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Selling Sunset’s wardrobe secrets, revealed: season 6 cast members Chrishell Stause, Amanza Smith and Emma Hernan pay up to US$10,000 for their outfits, but Chelsea Lazkani says it’s all out of pocket

Selling Sunset’s property agents, including the likes of Emma Hernan and Chelsea Lazkhani, are known for their flashy fashion – but they actually pay for it all themselves. Photo: @sellingsunsetnetflix/Instagram

The stars of Selling Sunset are known for wearing extravagant outfits to their property showings, business meetings and pretty much any kind of work event – day or night. Season six saw some of the most lavish outfits to date, including Chelsea Lazkani wearing her infamous Diesel micro-miniskirt, made from brown leather and stamped with the brand’s monogram. The skirt currently retails at £795, or around US$982.

But according to Lazkani, the property agents are paying for all of it out of pocket.

Selling Sunset cast member Chelsea Lazkani shares her fashion looks on her Instagram. Photo: @chelsealazkani/Instagram

If the stars of Selling Sunset want to look glamorous, they apparently have to do it on their own dime. In a recent TikTok, Lazkani, who joined the cast in season five, answered questions on what she says is one of the most popular topics surrounding the Netflix reality television show: wardrobe.

Chrishell Stause rocking a red outfit on Selling Sunset. Photo: @sellingsunsetnetflix/Instagram

According to Lazkani in her TikTok, which has been viewed 2.1 million times as of Wednesday, every outfit worn by the cast is paid for and styled by themselves.

“Do we get a wardrobe budget? Do we have stylists? Does anyone pay for our clothes? Do we get glam for filming? We get this question a lot,” Lazkani starts the clip saying. “We do not get a wardrobe or glam budget.”

Selling Sunset’s season six cast might serve some serious looks, but they apparently pay for and style their fashion for the show all on their own. Photo: @amanzasmith/Instagram
“This is very standard in reality TV,” she added. “This is reality TV, you come as you please. On Selling Sunset, we definitely turn up for y’all. We turn it up, we are definitely glam girls, we love to be in glam, we love to bring the fashion.”
Emma Hernan and Bre Tiesi showing off boss babe style on the former’s Instagram. Photo: @emmahernan/Instagram

Lazkami says that for the most part, the cast does get glam for filming, presumably by a hired professional. “It is out of our own pocket. No wardrobe budget, no one pays for our glam, nobody pays for our outfits,” Lazkani said.

She went on to add that some of the property agents do work with a personal stylist to come up with looks for scenes in the show, but revealed that she is not one of them. “That’s why if you see me looking crazy, it’s my fault and my fault only,” she quipped.

Mary Fitzgerald and Amanza Smith are “besties”, as the former stated, who share the same stylist. Photo: @amanzasmith/Instagram

Lazkami’s comments come as Vice’s Helen Meriel Thomas shared in a TikTok that she interviewed Sammie M, who styles Mary Fitzgerald and Amanza Smith on the show, who said they know some cast members spend between US$5,000 to US$10,000 on looks for the series.

The Selling Sunset cast’s wardrobe doesn’t come cheap. Photo: @sellingsunsetnetflix/Instagram

Thomas said the stylist told her the cast feels the pressure of social media to deliver memorable outfits and are “in competition” with one another, leading to the wild fashion on season six.

Chelsea Lazkani wearing her notorious Diesel micro-miniskirt with a pair of gloves – a hot fashion item on Selling Sunset’s new season. Photo: @chelsealazkani/Instagram

Those bingeing the latest season of the show may have noticed a new character has entered the building – it’s gloves.

The women have worn everything from driving gloves to mid-length opera gloves, and also whatever strange and confining shirt-and-glove contraptions Smith consistently seems to don.

Selling Sunset cast member Amanza Smith is known for her avant garde shirt-and-gloves combinations. Photo: @amanzasmith/Instagram
You could say that Selling Sunset’s aesthetic is the opposite of Succession’s. If the Roy family is quiet luxury, expressed through cashmere and Loro Piana loafers, the women of Selling Sunset apply a #TGIF level of reckless colour and flair to their wardrobe.
Amanza Smith rocking orange colour accents. Photo: @amanzasmith/Instagram

All of which is to say: the gloves may have provided extra jazz to their outfits, but they couldn’t have been comfortable or practical. And in the case of Smith’s several glove-meets-shirt arrangements, they hardly seem sanitary either. Imagine being at a club or restaurant (or in Smith’s case, a broker’s open) and having to go to the bathroom. This is a delicate conversation, but it all seems a bit unsanitary, no? Does she put gloves on her gloves?

Netflix representatives for Selling Sunset did not immediately respond to request for comment.

These articles originally appeared on Insider
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  • Netflix’s hit show is known for glam looks but the cast doesn’t have a wardrobe budget, Lazkhani shared in a TikTok viewed over 2 million times, saying, ‘This is very standard in reality TV’
  • If Succession is all about quiet luxury, Selling Sunset might be the polar opposite with its Diesel logo-emblazoned micro-miniskirts, opera gloves and #TGIF bursts of colour