♪ I'm a survivor ♪
♪ I'm not gonna [hums] ♪
♪ Keep on survivin' ♪
[upbeat music]
- Hello Vogue, it's Princess Nokia,
and I'm gonna take you on a 24-hour day
with me and my team.
I begin my day with wearing my waist trainer.
It's a very Caribbean thing.
This helps me shape my body naturally.
This is my second fa for my posture
and for cinching my waist stronger.
I just feel really sexy.
[laughs]
Help me up, please.
Mondays are typically very busy.
I have a lot of things to do within my schedule,
my itinerary, my agenda, and things that we're going over
for the month and for the next three months.
And even through the pandemic and the quarantine,
I've been very blessed to have a lot of creative abundance
and be able to continue working throughout that.
I've been doing a lot of donating and advocating
for Black Lives Matter and All Black Lives Matter,
which I specifically do a lot of advocating
for the trans community and black trans women,
who I believe are the most beautiful women in the world,
and I always like to use my platform to advocate
for my sisters.
Coffee's ready.
A Puerto Rican breakfast is a cup of coffee.
Put a little cinnamon in.
And I'm not even hungover.
I'm honestly just a little sleep deprived.
I've been staying up with my best friend
'til like 4:00 in the morning because we have so much fun
watching "Degrassi" reruns and laughing our butts off.
[upbeat music]
I just celebrated my 20th birthday this weekend,
and I had so much fun.
[laughs and cheers]
Everybody was in a great vibration.
We refer to ourselves as the House of Mofongo,
which is named after a restaurant in Washington Heights
called La Casa de Mofongo,
which is a very popular Dominican restaurant.
When I get together with my friends,
we exude this really special New York energy
that comes from our culture, our heritage,
and our background with dance and queerness.
After a fun weekend, I usually like to put all of my energy
into a fun Monday and really get.
- Tess, oh my god
- What happened?
- [Lex] Tea is severe. - What happened?
Can we say it on Vogue?
- [Lex] Probably not
My apologies, I was tending to a gay crisis.
Any whom, I'm about to get this face real cute.
Just give me a little [clicks tongue],
little [clicks tongue], little [smacks lips].
Just a little contour.
I like to accentuate my natural bone structure.
I am Afro-indigenous.
That means that my mom and my sister and my grandmother,
we all have these really distinct features,
and I love that I look like my family.
I'm still not that great at nose contouring.
With practice I'll get there.
Let me do this contour.
I want to give the allusion that I'm not wearing a stitch
of makeup and there has never been a Juvederm needle
inserted into this face, and we both know that's a lie.
We just went to the dermatologist.
The girls would have never known.
The girls are snatched.
The girls are sitting.
The girls are getting genetically blessed.
[man speaks indisctintly]
- Are you screaming? - [Lex] No, I'm not.
[upbeat dance music]
[laughs]
I love my friends so much because we are so gay.
[upbeat dance music]
[someone knocks at door]
- Darling, the yacht has docked.
Got the camera in my face already?
It is time to get, how do we say, le je-gay?
How do you say je-gorgeous?
How do you je-groovy?
- [Nokia] I was about to cook.
- [Robot] What are you making today?
- [Nokia] I am making a little frittata maybe moment.
- Frittata?
- [Nokia] Maybe a little egg moment.
- Poached?
- [Lex] She's cultured. - Cultured. [rolls Rs]
[squeals]
- My boyfriend got me the nicest roses.
Do you want to see them? - [Lex] Yes.
- Platoon got me these, Gigi and Chance got me these,
Chantal got me these,
and my husband got me the red and white ones.
They smell so good.
I don't know, maybe we'll have a mimosa.
We've all been through a lot.
My diet is very clean.
I like using a lot of vegan products
and I eat a lot of vegan things, but I'm not fully vegan.
I stay grounded through the quarantine
by practicing my spiritual rituals.
I've always struggled with some
of my mental health disorders, so prayer and meditation
and healthy, creative hobbies have always helped me
be a better artist and a better business woman
and a better musician.
I hate burning toast.
[knife scrapes toast]
Nothing a knife can't fix.
Very Puerto Rican.
[relaxed music]
Okay, what's on the agenda for the week?
- We have Vogue, which you're shooting today
as well as your Pride campaign with TikTok,
and your Pride campaign with Forever 21.
We're also celebrating our very huge accomplishment
with ACLU, which is iconic.
On top of photo shoots, going to the studio,
and just being fabulous.
- This is what you call executive realness, honey.
- And if your gays don't type with T-Rex hands
like they're typing on a typewriter, fire them.
Email has been sent to Obama.
He says he loves us.
- Hey, hey, hey.
Genie bottle unite.
[upbeat music]
- We're in my glam slash closet.
- Poppin' bottles.
- I've got some photo shoots this week.
I also just love to work on creative outfits
with my friends.
We do dress up, we play with costumes.
The best way I can sum up the Princess Nokia look
is that I'm giving you alt girl in the winter and fall.
- Classic.
- And then in the spring-summer,
she's giving you JLo, Jenny from the block.
This is my favorite vintage piece.
It's my Dior surf shirt
from the John Galliano surf collection.
The matching Dior bathing suit with the moon boots.
This is it.
I'm wearing this.
- With a denim moment?
- Oh, yes, honey, that's it, this is the look.
- [Robot] I love that top on you.
- I like to wear all of my clothes
one size bigger than me.
I like a little happy trail play,
but I don't like tight pants.
[upbeat music]
- [Robot] Yes.
- When I was in high school, every really cool girl
had the Coach sneakers.
I have my favorite and only Louis Vuitton bag that I own.
I can't collect bags because I'm on that great
at maintaining them.
If I do buy a bag, it has to have some kind
of unique flavor to it.
My go-to bag is my Trader Joe's canvas bag I got for $3.00.
And now we're ready to storm Central Park.
[upbeat music]
Me and my team spend so much time looking at screens
that we need to go to the park to get our minds
off of the screen.
Hello.
I love going to Central Park.
It's the place that my parents met,
and I was born across the street.
And I was raised here.
- [Robot] We're taking advantage of being out in the sun
and the look.
We always like to make sure we get content pieces
for Destiny.
Thanks to her beautiful, gorgeous face,
we always get the shot.
Boom.
The ice cream cone is hanging on
to it's last piece of life, bitch. [laughs]
Loving this look.
- Canadian cowboy.
[Robot laughs]
[upbeat music]
- [Robot] Go, and a Denasia, and a Jasmine.
Jessica, Esmeralda, never Karen, always a Jennifer.
Uh-oh.
- He's so sweet.
Now we are in Northwoods, which is my favorite hiking trail
in Central Park, and it's where I come
to just enjoy nature and time away from work.
- [Robot] Yes, I'm loving this denim girl moment.
- And we actually shot "Young Girls" right here.
I just have so many wonderful memories here.
And I'm a birder, which is an evolved bird watcher,
and if you are part of the community,
you'll know the terminology.
And I've actually been bird watching
since I was about six years old.
[gasps] It's a spider and a New York City pigeon
eating a pizza.
And I'm usually the youngest woman of color
with a whole bunch of older, non-POC people.
They're just like, "Oh my god, you're so young.
"What do you do?"
And they know who I am now,
and they think it's really cute that I do that.
We're gonna get married, but garried, it's a gay marriage.
- It's a garriage.
- [Robot] Happy Pride.
- Yay.
- Are we broke back?
- Are we "Broke Back Mountain?"
- Wait, am I Jake?
- Am I Heath?
[upbeat dance music]
- [Robot] Oh.
- Thank you so much.
- Oh my god, I'll see ya later.
She's my cousin.
Well, I had a wonderful day in Central Park.
It really fed my spirit, and--
- [Robot] Hold up, hold up,
these [beep] buses are unreal.
- I just had a wonderful day in Central Park.
I love hiking.
It does something really special for my spirit.
Now I'm gonna go cook dinner with Lex,
and perfect my day.
[romantic music]
After Central Park, I came home, and I had a small workout
in my home gym.
I'm feeling reflaxed, I'm feeling refreshed.
Okay, Vogue, well, that's the end of the day.
I'm so happy that we got to spend 24 hours together.
This is a typical Monday day in the life of Princess Nokia.
And now I'm gonna go take a steam, unwind,
and go to sleep early.
I would like everybody to bring their attention
to their hearts and their support,
especially their donations and their allyships
to the All Black Lives Matter movement
because in this time of revolution and civil rights,
we should all be supporting our brothers and sisters.
All right, Vogue, see you guys later.
[gentle music]