"His efficiency look is regal, luxurious, unforgettable,” says his stylist Ugo Mozie, who collaborated with Dolce & Gabbana designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana and 20 employees members flown in from Italy within the ballroom of the MGM Grand.
For Jon Batiste’s efficiency on the sixty fourth annual Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, Dolce & Gabbana arrange an offshoot of their atelier within the ballroom of the MGM Grand to create over 40 customized seems for the music artist, his dancers, a choir and the band.
“They flew 20 individuals from their atelier in Milan to Vegas and arrange a complete artistic costume workshop downstairs, the place they're creating every part on web site for us,” Ugo Mozie, Batiste’s stylist, tells The Hollywood Reporter solely. “So it’s a reasonably magical trend expertise occurring in Vegas proper now! The seems have been all designed individually to replicate everybody’s character. I went to Milan three weeks in the past to satisfy with the design workforce on the atelier and we went by all of the designs.”
Essentially the most-nominated musician on the 2022 Grammys, Batiste was nominated for 11 awards for his eighth album, We Are, and carried out his hit single “Freedom” on the ceremony, which speaks to racial equality and homosexual rights.
The efficiency was a contemporary riff on the track’s video, which premiered in June 2021 and was shot in Batiste’s hometown of New Orleans. “Freedom” received within the class of finest music video Sunday night time.
Mozie teamed up with Batiste’s artistic director Jemel McWilliams for this outing, which includes every part from backgrounds and stage props to attire and equipment.
“We needed to suppose which model on the earth might create our imaginative and prescient, nail the costumes, and provides us the artistic management to have the ability to collaborate,” says Mozie. The reply? Dolce & Gabbana.
“Jon could be very eccentric,” says Mozie. “He’s a really elaborate but particular form of artist. Jemel and I needed to be sure that we actually embodied all his concepts and took it so far as potential for this Grammys stage. It has a futuristic trendy really feel, prefer it’s 2060, however continues to be timeless. I believe that John is the prince charming of the night time, the king of the night time. His efficiency look is regal, luxurious, unforgettable.”
On stage, Batiste’s customized Dolce & Gabbana swimsuit was a lightweight blue metallic customized made to match the McWilliams designed set.
“We have been going for daring and flashy, one thing that basically catches the sunshine,” says Mozie, noting that it's paired with a clear white silk shirt, a 15-foot-long educated cape and piles of Boucheron jewellery.
As within the video, the costuming synchs up with the backdrops. “The stage is totally customized constructed — each pole, each element,” says Mozie. “We lined up the materials to the colour of the partitions; we matched the silhouettes and shapes of the clouds to parts on the outfits. We needed to create a world the place the stage and the costumes and the props all flowed collectively. Within the music video, there’s a lot vibrancy and motion and liveliness occurring. We needed to deliver that very same vitality to the stage.”
The entire dancers and different singers who're a part of Batista’s Grammy efficiency are additionally wearing Dolce & Gabbana. The spirited feminine Jonettes dancers put on teal blue; male Cool Cats dancers don navy; and two extra dancers stand out in gold physique paint with matching cargo pants. And the choir costumes, in shades of purple, are “attractive, trendy” silhouettes, says Mozie.
As a shock ingredient, particular company appeared onstage carrying their very own conventional cultural ensembles.
Earlier within the night time, on the crimson carpet, Batiste made a splash in a customized Dolce & Gabbana swimsuit that repeats his fashion signature of slim tailor-made trousers cropped to disclose his socks, paired with a pointy, double-breasted jacket.
“It’s a really wealthy, sequined material with a customized yellow-and-gray geometrical print that has a tribal ingredient to it that seems like Africa and New Orleans,” stated Mozie. The look went luxe with Boucheron diamond jewellery (a choker, a number of rings and bracelets).
Persevering with the regal theme, Batiste — an early winner on the Grammys for finest American roots efficiency for his track “Cry” — deliberate to complete off the night time in one more outfit.
“I name it the icing on the cake as a result of it’s going to be numerous ice,” says Mozie. “After which he will probably be dripping with lovely diamond jewellery.”
