June 21, 2023
Beyoncé Wore Only Black Designers For Renaissance Tour Juneteenth Performance
Beyoncé, whose Renaissance tour is taking her all over the world, went all Black everything for the Juneteenth holiday and wore only Black fashion designers.
Queen Bey was closing the British leg of her Renaissance World Tour in Amsterdam on June 18 and used the performance to amplify the Black fashion designers who crafted her looks that night. She highlighted one of them in a celebratory Instagram post on June 19.
“In honor of Juneteenth, everything I wore for RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR tonight was created exclusively by Black designers,” Beyoncé captioned her post.
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Fans praised Bey’s Juneteenth looks in the comments section, with some requesting that the singer tag the designers in her post.
“CULTURED MOTHER,” one fan wrote.
“I know that’s right,” added another.
The designers Beyoncé championed included London-based Feben, Maximilian Davis for Ferragamo, Olivier Rousteing for Balmain, Ibrahim Kamara for Off-White, and LaQuan Smith, along with a few of her own Ivy Park designs, Elle reports. Some of the disco-inspired pieces the “Halo” singer has been wearing for her Renaissance tour were designed by KJ Moody, Shiona Turini, and Karen Langley.
Beyoncé has been using her tour fashion to celebrate local designers from the cities in which she performs. In Amsterdam, the Grammy-winning singer wore a lavish “Heliosphere” outfit by Iris van Herpen that required the work of 12 people from the designer’s atelier and took more than 700 hours to create. The piece included Swarovski crystals and a glass-organza cape.
In London, the “Single Ladies” singer wore Alexander McQueen and Roksanda designs. Her maroon dress with thigh-high boots is from McQueen’s AW23 collection.
Beyoncé has been highlighting her variety of Renaissance tour looks on Instagram. The “Cuff It” singer was very hands-on in the designing process and shared her fashion inspiration in a separate Instagram post on Juneteenth.
“I started designing this collection over a year ago,” she wrote. “I was so engulfed in all things RENAISSANCE and was inspired by Studio 54, Bob Mackie and the disco era.”
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Beyoncé has been evolving her tour with each stop. In addition to changing outfits, the singer also tweaks her setlist and the songs she performs from her extensive library of solo singles.
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