According to Law Roach, Zendaya’s Oscar-winning dreadlocks inspired the creation of the Crown Act, saying it created a global conversation
The stylist thought back on the well-known red carpet beauty moment during the Nov. 23 Teen Vogue Summit.
Zendaya, a longstanding client and close friend, has Law Roach “appreciative.”
The stylist recounted Zendaya’s impactful decision to wear dreadlocks to the 2015 Academy Awards at the age of eighteen during the Nov. 23 Teen Vogue Summit. That night, Giuliana Rancic, co-host of Fashion Police, garnered criticism for her remark that the young celebrity looked like “she smells like patchouli oil or weed.”
Roach claimed that Rancic’s “really awful comments” generated significant conversation, even though he doesn’t specifically mention her.
According to him, “that instance went on to actually change the way Black people’s hair was accepted in schools and the workplace,” on a panel. “So although we did not set out to make this big statement, because of the events that happened, The Crown Act was actually birthed from that incident.”
The Crown Act, which was created in 2019 and stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, guarantees that racial hairstyles like braids, locs, twists, and knots won’t be discriminated against in the job or in educational institutions.
He and Zendaya “didn’t anticipate that it would happen that way,” Roach added, but they are “glad that it did because it really started a global discourse about what’s proper for Black people’s hair,
