He confirmed recently that he's not retiring from fashion, but just celeb styling. It's mainly bc of dealing with BS from an entertainer's team and reps from brands. I wish Brandy would have stuck with him consistently. Law has an amazing eye and being styled by him draws a lot of press/attention. The way he styled Celine in 2019 was amazing and led to a boost in attention for her.
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So that morning I got a call from one of my clients, and it was her, her publicist, and somebody from a brand that I'm supposed to do project with, and I found myself on the phone with these three women, and I felt like I was defending myself because the one woman from the brand was like, "Oh, he's not communicating, and you're not gonna have a dress," and all these things. And it was just a lot of things that were not true.And that's how we lose clients as stylists — somebody from a brand will say something to the publicist, then the publicist will say something to the client, and then, it's this thing. I thought I had a really strong relationship with this client, and I thought that she knew that my goal always is to protect my clients.And at that moment I just didn't feel like I was being protected, because there's no one who can ever say that they've worked with me that I didn't pull my whole heart and soul into them or that I left them hanging and they didn't have a dress. It's never happened. No one can ever say that about me. And I was like, "Okay, yeah. Whatever, we'll do whatever. We'll work it out." And then I got off the phone, and I was like, I'm literally depleted from the day before. I'm an extreme empath, and I give everything to the point, after that night, I could barely finish a sentence. I had given so much.
That call was very early the very next day after [the Oscars]. And the client was one of the clients that I dressed that night. And it's just like, I got off the phone and I felt like I'm still fighting. I'm still fighting. I'm still defending myself. And one thing people who work with me also know is I don't like to be managed or feel like I'm being chastised. You know what I mean? That just doesn't work for me or my personality and especially when I feel like I'm giving so much.And I'm doing the job, I'm getting paid to do the job, and that's the real of it. But the care and the love that goes in me to do my job, I just feel like I should sometimes be a little bit more taken care of, if that makes sense.
https://www.thecut.com/article/law-roach-retirement-interview.html
