These Celebrity Designers Really Want to Be Taken Seriously

By Véronique Hyland

What’s keeping Sarah Jessica Parker, Eva Longoria, and Justin Timberlake up at night? Weekend box-office numbers? Billboard chart stats? No — the correct answer would be minor details of fashion construction, at least if you go by the interviews they and other celebrities turned designers have given about their fashion lines over the years. From those who’ve been embraced by the industry, like Victoria Beckham and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, to those who have, well, not, the message is the same: Not only are they involved in their namesake lines, but they have an almost obsessive attachment to every infinitesimal detail.

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Here, we bring you an alphabetized culling of some of the finest moments in celebrities insisting that, actually, they are incredibly immersed in design minutiae.

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