Candice Lambert: The Woman Behind Kelly Clarkson’s Designer Makeover

It’s a far cry from the battlefields of Iraq to a fashion red carpet, but that’s the path Candice Lambert has taken. The Los Angeles-based celebrity stylist is a retired lieutenant of the U.S. Coast Guard and it was during her nearly decade-long active deployment in Iraq that she started thinking about what she wanted to do with her life when her duty came to an end. “When I came back from Iraq, I had a different perspective on things,” she said with a wry laugh. “I kept saying, ‘What’s my dream?’ I realized it was music and fashion.” Determined to break into the industry in some way, she settled first in San Diego, where the Coast Guard has a large base, and started networking, traveling to Los Angeles to meet and greet whomever she could. She finally secured an internship with a stylist there who “taught me everything,” relocated, and she was on her way. Tonight, Lambert’s work will be front and center at the Billboard Music Awards when her client, Kelly Clarkson, hosts the televised event. Although Lambert doesn’t want to give too much away, she said Clarkson will wear “nine different outfits on stage and on the red carpet,” and there

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