Who else did a doubletake at Billie Eilish’s style and “caught persona” quote? The 18-year-old pop star was met for another British GQ profile, distributed on June 4, where she opened up about her genuine purpose behind wearing “loose garments.” We’ll get into what she said in full in a second, yet we should simply say first that Billie’s clarification warrants an important discussion about her kept costuming of Black culture—from her hip-jump tracksuits and Cuban connection chains, to her long acrylics and complement.
The “all that I needed” vocalist has just opened up about her design decisions previously. In May 2019, she conceded she likes to wear “loose garments” to maintain a strategic distance from remarks about her body and appearance. “That is the reason I wear loose garments,” she said in a Calvin Klein promotion at that point. “It’s not possible for anyone to have a supposition since they haven’t seen what’s underneath.”
While Billie has since developed progressively vocal about her battles with body-shamers (she even took advantage of them by taking her shirt off at a show as of late), she’s despite everything tending to her design decisions from this point of view. Presently, there’s an additional layer: Her style is in no little part because of the way that she “never felt wanted” by accomplices before.
“Here’s a bomb for you: I have never felt wanted. My past sweethearts never caused me to feel wanted. None of them,” Billie told British GQ. “So I dress the manner in which I dress as I don’t care to consider you folks—I mean anybody, everybody—judging [my body], or its size.”
She proceeded to include, “Here and there I dress like a kid. Now and again I dress like a swaggy young lady. What’s more, at times I feel caught by this persona that I have made, in light of the fact that occasionally I think individuals see me not as a lady.”
It’s not possible for anyone to limit Billie’s involvement in body-shamers, or her stresses over being decided for her appearance. Yet, there’s a whole other world to her “persona” than what Billie cases to have “made.” Her style sense, which runs the extent from extravagance sweatsuit sets and curiously large coats, to uncommon shoes and long acrylic nail sets, is an a sound representative for the Black hip-bounce network (you know, a similar one that Billie clumsily called out in February, over rappers who are evidently “lying” in their music). We should not overlook that part, as well.