SNL Rehearsals Are a Runway Now

SNL has by no means been a present that places vogue on the forefront. Whereas hosts let their private type shine in the course of the monologue and goodnights, your entire level is to observe even probably the most self-serious celeb hosts faucet into their foolish aspect—and with that normally comes equally foolish costumes. (See: the ever-chic Dangerous Bunny in a full Shrek costume, and Ayo Edebiri as Solomon, a bisexual, Jordin Sparks-singing center college boy.) These days, nonetheless, celebrities and their stylists have discovered a technique to recreation the system—by turning their weeklong rehearsals right into a runway.

Maybe probably the most pronounced instance of this phenomenon has been Sydney Sweeney, who hosted the March 2 episode with musical visitor Kacey Musgraves. SNL has lengthy been thought-about an honor—an actual signal of “making it.” However in internet hosting, they’re required to undergo per week of lengthy rehearsals, writing periods, and pre-tapes. What we’ve heard from the present’s alumnae paint an unglamourous image. (Anyone who is aware of John Mulaney’s Mick Jagger story will certainly agree.) However Sweeney turned out appears to be like for rehearsals that will have been simply as (if no more) probably seen at a vogue present. 

Sweeney’s stylist, Molly Dickson, outfitted the star in a number of luxurious items that spent more often than not inside 30 Rock. On in the future, she wore a black leather-based Supriya Lele romper with a Givenchy bag and Alexander McQueen pumps. On one other, she opted for a navy blue Bottega Veneta skirt set with a Miu Miu bag. 

When it got here to Edebiri’s flip to host, she additionally confirmed as much as rehearsal dressed to the nines, styled by Danielle Goldberg. On one event, she wore a Bottega-heavy look, exhibiting off the home’s tromp l’oiel leather-based strategies. Dakota Johnson, who hosted within the lead as much as Madame Internet, toted her $8,000 Andiamo bag to rehearsals whereas sporting an extended fur coat. Jennifer Lopez, who was Edebiri’s musical visitor, additionally acquired the memo, sporting grand outfits from her floor-length fur and Himalayan Birkin, to a child blue cape and mint inexperienced opera gloves. 

Whereas this can be a more recent flip of occasions, it’s additionally unsurprising that a lot effort goes into these rehearsal appears to be like. It’s clearly not a brand new suggestion that ladies are sure by social conference to be polished and put-together. However it appears particularly noticeable at SNL, a bastion of goofiness the place hosts are speculated to let their guards down. Is the chasm widening, or are we simply in a brand new period the place social media’s sense of immediacy forces celeb stylists to vogue their shoppers for any second they may be seen, regardless of how granular?