The Final Fitting With Doechii

Vogue

Director: Jameer Pond Director of Photography: Kaliya Warren Editor: Lika Kumoi Producer: Chase Lewis Associate Producer: Lea Donenberg Assistant Camera: Charnele Jackson Audio: Gloria Marie Production Assistants: Fernando Barajas, Jordan Brown Production Coordinator: Ava Kashar Production Manager: David Alvarez Paz Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors Senior Director, Production Management: Jessica Schier Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew Supervising Editor: Erica DeLeo Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio Associate Talent Manager, Video: Jenna Caldwell Director, Content Production: Rahel Gebreyes Senior Director, Digital Video: Romy van den Broeke Senior Director, Programming: Linda Gittleson VP, Video Programming: Thespena Guatieri

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00:00We're just light years ahead.

00:02Oh my God, it's going to take them a really long time to catch up to this.

00:16Hello Vogue, it's the Swamp Princess, Dolce.

00:20And today is a very exciting day because I'm going to be picking out the final looks for

00:24my Grammy red carpet.

00:26The whole Tom Brown team is here to conceptualize a bit of a story, which is exciting.

00:32I love telling fashion stories and that's what we plan on doing at the Grammy's.

00:36So let's get into it.

00:38In my studying of hip hop, I observed an era where fashion shifted and became a vital part

00:45of hip hop.

00:46And it was around the time where Jay-Z decided to put on a suit and take off jeans and make

00:51rap highly luxurious and like this boss executive thing.

00:55I fell in love with Tom Brown in my research for brands that I wanted to incorporate into

00:59this era.

01:01And I want to tell that story that being a student of hip hop and studying brought me

01:07to where I am, which is nominated for four Grammys, which is incredible.

01:11We're going to be giving them classes in session all night.

01:14I'm torn for carpet if I'm going to do this or if I'm going to do this.

01:20I think that this is sleek and simple and to the point and it tells the story and it's

01:25direct.

01:26But this, the drama of it all, you have to have a certain taste level and an eye to immediately

01:32understand it.

01:33It might take a couple people to catch up.

01:35So we haven't decided what we want to do yet.

01:37I think I want to try this one first.

01:40And look, look, look, look.

01:42Bam!

01:43What?

01:44Come on.

01:45Come on.

01:52The concept started from me wanting to also play a lot with the masculine and the feminine

01:59throughout the night.

02:01And at first I set a suit with exaggerated hips and a small waist.

02:06But then Tom Brown sent back the most beautiful sketch of a suit dress and that duality of

02:14masculine and feminine, I was like, that is definitely it.

02:18I think this is the carpet look.

02:19I think so too.

02:20We haven't even tried on the rest, but I just feel it.

02:23Everything in my life that I've been good at, I could visually see myself doing it first.

02:28And so I just had a flash of me on the carpet in this and it worked.

02:32And so that's how I know that things are meant to be when I can see them or actualize them.

02:36The vision for this is that she has this finger wave in the front and then her braids coming

02:41out of the back.

02:42There's a lot of people out there who don't know what a lace is.

02:44This is a lace.

02:45So you cut that and then it looks like your hair, but you know, this isn't a hair education.

02:50So this is going to be fab.

02:53This is absolutely it.

02:54And it fits your face already.

02:56It's poetic!

02:57I'm sorry.

02:58Is it always about constant elevation in terms of style?

03:02Redefine.

03:03That's all.

03:04Because the Colbert look really is the tiny desk look when you think about it.

03:08It's kind of all the same world.

03:11It's just, how can we interpret it in a new way?

03:13Like, pinstripe is not new.

03:17People wear ties every day.

03:21You know?

03:23The white collared shirt.

03:25But...

03:26I can't do this!

03:31Woo!

03:32Okay, no, seriously.

03:34I'm acting like a Leo right now.

03:35I need to chill out.

03:36I'm being like hella cocky.

03:38It's not funny.

03:40I think this is really nice.

03:46I'm thinking this is just a fun inside look.

03:50With a story, there has to be peaks and valleys, and this is one of our peaks.

03:58When Doichi said she wanted to do tailoring, but with exaggerated shapes, I looked through

04:04all of Tom's collections and then I showed Doichi a range of all these runway images

04:09and we selected her favorite pieces.

04:11Then I spoke with the team and we narrowed it down to what was available, what was possible,

04:15and they remade these for Doichi and her measurements.

04:18These are my favorite shoes of all time.

04:20Fall, winter, 22.

04:21These are incredible.

04:22And these were colored to begin with on the runway.

04:25Yeah.

04:26And then we decided to paint them gray and white to...

04:29Keep everything...

04:30Cohesive.

04:31Cohesive and monochromatic and just amazing.

04:34Let's put on the final touch.

04:37Oh my God.

04:42She's darling.

04:43I want to wear this inside, so I want to test if we can sit on a chair.

04:47Can someone bring a chair in here?

04:48Can we ask the Grammys if the chairs have arms?

04:52If it doesn't have arms, we'll be great.

04:59This is fine.

05:00No arms.

05:01No arms.

05:03What can I say?

05:10This is fashion.

05:12This is fabulous.

05:13This is the astronaut look.

05:14It actually comes with the astronaut helmet bag.

05:18We have these gloves as well.

05:20I think it's kind of cool to just let them hang.

05:24I think something about it makes it street in a way.

05:28Fab.

05:29Let's try the hair.

05:31Wow.

05:32Wow.

05:33Wow.

05:34Wow.

05:35Wow.

05:36Wow.

05:37Wow.

05:38It's like tribal a little bit, but I don't know, like tribal couture.

05:44It's just crazy, but it's out of space, but it's totally here.

05:49It's the past, present, and future.

05:52Yeah.

05:53Okay, let's get into the next look.

05:58This is my, if I were to win, winner's look.

06:06This entire outfit is because of this shoe, and I want to show you the shoe.

06:10It has a bell, and it rings when you walk, and so the gold of this matching the gold

06:17of my Grammy, come on.

06:21She's a fashion icon.

06:22This for me right now, this gives more student.

06:26Maybe graduated from a student, maybe a dean.

06:29Don't you da don, don't you da dean, don't you da swan.

06:32I just love this ensemble.

06:33To me, it ties up the whole night.

06:35The pinstripe, the business wear, and every shade of gray, and even my performance look

06:41has many shades of gray in it.

06:45This is the moment.

06:47This is the end of the story, the end of the night.

06:50I'm obsessed.

06:53I'm actually obsessed with this look.

06:54This is my favorite.

06:59I really stepped into myself for this project.

07:02I stepped into myself in a way that I cannot be apologetic about, for me, because I earned

07:13it.

07:15Everything about my life right now is embodying and owning what I have overcome, and not feeling

07:21guilty for celebrating that and showing up dramatically in celebration all the time,

07:29because I have a reason to celebrate.

07:32Vogue, this has been an incredible experience, but I got to get to the red carpet, so thank

07:47you guys for being here with me, and I'll see you at the Grammys.

07:52When I would rehearse my Grammy speeches when I was younger to everybody else, it was just

07:57cute, and it was funny, but for me, I really was there, and I think that whatever happens

08:03on that night, I've already experienced the win, and I've felt the feelings of the win

08:08whenever it happens.

08:13Is this wood?

08:15I don't know.

08:19We'll see.

08:21We'll see.

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