\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div><\/div> \t\t\t\t\tKithe Brewster fall 2015<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKatie Jones<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tThe forward-thinking creative participated in the first Dubai Fashion Week and chose some unexpected settings for his runway shows including unveiling his spring 2014 line in the Maserati showroom, during the\u00a0Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. He also participated in the Syndicale de la Couture\u00a0in Paris, having been among the first handful of Americans to do so. By his own account, he was somewhat overlooked by the media. In a 2020 interview with WWD, he said that his \u201cforward, innovative designs were completely ignored by Vogue and Bazaar, and the other mainstream publications in America,\u201d aside from coverage by WWD and The Washington Post.<\/p>\n \n\tPeople\u2019s Revolution founder Kelly Cutrone described Brewster as having been \u201cunsung\u201d in the way that stylist Patti Wilson and the late fashion journalist Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley were. \u201cKithe was a trailblazer. He was one of the most underestimated, unsung heroes infashion,\u201d Cutrone said.<\/p>\n \n\tNoting how Brewster\u2019s vision, creativity and philanthropy inspired people, Duke speculated how he would have appreciated the outpouring in response to his death. \u201cHe loved to be loved, but who doesn\u2019t?\u201d she said with a laugh. \u201cHe really was a legend because he did it effortlessly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tKithe Brewster spring 2016<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAntonio Salgado<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\tBorn in East Saint Louis, Brewster\u2019s interest in fashion started early on as a youngster, who loved thrifting and redesigning and deconstructing his finds. Before diving into fashion as a career, he studied acting under Katherine Dunham and first moved to New York City at the age of 16 to audition as an actor, dancer and singer for \u201cBroadway\u201d shows. Brewster also moonlighted with a part-time job at his uncle Robert\u2019s showroom, which specialized in couture. Through that experience he got to know top fashion editors from Vogue and Harper\u2019s Bazaar, who saw firsthand how he gamely put together different styles in his uncle\u2019s showroom. Brewster then decided to pursue a career as a fashion editor.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tHaving met Brewster when he first moved to New York and lived with her family for a period of time, Duke said, \u201cYou know how when something is really for you, the universe will bring it to you? He got the opportunity and with his personality, he was able to meet people and started doing fashion shoots and styling celebrities for the red carpet and photo shoots. He found a way to get in with these different houses and he knew how to select clothing that really worked for a certain celebrity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIn an online interview with Mister Levius, Brewster said he moved to Paris at the age of 19 with $500 and stayed with a female model friend, who was not supposed to have guests. She offered him a one-week stay until he found his own place to live. Despite not speaking French, nor having an agent, Brewster found his footing. In a 2020 interview,\u00a0Brewster said he moved to Paris\u00a0in order to be judged solely for his talent. Brewster told WWD that having looked at the careers of Josephine Baker and many other African Americans, \u201cI knew that in my own country, I would not be given a fair chance.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAs a fashion editor, Brewster worked for Flaunt, Russian Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Chiq and other publications. He also worked as a stylist for musicians like Eve and the English band bewitched. His alliance with Moore was years in the making. In a 2000 interview with WWD, Brewster said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be confused with a personal shopper. If I shop with a client, it\u2019s one who has become a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMore than just selecting the clothes that helped to define a person\u2019s style, Brewster was said to have encouraged clients and collaborators to consider the emotions they relayed and how they wore them.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBefore Moore\u2019s trip to the Golden Globe Awards in 2000, he and the actress paid a visit to Ralph Lauren<\/a>, where Brewster presented a photo of a 1970s dress, and the designer came up with a low-backed purple halter gown that was accessorized with a black leather fringed shawl.\u00a0That exchange also led to Brewster acting as the first freelance stylist to advise Ralph Lauren<\/a> on one of its collections shows for fall 2000. After the casting team had confirmed two other African American models, Brewster said he fought for the then-unknown model Liya Kebede to be included on the runway by appealing to the designer, who agreed with him.<\/p>\n In 2000, Moore, an Oscar nominee for \u201cThe End of the Affair\u201d was so in demand that on the day the Oscar nominations were announced, Brewster received 32 messages from designer houses that were looking to dress her. The pair got the gold-star treatment from some European designers, with Chanel<\/a> flying them over to attend the fall show and to dine privately with Karl Lagerfeld. There was also a private dinner with Valentino<\/a> at his chateau outside of Paris, fittings with Jean Paul Gaultier, a meeting with Tom Ford and a trove of Prada dresses, shoes and bags. In-demand as Moore was at that time, Brewster\u2019s previous connections to designers didn\u2019t hurt. \u201c\u2019Absolutely,\u2019 all the designers said, \u2018no pressure,\u2019\u201d Brewster told WWD at that time.<\/p>\n \n\tDescribing Moore as his \u201cmuse,\u201d Brewster said she inspired all of the editorials that he did at that time, \u201cbecause she\u2019s such a real woman. It\u2019s so great to be able to make fashion work on a real woman. This relationship is most memorable for the things I\u2019ve learned.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFollowing the Black Lives Matter movement, Brewster said, \u201cWhat\u2019s important is, how do you move forward? How can we bring about a solution? We must start with the basics, improve the living conditions and basic economic situations across America.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBrewster suggested that brands improve inclusion by \u201cseeing us \u2014 and seeing all races \u2014 is a great start. One thing that bothered me in my career as a stylist was the clich\u00e9 that the inspiration of the show is a certain period, and the designer did not see certain races in the casting. Whether it\u2019s historically accurate or not, we have the power to rewrite history and envision a casting where everyone is reflected.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe added that companies need to hire \u201cmore designers and creatives of African descent and other races that are not represented. It\u2019s time to present a world view.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn December 2012, Brewster and Singleton married, but the couple reportedly separated months later. After leaving New York and returning to his mother\u2019s home in Atlanta, Singleton flew to Los Angeles in July 2013 and later told a friend he was driving to Las Vegas. After being picked up by a California Highway Patrol officer after being found wandering along the interstate, Singleton was dropped off at a gas station where he phoned a friend to pick him up, according to an autopsy report filed with the San Bernardino County Sheriff Department. A few months later in September 2013, Singleton\u2019s body was found with the organs removed. A spokesperson for the SBCSD was checking on the status of that investigation Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n \n\tThe names of Brewster\u2019s immediate relatives, who survive him, were not immediately known.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source wwd.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Celebrity stylist, fashion editor and designer Kithe Brewster died on May 3 in Dubai, where he had been living in recent years. His notable clientele included Julianne Moore, model and \u201cReal Housewives of Atlanta\u201d star Cynthia Bailey,\u00a0Janelle Mon\u00e1e, Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles-Carter, Adrien Brody, Cate Blanchett, Drew Barrymore, Salma Hayek and Winona Ryder, among others.\u00a0The 60-year-old, self-made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2412358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[257664,314892,356178,22064,344473,316028,347992],"class_list":["post-2412357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-beyoncu00e9","tag-chanel","tag-julianne-moore","tag-obituaries","tag-oscars","tag-ralph-lauren","tag-valentino"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Celebrity-Stylist-Kithe-Brewster-Dies-at-60.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412359,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412357\/revisions\/2412359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Kithe](\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-wwd-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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