Of the girls, Lambert told me later, “God, I love them so much.” Still, things are not always easy. At the end of last year, Lambert began having panic attacks, which he put down to his team taking on too much work. “I’m, like, pretty chill,” he told me. “Like, I can do a lot of work, juggle a lot of things, I have a great team who can take a lot… But at the end of last year I was like, this is too much.” As well as working with brands, Lambert was styling nine celebrities, a list he decided to chop to three: he retained Styles, Skarsgård and the actor Emma Corrin, with whom he has worked since Corrin appeared as Princess Diana in The Crown, in 2020. “You start to lose your creativity,” he told me, of overworking. “I love everyone I work with, and I want to give people my best. But if you’re stretched too thin…” Lambert’s roster of celebrity clients had included the actors Dan Levy, Emilia Clarke, and Josh O’Connor. When I asked him how he chose who to cut, he demurred. “It was like breaking up with friends. Not that we’ve broken up. But it was hard.”
