Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger’s Connecticut estate (Image: Getty)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n Impressively, British-born Bullard keeps a straight face while saying this, as his fabulous new book, Star Style, displays the Jenner, 26, whose makeup empire has reportedly made her the world\u2019s youngest billionaire, hired Bullard to design her first Los Angeles mansion.<\/p>\n And yes, her home is just like yours \u2013 so long as you have dining chairs hand-dyed to match the various pink tones of lipstick in your signature collection, bronze console tables sculpted to look like giant molten gold drops reminiscent of your skincare product packaging, a dedicated handbag room for your hundreds of rare Herm\u00e8s Birkins, shoe towers crafted in glass, sunglasses stands of suede, and a \u201cglam room\u201d where hair and makeup artists arrive to primp and prep you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Naturally, your Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol originals add vibrant accents to rooms painted in shades of pink.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to go to the next level of fun and colour with this house,\u201d explains Jenner, just like you. Or perhaps your home is more like the Malibu beach mansion Bullard designed for Cher, decorated with the exterior of a Maharajah\u2019s palace brought from Jaipur, an 18th-century Chinese opium den bed, and furnishings unearthed in the flea markets of Paris, Istanbul\u2019s Grand Bazaar, and the souks of Cairo.<\/p>\n \u201cI travel the world finding special pieces, or have them made,\u201d says Bullard, 56.<\/p>\n \u201cI once had a custom dining table made by a very famous artist for just over $1million.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n READ MORE: <\/strong> Kylie Jenner receives support from Jewish organizations for deleted Israel post <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Tommy Hilfiger’s lounge in Miami (Image: Getty)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n You might think that money is no object for his clients, but Bullard assures: \u201cThere is always a budget, even for the world\u2019s wealthiest people.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s just a budget that is beyond your wildest dreams. But great design doesn\u2019t always come at an outrageous price. \u201cI bought a pair of antique mirrors recently for \u00a31million for a client,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re in a room beside two planted pots I bought from Zara Home for \u00a315, because they really go well together. Style is more important than price.\u201d<\/p>\n Though one imagines the pots by themselves might not look quite so glamorous.<\/p>\n Celebrities also have different needs from their homes, Bullard explains. \u201cMost stars can\u2019t just walk to the corner shop to buy a pint of milk without being mobbed, so their home becomes their sanctuary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThat\u2019s why my clients have glamour rooms where they can do their hair and makeup, and film studios for those, like the Kardashians, who film at home.<\/p>\n \u201cThe stars need their home gym and spa, and some add a recording studio.<\/p>\n \u201cIncreasingly I\u2019m asked to add a sex room to a house: very sexual, sensual rooms with velvet walls or fur rugs,\u201d says Bullard, though he won\u2019t name names.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve created designer sex toys for customers who want them to match their home\u2019s colour scheme, or plated in silver or gold.\u201d<\/p>\n Bullard combines zebra prints with geometric patterns, Moorish accents with French antiques and English country house style, often bringing a cacophony of colours and styles together in a way that, against all odds, looks spectacular.<\/p>\n Yet even Bullard has his limits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n WELL-HEELED: Kourtney Kardashian\u2019s LA shoe closet designed by Martyn Bullard (Image: Getty)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n \u201cOne client asked me to gold-leaf the interior of their garage so that it was like driving into a jewel box,\u201d he says. \u201cI walked away from that: a waste of \u00a3200,000. Another But he has gone ahead with other equally unconventional designs.<\/p>\n \u201cOne client wanted his bedroom ceiling made of glass with a swimming pool above, so he could watch beautiful young girls swim overhead while he lay in bed. Very glamorous and sensual.\u201d<\/p>\n For Tommy Hilfiger he added scratch \u2019n\u2019 sniff banana-scented bathroom wallpaper.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have a signature style,\u201d he says. \u201cI simply try to bring out my client\u2019s personality into their home.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He made an all-white home for Christina Aguilera, a Cuban-style retreat for actress Eva Mendes, and transformed former supermodel Cheryl Tiegs\u2019 Bel Air home into a Balinese pavilion.<\/p>\n He covered Elton John\u2019s bedroom ceiling in silver leaf, bought the Duke of Windsor\u2019s Persian rug for Tommy Hilfiger\u2019s Connecticut estate, and placed 17th-century terracotta statuettes inside Tibetan elephant drums \u201cMartyn works hand in hand with his clients to make sure their spaces reflect their dreams, crafting beauty that is personal, glamorous, and supremely livable,\u201d says Cher.<\/p>\n \u201cI trust his eye implicitly,\u201d says TV drag queen RuPaul, whose grand ballroom Bullard hung with 26 custom-made glittering disco balls up to 6ft wide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bullard created a unique vibe for model Alessandra Ambrosio\u2019s family home (Image: Getty)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n ullard smiles: \u201cRuPaul had a seven-bedroom home and it\u2019s now a one-bedroom home with two of the biggest closets you\u2019ve ever seen for his 3,000 gowns.\u201d Winnie Harlow says: \u201cWorking with Martyn has been a dream come true. His iconic style blends stunning design choices with an adventure of colours and textures, elevating my space into one that is eclectic, yet sophisticated.\u201d<\/p>\n Says Alessandra Ambrosio: \u201cHe knows how to conjure a fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n Bullard also befriends many of his clients, spending Christmases with Cher and holidaying with Elton John. \u201cDesigning a home is a very personal, intimate experience,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s like learning the secret life of the stars.<\/p>\n \u201cCher is amazing, involved in every element. I\u2019ll be lying in bed with her at 11 at night showing her fabric samples.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cKylie Jenner is young, sexy and playful, and I designed her home to match. Christina Aguilera also wanted a fun home with bright colours and shapes. I designed a giant circular sofa where she and girlfriends could sit, with a nail salon in the centre.<\/p>\n \u201cSharon and Ozzy Osbourne have more traditional tastes: they like antiques and English traditional style, though a chandelier has brass bats holding frosted glass balls.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bullard, with his own \u201cJames Bond-style\u201d 1960s home in Palm Springs, and Andy Warhol\u2019s former home in the Hollywood Hills, was born in Bromley, Kent, the son of an opera singer. At age 12 he rented market stalls in Greenwich and Bermondsey selling bric-a-brac.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s where I learned my trade; I have no formal design training.\u201d<\/p>\n He became an actor and moved to Hollywood, but struggled \u2013 \u201csometimes I went a week without eating\u201d \u2013 before a film producer visiting his home loved his style and invited him to design an office. Celebrity clients soon followed, as did TV design shows and Architectural Digest spreads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fresh from designing a \u00a3165million home, he is currently creating Sylvester Stallone\u2019s \u201cforever home\u201d in Palm Beach, Florida, a new pad for singer Machine Gun Kelly, and has a TV series in development.<\/p>\n And Bullard insists that he rarely encounters stars with terminally bad taste. \u201cIf they\u2019re hiring me, they have pretty good taste,\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t follow trends \u2013 I make trends.\u201d<\/p>\n So yes, the stars may be making their beds and cooking breakfast in the morning \u2013 but they\u2019re doing it in outrageous and expensive style.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Star Style: Interiors of Martyn Lawrence Bullard by Martyn Lawrence Bullard (Vendome Press, \u00a365) is out now<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger’s Connecticut estate (Image: Getty) Impressively, British-born Bullard keeps a straight face while saying this, as his fabulous new book, Star Style, displays the opulent homes he has designed for stars including pop icons Elton John and Cher, fashionista Tommy Hilfiger, supermodels Alessandra Ambrosio and Winnie Harlow, and Kardashian clan members …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/39\/590x\/secondary\/5009424.jpg?r=1697146956751\" "\\"")
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