FKA twigs isn’t just a vintage obsessive – she’s a self-described archivist. Most of her incredible collection, which ranges from John Galliano to Alexander McQueen , is currently in storage because, as she revealed in British Vogue ’s April cover story , she “can think more clearly when [she’s] not looking at Vivienne Westwood’s 1997 cherub-filled collection.” While archival looks on the red carpet may be all the rage now, the singer was well ahead of the game, wearing McQueen’s famous Birds of Paradise-inspired rainbow dress from spring/summer 2008 to the opening of the Savage Beauty exhibition, dedicated to the late designer, at the V&A back in 2015.
Meanwhile, at Cannes Film Festival in 2017, she opted for a postcard-printed dress from Dior’s spring/summer 2002 “street chic” collection, before sporting a vintage Jean Paul Gaultier look from autumn/winter 1999 at the 2018 Webby Awards. For twigs, one of the biggest joys of collecting vintage is scouring the globe for those rare pieces that are gaps in her archive. Take the printed Dior set from Galliano’s autumn/winter 1997 collection that she wore to the Serpentine summer party in 2019.
“This look is one of my personal faves,” she explains in her Life In Looks video . “This is one of those instances where you manage to get all of the looks from the piece, but they’re all from different parts of the world.” Indeed, the metallic two-piece is one of twigs’s prize possessions: “You know.