Yahoo Lifestyle Janelle Monáe Does Theatrics in Pointy Shouldered Viktor & Rolf Check Suit to Receive Vanguard Spotlight Awards at CDGA 2025
Known for her daring and sometimes conceptual approach to fashion, Janelle Monáe got into the spirit at this year’s Costume Designers Guild Awards. The all-around performer attended the event on Thursday in Los Angeles, which honors achievements in costume design across film, television and more.
To attend the event where she will receive the Vanguard Spotlight Award, Monáe wore an over-the-top Viktor & Rolf design. The look first walked in the brand’s fall 2024 collection. It features a black and white check blazer, seemingly as if it might appear refracted in a funhouse mirror. The shoulders are large, asymmetrical and pointed. The front of the look does not lay across the body but instead comes to another point at around navel height. The look includes a satin lining under the lapels and collar and a satin bowtie.
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Monáe wore a black and white printed miniskirt and a pair of glossy black patent leather heels. She also carried a patent leather top handle bag with gold hardware. In place of the tights worn on the runway, Monáe chose white socks.
At the”Haute Abstraction”-titled runway show, creative leads Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren said they wanted to do something fresh and lighthearted. In particular, they returned to their fall 1998 “Atomic Bomb” collection which included odd volumes.
“We wanted a similar approach, a similar exaggeration but we wanted it to be more abstract,” Horsting told WWD at the fall 2024 couture show. “So we thought about building blocks like child’s play but also about geometric forms and how to combine them with the human body.” There were definite 80’s vibes among the play and abstraction.
“For all their iconoclastic wizardry, it goes without saying that Horsting and Snoeren are deft hands at construction, developing crinoline-like structures to support those ideas cut from satin duchesse, jacquards and silks,” WWD show reviewer Lily Templeton wrote at the time.
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