The stylist to Billie Eilish, Diplo, Rosalía, Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera — and many more, if you can believe it — shares her clients' secret sartorial sauce.
Samantha Burkhart and I have 21 emails and two months between us by the time I hear her voice beaming through her phone in Los Angeles to mine in New York. My initial interview request came at, uh, a busy time for music's biggest stylist. "Busy" doesn't even feel like the right word — maybe if I put the word "bananas" in front of it.
My poor timing notwithstanding, I was eager to speak with Burkhart because, well, you can't talk about the music industry right now without talking about Burkhart. The artists with whom she works are at the top of their games — and charts — professionally. But what most excites me about her work is that she also leaves each of her clients looking exaggeratedly and indisputably like "them," a more difficult stylistic feat than many may realize.
"That was kind of a jarring moment because I had to figure out who I was, not only as this English girl coming to America, but also as a pre-teenager buying my own clothes and what that meant," she remembers. "My best friend was working with Mariah Carey's day-to-day manager and she was like, 'Do you want to work for Mariah's stylist?' And I was — really — like, 'What's a stylist?'" she says. "I didn't even know that that was a job."
"I was really into the idea of music artists having such a huge reach and having such a visual component to who they are," she says. "I mean, there's something really beautiful about standing in front of a painting. But if you've spent six months working on a painting and you have 10 people come and see it, it's not the same as doing an artist's tour and having literally millions of people see it.
Burkhart began building upon her roster from there, and along came Eilish. In 2015, Burkhart's husband first heard "Ocean Eyes" when it was still just making the rounds on SoundCloud. "He was like, 'Oh, wow, she's 14 and looks really cool and weird,'" she remembers. Burkhart was hooked from first listen.
"She's a custom kind of girl," jokes Burkhart. "There's really only one of her, so there should really only be one of these things in the world, too. I don't mean that in an elitist way. She's really just unique and it ends up just being the thing that makes the most sense for her."
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