The Architect of Zendaya’s Red-Carpet Style

As the cast and crew spilled out onto Fifth Avenue after the shoot, tourists began filming them with their iPhones. Roach has styled a number of A-listers (Céline Dion, Ariana Grande, Kerry Washington). But his partnership with the actress Zendaya is what has made him a celebrity in his own right. The two began working together in 2011, when Zendaya was a Disney teen and Roach was an inexperienced stylist who did not know he needed to bring safety pins to fittings. Since then, they have become fashion’s most bankable duo; their collaboration is spoken of as on a par with that of Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn, Jean Paul Gaultier and Madonna, Bob Mackie and Cher. (Or as Roach, a Chicago native, has put it, “We’re Jordan and Pippen, baby. We don’t miss.”)