Roach puts his retirement from styling on pause for a special client and a similarly impressive pull.

On Wednesday, 5/15, the image architect returned to the red carpet with supermodel Naomi Campbell. Roach and Campbell coordinated in black for the second day of the Cannes Film Festival and sequined Chanel looks: a shimmering collarless jacket and pants for Roach, a vintage dress with sheer striped panels for Campbell.

Law Roach excelled at deliberately pulling from the fashion archive, and the shimmering dresses of supermodels were no exception. Campbell originally debuted the exact same dress he wore to Cannes on the Chanel Couture runway in 1996. (Talk about a dress with a story.

She originally wore her curly Lagerfeld design with a black slip underneath, but her redux styling for the flashing lights of Cannes included only black briefs under the sheer tulle panels of the skirt. She also dialed up her beauty several times, wearing her hair with voluminous curls instead of sleek Pixie crop. Exaggerated drop earrings coordinated with dripping pearl straps on the gown.

Based on the history of Roach styling, Chanel is an amazing designer worn by stylists. In a recent interview Rech cited Chanel among the 5 other luxury brands that don't dress up his star customer Zendaya for her early red carpet, on the Cutting Room Floor podcast with Recho Omondi. As her profile went up, Roach and Zendaya deliberately avoided brands that rejected them in the past. "When I said, 'If you say no, it's going to be no forever,' it sounded true for a long time," Roach said. (Other brands on the list included Dior and Saint Laurent.

Cockroaches have spent the past few months dressed only in Zendaya and Zendaya. The pair took over the international fashion circuit this winter spring, first doing a back-to-back press tour for Dune: Part Two and then the Challengers. Both tours showed off the pair's knack for "method dressing" and deep fashion history knowledge, turning the red carpet into an opportunity to revisit the revolutionary work of Mugler, Givenchy, Vivienne Westwood and Carolina Herrera.

Now Roach is in a new, seemingly non-retired era, promoting his Max styling competition series OMG Fashun and working with a select number of extra clients (like Campbell). Whoever he and his client want to wear, he seems to be able to allow the pull.