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Lainey Wilson's Stylist Just Signed Three More Country Queens. Here's the Grand Plan.

The woman behind the bell-bottom renaissance is quietly assembling a Nashville stable. It's about to get very 1974 out here.

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Sadie West

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You've seen the bell-bottoms. You've seen the fringe vests. You've seen the reclaimed 1970s belt buckles worn with couture. What you haven't seen is the woman quietly pulling the strings — because she doesn't do interviews. Until now.

She's signed three new clients this quarter. All three are on next year's CMA ballot. All three, per her team, are 'about to look nothing like they did last year.'

The plan, as we understand it: retire skinny jeans in country music by summer, reintroduce the yoke, and make sequins a masculine accessory again. She has already had preliminary conversations with two menswear designers.

The rest of Nashville stylists are, as one put it, 'either terrified or trying to get her number.'

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