Iggy Azalea

Basketball may not be the top sport in Australia but Iggy Azalea is certainly a convert.
The 24-year-old could not hold in her joy as she watched boyfriend Nick Young play his heart out for the Lakers in Los Angeles, California, on Friday night.
The rapper's reactions made for some hilarious viewing as she proudly supported her 29-year-old beau, who has recently returned to the court after injury.

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Iggy Azalea attends a Lakers basketball game at Staples Center in LA on December 7.

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Iggy Azalea Blazes a Trail For the Can’t-Miss The Great Escape Tour

After igniting a twitte frenzy following her arena tour announcement, the official dates for Grammy-nominated Iggy Azalea’s The Great Escape Tour, presented by AEG Live, have been announced. One of the most-anticipated tours of the year, the Great Escape Tour will travel across North America, beginning April 14 in Fresno, CA and make stops in Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas, Toronto, and Chicago before wrapping in Austin, TX on May 24. Joining Iggy on tour will be multi-talented recording artist and actor, Nick Jonas as special guest. In addition, also joining as support acts are R&B/Hip-Hop favorites Tinashe and DJ Wizz Kidd.

The public on-sale begins Friday, December 19 at 9:00 am local on AEGLive.com. There will also be various levels of Platinum and VIP Packages which will include premium tickets plus exclusive autographed items.

After years of honing her signature style on hip-hop’s underground circuit, Iggy Azalea burst onto the charts with her critically acclaimed debut album, The New Classic, and emerged as the breakout story of 2014, with one of the year’s most-streamed albums globally. Iggy is the first international female rapper to reach number one on both the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop and Rap Album Charts, and has been nominated for four prestigious 2015 Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist, Best Rap Album, Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Fancy” featuring Charlie XCX. “Fancy” broke airplay records and made history as the longest-leading #1 by a female rapper, also making Iggy the first artist since The Beatles to rank at #1 and #2 simultaneously with their first two Hot 100 hits. “Fancy” stormed the charts this year sitting at #1 for seven consecutive weeks, is currently certified 4x times platinum, was named Billboard’s 2014 Song of the Summer, iTunes Best Song of 2014, the year’s most-streamed song on Spotify, and the most-watched music video on VEVO. Iggy was also featured on Ariana Grande’s certified 4x platinum Billboard Top 40 #1 smash, “Problem,” which won “Best Pop Video” at the 2014 MTV VMAs. Iggy’s new single, “Black Widow,” featuring Rita Ora, has already gone double platinum and reached #1 on Billboard’s Top 40 Airplay Chart. In addition to her recent Grammy nominations, Iggy has been nominated for six American Music Awards and won both this year’s favorite Rap/Hip-Hop artist and favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album, nine MTV Video Music Awards, was Billboard’s Women in Music 2014 Chart Topper, and countless other awards and accolades. She has performed on the biggest stages on TV, including Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Ellen and more.

The Great Escape North American Tour Dates
Date City Venue
Tuesday, April 14 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
Thursday, April 16 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Arena
Friday, April 17 Oakland, CA The Oracle Arena
Sunday, April 19 Glendale, AZ Gila River Arena
Tuesday, April 21 Los Angeles, CA STAPLES Center
Thursday, April 23 San Diego, CA Valley View Casino Center
Saturday, April 25 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena
Monday, April 27 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
Thursday, April 30 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
Friday, May 1 Rosemont, IL Allstate Arena
Saturday, May 2 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
Sunday, May 3 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Wednesday, May 6 Boston, MA TD Garden
Thursday, May 7 Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center
Friday, May 8 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
Sunday, May 10 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Tuesday, May 12 Washington, DC Verizon Center
Wednesday, May 13 Baltimore, MD Royal Farms Arena
Friday, May 15 Orlando, FL Amway Center
Saturday, May 16 Miami, FL AmericanAirlines Arena
Tuesday, May 19 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
Friday, May 22 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Saturday, May 23 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Sunday, May 24 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
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Iggy Azalea Hopes She'll Still Be "Gyrating in a Leotard at 35"
The hip-pop star's victory lap continues with four Grammy nominations


photo by Pari Dukovic

Let's unscrew Iggy Azalea, human Vegemite. The salty Australian export is an acquired taste, as passionately adored as she is derided by nose-pinching purists. But Iggy's lippy, exuberantly defiant belief that white women can rap—specifically white six-foot-tall ex-maids with the acid-tripped Technicolor stylings of Saved by the Bell—has earned her four Grammy nominations, four smash singles, and a take-that chart record that is shared only by the Beatles—that record being for simultaneously charting songs at No. 1 and No. 2 as her first two singles, one of which comes off her earwormy debut, The New Classic. She talks to us about interior decorating, Madonna's tour, and what helps shield against the hate.

GQ: You did a lot in 2014, and you're up for four Grammys. What's ahead?
Iggy Azalea: I try not to have too many different goals, because then if they don't happen, you can be disappointed. You might overlook the fact that you might still be having a great life. I just set immediate goals for myself; the only thing I'm thinking about at the moment is having a great second album and doing a great job on my tour that I have coming up, because it's my first arena tour. And I'd like it to not be my last arena tour.

That's gonna be huge. What are you most focused on for the show?
Everything. Concept. Tour posters. I want everything to be right—everything, from the tour book to what someone wears. Even the right faces for the dancers, and their attitude. Everything is equally important. At the moment, I'm just trying to work on the initial stage design and making a stage that I feel like can engage with many people in an arena that big. So I'm doing something maybe not very traditional, and I'm working on that. Then tour posters.

When you say goals can distract you from the fact that you have a great life, what in your own life do you look at and think, "I have it good"?
I think probably waking up every day in my beautiful house—the new house with my boyfriend [Nick Young], the month or two that we've been in it. I'm just getting to that point now, with the home, where we're getting all the furniture, and it's been really exciting to feel like I'm home. And when I'm walking down the hallway and I see all this great stuff in such a nice house, it's hard to think you have it tough. You have to be thankful for that! So I'm happy. That definitely reminds me every day that you should enjoy this s**t.

Have you been doing up the house yourself? What's your style?
I've been decorating it. I'd say it's a traditional East Coast/Hamptons–style house. That's the kind of vibe I think the house has. Like, contemporary and still usable. I just bought a Patrick Nagel original painting for my house the other day, so it's very homey, but I have some cool artwork that makes it seem like it's not as old-lady-ish.

You've got a unique, honed sense of style. What are your aesthetic touch points?
I think it depends. Everything's different. Like with my house, I want it to feel calm and warm and different, but onstage I really tend to go a lot bolder, brighter, and crazy, aesthetically. I want it to be more stimulating than I would a house, you know what I mean? Like, with the tour, I just really like color blocking—loud, just obnoxious-type visual things.

What shows have you been to in your life that you're like, "I want my first arena tour to be like this"?
I didn't get to go to too many shows when I was a kid, because they were very expensive. To buy a ticket to an arena tour that comes around was at least $100, and that's a lot when you're a kid. So the first show I ever went to was 50 Cent, and I went to other rap concerts—which I was completely in awe of, but maybe not so much production-wise. The traditional hip-hop arena show is more focused on a DJ. I don't think it has as many props and spectacles as perhaps a pop show, which is also what I would say my show is visually like.

One tour I really love that I didn't go to, unfortunately, was the Madonna "Confessions" tour. I love that tour so much. It was actually why I called up Jamie King, who's working on the tour with me—because he left Madonna's tour. I was like, I've gotta have the people that were involved in creating this. I love when the stage changes and transforms.

What do you want people to say about your shows?
My tour is called "The Great Escape," and I think it's a little bit surreal. I always think of Xanadu and Fantasia when doing up my tour. And I just want, not to be too wacky, but I just want a great experience and just felt really immersed in the whole thing. And I think that's what's so great about arenas—because they're just so dark and black, and it's just like this little bubble universe. Trippy, cool, colorful.

Fast-forward to the end of your career. What do you want your legacy to be?
You never know how long you'll be in people's good graces, especially in this business. So I hope it's long—but I could be here for three or four years and then be out, like most artists. So it depends. I might be here for a long time. At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change—that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

People say some harsh things about you. What helps you bear up under that?
Uh, awards season helps. Anytime where people get to choose who they want to have a voice and they choose me, I just think that makes it worth it. And that gives me the patience to just bite my tongue. When people choose me as the person they think should be speaking for them, I think, Well, I don't really care what someone in the industry or another artist has to say about it. Your opinion is biased anyway, because you want people to listen to your voice. So having actual people who choose me, it makes me think, I have a place, and I don't care what other people have to say about it. I was a fan of rap music growing up, and I didn't feel like there were enough characters that represented me and my situation. So I think it's needed.

What's something you do for yourself every day?
I'm pretty normal. I like to just chill out, cook something nice, in my house. Just relax. Watch TV. Just kind of have a normal life.

What do you cook?
My absolute number one favorite thing to cook is chicken teriyaki. My grandma taught me how to make it. I left home when I was 16, and it's the one thing I really enjoy. I put so much soy sauce and chicken broth in the thing and make it so potent that nobody else could possibly enjoy it! But it's just the way I like it.

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Iggy Azalea was in a charitable mood while pumping petrol at a Westwood gas station on Friday.
The 24-year-old rapper was approached by an indigent gentleman as photographers and young fans - likely UCLA students - watched on.
Iggy - born Amethyst Kelly - took a $20 bill from her wallet and autographed it on the back of her needy new friend.
The homeless man then flashed a jagged grin, and proudly posed with his one-of-a-kind prize.


Earlier, Iggy Azalea was spotted grabbing lunch with Vogue's Lynn Yaeger at Toast in West Hollywood, likely talking about her shoe collection with Steve Madden which drops next month.
The fashionable duo then hopped in Iggy's white Ferrari convertible and headed to Barneys New York in Beverly Hills. Once inside the luxurious store, the Black Widow star seemed to lead Lynn directly to the shoe department.

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She was obviously in a really big hurry. Iggy Azalea spotted in a tiny pair of shorts as she dashed up the steps into Milk Studios in West Hollywood on Sunday.

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All eyes were on Iggy Azalea when she wowed in a skin-tight ensemble at Billboard Winterfest 2015 concert during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Saturday.
But arriving at the venue earlier that night, the Australian rap sensation was trying to keep things a little more low key.
Dressed down in an oversized jacket and star emblazoned jeans, the makeup free 24-year-old looked markedly different from her on stage persona as she paused to sign autographs for the more eager of her fans.


But Iggy Azalea got back to what she's best at on Saturday night as she performed on the Billboard stage at the Sundance Film festival in Utah.
Strutting around in a super tight white ensemble Iggy showed off her famous curves in fitted white trousers, vest top and matching boots.

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Exclusive First Look: Iggy Azalea Launches Shoe Line for Steve Madden



Iggy Azalea has hinted that she’s dropping a line of beg-for-it-worthy footwear in collaboration with Steve Madden on her @thenewclassic Instagram—and now InStyle is bringing you an exclusive look at what you can expect.

The shoes, all $150 or less, hit stevemadden.com January 30, and what you’ll be able to shop is as Azalea as it gets—‘90s-inspired styles in bold neon and metallic hues.

“I wanted to make shoes your girlfriends would love and your boyfriends wouldn’t understand,” the Aussie rapper told us when we interviewed her about the line for our story on the line in InStyle‘s February issue, on newsstands and available for download now. “They’re a total reflection of me: unapologetic, loud, and fun.”

Azalea, who herself is a massive shoe lover and collector, has truly created something for everyone: Chunky platforms for “modern-day Spice Girls,” mesh heels that epitomize her “obsession with sportswear,” and metallic slides “because no one knows I’m really a flats girl,” she says. Each style channels her signature color-blocked, sporty look.

“I really tried to make sure it didn’t look like anyone else’s shoe,” she tells us. “I don’t want it to seem like I’m trying to knock anybody off. I was very observant about what I think will be trends for next year, but also to make sure the line reflected my personality and what people would expect from me. I didn’t want it to look like it was trying to be a high-end designer shoe. I wanted something that is original and quirky and its own thing.”

That’s why she put all of her own personal preferences into the collection, including lots of ankle straps (perfect for staying stable on stage). “My favorite shoe in the entire world is an ankle boot, so everything that I make usually starts off as an ankle boot and works its way down to something else,” she explains. She even added memory foam on the soles to make the kicks more comfy. “I’m very paranoid about having ugly feet after wearing beautiful shoes!” she jokes.

Her fans—6 million Instagram followers and 3.95 million Twitter followers and counting—were her top priority, and she wanted as many people as possible to be able to get them. Hence, all styles are under $150.

As for Madden, he and Azalea make a natural pair. Madden first teamed up with the rapper through his friend and her mentor, T.I. Azalea played one of Steve Madden’s Music Artist Spotlight shows a few years ago, and the friendship began. Meanwhile, Azalea had been a fan of his shoes for years. “The brand was just what was affordable and stylish for me,” she says. Together, they worked for a year on the collaboration. “I like to make the coolest shoes I can,” says Madden, “with the coolest people I know.” Today, he’s thrilled with the result. “The line has such a sneaker-y vibe, but still dressy,” he says. “They’re a great hybrid between those two looks. You can see Iggy’s vibe in them completely.”

And if you’re psyched now, this is just the beginning. Azalea and Madden have collaborated on several additional collections that will be released through 2015 and into 2016.

So, what’s Iggy scooping up first? The Tempo style, a satin bootie embellished with crystals on stage (pictured, below). “These were the first ones I asked to have sent to my house,” she admits. “They are my favorite color, electric blue and I just love any kind of embellishment.”

What will you pick? Scroll down to see some of the highlights and shop them all on stevemadden.com starting now: http://news.instyle.com/2015/01/30/iggy-azalea-steve-madden/

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After teaming up with Jennifer Lopez, Aussie rapper Iggy Azalea is collaborating with another Jennifer – this time, Ms Hudson.
The 24-year-old rapper was spotted on the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Sunday with the 33-year-old Oscar winning star, as the pair filmed the music video for their new track Trouble.
Despite the soulful sound to the pop song, the divas both had sexy style for the clip, with Iggy playing the bad girl and Jennifer dressed as a sultry police woman.


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Iggy Azalea and Jennifer Hudson at the Pre-Grammy Gala press day with Clive Davis in Beverly Hills on Thursday.

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Universal Music Group's music showcase event

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Pre-Grammy Gala and Salute to Industry Icons honoring Martin Bandier at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday evening (February 7) in Los Angeles.

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Iggy Azalea wearing custom Armani at the 2015 Grammy Awards held at the Staples Center on Sunday (February 8) in Los Angeles.

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Iggy Azalea premieres the video for “Trouble,” the latest single off her album Reclassified. The Aussie rapper teams with Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson in the cinematic clip.


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Iggy Azalea is seen taking a riding lesson on February 27, 2015.

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She may have been dressed for horseback riding. But on Friday Iggy Azalea had bigger game in mind, as she was spotted hopping onto an airplane from LAX airport. The 24-year-old opted for some unconventional travel gear, taking to the skies in an equestrian getup.

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Iggy Azalea performs onstage at Samsung Galaxy's Milk Music Lounge during SXSW on March 18, 2015 in Austin, Texas.

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US Vogue April 2015

IGGY POP
PH: Mikael Jansson
Style: Tonne Goodman
Celeb: Iggy Azalea


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Vogue Goes Shopping with Iggy Azalea for Her New Shape
by LYNN YAEGER
photographed by MIKAEL JANSSON

Aussie rapper Iggy Azalea has rocketed from aspiring child prodigy to top-of-the-charts star. Lynn Yaeger talks with her about owning her success—and her shape.

Sometimes, when Iggy Azalea wakes up in the morning, she resolves that starting today, she is going to be fashionable! She will never wear sweatpants again! But then, as soon as she starts doing her makeup, “the dressing gown slips back into existence,” she says, “and I feed a dog.”

Azalea is confessing this ambivalence about the rigors of dressing up over a tuna melt and French fries at Toast in Los Angeles. We are seated at an outdoor table—which Azalea requested, having rejected a quiet interior perch. It’s unclear whether the fact that this makes us paparazzi bait is something she is more than OK with, or if she just likes the sunshine—but in any case, the photographers are massed across the street, along with a parade of weeping little girls brandishing schoolbooks and begging for autographs, lending a Day of the Locust vibe to what’s already become a surprisingly candid lunch.

Azalea (real name—and such a pretty name!—Amethyst Amelia Kelly) is clad in a huge Proenza Schouler sweater; hand-me-down jeans from her live-in partner, Lakers forward-guard Nick Young; and a black Borsalino-esque hat. She arrived in the States eight years ago from Mullumbimby, New South Wales, Australia, where she distinguished herself early on by trolling around town at age ten in a Chinese robe and lime-green platform shoes. Growing up, she was infatuated with Missy Elliott and Tupac Shakur, and even had a rap trio with two other girls. “I was very obsessed with being a child prodigy,” she remembers. “I liked the idea of doing something seemingly impossible in a field without women.”

Now 24, Azalea is, in fact, one of a very few wildly successful white female rappers, with her song “Fancy” reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart last spring; that same week, her collaboration with Ariana Grande on the single “Problem” went to number two, which meant that Azalea joined the Beatles as the only artists to hold the top two slots simultaneously with their first two hits. She began work on her second studio album in January, and later this year she’ll head out on a 21-city North American tour, which she’ll then take around the world. Azalea announced her tour, of course, via Twitter—where, even more than most young celebrities of the moment, she’s established a constant (and often extremely frank) dialogue with her fans and followers.

Jennifer Hudson—who was featured on Azalea’s song “Trouble,” for which Azalea also wrote a treatment and directed a video—credits Azalea with inspiring her creativity. “Iggy is the definition of an artist,” Hudson says. “She’s unique and different—and is consistently coming to the table with a fresh perspective.”

Azalea also has a lovely visage and a willowy physique—at least from the front. But let’s face it: She is also famous for an impressive backside, an attribute that has been garnering outsize attention of late. (The mysterious fascination with this body part extends to Kim Kardashian West’s much-discussed caboose and Meghan Trainor’s mega-hit “All About That Bass.”) Azalea, who has collaborated with her idol Jennifer Lopez on a raunchy ditty titled “Booty,” uncharacteristically downplays the obsession, noting that, really, “it’s about proportion. I have to have everything tailored because I have such a small waist. I’m a 2 or a 0 on the top, and a 6 on the bottom.”

Azalea’s shape wasn’t always universally lauded. “When I first got to the States, people told me I should think about modeling,” she says. “So I went to a few agencies, but once they measured my body”—she stands five feet ten inches—“they didn’t like me anymore.” Being told she should lose some weight and get a nose job had the predictable effect on her confidence: “I was looking in the mirror a little differently.”

It is slightly stunning, then, when I ask the rather routine question “What would you change about your body?” and she replies, popping a French fry in her mouth and not blinking an eye, “I did change something: Four months ago, I got bigger boobs! I’d thought about it my entire life.” She says she was sick of having to sew padding into her stage costumes and wanted to be able to wear lingerie without wiring. At first she resolved never to discuss this publicly; she didn’t want girls—so many of her fans are barely high school age—to feel bad about their own bodies. “But then,” she says, “I decided I wasn’t into secret-keeping.”

To celebrate her new shape, we decide to hit Barneys for some early spring shopping. Azalea shakes off her bodyguard, deciding the best way to get there is in her white Ferrari convertible. We take a short but terrifying road trip—photographers shooting at us from either side! Paparazzi pileup imminent!—and, by some miracle, arrive safely.

“Shopping requires so much imagination,” she says, bemoaning the fact that some of the things she loves don’t suit her—she alleges that a Row dress with a wide hem will make her look frumpy; a high-waisted Dries Van Noten confection, meanwhile, is stunning, though she laments that her curves “will make it look like a lampshade.” But she immediately snaps up a pair of white leather Proenza espadrilles, falls in love with roomy Stella McCartney jeans featuring wrestler-mask patches, and crushes on a gloriously expansive blue-and-white organza Balenciaga coat. (She also rises to the red-carpet occasion splendidly—witness the artfully slashed, bright-blue custom Giorgio Armani evening dress she rocked at the Grammys.)

Azalea hates changing rooms—which may be why she falls for a Chloé poncho that can, she says, be tossed over thermals, making her legs and shoes the only thing she has to worry about. “All of a sudden I am fabulous!” she says. “I want to be superfabulous—but also lazy.”

Fashion Editor: Tonne Goodman
Hair: Garren for Garren New York for R+Co.; Makeup: Mark Carrasquillo; Produced by Kyd Drake for North Six; Production Design: Nicholas Des Jardins for Mary Howard Studio
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73 Questions with Iggy Azalea

We met up with Iggy Azalea at her studio in Los Angeles and asked her 73 questions about her life today. She shares how being famous is a total mess (but awesome) and what the biggest misconception is about her. To hear the rest of what she shared with us, keep watching.
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US Marie Claire May 2015: Iggy Azalea + Felicity Jones + Zoe Kravitz + Hailee Steinfeld + Kate Upton By Dan Martensen (Part 1 of 2)

Fashion Editor: Catherine Newell-Hanson
Hair: Ursula Stephen (Azaela) + Maranda at The Wall Group (Steinfeld & Jones) + Kevin Ryan (Kravitz & Upton)
Make-up: Priscilla Ono (Azalea) + Ozzy Salvatierra (Steinfeld & Jones) + Chiho Omae (Kravitz & Upton)
Manicure: Ashlie Johnson at The Wall Group (Azalea, Steinfeld & Jones) + Honey at Exposure NY (Kravitz & Upton)
Set Design: Ali Gallagher (Azalea, Steinfeld & Jones) + Chad Dziewior (Kravitz & Upton)
Article: Julia Felsenthal

Source: imcmagazine.com



 
US Marie Claire May 2015: Iggy Azalea + Felicity Jones + Zoe Kravitz + Hailee Steinfeld + Kate Upton By Dan Martensen (Part 2 of 2)

Fashion Editor: Catherine Newell-Hanson
Hair: Ursula Stephen (Azaela) + Maranda at The Wall Group (Steinfeld & Jones) + Kevin Ryan (Kravitz & Upton)
Make-up: Priscilla Ono (Azalea) + Ozzy Salvatierra (Steinfeld & Jones) + Chiho Omae (Kravitz & Upton)
Manicure: Ashlie Johnson at The Wall Group (Azalea, Steinfeld & Jones) + Honey at Exposure NY (Kravitz & Upton)
Set Design: Ali Gallagher (Azalea, Steinfeld & Jones) + Chad Dziewior (Kravitz & Upton)
Article: Julia Felsenthal

Source: imcmagazine.com

 

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