Tina Knowles Gets Emotional as She Watches Destiny’s Child Praise Her Styling in 2001 Interview

Tina Knowles will always remember the support she received from Destiny’s Child.

On top of being a hair salon owner and mom of two, the Galveston, Texas, native was also the only person to dress Beyoncé, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland as a group.

While speaking with Entertainment Tonight about her new memoir Matriarch, Knowles, 71, reflected on how the singers believed in her vision, even when she received pushback from the public.

She also got “emotional” as she watched an old interview clip taken at the 2001 Grammys in which Rowland praised her “brilliant” work while Beyoncé shared the best part about being styled by her very own mom (“She knows what we like and she knows our bodies and everything,” she said).

“I got a lot of flak for designing because I wasn’t formally trained. People used to put my designs down and then I’d see them on the runway. You know they’d copy them but they would say, ‘Oh God, she’s so tacky and she doesn’t know what she’s doing,'” reflected Knowles. “I took a lot of abuse for that time, but my girls never wavered.”

Knowles, who went on to create her own clothing line, House of Deréon, with Beyoncé in 2004, added that she volunteered to step down as their stylist because of the criticism, but “they would say, ‘No you’re not, we want you to style us.’ They always believed in me.”

In an interview with Gayle King for CBS Mornings, Knowles opened up about upsetting Destiny’s Child’s record label because of the way she manufactured their aesthetic. “They dressed like an R&B group, they dressed like Motown. We loved the big glamour. Their hair was too big because we came from Texas,” said Knowles. “They just thought it was too much for those young girls and that they should be in jeans and T-shirts like all the pop icons at the time.” Knowles was “devastated” over the label’s disapproval.

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