Veneda Carter isn’t your typical stylist. She’s so low key the industry has yet to realize that the Danish-born creative, who’s based in Los Angeles, dresses one of the world’s most photographed women, Kim Kardashian West, and works for Kanye West at Yeezy.
The reason for our video call is to chat about Carter’s first fashion collaboration, a collection of fine jewelry with Fie Isolde, a namesake label that’s also L.A.-based and headed by a Danish designer. Carter left Copenhagen for New York City at the age of 19 to model, which she did for 15 years. She traveled for the job, also lived in Berlin, and made a decent living, she says, but it made her anxious and unhappy. She fell into styling after moving to L.A.“It’s like creating art, almost,” she says of the industry. “It’s way more complicated than people think it is, just putting a nice outfit together. It’s about colors, proportions, tailoring.
“I’ve always been very influenced by rap and hip-hop,” she adds. Her older brother introduced her to the genre as a kid. “The Eighties and Nineties, early 2000s, that whole era. Growing up with him and him listening and watching music videos, watching interviews with rappers and artists, that 100 percent has given me some of the biggest influence and inspiration….African-American culture is a big inspiration for me, too. I don’t know.
The Veneda Carter x Fie Isolde line is available today exclusively at Moda Operandi. Courtesy of Fie Isolde She met Isolde through a mutual Danish friend. “I saw her pieces in person, and I kept thinking about her and the jewelry,” she says of the designer.
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