“What would you wear to the police station if you were arrested in San Francisco in 1949? If you were the iconic singer Billie Holiday, you would swath yourself in a vast mink coat with enormous sleeves, wrap your head in a perfect turban, and view the entire degrading affair through a pair of chic dark glasses.”
Billie Holiday was a world-famous iconic singer-personality with a unique style and voice that impacted singers and style of singing around the world. Frank Sinatra told Ebony Magazine in 1958, “With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the U.S., during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius.”
Today, April 7, 2017, would have been Billie Holiday's 102nd birthday, we honor her as a legend in music and fashion. Holiday’s style of flowing jewels, furs, off the shoulder gowns, were some of her fashion signatures.
Billie's life was a roller coaster of magic and tragedy, from alcohol, drugs and racial prejudice. “You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair, and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation,” she once declared, describing life on the segregated road.
Read the entire Vogue article, published April 7, 2017
