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Celebrity fashion designer and stylist Pamela Watson talks to News 12 about her roots in Brooklyn and her work on shows and movies like “Power” and “Wu-Tang: An American Saga.”

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Celebrity Buzz: Brooklyn fashion designer Pamela Watson 

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Back to News 12 for local matters in our segment, Celebrity buzz. We are highlighting some of the amazing celebrities who call Al Burrough Home. And today we have celebrity fashion designer and stylist, Pamela Watson joining us here live on News 12. Pamela. Thanks so much for joining us on this Friday morning, Happy Pre Holiday. Thank you guys for having me. So you've done some amazing things you have worked on well known TV shows and movies like Power, my favorite Wu Tang and American Saga, The Best Man Holiday, the final chapter. So what are some of your fondest memories on some of those character looks that you've worked on? Well, first of all, um I think it's such a privilege to be able to work in the costume design department. We get an opportunity to look through all of the scripts, read who the characters are, add nuances and textures to these characters that the writers have done and want a beautiful job with. But the fact that we get to add texture to these characters for the viewers to get to know them better is really one of the most fascinating parts of this job um, I think some of my fondest memories, um, let's go to Best Man. Um, the final chapters, one where, uh, Melissa de Sousa, um, who is playing Shelby wears this outrageous denim shirt with this huge pussy bow. You know, she's outrageous and it was wonderful to be able to find a piece that really spoke to who she is and what she would wear that was realistic, but yet still on the nose for that character. Um I'm influenced by all things. So there was a uh article that Mitzi Copeland was in where she was in a fashion piece, this beautiful long feathered hat. And I just needed to have that for the character Tasha to wear during uh her funeral scene when she lost her daughter in power. So I mean, it goes to pieces like that and it can also go as simple as shows like soon by you. Um which is I think plays on youtube channel about the simplicity of um the life of young people uh who are looking to find love and just the nuances of their relationships and just wearing lifestyle pieces and making sure that, that reads realistic for that era for that, that, that age group and those viewers. So we have a really big job and I, I really am happy to be a part of this Pamela. Obviously on news talk, Brooklyn, we gotta talk about Brooklyn. How's the borough kinda growing up here? Shaped how you become who you are today? Oh, I am a Brooklyn girl through, in the room. I, I am so proud to be born and raised in Brooklyn. Um, but I've had opportunities to live in different parts of Brooklyn, which I think has shaped me. I started out born and raised in Crown Heights. Hey, uh, Saint John's Place between Washington and Underhill. And, um, I moved from there and went to, um, East Flatbush as a teenager and on to college and, um, then went and came back to Brooklyn and went to, uh Carroll Gardens where I was a young, professional, fledgling, finding my career and, um, eventually started my family there. So Brooklyn has had a lot to do with who I am. Um, the, the basket weave of Pamela Watson is throughout through and through. Um, really just Brooklyn girl. Um, and honestly, I feel like Spike Lee's movie Crooklyn from 1994 was really a good, um, a AAA good. Uh, I don't know, it, it, it, it replicated my life in very many ways, right? Those block parties and the, the values that the community of community. Um, you know, we were just a working class family in a, in a, in a neighborhood that was surrounded by other parents and Children who wanted to have safety and love and, and it was a value for us. And so I kind of feel like I've taken all of those things and really made sure my company builders of style also emulated community. Um It's important to me that you feel like you belong because that makes you want to give more to what you do. Um And that really was something that was um groundbreaking and foundational for me that I, I really know that Brooklyn gave that to me and I can work in any room. Um Seriously, it really, really shaped, you've done such incredible things like you just highlighted so really quickly as we're about to get out, where can people find your work and where can people find you? Um I am on um Instagram, the Pamela Watson and um I'm also um on Pamela Watsons styles dot com. So you can find me there, Pamela. You have done some incredible looks. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

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