Tems knows how to stand out with her unique style, showcasing looks by designers like Vivienne Westwood and Robert Wun. From her Danielle Frankel bridal look, described as a reflection of herself, to her admitted love for headpieces, the Nigerian singer reveals the fascinating details behind her most iconic fashion moments. Here, Tems finally shares how she was supposed to change out of that viral, view-blocking Oscars dress and recounts the funny story behind her awkward BET award-winning moment, all while stunning in her daring, high-slit Dilara Findikoglu dress. Watch as Tems details the custom outfit worn for her first Coachella and remembers the moment when Justin Bieber asked to join her on stage.
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Listen to Tems debut album, 'Born in the Wild' here: https://tems.lnk.to/BornInTheWild
Get tickets for Tems' ‘Born in the Wild World Tour' here: https://laylo.com/tems/m/tems-tour
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00:00Hi Harper's Bazaar, I'm Thames and today I'm looking through some of my favorite fashion moments. This is fashion flashback
00:08Okay, so this look is from my Jimmy Kimmel live
00:13performance in
00:142021 the designer is
00:17Valerie Kowalska. I just remember most of
00:21The emotions that we're going through first performance, you know trying to bear it all
00:27Almost but not really just slightly. It's very sheer. It's very open. I love diamonds
00:33I'm wearing this diamond earring from a lovely vintage store that we found. I like classy
00:42Looking things this day was very funny because it was my first time on any
00:46Tonight show in America my stylist and everyone around was fixing things on my dress
00:52But I didn't think there was anything to fix and I was slightly
00:56Just on edge. I
00:59Love this look. This was the mobiles
01:022021
01:03Awards, this is a custom tie Haken
01:07What drew me to this look was the color the print on it. I love the sleeves
01:14It's like dangerous, but then it's still kind of classy. It's my first time performing at an award show in London
01:21This was like so much fun. Everybody was dancing. This was like a lit night
01:27This
01:30Look was the BET Awards
01:332022 and this was Dallara
01:36This is the highest it's I ever wore but this was just like very daring
01:41It's a corset supposed to be like really like provoke almost but still classy. That's why there's diamonds
01:49Even though there's like mesh and it looks a bit crazy, but still
01:53You know, we did the hair it was in 90s inspired look this night there's a funny video
02:00I thought maybe whiz was there too and
02:03They had announced the award and that we won for essence when they called it. I didn't stand up
02:11And the camera was on me
02:13I saw two guys coming and they were staying in front of me and I was like wondering
02:18Why are you here and they called it and everybody was like looking at me and I was just looking at them and I was
02:24Just sitting down looking like, okay
02:30Like five seconds of awkwardness me and everybody else in the room my face blown up and I was just kind of like
02:40Really?
02:41So as a fun night, ooh
02:44Ooh
02:45This is the Grammys
02:482023 and this is custom Vivienne Westwood
02:52This whole look was a surprise when I saw I was like, wow, this is actually amazing
02:58Anything that brings out my curves. I love I don't usually wear pearls
03:03But this was like the first time I did a pearl thing and I stuck some in my hair and I did like a two-piece
03:09Thing that's it just add some craziness. I felt like a princess in this dress. It was really a moment for sure
03:18This dress this is leather couture the famous dress
03:24It was a huge deal. It's my first Oscars when I first saw this dress that this was what was happening
03:30I was like, this is quite much. You know, this is quite a lot for me the way it flows
03:36It looks like a cloud. It looks like a flowing
03:39Stream, it looks like otherworldly. It was big it was but then it's a high slit
03:45I felt like a real-life princess like everybody was just like turning and people were taking pictures with me
03:52Even even though they didn't know me like prestigious like old
03:57White man, I was like, they don't know me, but they just thought I look cute
04:02we were supposed to change from this look inside but we didn't get the time to and the
04:09Scooped my stylist away. So I was literally stuck with this and then it became the whole viral
04:15Moment with the girl and and the blocking but there was no blocking just I need to put that out there
04:21The person behind me he loved what I was wearing and he could see because the stage was up
04:27So nobody looked straight
04:30When I meet anyone in fashion, they always tell me about that. Look like oh, yeah
04:36You're the girl you're the one that caused all that trouble that day
04:40This one was the Vanity Fair Oscars party. I'm in Mono. This was actually one of my faves
04:49It's just sits well on my body. It has the wrap around my hips which falls down and this necklace is
04:58Yves Saint Laurent by Tom Ford. It's very simple very classy, but it has a bit of
05:04Edge is like is this a superhero's necklace? Like what is going on my glam?
05:11Well, I love love love a good highlighter. I just kind of kept it
05:16simple nice gloss brows on
05:20100 lashes going crazy lips always glossy. You have to spice things up you really do
05:28This was the Met Gala
05:302023 and this dress was
05:34Robert one the theme was Karl Lagerfeld a line of beauty. This was actually
05:40Referencing an old Chanel look where Karl did a lot with like feathers and he did a lot with headpieces
05:47And he also did a lot of black and white the skirt parts
05:52It's a corset, but the skirt parts is actually supposed to look like a shirt
05:56So that's the collar on the front and the two things at the side are supposed to represent
06:01The arms it was slightly difficult to move in to be honest
06:05The corset was very tight like they snatched me like they pulled me
06:12I almost couldn't breathe the shoe is is also kind of like just adding to that that
06:19Pointy heel. This is actually a bag when I walked on the carpet people thought that maybe I broke my shoe
06:26It was so funny is when I was waiting in line to go next before I went next before they called me
06:34The lady she looked down and she was like, oh temps and then she looked at me. She was like you like headpieces, don't you?
06:43Like Wow
06:46Giving me some spice
06:49Yes, you're right I do love headpieces
06:54This is time 100 next
06:582023 I'm in
07:01Danielle Franco. This one is one of my favorite looks ever. It's a bridal piece
07:07I thought it was just very beautiful. I thought more like actually yes, I am showing you that I'm a young bride
07:15So the bag is so cute. It looks like a pearl
07:19Almost but it's in a glass box and I just thought that that was very significant to the vibe that I was going for
07:26This is who I am
07:27Actually, everything you wear should be a reflection of who you are and I think this really reflects me inside. I'm promised
07:35You know, I
07:38Am also a princess, you know in real life. So I just thought it was it's very fitting
07:45This dress. Holy smokes
07:48This is the billboard women in music
07:532024 I'm in a liar. This was a very memorable night
07:57I felt like a black swan that night and which is why I did my hair like that
08:03I love Bantu knots, which is very African. It's very Nigerian hairstyle
08:09We decided to add the first sleeves to match with the bottom, which I think was a really good choice
08:16You know, it's giving something extra and it's fitting. It's just right
08:20I didn't hear at the time, but there's a video from this night where I turned to pose the
08:28Photographer he was like, holy smokes
08:33And everybody was laughing and at the time I didn't know what I was like, okay, I'm just gonna do my thing
08:39I just thought it was so funny. Like wow, I must have done something, right?
08:44This was my first Coachella Coachella
08:492024 and I'm wearing John. This is one of my fave looks this year for sure
08:55it has frills all over the bust and on the neck and it's
09:01Crossing over and then when you go down the dress, it has shiny flowers. They're like almost
09:08Sequence I really love this hair
09:11I feel like it went perfectly with the outfit every time I moved it moved
09:17And I move you move just like that. So I
09:22Didn't plan for
09:24anyone to come specifically on my set Wizkid he was around and
09:29You know, we asked if he could come out and he was like, oh, yeah sure
09:34And then I got a message from Justin and he was like, oh, you know, I'm around if you wanted me to come out
09:42To Coachella, I'm down, you know, and I was like what the stars are aligned like what is going on?
09:49Crowd went crazy. Literally the floor was shaking and we had a good time. I couldn't have asked for a better set that day
09:57It was incredible
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