The honesty and openness has led to striking looks, and created a platform where a mature woman of color is visibly experimenting with bold style. During New York Fashion Week, she highlighted emerging designers by wearing their creations and devoting a particular segment dedicated to their labels, shining a light on fresh local talent like David de la Cruz, Jo Noble, and Anita de Silva in the process. The power to pay it forward, while representing a demographic television could use more of, is part of Hall’s modus operandi. “As a woman who’s been through some things, who has been knocked down, but got back up at age 48, the show is an expression of my independence,” says Hall. “I lost a job for the first time in my life, and I was looking for a way to reboot and reset. And so my fashion represents the independence I feel now, as a woman who just turned 50, but thinks, ‘I can still jazz it up.’”
Saying that Hall can jazz it up on occasion is an understatement. Throughout the show’s run, she’s been consistently chic and her outfits of the day are part of the enjoyment of tuning in. Hall views her wardrobe as being in a constant state of evolution, shifting to match each new phase she enters. In April of 2019, the journalist welcomed her first son, Moses, with her husband, Steven Greener, and since then, she has seen her clothing preferences change of late. “I’m embracing different little things season to season. Right now, I’m into maxi dresses,” she says. “Now that I’m more active with an 18-month-old child, I haven’t given up on my style, and I will never do that, but there’s certainly a different functionality to things.” Still, Hall wouldn’t have things any other way for all the changes in her personal and professional life. “The show is hard. It’s complicated. It takes a lot out of my staff and me to make sure that we’re doing it right. I dreamed of being a mom, and here I am, and some days I get it right, and some days I get it way wrong,” she says. “I’ve seen my dreams come true in a perfectly imperfect way. I don’t think I would love it as much if it had been easy.”