H.E.R.’s Grammys 2022 Look’s That means, Styled by Wouri Vice
You study loads about somebody working with them for seven years. Wouri Vice would know — since 2015, he is been the determine behind the numerous appears to be like of H.E.R., whose type evolution has gone from informal teen wunderkind to fashion-forward famous person. “Truthfully, anybody I work with, I enable them to develop inside themselves,” Vice tells POPSUGAR. “With H.E.R., it began with sneakers and sweatsuits. I used to be simply sometimes bringing pumps so she could possibly be impressed by and see them.”
If H.E.R. appreciated the heels, she was free to put on them. However Vice by no means pressures shoppers into getting overly dressed up if it would not really feel pure. “If you do not know, no fear,” he says. “However there’s all the time that peak of curiosity for folks — like, ‘Let me simply see what it appears to be like like on myself.'” It is that empathy for the person type journey — the one an individual should go on with the intention to actually perceive how they wish to painting themselves to the world — that makes Vice’s work so rewarding. He’ll make you look good and assist your private growth on the similar time. “It is all subjective to the individual and the place they’re of their journey,” he says. “I by no means wish to drive any individual into a glance. I would like you to really feel your finest as a result of that is going to finally be the very best of you.”
With H.E.R., the noticeable shift in her wardrobe occurred when Vice started introducing extra footwear choices, like strappy stilettos and excessive platforms. “It began with the sneakers, and as she developed as a girl, her comfortability modified,” Vice says. “It went from sweatsuits to outsized clothes, which occurred to be a pattern on the time, and you’ll feminize that in numerous methods [with] silks, satins, sheer materials and issues of that nature. There was the evolution of desirous to play together with her femininity and tighter tops, and infrequently slipping a costume in right here and there.”
Most just lately, H.E.R. stepped out in two vibrant Carolina Herrera appears to be like: first, a highlighter-pink go well with on the Folks’s Selection Awards; then, a strapless neon-yellow costume with a sweeping practice on the Oscars. The latter look got here collectively in a matter of days, as attending the Oscars wasn’t initially on H.E.R.’s schedule. Actually, she and her group had been in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic for Coldplay’s world tour, which H.E.R. is opening for. “It was [a] scramble preparing for the Oscars,” Vice shares. “After which turning round and having to prepare for the Grammys, which we have now been getting ready for some time. It was like, ‘OK, wait a minute, put the Grammys on pause. Received to get the Oscars finished. How will we get this finished in 4 days?'”
Regardless of the logistical hiccups, Vice secured the Carolina Herrera costume simply in time for the occasion. He was excited to go in a unique course and create a memorable sartorial second throughout H.E.R.’s transient time on stage as a presenter. “It is one thing we have by no means actually finished earlier than, and the colour was simply so youthful,” Vice says. “I additionally appeared on the practice on that costume, and I used to be like, ‘How superior would it not be so that you can simply stroll out, let the wind catch your practice, and let it billow?'”
H.E.R. can be rounding out her purple carpet season with an look on the 2022 Grammys, the place she’s a nominee in eight classes, together with track of the 12 months for “Battle for You” and album of the 12 months for her first official studio LP, “Again of My Thoughts.” “This Grammys look is a type of moments the place you are like, OK, she’s evolving. She’s doing a factor, and we see it,” Vice says. “It is fairly evident from the place she began at her first Grammys. This look is form of a mix of her previous three Grammy appears to be like, if I might say that. There’s a bit little bit of all of them inside this one look.”
Moreover, the yellow-and-orange ombré embroidered sheer ensemble is meant to be a sartorial nod to one in all music’s biggest icons. “We had been impressed by Aretha Franklin,” he says. “We got here again to somebody we have labored with earlier than, and what’s been created is completely stunning. She’s going to undoubtedly stand out on the purple carpet primarily based on coloration alone. She all the time appears to be like like strolling sunshine, so it is assured to carry pleasure.”
The identical designer may also be behind H.E.R.’s Grammys-performance look. With regards to dressing for the stage, consolation is the primary precedence, if not for performance alone. “On the finish of the day, she performs 5 devices,” Vice says. “She wants to have the ability to transition between these devices seamlessly and never get tripped up on the hem of her pants or her jacket or no matter.”
Onstage wardrobe should enable for the liberty of motion essential to ship the caliber of efficiency that followers anticipate from the multidimensional artist. “You by no means know what to anticipate when somebody performs that many devices,” Vice says. “Is she going to do a backbend or is she on her knees enjoying guitar? Or throwing drumsticks within the air? I attempt to ensure that she’s as comfy as doable, which is the place the unique H.E.R. appears to be like nonetheless come into play: we get the sneakers and the extra outsized clothes as a result of it is simpler for her to transition, however it nonetheless offers a little bit of a vibe.”
The sixty fourth Annual Grammy Awards can be broadcast stay on Sunday, April 3 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on the CBS Tv Community and can be accessible to stream stay and on demand on Paramount+.