Sarah Paulson from sweats to dazzling
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. If Sarah Paulson didn’t have a stylist, she would only wear sweatpants.
The silvery Marc Jacobs sheath she wore to the Golden Globes and the dazzling emerald dress she donned at the Emmys were picked out by a professional.
“My green Prada dress that I wore to the Emmys was so heavy that at one point I thought I was going to throw my neck out,” Paulson said. “But it did not matter to me because it was the best dress I’ve ever had on my body.”
Fresh off her SAG, Golden Globe and Emmy Award wins for playing Marcia Clark in “American Crime Story,” Paulson is celebrating the woman who put together all those red carpet looks: Karla Welch, whom the Hollywood Reporter just named the industry’s most powerful stylist.
Welch, along with Paulson and fellow red carpet standout Ruth Negga, appears on the cover of the magazine’s special “Stylists & Stars” issue, which ranks Tinseltown’s 25 top stylists.
“Good clothes open doors,” Welch quipped when asked the best bit of style advice she ever received.
“I need her to push me out of my sweatpants and my sneakers,” Paulson said Tuesday night at a Jimmy Choo-sponsored dinner honouring the magazine’s sartorial stars.
Though Paulson prefers leisurewear, she loves the ritual of getting ready for the red carpet. Having a spectacular dress to wear helps her achieve the right mindset for a million flashbulbs and screaming fans.
“A lot of people talk about it as being a kind of armour, and it is,” she said.