Leslie Jones says no designers want to dress her, so Christian Siriano steps in
Christian Siriano is ready to create something fierce.
Leslie Jones called out unnamed designers Tuesday for declining to help dress her for the upcoming Ghostbusters premiere.
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Her comments sparked outrage and attention, which caught the eyes of Project Runway alum Siriano, who tweeted back with a raised hand emoji, volunteering himself for the gig.
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How did Jones respond? With a resounding YAS.
“I love Leslie and can’t wait to make her something fabulous to wear. I dress and support women of all ages and sizes,” Siriano told Time in a statement. He later tweeted that "nothing is confirmed," but they are meeting and he'd "love" to dress her.
It's not the first time a celebrity has struggled to find a designer. Ghostbusters costar Melissa McCarthy said two Oscars ago, she "couldn't find anybody to do a dress for me."
"I asked five or six designers -- very high-level ones who make lots of dresses for people -- and they all said no," she told Redbook in 2014.
In her recent CFDA Fashion Icon acceptance speech, Beyoncé said she had similar struggles when she was starting out in Destiny's Child.
"High-end labels didn’t really want to dress four black country curvy girls, and we couldn’t afford designer dresses and couture," she says. "My mother was rejected from every showroom in New York."
Siriano spoke up again about the common issue, tweeting on Wednesday that it "shouldn't be exceptional to work with brilliant people just because they're not sample size. Congrats aren't in order, a change is."
And in the meantime, designers should take note -- Jones will not forget this moment.
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Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.
