Since rising on the scene, Doechii has grow to be as well-known for her eclectic fashion as her viral hits—from preppy Thom Browne on the Grammys to cool-girl Miu Miu on the BET Awards. However for the rapper and singer’s debut Glastonbury look, which noticed her headlining the West Holts stage on Saturday night time, there was just one designer that match the invoice: Vivienne Westwood.
“It’s this iconic British competition, so we actually needed to make use of an iconic British model,” Doechii’s Australian-born stylist Sam Woolf tells Vogue over the cellphone from Bristol (“I don’t know the place that’s!”), a day earlier than the efficiency. “We each have been like, Vivienne Westwood is a no brainer – she’s at all times been a model that [Doechii’s] persistently liked.”
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For the opening look, the pair—who “speak every single day”—needed to convey the concept of “Doechii’s College Of Hip-Hop,” the theme of her Glastonbury set, with the singer arriving on stage along with her fellow classmates (ie her backing dancers, additionally wearing Vivienne Westwood), prepared for sophistication. “Primarily, Doechii is attending the varsity of hip-hop, and we’ve completed that in a preppy, enjoyable and attractive means; a really camp Vivienne Westwood means,” Woolf says of the singer’s tartan miniskirt, that includes a tutu bustle, and cropped shirt. “It’s about individuality; expressing your self—each dancer is in a distinct look.”
After all, it wouldn’t be Glastonbury with out an outfit change or two, with Doechii’s re-assessment arguably being essentially the most iconic of all of them: a remake of Kate Moss’s striped micro mini from Vivienne Westwood’s spring 1994 Café Society assortment, teamed with a bralette that includes the VW orb as nipple pasties (Moss famously went topless on the runway). “It doesn’t do a lot,” laughs Woolf of the shortage of bust assist supplied by the piece. “We needed to lean into this attractive workplace siren lady.”
One other ’90s tremendous supplied the inspiration for the ultimate look: Naomi Campbell, and particularly the striped high and matching pants that she additionally wore on the spring 1994 runway. “We actually needed to do one thing cool and preppy however nonetheless attractive,” Woolf explains of the Easter egg supplied as much as vogue followers. “It’s not like ‘Oh, that’s the long-lasting look Naomi wore’, it’s extra like, if you realize Vivienne Westwood and the historical past you’d realize it.”
What else may very well be extra becoming for Doechii’s Worthy Farm debut than paying tribute to 2 of the UK’s most well-known vogue exports? “We thought it was the proper time to reference Kate and Naomi,” Woolf says. “Clearly, Kate is such a reference and elegance icon [at] Glastonbury.” Who is aware of, possibly the tremendous was even watching on from the VIP space, 30 years after she well-known took to the runway, licking a Magnum.
