Beyonce's Stylist Ty Hunter Recalls Her Epic Met Gala Moment: It Was an 'Homage to Diana Ross'

Mar. 15, 2025

Beyoncé’s stylist of over 20 years,Ty Hunter, has dozens of spectacular style moments with the star to look back upon, but one in particular stands out to him: her showstopping 2014 Met Gala look.

“It was like [an] homage to Diana Ross, which is my favorite,” Hunter told Janine Rubenstein on Thursday’s episode ofPEOPLE Every Day.

“He’s family and he just gets it,” Hunter said of the designer.

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The celebrity stylist recently took his years of experience from the stage to the page inhis new memoir,Makeover from Within: Lessons in Hardship, Acceptance, and Self-Discovery,for which Beyoncé wrote the foreword. Hunter says that it was a “blessing” for the “Halo” singer (who he said is “like my sister”) to write the introduction for his book.

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Billy Porter, another fashion icon Hunter works with, wrote the afterword forMakeover from Within(which also boasts quotes fromNaomi Campbell, Kelly Osbourne andJennifer Hudson, as well as the other members of Destiny’s Child).

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Porter and Hunter’s collaborations have landed headline after headline, and “I just love him,” Hunter says. And, he adds, their decades of experience (Hunter is 50 and the Pose actor is 53) show that “it gets greater later.”

“I just admire him being older and still out here with the kids, showing the kids what time it is,” he said with a laugh of Porter’s commanding red carpet presence.

source: people.com