What do Beyoncé and Billy Porter have in common? Aside from being skilled musicians and actors, they’ve both also become fashion legends with the help of Ty Hunter.
The 50-year-old stylist grew up in Texas, surrounded by a family of strong women who cultivated his interest in fashion at a young age. He gave them outfit advice regularly, styled his peers for fun, and eventually got a job at a boutique fashion store in his local mall.
It was there in the late ’90s that Hunter met Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, who promised to take Hunter to bigger, better places outside of retail — and she did. She first hired him to work with Destiny’s Child on the “Survivor” music video in 2000, and their partnership bloomed from there.
After years with the group, he followed Beyoncé as she went solo, and became responsible for some of the most iconic fashion moments in the singer’s career, from her stunning Met Gala looks to the orange dress she wore to announce her pregnancy at the 2011 VMAs.
Hunter is the first to say that he owes much of his success to the Black community, starting with the women in his family and later the Hollywood stars he’s worked with.
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But it’s also his sheer talent that’s kept him going, cementing him as a fashion legend. Today, Hunter is the author of a self-help memoir — “Makeover From Within: Lessons in Hardship, Acceptance, and Self-Discovery” — and Billy Porter’s go-to stylist.
Most importantly, though,…
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