Celebrity designer Azeeza Khan on dressing Barbra Streisand: ‘a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’

Barbra Streisand is a fan of Chicago designer Azeeza Khan’s label and has been wearing her pieces on tour

Khan talks about visiting the singer at her home and picking out outfits for her to wear on and off the stage

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Barbra Streisand on stage in Hyde Park, London, dressed in Azeeza. The label’s founder, Chicago-based designer Azeeza Khan, says dressing the singer for her current tour was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Photo: Instagram

Published: 5:00am, 26 Jul 2019Updated: 6:51pm, 27 Jul 2019

Ever since she launched her brand “Azeeza”, Chicago-based designer Azeeza Khan has been blessed with a roster of celebrity clients, including J-Lo, Beyoncé and Sarah Jessica Parker. She thought it couldn’t get any better – until Barbra Streisand came knocking on her door.

“She was shopping my pieces at Barneys in Beverly Hills and one of the managers there decided to make an introduction. I have always loved her – she’s an icon and is one of the few remaining old-school Hollywood generation. Her style has inspired countless of designers and she is on every mood board, including mine,” she says. ‘When I had the opportunity to do a fitting in her home it was unbelievable.”

Chicago-based designer Azeeza Khan has fans including J-Lo, Beyoncé and Sarah Jessica Parker, but dressing Barbra Streisand is a high point in her career.

Khan is one of a very select group of designers whom Streisand has chosen to wear during her current tour, which ends on August 7.

The night before her concert in London’s Hyde Park she attended a private dinner with designer Valentino wearing an Azeeza spring/summer 2017 V-neck silk swing dress with jet embroidery.

The next day in Hyde Park she took to the stage in a diaphanous black silk ruffled number, which is part of Khan’s newly released cruise 2020 collection.