With less than a week to go before the New York shows, we at The Run-Through are revving up for fashion month—which makes it as good a time as any to revisit one of our very favorite interviews: last year’s chat with the ethereal Erykah Badu. When Erykah joined Chioma and Chloe at the Condé Nast podcast studio in February 2023, she was dressed in a look that only she could pull off. (As Chloe described it at the time, Badu donned “an ankle-grazing embroidered Otomi coat, thigh-high caramel suede Y/Project boots, a tie-dyed shorts sweatsuit that she later revealed she had slept in, a faux fur stovepipe hat, a red knit balaclava, and a visor with a goggle-type headpiece and silver horns that evades my powers of description.
”) The March 2023 cover star also shared the contents of her doula kit and how she gets in the mood to pick an outfit. (Hint: It involves Amazon Alexa and wind chimes.) Revisit that conversation here.
Chioma Nnadi: Well. Erykah Badu: Hey. Chioma Nnadi: Ms.
Badu. Erykah Badu: Yeah. Chioma Nnadi: So good to have you in the studio with us.
Tell us how your Fashion Week has been. Erykah Badu: My Fashion Week has been eventful, successful, tiring. It's a lot of work.
I'm super grateful for it. Chioma Nnadi: I spied you across the room at Thom Browne. Erykah Badu: Oh, I didn't see you.
Chioma Nnadi: Yeah. What do you love about Thom? Erykah Badu: I love that he makes me feel like, when wanting to do something really creative and whimsical and imaginative,.