Alicia keys has made a style transformation.she even took a few photos, including recreations of an iconic image of Muhammed Ali, and the also iconic 1972 Jamaica tourist board image of a woman in the water, to mirror that confidence.
In her recent blog post, she recalls how she used to dress like a tomboy so that she wouldn’t get noticed too much, especially by men .
Excerpts:
I definitely started hiding when I got old enough to walk down my NY streets alone. I started to notice a drastic difference in how men would relate to me if I had on jeans, or if I had on a skirt, or if my hair was done pretty. I could tell the difference, I could feel the animal instinct in them and it scared me. I didn’t want to be talked to in that way, looked at in that way, whistled after, followed. And so I started hiding. I chose the baggy jeans and timbs, I chose the ponytail and hat, I chose no makeup, no bright color lipstick or pretty dresses. I chose to hide. Pieces at a time. Less trouble that way.
I remember feeling that same way when I first started to get recognized as an artist. I had the baggy/braided/tough NY tomboy thing mastered, that was who I was (or who I chose to be) and I felt good there. Then, because of the way I spoke or carried myself, people started calling me gay and hard and I wasn’t gay, but I was hard and although I felt comfortable there, it made me uncomfortable that people were judging me and so slowly I hid that side of myself. I put on dresses and didn’t braid my whole head up, so people could see more of the “real” me, even though at that point I’m sure I was more confused then ever of what the real me was.
She said she decided to embrace her personality from her femininity, to when she feels like being goofy, and to those moments when she feels like speaking her mind, especially for a cause.
So, be brave and carpe that dang diem!
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