The story behind how Cardi B ended up in that half-shell-inspired Mugler gown
LA TimesOne of the biggest winners of Grammys night wasn’t just Cardi B, who was the first female solo artist to win for rap album, but Kollin Carter, the stylist who put the singer into a series of internet-breaking outfits by the French designer Thierry Mugler. “One day I was with a friend and I was like, ‘What if I could go through the archive of Mugler?’” an exhausted Carter told The Times by phone on Monday, the day after the 61st Grammy Awards, where his star client stole the show in three archival Mugler looks. “By Jan. 12, I was in Paris looking through the archives,” said Carter, who had attended Mugler’s spring/summer 2019 show in September with Cardi B. Cardi B in Mugler haute couture, center, with her stylist Kollin Carter, right, at the 61st Grammy Awards at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday. This is the piece.” Vogue’s short film offers a glimpse into the fitting process, showing Carter, Cardi and Mugler’s Parisian team in L.A. mere weeks before the Grammys.