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We Got Ready for the Golden Globes with 'Severance'’s Britt Lower

Stylist Jacqueline Zenere spills all the details.

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We Got Ready for the Golden Globes with 'Severance'’s Britt Lower
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Celebrity stylist Jacqueline Zenere likes to spend as much time as possible with her clients on the days of big award shows. Ideally, she would have met Britt Lower, whom she’s dressed since her Severance debut, at 9:30 a.m. as she entered the hair and makeup chair in her room at the Fairmont Century Plaza. Instead, Zener spent most of the morning attempting to track down golf umbrellas in a quest to shield the actress’s dress from Los Angeles’ imminent downpour. That, however, is the life of a stylist. In reality, Zenere had only minutes alone with Lower before she was whisked away for tonight’s Golden Globe Awards.

That said, this day was weeks in the making. “Britt is still new to the scene. So we're trying to tell this cohesive story, that she's really dexterous in terms of the way she wears fashion.” She began with a champagne gold gown at the Emmys then went for fierce edge at the Gotham Awards. Tonight, it was about embracing the editorial nature of clothing. Together, they selected the final look from New York designer Bach Mai’s Pre Fall 2023 collection. The gown is a strapless feat of construction, an inky black velvet with a framboise moire skirt. The final product is somewhere between one of Cristobal Balenciaga’s masterpieces and the Oscar de la Renta cady pink dress SJP wears in an episode of Sex & The City—you know what we’re talking about. “It is already so surreal to have my first moment on a major awards show red carpet, but I am truly honored to be dressing Britt Lower,” the designer Mai adds. “Not only is her performance in Severance truly stunning, but she is such a dynamic, intelligent, beautiful, and kind person and I am so proud to be able to call her a Bach Mai woman.”

The day’s playlist ranged from that of Lower (Patti Smith and other folk songs) to Zenere’s own pump-up soundtrack of Rage Against the Machine, Fiona Apple, and Drake. The range of happenings ahead of tonight's award show was just as vast. Below, Zenere takes us through the process of getting ready whether that’s a quiet moment of meditation, aggravating an old soccer injury while steaming, or Lower snacking on a salad as she squeezes into her gown.

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