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- If I had to sum up my style evolution,
it would be a rollercoaster through the decades.
Peace and blessings, y'all,
I'm Andra Day, I'm on set with TZR,
and these are the Looks That Made Me.
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That was probably one of my very first red carpets,
The Black Women in Music,
that dress was an actual vintage dress.
And the shoes I think were like Mint or something like that.
I like big gaudy hoops, and I like vintage styling.
That outfit's a given, that's Marc Jacobs.
We actually went to his show and I love the outfit.
I love the show.
I love the clothes.
I love that season.
Oh my God, that dress, I love it so much.
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That was for the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy party.
If I barely fit me, too.
And I was like, hell no.
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I was like, I will suffocate to keep this dress on.
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Oh yeah, Oscars.
Oh, that was my first Oscars.
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That makes me a little emotional, actually.
That dress actually came together very quick.
My stylist, Wouri just sort of pulled it,
and we thought we were gonna have to go through
a bunch of looks, but you know,
we put that one on and it just fit right away.
So that was the one we went with.
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Oh yeah, that was my first Grammys.
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Everybody said I looked like Christmas.
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So that was actually a custom Michael Costello gown.
And so I kind of put the idea together,
sort of sketched it out for my stylist,
and for them to design.
One of my favorite colors is green,
but then my other favorite color is red.
So I just walk around looking like Christmas all the time.
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Yeah, that was the ESPYs.
Oh my God, that dress was so heavy.
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But I loved the dress.
So to me even, you know, if stuff is inconvenient,
I enjoy fashion so much, so.
That was for NAACP.
Yeah, I actually just love things like that,
where there's just sort of a hit of a leg,
or a hit of some skin,
and it's just like sexy, but it's still settled,
because it's not, it's looser fitting, you know?
That is, I think Victoria Hayes, yeah.
We wore a lot of, a lot of her stuff and still do,
she's great, yeah.
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That's actually probably my favorite look of all time.
I was really going for a "Valley of the Dolls" look
with the flower in the hair.
So I had a bunch of sixties photographic inspo
that I sent to like my team.
And then my stylist found that vintage Dior gown
and I just fell in love.
You know, the only thing I was mad about that outfit,
first of all, that outfit is amazing.
The only thing I was mad about
is the nipple covers were not my right color.
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There were too brown.
So they basically made my areolas look huge,
but it's what it is.
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Oh, Nina Ricci.
I love that dress as well too.
Oh my goodness.
It was a little bit challenging of a fabric,
but it was so worth it.
It was beautiful.
That was for a Vanity Fair after party.
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Did I say the other one was my favorite?
Hold on, wait, I might have to double back on that.
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So that's another Victoria Hayes dress,
and like suit dress.
That's definitely one of my favorites.
That was for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
and we were, they were inducting Nina Simone,
which I still am not sure
why that didn't happen way earlier.
But, but now that dress was,
the boots, everything, the hair.
It was over the top and very rock and roll and I loved it.
Oh, that's, oh, Zac Posen.
Oh my gosh.
I love Zac Posen so much.
Like not just his dresses, but just him.
I think he's just an amazing and an intuitive designer,
really understands women's bodies.
And he just actually sent that over, it was pretty quick.
It was not long after I had gotten the role, Billie Holiday,
and I was attending LACMA.
And so he sent it over really quickly and it fit perfectly.
So he's kind of a genius when it comes to our bodies.
Oh, I love that.
Oh my gosh.
That was custom, too, so.
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I just, I loved that.
I wanted something that felt really fun
and felt very, very 60s.
And so the matching shoes, the purple dress,
I wanted very monochromatic, very sixties,
you know kind of costumey
is sort of what I was going for there.
So, it worked, it did come out as a costume.
Love it or hate it.
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Ah, that's recently, Soul Train Awards.
That was Chanel,
which I call Chanelica.
So yeah, no, I loved that outfit.
I actually saw that outfit when I was in the Chanel Boutique
and I fell in love with it.
I was like, oh my gosh, I have to have it,
I have to wear it for something.
One of my favorite outfits, yeah, still.
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I get a little emotional.
I think it's been kind of a long ride.
I look at it as not, oh, I did that, but we did that,
you know, so it just sort of reminds me
of all the memories from each of those events,
and many, many more to come.
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