Zendaya refuses to wear these 5 fashion labels — and this is the shocking reason why

He’s laying down the legislation.

Zendaya’s longtime stylist, Law Roach, has blacklisted the “big five” vogue homes from the “Challengers” star’s wardrobe immediately after they in the beginning refused to gown his “fashion soulmate” early in her career — and he kept “all the receipts.”

On an episode of the fashion podcast “The Chopping Room Floor,” Roach, 45, recalled how Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Valentino and Saint Laurent would “all say no” to Zendaya, 27, telling him to “try once more upcoming year” and contacting her “too environmentally friendly,” for each The Hollywood Reporter.

“When I claimed, ‘If you say no, it’ll be a no without end,’ that rang genuine for a lengthy, long time,” reported Roach, who has been styling the “Dune” actress due to the fact she was just 14 decades old.

“By the time she experienced acquired to American Vogue, she continue to had hardly ever wore any of those people designers — she still hasn’t,” he extra, clarifying that in editorial, she has once in a while worn a person of the sworn-off labels.

“She however has never ever worn Dior on a carpet. She still has under no circumstances worn Chanel on a carpet. She has nevertheless never ever worn Gucci on a carpet — any push, any appearance, by no means. Never,” ongoing Roach, who suggests he nonetheless has “receipts” from the times of rejection.

“The 1st time she wore Valentino in general public is when she had a agreement.”

And the powerhouse pairing has often had just about every other’s backs. In the interview, Roach remembered when, early in his job although Zendaya was also a budding starlet, she would advocate for her beloved stylist.

“She was generally the one particular advocating for me and earning confident I was in these rooms that people assumed I did not belong in. Even as a youthful woman, I’m speaking about 16, 17 many years old,” he defined.

“We’ve sat in boardrooms with shoppers and corporations and CEOs and they would test to make me invisible and she would say, ‘Law has some thing to say,’ or somebody [would] try to chat close to me and she’s like, ‘Oh, nicely he just asked you a concern,’ and it was like those tiny, small issues that normally when another person would consider to just take the electrical power, she would hand it right again to me.”

While Roach retired from styling in 2023, he informed The New York Occasions that he “can’t say no” to Zendaya, who served as a Fulfilled Gala co-chair carrying archival John Galliano this yr.

“We also refer to our connection as ‘big strategies, tiny facts,’” he informed The Periods, likening it to him crafting a script and her executing rewrites.

“I appear in with, ‘You must don 14 dresses, and you should really alter, and you should really have a wig on and take it off so your hair must tumble down!’ And she’s, ‘No, no, no, no. We’re going to do two attire, and I’m heading to maintain the very same hair.’”