Erykah Badu Breaks Down 11 Looks From 1997 to Now | Life in Looks | Vogue

peaceful my name is Erica Badu also known as badula oblangata also known as she ill this is my life and looks [Music] this is my album cover for baiduism I shot with Mark Baptiste who shot most of my covers the label chose this one with without my face showing I love this look camouflage soldier in me all of these are my pieces all of these things are my jewelry it's the look I put together and we just shot it real minimal Sesame Street friendship it was such a pleasure doing that show it was one of the highlights of my career in this picture I'm wearing a patchwork head wrap which I became very synonymous for patchwork is really important to me in fashion because it's not so much about the patches themselves it's more about the threads in between that weave them together I feel like those are the moments in my life that are important you can't see it in this photo but they also wore head wraps I had to take these out because laughs this picture is from The Blues Brothers 2000 my character's name was Queen muset she was a voodoo queen she was very very old hundreds of years old this gown is pretty much an African cloth red black and yellow which also happened to be the colors of my tribe in Cameroon bomi Lake and the designer of the movie Incorporated it into the Victorian gown without me even saying anything about it it just kind of happens that way I call that Grace in fashion when things just kind of come together I was nine months pregnant right there and you can't even tell you know I have this like full plate going down the front which underneath which makes it look like it's a a flat surface and they didn't find I was pregnant until I showed up like wait a minute you're nine months pregnant I like I know I know and uh they had to quickly create this prosthetic piece in front of me to help me keep the job and the ladies in the costume Department kept my secret this is beautiful this dress is by a New York designer named Epperson Epperson is very famous for his deconstructed look it needed to be need and the farm needed to be beautiful but it needed to have some Edge to it because I like to keep it grimy this jewelry the famous Ankh that I'm wearing on my right hand was made by Baba Senor samaj here in New York when I see a rack of things I get an idea of what I can do to contribute what pieces in my bag I've brought with me I didn't wear name brand designers during this time period from 90s to Mid 2000s I only wore black designers from New York or Dallas or Atlanta I wanted to make sure that I use my platform to be an advocate for young designers and Epperson piece made the cut oh just around 2002 to 2003 and in my right hand I am holding the Grammy award for best video for love of my life one of my best friends Sonia Drew this henna on my arms I was chiseled up I was ready to knock somebody out look at that my understanding for being a black woman in America was very strong at the same time that's what I wanted to display that night and to me the star of the outfit was these deconstructed white pieces made by my friend Epperson so I just kind of used it how I wanted just wrapped it around one leg and that was my gown for the night and I'm rocking this dead press shirt it's political statement and I probably took this off this white stuff and went right to the studio afterwards with Dead Prez hey hey I went to the Met Ball with the amazing Ricardo tici who was the creative director for Givenchy and I was also the face for juanchi for 2014 2015. this was my first time ever met my favorite memory of that night was the men's bathroom the women's was kind of full with a line so I went in the men's but that all the women were in there too everybody was in there having a good time should I be saying this oh now this was my first meeting with Tom Brown when I hosted the Soul Train Music Awards that was the first time I hosted a an award show my friend Diamond Mahone who's a stylist pull this look this white thing I have underneath my hat I got it from Home Depot it's like one of those things the painters wear oh under the mask and so I thought it would be cool because I didn't need any hair with this and this is one of my favorite silhouette hats this one I spray painted white for this event and on top of my head this is a sculpture by one of my favorite artists WXYZ and this symbol is called a merkaba and if you look really closely at my hand there's this really cool sculpted ring that was custom sculpted by angostura another very young designer from Italy by this time I had started incorporating larger houses and designers into um my looks oh this look is really giving good cleavage real good post 50 year old cleavage the makeup was fantastic Melanie's Hunter I was so honored that year because I went with Marnie Francesco Russo and he put so much thought into this he knew that that I liked wearing things that make noise and music yes Mina Amira set with me that whole day beating these braids and as we were getting out of the car all of the braids just tangled up together and we were standing on the side of the car trying to untangle all of these I remember looking over looking at Francesco waiting for me at Red Carpet going you know you know we gotta go oh this being my first Vogue World Runway my first Runway ever period I always thought I was too short to do the wrong way so I didn't even think about it you see the chains and bells and around my neck I'm wearing my own talismans and amulets it's my hat and scarf we just kind of threw this whole thing together it's actually two young designers I've never walked on the wrong way or walked on Cobblestone with platforms I think I did pretty good for my first time now this was pretty fantastic if I must say so myself I'm wearing body World Market accessories these shoes which I call anemones were made by my best designer her name is Maya husbany she's a student she's only 19 years old she went to my high school Booker T Washington for the Performing and visual art these are leg warmers the Anemones and they are also shoes they're also armbands so since Rick Owens does not dress people for his shows I went to the showroom and bought these things off the floor the hooded robe and pant set put one of my best brims on I call it bottle drip oh wow wow wow wow this was the last shot of the day actually the golden hour shot I just did a collab with Marnie and this is one of the feature pieces I was blown away I was blown away I felt like I was seen I felt like I was recognized for how passionate and serious my love for fashion and art is that's me it's Erica from South Dallas on Carl Vogue I'm a black woman and I'm a woman and I'm a human and I'm a spiritual being and I'm a mother and Abdullah and I see all of that and their profile what a wonderful profile thank you what a day what life this was my life and looks and I'm very grateful and at this time I'm going to sign my Jane Hancock [Music] thank you [Music]

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Length: 9min 27sec (567 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 08 2023