Teasing a run for president, the event host said she would bring home our troops at the event also attended by Gwen Stefani, RuPaul, Chrissy Teigen, Doechii, Brooks Nader and Hilary Duff
“I don’t really do politics,” claimed host Tiffany Haddish to the crowd of fashionistas assembled at the Beverly Hills Hotel for The Daily Front Row‘s 10th Annual Fashion Los Angeles Awards on Tuesday, April 14. “But I am thinking about running for president.”
Haddish went on. “And if I run for president, our campaign motto will be: ‘America, mind your own business!” she quipped. “And I’ll bring back all our troops, and everybody will come home. We’ll be minding our own business, staying out of other people’s countries.”
She also joked that, while she wasn’t a model, she believes her experience in foster care in South Central Los Angeles was similar. Said Haddish: “Both foster care and modeling, they take you away from your family to live with strangers, they don’t feed you regularly, they send you out to the public wearing too-small clothes that you’ve got to give back when you’re finished with them.”
In honoring Brooks Nader (star of Hulu’s Love Thy Nader and the upcoming Baywatch reboot) as Breakthrough Fashion Talent, Chrissy Teigen recalled how she first heard of Nader, about five years ago. “My husband, John [Legend], was on his phone, and he goes, ‘Instagram keeps suggesting that I follow this girl.’”
Upon looking at his phone, Teigen proclaimed, “What is your algorithm?’ It was like the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, with the biggest, brightest smile. And I couldn’t even be mad, because my whole algorithm is like, sexy Peaky Blinders, Cillian Murphy — sorry, Luna! My daughter’s here; it’s her 10th birthday.”
Nader thanked her sisters — noting that two sisters were there, but one couldn’t make it on account of getting a mole removed. “And she thought you guys would all notice that her mole was removed, when I got my award,” Nader said to laughs.
When she called out Gwen Stefani, Haddish admitted that her song “Bananas” was how she remembered the spelling of the word. “That’s funny, because I’m dyslexic,” Stefani said. “I can’t spell — so I’m happy that that worked for you. And then I’m like, the teleprompter, how are we going to do this?”
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“You got this,” encouraged Haddish. “It’s all hieroglyphics.”
“I love fashion. I’m from Orange County,” continued Stefani. “I used to make a lot of my own clothes growing up … and I’m here tonight because somehow, I got to work with one of the most talented human beings. And her name is Andrea Lieberman,” she said, presenting A.L.C. founder Lieberman with the Powerhouse Brand Award.
Hilary Duff glowingly gave the Makeup Artist of the Year award to her artist Kelsey Deenihan Fisher — joking how Fisher was “dying” by the attention and would rather be hiding under her seat.
The Pitt star Noah Wiley presented his stylist of one year, Mark Holmes, with Men’s Stylist of the Year. “What a crazy event this is!” Wiley exclaimed. “Most people know that I have a stuntman and a makeup artist — not that many people know that we have stylists. And to admit [that] is to admit that without them, we wouldn’t be the fashion plates that you see before us — decked out in Celine, like I am this evening.” When he accepted, Holmes emotionally thanked his father.
Carolyn Murphy received the Beauty Icon award. Zoe Saldana, via a video message, honored Mara Roszak with the Hair Artist of the Year award. And NBA star Chris Paul presented the inaugural Sports Stylist of the Year award to Courtney Mays — who spoke about the emergence of a category melding sports with fashion, and encouraged others to take up space, like she had to as a plus-sized, Black woman.
Doechii, who honored Music Stylist of the Year Sam Woolf, recalled first meeting the stylist — and his grace when she asked for an outfit change right as she was walking out the door. And RuPaul closed down the night by presenting Filipino-American fashion designer Zaldy with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
“We met in 1988 at a club in New York City,” RuPaul said. “We were that. And all these years later, my friend is still doing it. Everything that I’ve worn on Drag Race, he’s made.”
“Is this where I am right now — am I f*cking Barbra Streisand?” Zeldy said. “Have I even done enough to celebrate a lifetime award?” It made him think about his time in New York as a club kid. “Where I would meet another club kid, RuPaul,” he corroborated. “How remarkable it is in our business that we can create however many lifetimes we choose.”
Moroccanoil, LAGOS, Lavazza, Nicole Miller and DAOU Vineyards presented the event, which also brought out guests from the fashion world, including B. Åkerlund, Nolan Gerard Funk and Tara Rudes Dann. Following a cocktail hour with activations, specialty drinks and non-alcoholic beer Crazy Mountain, they headed into the ballroom for the show.