Cordae at the Dior Men ‘California Couture’ Show: A Photo Diary

The musician Cordae initially listened to of Dior when he was 10 a long time previous, though listening to Kanye West’s 2007 hit, “Stronger.” “My very first interaction with the brand name was when I heard Kanye rap the traces, ‘Awesome, the Christian in Christian Dior,’” the Maryland native tells W around e-mail. “I imagined the identify sounded dope and magnificent.” Undoubtedly, if you instructed preteen-aged Cordae he’d be sitting front row at a show hosted by the French label, he would not feel it. But at 24, the rapper and singer—whose job as a venerable pop star has soared at a dizzying speed given that his debut album, The Shed Boy, dropped in 2019, and because a number of sightings of him with his girlfriend, tennis superstar Naomi Osaka—has attended a bunch of fashion functions in the past few of several years. Amongst them: Dior’s spring 2023 capsule present, which took place on Friday, May perhaps 20 in Venice, California. The line, termed “California Couture,” was produced by Dior men’s resourceful director, Kim Jones, and guest intended by ERL’s Eli Russell Linnetz. For the occasion, Cordae flew into Los Angeles from Miami, in which he was “cooking up songs with Pharrell,” he says, and opted for a head-to-toe Dior look that incorporated a pair of taupe clogs from the maison’s slide 2022 collaboration with Birkenstocks, a grey collared jacket, and white slacks with grey socks peeking out from beneath. “My target in daily life is to often gown like a loaded hipster,” Cordae suggests of his every day personalized type, incorporating that he enjoys peacoats, (“I’m a enormous jacket/coat advocate lol,”) but the most prized possession in his closet is undoubtedly “the sneakers that my brother permit me have ahead of he obtained locked up.”

The seem Cordae wore to Dior’s men’s present is a observed departure from his model as a teen, which he claims entailed wearing “G-Star, a regional D.C.-area model referred to as Solbiato, and Nike Foamposites and Jordans.” But it’s all part of an evolution of self-expression that extends from the way he attire to the audio he’s building. “I’m getting a distinct strategy this time close to,” he states of his most latest time in the studio. “I’ve been doing the job with a good deal of diverse dope ass producers, becoming more experimental, striving diverse seems. New songs on the way fashoski.”

Under, Cordae shares a photograph diary in his own phrases from the Dior men’s presentation—which incorporates having all set at the hotel, conference up with Kid Cudi, and flexing his Strike the Road messenger bag.