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CNBC
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNBC
How to dress for success in the workplace, from ‘What Not to Wear' hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly
Stacy London and Clinton Kelly know a thing or two about dressing for success. London and Kelly, both 56, became household names as the hosts of popular makeover show "What Not to Wear," which ran on TLC from 2003 to 2013. More than a decade later, the two style experts have reunited for a new show, "Wear Whatever the F You Want," which premiered in April on Amazon Prime Video. "The world has changed a lot since 'What Not to Wear' ended, and we wanted to show that we changed along with the world," Kelly says. On "What Not to Wear," Kelly and London were known for critiquing makeover participants' style and overhauling their wardrobes. Not so on their new show. This time around, London and Kelly are focusing less on fashion do's and don'ts, and more on personal empowerment. As Kelly puts it, "the rule book went out the window." According to London, their new message as stylists is "we are not here to change you." Instead, she and Kelly want to show their makeover subjects "what style can do for an individual in terms of confidence, self-esteem and capability." The so-called rule book may be gone, but Kelly and London still have plenty of advice to give, especially when it comes to navigating the ever-changing etiquette of professional attire. Here are their best style tips for putting your most professional foot forward in the workplace. Style can serve as an important communication tool in the workplace, London says. For instance, wearing a cool mixed-print outfit can highlight your creativity, while a well-tailored suit sends the message that you're meticulous about details. "We want style to be a shortcut to help get to know people better," London says. Your clothing can also telegraph "a certain work ethic," according to Kelly: "People think that if you are conscientious about your wardrobe – keeping your clothes nice and neat and clean, and taking things to the tailor when they need to go – you're probably going to be conscientious with your work," he says. Since Covid, some companies have relaxed their standards for office attire, but Kelly and London say that wearing suitable work clothing remains key to professional success. "We're still human beings, and we're still looking at other people and making snap judgments on them," Kelly says. "We can make an assumption about somebody in 3.5 seconds based on their appearance." Dressing appropriately at work conveys "respect for yourself and respect for your context," London says. "Seeing somebody respond to their environment in a respectful way does translate into the way that we think about them," she says. Of course, there's no one-size-fits-all handbook for workwear – it depends on your office's unique culture and norms. But certain time-tested fashion rules still hold true: London and Kelly both advise against showing too much skin at work or wearing clothes with stains and holes. For young professionals just entering the workforce, Kelly recommends visiting your office building before your first day and scoping out what your future colleagues are wearing to work. Above all, your professional style should align with your goals, London says — both inside and outside the workplace. "I think the whole point of creating a personal style is to really define for yourself who you are and what you want," she says. "You want to dress in a way that creates a kind of attraction toward all of the things that you're looking for in your life." In other words, if you're hoping to level up at work, make sure that your appearance matches your professional prowess. "We used to say 'dress for the job you want,' and in some ways that's still true," London says. "I think that we really don't recognize how much our style impacts the way people perceive us."
New York Times
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
How Stacy London Spends Her Sundays
Stacy London wants you to wear whatever you want. Ms. London, a fashion expert and entrepreneur, is best known for the show 'What Not to Wear,' which she co-hosted with Clinton Kelly on TLC for over a decade. But as she's changed, so have her views toward style: She no longer wants people to adhere to a specific set of fashion rules. 'Style is about the individual, and that is never about whether or not you are participating in trends,' Ms. London, 55, said. 'It's about what you are doing with your raw material, your body and your self-expression.' 'What Not to Wear' ended in 2013, but the co-hosts teamed up again for 'Wear Whatever the F You Want,' which airs on Prime Video. Instead of rules, it focuses on channeling inner fashion desires. 'I may not think this is the best we could have done, but have I made you the happiest? Because that's the goal, and that's the shift between where we were and where we are now as a society,' Ms. London said. In addition to the show, Ms. London designs clothes for women going through menopause for her QVC line By Stacy London. 'I still love style and I still love fashion, but I wear suits, I wear trousers. I feel more confident that way than I did wearing skintight pencil skirts and five-inch heels,' she said. Ms. London moved into a three-bedroom apartment in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood in Brooklyn in 2006. It's filled with racks of clothes, art and dinosaur knickknacks. 'I knocked out every single wall, so it's just a duplex loft with no doors,' she said. 'There's a huge staircase in the middle of the apartment that leads down to the bedroom and the dressing room.' Ms. London shares her home with Dora, a 'completely vindictive' 8-year-old Morkie (Maltese-Yorkshire Terrier). SLEEP MODE It depends on what Saturday night was like, but I can sleep in anywhere from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There's just something about sleeping in. My bedroom is a dark little cocoon, and Dora sleeps with me. I love my sheets and my mattress, and sometimes I'll get coffee and get back into bed and read. I have a whole separate shelf with books on my reading list, and I'm slowly working through them. FINDING THE CURE I'm obsessed with Salt's Cure's brunch and sitting on their patio. You can go one of two ways: You can do salty or sweet, or salty and sweet. I can never decide, but I usually start salty and then go sweet. The egg, avocado and hash brown is one section of my breakfast, and the gluten-free chocolate chip oatmeal griddle cakes are the second. I always have to order extra eggs because Dora's going to eat them. Yes, I'm that person. WALK IT OUT I love walking to Dumbo, and I like to go to Brooklyn Flea. I've found incredible designer pieces there for really reasonable prices. Some things that people wouldn't necessarily know, more so '90s designers that I love, like Romeo Gigli. Also, because I love tchotchkes, it may be something like accessories or a weird little trinket I want to put on a shelf. If I'm in Dumbo, I'll also without fail go to Front General Store, which has vintage clothing and jewelry. Walking by the carousel is always fun for Dora. There's tons of dogs she could potentially attack, but she also loves being by the water. PERFECT FIT I've been working with my friend Suleika Jaouad, who recently went on tour. She does not love shopping, and she doesn't love styling. She has great taste, but I don't think she trusts herself enough. So on Sundays, I've been doing fittings for her here, just in my clothes. She'd rather wear things of mine that she likes and she can fit and she knows. COFFEE CATCH-UP I like to go to Liz's Book Bar, which is a bar and a bookstore. It's a lovely atmosphere, and I'll meet my friends there. They're my neighbors, and we try to make a point to see each other on the weekends. I might order an iced latte, or I might get a bottle of rosé. SUPPORTING LOCAL I've been in Carroll Gardens for so long that I've really watched this area gentrify completely and utterly overnight. It's been hard since Covid to watch so many small businesses not make it, so I try to be as supportive as possible. There are two stores I love on Court Street, Rue Saint Paul and Woods Grove. If I'm in the mood to shop, I'll go there. TAKEOUT TIME There's nothing better than Han Dynasty. I order the rice noodles stir-fried with scallions, egg and shredded chicken. The noodles are oily, and they come with chili oil on the side. I find that it's spicy but not salty, so I add some salt. Then I'll literally eat an entire container. Currently, I'm watching 'The Righteous Gemstones,' but I'm a scripted TV connoisseur. I watch everything scripted. HOUSEKEEPING The thing I have to do to cap off my Sundays is to go through my entire week. I'll look at my calendar, coordinate with my assistant and coordinate with my housekeeper, who takes care of Dora when I travel. I get very overwhelmed with too much information, and frankly, there's a lot going on right now with the promotion of my new show. I have the best assistant in the world — she's like my other half. SNUGGLES My scrubbing and polishing — what I call my skin care and teeth polishing — routine can take about 40 minutes. Dora goes and sleeps in her little anti-anxiety bed and then we go downstairs. I usually go downstairs to bed before her and then I wait for the little pitter-patter of her feet before I turn off the light so she can get up on the bed, too.
CBC
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Stacy and Clinton reunite — with a gentler approach to makeovers — on Wear Whatever the F You Want
Another 2000s era cultural artifact has gotten a makeover — and this time, it's a makeover show. Wear Whatever the F You Want is a new show that brings together stylists Stacy London and Clinton Kelly, who many audiences will recognize from their time hosting the popular TLC reality show, What Not to Wear. But it's not exactly a reboot. On What Not to Wear, the pair gained notoriety for not only giving everyday people style makeovers, but also their approach to these makeovers — which often required throwing out the subject's old clothes, and making a lot of snarky comments along the way. Now, on Amazon Prime's Wear Whatever the F You Want, Stacy and Clinton are taking a totally different approach to helping people develop their personal style. But does their newer, nicer approach still make for good TV? Today on Commotion, culture writers Amil Niazi and Joan Summers chat with host Elamin Abdelmahmoud about the legacy of 2000s-era fashion anxiety, and how Wear Whatever the F You Want takes an entirely different philosophy on fashion. We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. For the full discussion, listen and follow Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on your favourite podcast player. WATCH | Today's episode on YouTube: Elamin: Amil, the show felt very centered around the hosts, Stacy and Clinton, and how opinionated they are, and how harsh they can be around other people. What was the appeal of that? Why did we want to watch something like that? Amil: Well, I think as an audience, we really get something out of other people saying the thing that is taboo. And for Stacy and Clinton to be able to just say the mean thing — to tell the woman that she's too old to wear a short skirt and bobby socks, you know — something that you might have thought in passing, but you would never tell someone in your life…. They were kind of like an avatar for our worst desires and our worst thoughts and our worst impulses. They were fun to watch in their meanness, too, of course. We wouldn't have enjoyed them if they weren't funny and snarky. And their love for each other, and the way they sort of giggled when each made a really good joke, I think we also got something out of that. We can't be that mean in real life. And so Stacy and Clinton allowed us to experience something that we all don't want to admit that we have inside of us. Elamin: Joan, the subtext of what Amil was saying there is we all have these thoughts, we just don't actually get to air them out. And this show was sort of an opportunity for those thoughts to emerge…. Television was like this from 2003 until maybe 2013, which is when the show was on. How much do you feel like this show is an artifact of that time? Joan: Yeah, I think that especially here in America, where the show was obviously very popular, it was such an expression of this burgeoning anxiety in American media around specifically the way that women looked, dressed, where we shopped. As women found more agency in the workplace, in the home, at school, with their career opportunities and their self-expression, and media became so much more disseminated and in our own hands, I think that a lot of conservative beliefs started to bubble up in the way that we talked about women's bodies, whether it's body size or clothing. And I think this show specifically was such a good way for people to channel all that onto these avatars of, like, "No, you're 40. You can't do this. Time to put on the pencil skirt and the blazer from JCPenney and watch the kids, or go to work at the office job, and that's all you ever get to be," you know? And there's so much media that I think it also ties into…. There's also this idea of crushing people's dreams or hopes. You look at American Idol, which was also kind of schlocky reality TV for the time. And for all the good singing, people didn't enjoy that. They enjoyed watching the auditions and seeing people panic and cry because their dreams got crushed, or have a really crazy bad audition, you know? There was this, I think, need for people in the 2000s to channel all of these anxieties and frustrations onto reality TV. And Stacy and Clinton were more than happy to do that. WATCH | Official trailer for Wear Whatever the F You Want: Amil: You also think about what was happening online — you had people like Perez Hilton talking about Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan and their bodies, how they looked, who they were dating and what they were doing. The landscape was just mean, online and on television. It was just a very harsh time to be a woman. Elamin: The approach that Stacy and Clinton are taking has changed a lot. Amil, you watched the show [ Wear Whatever the F You Want ]. What's different about it? Amil: I mean, it's so funny because you can almost hear how difficult it is for them to not be judging. They're just like, "We want to help you be whatever you want to be, and we won't say anything about what we think about that fantasy. We'll just help you do it." Yes, it is obviously a reboot that really pushes aside the meanness, pushes aside the judginess and says, "We want to repent for what we did to women, specifically, for all those years. And now we accept that personal style is an expression of who you are, and it's meant to be different from what everyone else is doing. And so we wanna help you achieve that." So it's a much nicer, much gentler, much more inclusive, pulling people into the circle rather than pushing them out. But I still hear in their voices how hard it is for them to do that because it doesn't come naturally to Stacy and Clinton.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘What Not to Wear' is getting a makeover: How to watch ‘Wear Whatever the F You Want' today
Clinton Kelly and Stacy London are making over their iconic makeover show, What Not to Wear, for the modern era. The new series, fittingly titled Wear Whatever the F You Want, will see the fashionable and fun pair reunite to help clients bring their own personal style to fruition. While the early 2000s makeover series wasn't always known for uplifting its subjects, Kelly and London are excited to put a more positive spin on the styling process this time around. "The world has changed a lot since the run of What Not to Wear, and, thankfully, so have we," say Kelly and London. "These days, we have zero interest in telling people what to do based on society's norms — because there are no more norms! However, style is still an important form of communication, and we're excited to show new clients how to align their personal messaging with their life goals. It's time to celebrate individual style, not prescribe it." Are you ready to watch the newly made-over What Not To Wear — AKA Wear Whatever the F You Want? Here's what you need to know about the series. Sort of! An updated version of the infamous 2000s makeover show that ran for 12 seasons is premiering soon. Clinton Kelly and Stacy London, What Not to Wear's iconic duo, are both returning for this new series, titled Wear Whatever the F You Want. Wear Whatever the F You Want premieres on April 29 on Amazon Prime Video. All eight episodes of the first season of Wear Whatever the F You Want will drop at the same time on Amazon Prime Video. Currently, What Not to Wear isn't included on any streaming platforms, but you can purchase individual episodes on Amazon or other VOD platforms. You can also check out a lot of highlights from the TLC show free on YouTube. Watch 'What Not to Wear'
USA Today
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Stacy London and Clinton Kelly say their new makeover show mended years-long rift
Stacy London and Clinton Kelly say their new makeover show mended years-long rift Show Caption Hide Caption Style duo confess to what lead to their fallout Style duo, Stacy London and Clinton Kelly talk about their reconciliation and teaming up again on new makeover show 'Wear Whatever the F You Want To' As far as Stacy London and Clinton Kelly are concerned, feuds are so out, and friendship is in. The former hosts of TLC's surprise makeover show that ran for 12 seasons and dictated 'What Not to Wear' have squashed their beef and reunited for a new series revamped for modern times. 'Wear Whatever the F You Want' drops its eight-episode season April 29 on Amazon Prime Video. This time, instead of being ambushed for their fashion choices after being nominated by friends and relatives, participants share their vision for a "fantasy look" with the hosts, who gently guide them through a warehouse decked out with duds they might like. (Items featured in each episode are available for purchase on Amazon.) In the premiere episode, Jessica, 36, hopes to shed her youthful wardrobe because she's mistaken for being a kid. As a young mom, she says she "got stuck in whatever's comfortable: leggings, t-shirt and a hoodie. I feel like I've never really invested time in myself." Kelly, seated beside his cohost, says he came up with the idea for the series when asked to bring back 'What Not to Wear,' which ran from 2003–13. 'I was like, 'I don't own that show,'' he says with a laugh. 'And never again!' London, 55, chimes in. 'Never again!' Kelly, 56, agrees. 'I've changed as a person. The world has changed, and I said: 'Any show that I would ever do right now would have to be called 'Wear Whatever the F You Want,' because that's what I honestly believe. And then I said, 'Oh, that's a good idea for a show.'' So he shared the concept with London, who agreed to collaborate. Both are executive producers. 'It is contemporary to what we need to see in terms of makeovers, because there are no rules anymore,' London says. 'To apply the same kind of framework of 'What Not to Wear' to a show like this makes no sense. It doesn't give the client any agency. On 'What Not to Wear,' we were like, 'Here's the rule, here's your waistline, here's this leopard toe shoe.' Instead of hearing what people actually wanted, we were just telling them.' London has seen the clips of 'What Not to Wear' on TikTok critiquing the hosts' feedback and wanted to avoid providing more fodder. 'She loves telling me that we've been ripped apart on TikTok,' Kelly says with a laugh. 'Somebody said I was the OG mean girl,' London says. The pair, with lots of history, answer questions like dance partners rarely out of step. 'From the second I sat next to Stacy during my audition (for 'What Not to Wear,') we had an instant chemistry,' Kelly says. 'We were finishing each other's sentences. We were laughing at each other's jokes. It was like that for 10 years of 'What Not to Wear.' And it was like that for eight episodes of 'Wear Whatever the F You Want.' When we got back into the studio together, it was laughter, camaraderie supporting each other and our client.' It's hard to believe the two ever had a falling out. London blocked Kelly on Twitter, now known as X, after he published a collection of essays in 2017. 'Why did I love and loathe Stacy?' Kelly wrote in 'I Hate Everyone, Except You.' 'I loved her, I think, because she's charming as hell. I've met few people so good as she at making others feel decidedly special. … I loathed Stacy because … well … maybe there was some jealousy on my part. She really seemed to enjoy, nay, need the attention of others, and I felt that she was almost constantly jockeying for it.' 'What Not to Wear' co-hosts Stacy London, Clinton Kelly reunite after 10-year feud From 2011–18, Kelly served as a cohost on ABC's daytime show, 'The Chew,' a food-focused play on the network's long-running 'The View,' where London appeared as a guest host. She launched her podcast 'Hello Menopause!' in 2022, and in August 2024, she debuted a clothing collection for QVC. The hosts credit their new show with bringing them together. 'Clinton talks about the fact that we really challenge anybody to sit next to somebody for 10 years every day, day in and day out and get along just fine,' London says. 'When we describe our relationship, really, it's like a brother and sister on a long car trip.' Sometimes it's like, 'Don't touch me. Don't touch me,' Kelly jokes. 'We love each other. The thing is, my husband, who's a psychologist, says you can't have love without hate. And a lot of people don't like to hear that, but it's the truth. Because when you have strong feelings in the positive towards somebody, you're going to have some negative feelings about them as well. That's just the way we are as human beings. We love hanging out with each other, and sometimes ..." 'We want to kill each other,' London says, finishing the sentiment. 'This is being a human being,' Kelly says. 'But it is much more fun to work together than not work together,' London adds. 'I will tell you that.'
