Billie Eilish is sharing the thought course of behind her trend decisions.
The “Bury a Friend” singer, 20, spoke to HighSnobiety about her iconic model, which incorporates outsized hoodies and saggy pants. While her boyish outfits could also be extra consultant of her model to this point, she has additionally tried out extra female seems to be, and even traded in her darkish hair for a platinum blonde ‘do for a time — a look she rocked during the release of her second album, Happier Than Ever.
“People saw me as this 15-year-old, a kid, who wore this kind of stuff, looked this kind of way, acted this kind of way, said this kind of way. I felt like I couldn’t change. That’s why I went to date to the opposite facet,” she instructed the outlet of what impressed her to tweak her look. “I was trying to prove, ‘Hey, f*** you guys, I can do whatever I want.’ Now I can look really masculine if I want, and really feminine if I want, and it’s not gonna be a f***ing headline.”
Yet simply because her look appeared sexier than her sweatshirts, doesn’t imply that’s how she felt in her female outfits.
“I feel sexier when I dress masculine,” she admitted. “I didn’t feel sexy for one second of being blonde…When I was blonde, people treated me differently. People completely changed their demeanor [around me].”
The “Everything I Wanted” artist added that she felt folks permitted of her as a teenager within the music business partially due to how she dressed.
“I think that people have taken me more seriously because I’ve had this more masculine [way of dressing] throughout my career,” she shared. “If I had been more feminine and girly, people would’ve been a lot less respectful of me.”
Eilish has opened up about how her totally different model decisions have made her really feel earlier than. In a September interview with The Cut, she famous that her model was “extreme for a long time and masculine and big” earlier than she went “100 percent the other way” and “wanted to be feminine.”
She added, “Then there was a period of time where I really had no idea what the f*** I was doing.”
Eilish defined that feeling attractive comes from when she’s “dressed in a way that I feel confident in.”
“Sometimes I feel sexiest when I feel more masculine, in a weird way, but then if I smell more feminine. It’s a mix that I crave,” she stated. “I go through phases of thinking I’m the hottest bitch on earth, and I go through phases thinking I shouldn’t exist.”
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