my annoying little sister. We’re going on our thirteenth year working together, we’ve grown up with each other. She’s different. That’s family no matter what. Yeah, we fight, whatever. What I do love about Julia is that she does not take herself seriously. She gives you the agency to make fun of her and vice versa, and the work environment she creates is just fun, easy, and encouraging. She knew me from other things that I’ve done but not personally, and I was skeptical. I was a little nervous to know exactly what I was walking into.
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Zendaya at the UK Premiere of “Challengers”
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She created this atmosphere of joy and humor—the most appropriate-inappropriate things. It felt good every single day. I was excited to go on set and see what [she was wearing]. She led that show and did it in a way that was so inviting for me.
That joy translates to the show. I only had a few episodes to watch before talking with you, and all I wanted to do was watch more.
You wanted to binge it, Coleman?
I’m dying to!
That’s so good to hear. I wish I had a script and read everything you’ve said. You have my sentiments down pat.
You say that, but I think the show and your reputation speak for themselves. What has it been like for you to go from someone who frequently works behind the scenes to becoming a superstar yourself?
To be quite honest, I’m figuring it out! I know who I am at the core of me—I’m a super confident person. As far as my style and the way I want the world to see me, it’s changing a little bit. I think that’s okay. I’ve encouraged that with my clients and other people I’ve come into contact with out in the world: Be able to explore and be able to make mistakes. I think I make mistakes. I’ve had some horrible looks on the red carpet—CFDA awards, whatever! But I’m not afraid to try.
That’s the fun thing about fashion, you don’t have to limit yourself. Some people create a uniform, they wear the same thing every single day, or the same color, and I think that’s great. Then you have someone like Julia Fox, who is so unpredictable and so beautifully insane with the choices of clothes she wears. As individuals, we should have the liberty to wear whatever we want. There may be a few more mistakes down the line that people get to talk about and judge. It doesn’t move me either way.
Welcoming mistakes is an important part of being a creative. If you’re such a perfectionist that the work won’t allow for that, it only makes the work suffer.
Yeah, and it makes you suffer. It makes you miserable. Everybody takes a bad picture now and again, it’s just how it is.
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Law Roach and Zendaya attend the World Premiere of “Dune: Part Two” in London
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There are hardly ever any bad pictures that come out of the Met Gala, which is coming up Monday. And can you leak any info about what Zendaya might have planned as one of this year’s hosts? Just a little tidbit.
Zendaya is making her return—her comeback to the MET. It’s been five years. I’ll be in attendance as well. You know how we feel about dressing on theme: I think it’s important. Outside of the context of what the theme is, the world really enjoys watching. In the climate that we live in now, a break that feels like some type of fantasy and joy is really needed. For us to just have such a minute moment to bring some of that is important. It’s just more fun!
More celebrities are finally attending with looks that are trying to be on theme. You love method dressing, going big with a theme to make it even broader on the red carpet. Is that something you think has been successful at this venue lately?
I do think that the MET has been camp ever since the theme was Camp [in 2019]. I would love to see people not just come and try to have the biggest dress, or the loudest color, but to research and dig deep into this year’s theme [“The Garden of Time”], what it means, and why it’s happening. I think that would be really beautiful. And I love beauty.
