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"I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone"

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Elizabeth Banks is selling a very modern kind of glamour: curated, collaborative, and strategically “authentic.” On the surface, she’s praising stylists for the obvious job - assembling looks, adding accessories, pushing risk. Underneath, she’s also drawing boundaries around credit and power in an industry where “who dressed you” is a proxy for taste, status, and belonging.

The line “I love working with a stylist but…” does a lot of work. It signals she’s fluent in the red-carpet machine while gently resisting the idea that style is outsourced wholesale. By emphasizing “personal relationships with designers,” Banks claims a more intimate stake in fashion: not just wearing a brand, but being known by it. That’s social capital as much as aesthetic preference, and it nods to the celebrity economy where relationships function like endorsements with plausible deniability.

Her praise of the stylist’s role is carefully framed: “pulling together” and “shaking me out of my comfort zone.” That’s a soft, likable way to describe what is essentially image management. The “comfort zone” line also reassures fans that risk is guided, not chaotic. She gets to be adventurous without seeming desperate, edgy without alienating the mainstream.

Context matters here: actresses live under relentless visual scrutiny, and red-carpet fashion is treated like a performance review. Banks is articulating a balanced model of control - letting experts steer the look while keeping the narrative of self intact.

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Banks, Elizabeth. (2026, January 15). I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-working-with-a-stylist-but-i-also-love-143615/

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Banks, Elizabeth. "I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-working-with-a-stylist-but-i-also-love-143615/.

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"I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-working-with-a-stylist-but-i-also-love-143615/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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Elizabeth Banks (born February 10, 1974) is a Actress from USA.

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