Beyoncé ditched the bleached blonde wig, oversized belt buckles and denim get-ups of her Cowboy Carter era to make a powerful statement last night for a historic moment: a Black musical icon endorsing the potential first Black female president.
The 43-year-old singer took to the stage in Houston at a rally for Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, arm-in-arm with her former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland, before giving an impassioned speech to her hometown crowd.
“It’s time to sing a new song,” the singer declared, addressing issues like abortion and the threat Donald Trump poses to women’s reproductive rights, before hailing Harris as the “next President of the United States.”
While doing so, she wore a black double breasted twill blazer dress and matching mini skirt, both of which are creations from Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s collaboration with fashion brand Wardrobe NYC.
The look is yet another show of strength from Shiona Turini, one of Beyoncé’s most recent stylists, who is responsible for the looks worn on her highly fashionable Renaissance world tour.
And while you would typically expect the individual pieces, which retail for £1,600 and £625 respectively, to be almost totally sold out, there are actually still some sizes available on Wardrobe NYC’s site, as well as Net-a-Porter.
Meanwhile, Kelly Rowland was equally suited-and-booted, yet considerably more oversized in her grey pinstriped suit, which bears a striking resemblance to the viral YSL suit recently worn by Hailey Bieber while on a date with her husband, Justin Bieber.
Both singers made speeches to the crowd. Speaking to the 30,000-strong audience, Beyoncé did not mince her words. “For all the men and women in this room, and watching around the country, we need you,” she said. “I’m here as a mother [...] We are at the precipice of an incredible shift, the brink of history.”
In her speech, Rowland added: “We are grabbing back the pen from those who are trying to write an American story that would deny the right for women to make our own decisions about our bodies. Today that means grabbing that pen and casting my vote for Kamala Harris.”
