Jay Manuel Loves Topshop

03 October 2008

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Jay Manuel has revealed that he loves Topshop and London style. The Stylist to the stars and America's Next Top Model Judge is a bag fan of the british brand and always makes sure he shops there, whenever he is in the UK.

He only flew in yesterday and has already bagged some Vivienne Westwood designs, A guy after our own girlish hearts.

He's known in America for fronting Style Her Famous and covering Red Carpet fashion, but the really great thing about Jay is that he loves turning women's lives around through fashion and that's why he's such a hit.

The fact that he's mates with Tyra Banks and Jennifer Lopez only make us love him more. We chat to Jay about his love for Topshop, why he thinks Kim Cattrall looks great for her age and all about his celebrity pals.

Hi Jay, How are you?

I'm good thanks.

What have you been up to recently?

Well, I flew to London yesterday to promote the style network. It's actually one of my favourite cities, I come her a lot and I've already hit the shops, pretty much as soon as I got off the plane, so how about that!

How do you like London- is it quite fashion forward do you think?

Oh deffo, I was just saying I feel that especially the men here they take a little more pride in thier appearance, whereas Amercian's they always want to throw on khakis and shirts and be more causal and you. Just walking the street last night to go to dinner, you just see men, you know, playing with their look and I think they have a little more fun and are more fashionable. I mean me personally I've been to Vivienne Westwood already to buy some asymetric type stuff and i love that, I think fashion should be fun.

Have you been to Topshop yet?

Not this trip, but I have been before. I went to Topshop when I was 12-years-old and I was on vacation with my family and I got all sorts of cool stuff, so everytime I come to London I go. It's such a great resource and the styles there are great, you know and you don't have to break the bank. You can get some trendy pieces which are in and it's a great resource for people to buy the latest looks

What do you think about eco-fashion, are you involved with anything eco at the minute?

Actually, I'm not involved with anything like that, but in New York City Fashion Week there was certianly lots of different designers that used eco-friendly fabrics and such. Unfortunately I was working, you know with Style Her Famous, so I've not been able to attend anthing like that. I think it's very innovative and a lot of eco-friendly fabrics are really cutting edge. So typically people mention that area and people think it will be natural and boring, but actually it's quite the opposite.

How did you get involved with Style Her Famous?

I'd been working for E Network so I've been doing that for a few years, you know on the red carpet, but the Head of Creative Development came with this idea to do a make-over type show and i was like it's been done, and I wanted to do something different and inspiring and actually as a totally different twist, we came up with a colloborative effort and that was Style her Famous. Everybody has a favourite celeb that they love their style so the concept is that it's not a copy cat make-over. You know we ask who is their favourite celeb, take an element of their key style and adapt that to the person we're working on and help them turn over a new leaf and help them take a new direction. We give them the VIP treatment and give them the hair and make-up products to carry on their transformation.