Photo Getty ImagesStand out looks from Beyoncé’s Amsterdam show included a custom glittering bodysuit in red, white, and gold by the emerging London based designer Feben, who is of Ethiopian heritage and was born in North Korea. This isn’t the first time they have collaborated, as Beyoncé commissioned the designer straight after her 2020 Central Saint Martins MA womenswear graduate collection, to create costumes for the video for her track “Brown Skin Girl.” “In a way, when you’re a Black woman, you’re not treated fairly in most industries,” Feben previously told Vogue Business from her Dalston studio. “It just takes a bit longer to have any room or space or be spoken to correctly. I think I’ll always have that no matter what room I walk into, whether it’s fashion or not.”
To perform “Im That Girl”, Beyoncé wore a silver corseted bodysuit that resembled armor designed by Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing. The Parisian house describes her silver plated bodysuit—which she paired with thigh high boots—as “robo couture”. Balmain has been very involved in the Renaissance world, as Rousteing, Beyoncé, and her stylist Marni Senofonte previously collaborated on a 17 piece special collection. “I can’t help but be thrilled by the history making aspects of this collaboration,” Rousteing told Vogue at the time about working with the star. “This appears to be the first time that a Black woman has overseen the couture offering from an historic Parisian house. And those designs were created in partnership with the first Black man to ever oversee all the collections at an historic Parisian house. Let’s hope those two firsts help inspire plenty of others.”
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