If the stars of Selling Sunset want to look glamorous, they apparently have to do it on their own dime. In a recent TikTok, Lazkani, who joined the cast in season five, answered questions on what she says is one of the most popular topics surrounding the Netflix reality television show: wardrobe.
According to Lazkani in her TikTok, which has been viewed 2.1 million times as of Wednesday, every outfit worn by the cast is paid for and styled by themselves.
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“Do we get a wardrobe budget? Do we have stylists? Does anyone pay for our clothes? Do we get glam for filming? We get this question a lot,” Lazkani starts the clip saying. “We do not get a wardrobe or glam budget.”
Lazkami says that for the most part, the cast does get glam for filming, presumably by a hired professional. “It is out of our own pocket. No wardrobe budget, no one pays for our glam, nobody pays for our outfits,” Lazkani said.
She went on to add that some of the property agents do work with a personal stylist to come up with looks for scenes in the show, but revealed that she is not one of them. “That’s why if you see me looking crazy, it’s my fault and my fault only,” she quipped.
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Lazkami’s comments come as Vice’s Helen Meriel Thomas shared in a TikTok that she interviewed Sammie M, who styles Mary Fitzgerald and Amanza Smith on the show, who said they know some cast members spend between US$5,000 to US$10,000 on looks for the series.
Thomas said the stylist told her the cast feels the pressure of social media to deliver memorable outfits and are “in competition” with one another, leading to the wild fashion on season six.
Those bingeing the latest season of the show may have noticed a new character has entered the building – it’s gloves.
The women have worn everything from driving gloves to mid-length opera gloves, and also whatever strange and confining shirt-and-glove contraptions Smith consistently seems to don.
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All of which is to say: the gloves may have provided extra jazz to their outfits, but they couldn’t have been comfortable or practical. And in the case of Smith’s several glove-meets-shirt arrangements, they hardly seem sanitary either. Imagine being at a club or restaurant (or in Smith’s case, a broker’s open) and having to go to the bathroom. This is a delicate conversation, but it all seems a bit unsanitary, no? Does she put gloves on her gloves?
Netflix representatives for Selling Sunset did not immediately respond to request for comment.
