Jahleel Weaver

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Jahleel Weaver
Born1987 (age 3536)
NationalityAmerican
Panamanian
OccupationStylist
Known forFashion styling

Jahleel Weaver (born 1987) is an American fashion designer, stylist, and deputy creative director of Rihanna's fashion house, Fenty. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Career

Weaver's first styling job was for Vogue Italia, where he assisted with styling Usher. He then worked as assistant stylist alongside Mel Ottenberg, who has been styling singer Rihanna since 2005. In 2014, when Rihanna launched fashion house Fenty, she asked Weaver to work for her directly. Since then, he has been Rihanna's full-time stylist and the official creative director at Fenty. [6] [1] [7] [8] [4] [5]

Personal life

The designer grew up in the suburbs of Maryland to Jamaican-Panamanian immigrants. His mother worked for a law firm and his dad owns a funeral home. [9] Weaver lives in East Village, New York. He is gay. [10] [2]

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